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It seems that Flashkit is getting a redesign now. I can´t remmember of any redesign at this website for years. Maybe that’s why it looks a little strange now.

See for yourself

Jon Gay and Robert Tatsumi (the creators of Flash) have teamed up with Gary Grossman (the creator of ActionScript) and Peter Santangeli (former vice president of engineering at Macromedia) to create a new start up company named Software As Art.

Via moockblog

“While Flash technology is usually synonymous with brand Web sites and special effects, bare-bones HTML is thought more appropriate for transaction-focused sites like Amazon.com.

Nike’s newly refreshed e-commerce site, NikeStore.com, fights this notion by exclusively using Adobe’s Flash platform.”

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Jumpcut Goes to Yahoo by ZDNet’s Ryan Stewart — Jumpcut, one of the most promising video sites on the web has gone to Yahoo according to the Jumpcut blog and TechCrunch. Unlike most of the other video sites out there, Jumpcut had built up a very cool Flash interface that allows its users to edit their videos on the fly. It gives amateur vloggers [...]

Seems to be the first portable media player to come equipped with Macromedia Flash.

More info & photos here.

Opera has removed the banners, and licensing fee.

Download and more info here.

The new Smart Gallery enables eBay users to present their other ongoing sales and products in a 3-Dimensional Interactive Flash Gallery. Learning the lessons from other similar services, K’nubi’s galleries are well-designed, truly eye-catching and have new features enabled.

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VitalStream Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: VSTH), a streaming media solutions provider and international content delivery network, today announced that Dave Navarro, guitarist for rock band The Panic Channel, is leveraging the VitalStream streaming media platform to share video clips of his most entertaining endeavors through his Web site, www.6767.com. Navarro is also a former guitarist for rock bands Jane’s Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Press Release.

Nikon is redefining the digital camera shooting experience with the announcement of two new revolutionary Wi-Fi enabled models.

Full article here.

Federal antitrust regulators have requested additional information about Adobe Systems’ proposed purchase of Macromedia, the companies said Monday.

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The Yahoo Search Subscriptions enables users to search multiple online subscription content sources and the Web from a single search box, the company says. Subscription content includes for-pay news and reference Web sites in what’s called the “deep Web” which includes millions of access-restricted Web sites containing content that search engines typically cannot access.

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Flickr, the online photo service owned by Yahoo, is gearing up to launch a new print-on-demand service.

Flickr will partner with Qoop to offer a service that lets users select photos and formats to be printed into bound books.

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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) yesterday launched the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI), which aims to make web access from a mobile device as easy as web access from a desktop device.

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Want to improve your website coverage on Google - Read this.

Google have started a new service called Google Sitemaps - a collaborative crawling system for improving the coverage and freshness of Google index. Participation is free. Inclusion isn’t guaranteed.

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Microsoft Corp said it is adopting XML technology for the default file formats in the next version of Microsoft Office editions to give users improved data interoperability and dramatically smaller file sizes.

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“Bytescout Software has released SWF Scout library 1.34, a Windows programming library ActiveX library that allow to add royalty free flash (swf) output to your Visual Basic, C++, C# or ASP application.”

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Google have announced the opening of their Summer of Code, a program designed to introduce students to the world of Open Source Software development.

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Google opened the door to its online library late Thursday with the launch of a book-specific search page.

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MSN Virtual Earth will offer detailed local search results that include actual glimpses of the pizza joints and coffee shops rather than just the rooftop views satellite images allow, the company said.

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