Silverlight 2.0 + Flickr + Virtual Earth
I wrote a post on InsideRIA on the mashup of Flickr and Virtual Earth using Silverlight 2.0. What this Silverlight application does is simple. It allows you search Flickr by entering a tag. The result (GeoRSS feed) will be displayed in a thumbnail image slider. You can click a thumbnail image, then the location will […]
A New Flex Web Map API is Coming
At ESRI’s Developer Summit, Mansour Raad revealed the new Flex API for ArcGIS server. ESRI had a Flex API for the ArcWeb Service, which is in ActionScript 2 for Flex 2. We posted the mashup series awhile ago, which used that Flex API. Now the new Flex is totally revised in ActionScript 3, which I’m […]
Finally, GeoWeb is Complete and Born
What’s is the best RIA application ever created? If your answer is something around Flex or Flash, then it’ll be wrong answer. The right answer is Google Map. It’s Google Map makes AJAX known and RIA a reality. Google even goes above and beyond claimed the term “GeoWeb“. However, up till now, Google Map is […]
5 Speech Bubbles Design Resources
Forget it if it’s Flex, Silverlight or AJAX, when your apps to have users say something, you might want the sayings speak in speech bubbles. To make your design effort easier or to have some references, here five more places you can check them out.
CSS Play - This CSS based bubbles that use images to […]
Google Gives You Sky
Google Sky is available within browser now. It used to only for Google Earth, the desktop mapping client. It’s great gift to people who fascinated about the universe beyond the tiny globe called Earth.
Picnik Flashing the Top Social World
Late last year Flickr adopted our beloved Picnik to be its resident photo editing tool. This week, the Flash based photo editing site goes to myspace.com, the largest social network in the world.
Picnik released a myspace application built on myspace’s shinning new myspace platform.
Is Qt becoming Another Major RIA Player?
Nokia is buying Qt for $153 million. Nokia is actually buying Trolltech, but the target is Qt. So, what is Qt anyway?
Trolltech is the company develops a Linux-based mobile platform called Qtopia that includes a mobile Qt stack. It’s the company behind Qt, a cross-platform rich application development framework. It includes:
An intuitive, easy to use […]
SearchMe in Flex Video
Here is the video of the very hyped new search engine developed with Flex interface.
The Most Practical Flex Application
I’ve been talking about Flex and Flex applications here for awhile. Mostly I wrote about new startups using Flex as RIA development tool. it seems it’s only those edging cool kids using Flex. But I think the edging and niche day of Flex is ended. It’s a good thing because Flex is mainstream technology now. […]
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