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If you wondering about the Singularity badget on the top of the sidebar then this interview should give you some idea about it:

Yahoo has released their Yahoo Maps API for AS3 which allows web developers to add mapping capabilities to Flash. Cool now we can use either Google Maps or Yahoo Maps in our Flash or Flex applications. Initiate the map simply by:

import com.yahoo.maps.api.YahooMap;

var yahooMap:YahooMap = new YahooMap("YOUR-APPID", stage.stageWidth, stage.stageHeight);
this.addChild(yahooMap);


Ted Patrick has posted some of its features here.

Holy shit, Microsoft, can’t you stop making funny advertisements? Sys-Con has lots of these kinds of Microsoft Ads. Keep it up Microsoft!

Staying at home doesn’t make it any less than a server. Yes you can finally domesticate a server even if you are living with your mom. She is from the Dark Age you say? You don’t want to share your files with your mom? Well, they say it’s easy to use. They say you can privatize your data….

I HIGHLY recommend you to watch those funny videos:

Don’t forget to read “Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?” story by Microsoft.

Facebook has Developer Platform for some time now. Obviously, MySpace won’t stay behind and let Facebook take all the credit. To counter Facebook, MySpace has announced the release of its own Developer Platform. That’s not all, MySpace Developer Platform is supporting OpenSocial API, an API that was released by Google awhile ago and has been giggling in the web since then.

Read more about it here.

As the title says, Google has released a new Social Graph API that reads public data from different social web sites and links the relations between people in the web. Basically, Google crawls between people’s relations and connections which is available in public personal data anywhere in the web, then it will find FOAF and XFN relations or any other way of connections as Google says.

So if I’m your friend, and you’re a friend of person B, and person B adds person C in his blogroll then Google Graph API can tell me that I have a connection with person B and also C whether that connection was found directly or indirectly.

This video explains it:

No it is not and I think it kicks ass. It is easy, simple, and very user friendly to use or to learn. To backup my claim, Colin Mock, the famous writer, has published a new article in InsideRIA that backups my claim and pitches all the hype around AS3.0.

O’Reilly, a huge book publisher firm, have just lunched insideRIA a new RIA blog portal website which focus in RIA blogs, articles, and communities.

I’m excited to see how the future will unfold with the ever growing RIA community.

A set of hand-picked profissional flash tutorials by Smashing Magazine. Those tutorials are hard to find and sometimes you simply can’t find them.