JD on EP

Singapore guide, in SWF, for PocketPC use.

Ten-page article (short pages ;-) at informit.com on things the writer particularly likes about the beta Adobe Lightroom, a photo-management application.

Robert Hall has info on David Lynch's new SWF-based production.

A long discussion via Roger Johansson about various ways of handling noise while working.

John Rhodes has a short bit on the dynamic tension between playing-by-the-rules and breaking-the-rules when designing interfaces... he titles it "Eye Candy and Creativity Constantly Beat Down Web Standards".

David Adams summarized some of the recent news about Flash Lite two weeks back.

Jakob Nielsen is advising against the way that links to named anchors are often used.

Lots of people are building applications atop Flash Platform... today ChatBlazer announced their service for text, audio and video chat with a number of enterprise features.

Speaking of chat, Jon Udell publishes an audio-chat with screensharing, where Christophe Coenrats does 20 minutes on Flex. In the first section he shows how easy it is to declare a messaging interface... towards the middle they get into how the serverside element adds to the clientside interactivity... they close out with some discussion of the Eclipse-based FlexBuilder development environment.

If you're in the UK, Adobe has a road show of the authoring tools coming up.

There are various reports today that Google has been quietly testing video ads delivered as SWF.

Jen deHaan has notes from FlashForward, Seattle.

An intro to the use of personas during the design process... by defining fictional customers who represent specific audience elements, you can often minimize abstract arguments when trying to settle on a design with a group of coworkers.

Jason Fincannon: "I'm not sure how I'm going to do it. I'm not sure where I'm going to do it. I really don't know who will even listen, but I'm going to get the word out if I have to tie people down to chairs in conference rooms and give them hour-long presentations on the extreme power that Flash has grown into."