3D Interactive Video using Flash & ActionScript 3

Now this is what i call a video - a real interactive video. Imagine a video where you can decide which angle and the depth (zoom) you want to see.

I would have expected this functionality in a advanced 3D or a movie software. But achieving this in Flash using ActionScript 3 is really awesome. This was achieved by the folks at Immersive Media, check out their videos - without fail (http://www.immersivemedia.com/)

This is going to be the next Youtube of videos :)

If you want to know how they do this - here is all the info u need (http://www.immersivemedia.com/demo/demo.php#)


Many thank to Aasim for sharing this link with me :)

Flex based search engine

Vizzl - The Visual Search Tool.

A really cool search engine. But only to search within sites like Amazon, ebay and youtube. The power of sorting the search reults is show cased here.

A must use tool if you a online shopping freak.

http://www.vizzl.com/

Microsoft's Expression Design Event @ Chennai India

Well i got to attended the recently held Microsoft's Unique Design Event (Expression) in Chennai at "Dublin, ITC Hotel Park Sheraton & Towers".

Supreet Singh, User Experience Evangelist, and Pandurang Nayak, Technical Evangelist , did manage to impress the audience who had turned out in pretty large numbers.

What i was most impressed with was the sample solutions they showcased especially the travel website. You can check that out in http://www.silverlight.com/.

What i was not impressed by was by the claim that this tool can be used by designers who don't know any coding. The target audience should have been Usability Sales professionals, Business Analysts, Competency Leads, and RIA/usability analysts who need to come up with quick walk through for their clients.

One the whole Microsoft Expression tools shown did promise a lot but the real question was can it generate requirements from the client?

With its immediate competitor Adobe already way ahead and still going strong in this race track we need to see if this rookie can catch up.

Digital Bucket - online file folder

Came across this interesting and elegant site for online file storing and sharing.

http://www.digitalbucket.net/

I like the simplicity of the functionalities in the site - where they have maintained our age old windows explorer feel in a web based utility.

No software is required to install.
Fully drag and drop capability between files and folders.
Copy, Cut, Move, Delete, Rename and zip files or folders.
Folder publishing using direct links or RSS feeds.
Sharing with digitalbucket.net users with permission assignment.
Photo Album and Photo editing capabilities.
Word, excel online editing and PowerPoint presentation viewing.
Online music and video players.

1GB space is there for free. I tried it and i liked it. :D

Copyright your content! Numly

Yes you have read it correctly. We can copyright our content on teh web now, using Web 2.0 technology provided by "http://www.numly.com"

Now the advantages of doing this is that one can track who is viewing the content and when it is views, ratings can be monitored and to top it off no matter where the content is published it can be consolidated.

Final verdict is this is a must watch out Web 2.0 feature for all you bloggers/content writers out there in the Cyberspace :D

RIA job trends and salaries

Everyone is talking about how RIA is growing, next in thing, etc.... but here is actual facts which support these enthusiastic statements. The growth of Flex jobs and the salaries are shown here. One can also search for other RIA technologies to understand the job trend.

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=%22adobe+flex%22 - (Adobe Flex Job Trends)

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=%22AJAX%22&l= ("AJAX" Job Trends)

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=Nexaweb&l= (Nexaweb Job Trends)

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=Java+FX&l= (Java FX Job Trends)

http://www.indeed.com/

Flex based virtual desktop

For those who assume FLEX is only for playing around with page data and UI elements. Here comes a pleasant surprise.

http://www.thereplicants.net/flex/test/Dashboard.html

Imagine a 4 sided desktop which can be personalized. Here one can drag and drop availabe tools on to teh desk top and also rotate between the desktops using the following key comobo

Shift+Esc+mouse click(right or left) to rotate the desktops. This gives a 3D cube effect.