tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90783064073430530532012-01-20T08:37:38.917-08:00Web Design,digital advertising, motion design and interactive design. Enjoy—and check back often, because things are always changing, growing and evolving.Steve Micelihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02737093854691945950noreply@blogger.comBlogger911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9078306407343053053.post-1323164469068992342008-12-27T16:47:00.000-08:002008-12-27T16:48:45.939-08:00

Find out about web design from New York City here.

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Find the people who are already looking for what you are talking about or offering.In-bound marketing.In the past marketing was solely placed around TV and radio, newspaper ads and HTML emails— these forms of marketing really hit people over the had with your marketing message. These old school way of marketing are becoming more and more less effective due to TiVO, spam filters, DVR, and

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Strengthen. Empower. Amplify.We are living in transformative times. Social media influences mind decisions...there is more persistence of information...now opinions are out in the world on an exponential scale. Leveraging those opinions and gaining loyalty for your brand or small business, when done positively, will surely boost sales and business potential.Respond out loud (blog) if your good

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So...the first milestone to reach more customers online.I reached 10,000 visitors in one (1) month.flash design new york

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Social marketing is a good way to get free publicity for your company or brand. It's where the consumers and the brands meet and can have a dialogue instead of just a static message.Marketing organizations need to ensure they are not reactive to change but driving and leading change in a proactive way. Social Media allows your company to react more quickly to what people are saying or how they

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These days there are so many articles on how to improve your web site traffic with Search Engine Optimization techniques. I found this one very simple as well as useful for starters:http://www.webdesign.org/article.php?id=16693

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here's a great list from Webpronews.com about online video in the past year.view the web page now

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Source : Marta Strickland (paraphrased)I have Bold-ed the semantic information in this postWhat the Semantic Web -- or Web 3.0 -- Can Do for MarketersWhatever You Call It, Get Ready for Greater RelevanceIt's been nearly 10 years since Tim Berners-Lee, who is credited with inventing the worldwide web, expressed his vision of a "semantic web," in which all web data -- and the meaning of that data -

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Yes, there are some challenges that we face when entering web 2.0 space.For instance over saturation; it seems that once a platform like 'My Space' or 'Face Book' becomes a popular space to offer content, it then becomes flooded with useless content, eventually being abandoned by marketers and on to the next digital arena.The battle on the internet is not to provide the most novel campaign

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Branded widgets are the refrigerator magnets of the Brave New World. These compact, portable little software apps -- from video players to countdown clocks to makeup simulators -- are inexpensive to distribute, free to the user and (often enough) distinctly useful. At a minimum, they carry an ad message wherever they go.That's at a minimum. At a maximum, the widget is something like the magical

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Adobe now makes it easier for designers with no programming experience to design interactive prototypes, and communicate their interactive ideas to the developers.http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/

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http://docs.google.com/templates?type=forms&sort=hottest&view=public

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Flash content has long posed a lot of problems for the search and webmaster communities. Now Google – and more specifically, the newly introduced Google Analytics Tracking For Adobe Flash – intends to solve at least a few of them.“In the past, Flash tracking was not provided out of the box, and every implementation had to be customized,” notes Nick Mihailovski in a post on the Google Analytics

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Coming from Adobe in Spring 2009:Adobe Systems is adding dynamic streaming, which adjusts to the bandwidth rate on the desktop, and DVR capability to its Flash Media Server for streaming of Flash content.Dynamic streaming allows for adjustments to the delivery bit rates for video. It will adjust upward for higher quality bandwidth and downward for lower bandwidth.This capability maintains the

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Question: What is viral adevrtising?Answer: When consumers like what they see, they pass it on ...like a virus.SMO, or Social Media Optimization, helps build website traffic by using social media based websites. The dawning of web 2.0 has seen many different social media websites crop up in an equally large number of different guises. Content sharing, social bookmarking, and collaborative

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This week, Google unveiled the fruits of its partnership with T-Mobile and its fledgling operating system Android with the G1, a new handset from manufacturer HTC.The 3G smartphone with sliding keyboard and a limited touch interface integrates multiple Google products like Maps and Mail in ways no phone has before, incorporating things like Street View in Maps and a linked phone-web calendar to

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Google on Wednesday unveiled several new business-oriented capabilities for its Web analytics service, Google Analytics.The new features include Advanced Segmentation, Custom Reports, a data export application programming interface (private beta), integrated reporting for AdSense publishers (private beta), multidimensional data visualizations called "Motion Charts," and interface

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In their first full-cycle release since acquiring Macromedia you don’t have to be a detective on CSI Miami to see Adobe’s fingerprints all over Flash CS4. In a live product demonstration broadcast on Adobe TV this morning we got to see a preview of the direction Adobe will be going with Flash and it’s all about seamless integration.check out the new features from ADOBE hereOne of the first things

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Adobe Systems Inc. began shipping its Adobe Flash Player 10 browser plug-in Wednesday with new features aimed at helping designers and developers build interactive content and online videos.This version of Flash, which Adobe launched in a beta version in May, includes support for custom filters and special effects, native 3-D transformation and animation, advanced audio processing and GPU

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Google's Blogger is unleashing some new features to make blogs using the platform more social. They will be rolling out these features over the next several weeks.They want bloggers to be able to view the people that read their blogs, and will provide a gadget allowing users to display those people on the actual blogs. The way they are accomplishing this is through a "Follow this Blog" link that

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Links are an important component in an online marketing campaign. Websites usually need a significant number of quality links to perform well in organic search rankings. Once upon a time, high-quality links were plentiful. But with the growth of the web, and an ever-increasing number of competing websites, garnering link love and attention is a time-consuming and tedious process.There are 4

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Google Inc. is considering allowing users of its search engine to tinker with query results by re-ranking them and commenting on them.The company has already run public tests on its search-results pages that contain up and down arrows next to listed links, as well as buttons that allow users to append comments to results."At this point, I can't say what we expect from this feature; we're just

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Adobe Systems is helping Google and Yahoo to uncover Web content that was previously "invisible" to Web searches.Both companies have been given optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to help them better index dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications that include the Flash file format, or Shockwave Flash, Adobe said in a statement. Search engines already index static text and links

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Everybody is using it, but (almost) nobody really knows how it works. Google PageRank is probably one of the most important algorithms ever developed for the Web. With billions of existing pages and millions of pages generated every day, the search issue in the Web is more complex than you probably think it is. PageRank, only one of hundreds of factors used by Google to determine best search

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Do photographic images get old on the web ?What I mean is, photographic images placed in a prominent area of a web site like the header, seen by repeat visitors, time and time again. Does the recognition of this one (1) photo get old quickly for our site visitors ? Would it be more effective to use graphic images ? What is the psychology behind this ?The psychology behind image recognition is

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The second chapter of Apple's iPhone era is almost ready to begin, and it's already clear that things will be a little different this time around.Few people who pay even scant attention to the technology industry could claim to be shocked by the introduction of a faster iPhone earlier on Monday by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Apple has sold 6 million iPhones since June 2007, Jobs said, and will likely

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The annual report into web habits by usability guru Jakob Nielsen shows people are becoming much less patient when they go online.Instead of dawdling on websites many users want simply to reach a site quickly, complete a task and leave.Most ignore efforts to make them linger and are suspicious of promotions designed to hold their attention.Search rulesInstead, many are "hot potato" driven and

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Adobe on Thursday is expected to launch a beta test program for the latest version of its Flash Player software.Flash Player 10, developed under the code name Astro, includes better support for 3D animation and video hardware acceleration, among other improvements.Adobe said that Flash Player 10 will now support custom visual effects, created with Adobe's free Pixel Bender tools. Developers can

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Some best practices and tactics for getting the most out of your banners and creative optimization:* Create a benefit matrix around products. People typically think, "How will you help me?" and "What do you have for me right now?" List those genuine benefit statements and catalog the offers you can make right now.* Choose the measure first, then the message. Decide how you'll measure the banner's

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Enterprise spending on Web 2.0 technologies such as social networks, blogs, wikis, widgets and mashups will increase over the next five years, growing 43 percent each year to $4.6 billion worldwide by 2013, according to a new report by Forrester Research.Forrester says that Web 2.0 technologies represent a new way to connect with customers and employees. Large companies such as General Motors,

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Creating content now is most likely done like this:Hire a few editors to handpick stuff already kicking around the internet.Shift in purpose from producing original content to curating it is at an end of times for media as we've known it. We are now repackaging what's already out there.Welcome to the era of the aggregator.Time and attention have limits, but the universe of content, it seems, does

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From the Adobe CEO"...So we are also committed to bringing the Flash experience to the iPhone and we will work with Apple. We’ve evaluated the SDK, we can now start to develop the Flash player ourselves and we think it benefits our joint customers. So we want to work with Apple to bring that capability to the device...."read the full article

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Note: SEO Title Tag 2.1.0 adds compatibility with WordPress 2.3!Title tags are arguably the most important of the on-page factors for search engine optimization (”SEO”). It blows my mind how post titles are also used as title tags by WordPress, considering that post titles should be catchy, pithy, and short-and-sweet; whereas title tags should incorporate synonyms and alternate phrases to capture

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The drawing API is used to draw using only lines of code.In the drawing API we have the following functions:lineStyle(thickness,rgb, alpha)The first thing you need to do before drawing is choosing your pencil.You can choose the thickness, rgb(color) and alpha(transparency).moveTo(x, y)In the real life you have to move the pencil to the place where you are going to draw, this function is for that,

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Posted by Susan Moskwa, Webmaster Trends Analystcheck out the Google central blog NOW

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external interface code and example

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CODE FOR FIRST FRAME IN FLASH MOVIEimport flash.external.*; // this is for calling JS function on the Html from Flash without getURL.content_status = "off";// this is the function that toggles the widget on and offfunction toggle_widget(content_status) {if(content_status == "on"){ESPWidget.instance.resume();}else if(content_status == "off"){ESPWidget.instance.pause();}else{// no other values

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Flash Player 9 is at 95% penetration already !The most recent statistics from Adobe shows that 99% of all users are now able to see Flash content and 95% can see the latest version.According to the latest survey by Millward Brown, 99% of US and Canadian customers can now view Flash Player 6 based content and for Japan the figure is even 99.5%. The stats have never been this strong and even

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"If you are a designer, Flash CS4 will blow your mind."theflashblog"The term devigner has emerged to describe people who are skilled at both design and development and this is exactly the type of person that best flourishes inside of the Flash authoring tool."

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Are you looking for a guide to help you move From Actionscript 2.0 to Actionscript 3.0? Below are two (2) good sources for making the basic AS3 transitionhttp://senocular.com/flash/tutorials/as3withflashcs3/">transition link 1transition link 2

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Online video needs to be thought and re-crafted for the web, if transferring it from other mediums like TV. The web experience is very different. Video for the web needs to be edited in a way that feels natural and not interruptive, this will help boost the experience.Video editing should be done in such a way that consumers can create their levels of experience. I can have a brand experience

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Although a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 is predominant in the US, Europe, and Japan, in some areas, such as South East Asia, smaller screen sizes such as 800 x 600 may still be common. Flexible design approaches help significantly in addressing such differences these days. On the other hand, there are also a lot of other devices (PDAs, cellphones,...) with much more restrictive screens.

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Let's compare :Brand awareness in 2005 online ads drove a 3 percent lift in brand awareness. That boost fell to 2.2 percent over the course of the following two years.One factor in the sagging brand impact of digital ads might simply be competition among large brands for share of mind. A few years ago there were less big brands online than there are now. Now everybody's online. Every brand you

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HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc, the latter of which is backed primarily by Sony (NYSE: SNE) , are competing to be the high-definition format that replaces today's current DVDs. Both are designed to offer better quality than traditional DVDs, and each has won support from different camps in recent months.Among the major movie studios, Blu-ray has a tremendous lead, as it is supported by Columbia, Disney

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All Hot News From APPLEApple introduces MacBook Air—the world’s thinnest notebookIntroducing Time Capsule—wireless backup for all your MacsNew software update enhances revolutionary iPhoneMajor software upgrade available for iPod touchIntroducing iTunes Movie RentalsApple announces new software for Apple TV; lowers price to $229Introducing iTunes Digital CopyApple Introduces the new Mac

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Modular architecture offers two advantages. Firstly, expansion, modules need to be easily expanded in case the site gets modified or extended over time. Secondly, it's straight forward to build and integrate specific modules in case the website should have specific update-able functionality.Mechanics of modules should all utilize the same logic, the look and feel for all modules should be similar

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Digital creative is still new for most people in Marketing and Advertising.Here are some ideas which may help better prepare for the present future.1. The Creative Idea in Interactive FormDigital creative ideas aren't as easy to express in a simple single-minded proposition. Online campaigns and programs can follow similar constructs as offline campaign ideas and hold true to the same " big idea

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With the upgrade to ga.js you will have access to several new features including Event Tracking, and Outbound Link Tracking.Source: Read MoreEvent Tracking will be especially useful for those who have Flash based sites, or for those who use multimedia on their site. An "event" is an action that a user takes on a web page that doesn't necessarily involve a new pageview. Examples include clicks on

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Google may have plans to expand its search engine beyond static text.The search giant in June filed a patent application for technology that can recognise text in images. It could be used to retrieve text from video or from photographs that may show up as part of a street scene. The application was published on last week.The company is seeking the patent for methods, systems and computer programs

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Conventional Advertising agencies have been leading overall brand strategy since their dawn, while digital ad agencies are relatively recent to the mix. There are however, conventional ad agencies that have aquired small digital shops or grown the talent right under their own roof and have all the right mix.Digitally integrated advertising agencies should lead overall brand strategy for marketers

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IDEAS must be simple unexpected concrete credible emotional stories!An environment for the successful idea needs to offer practical insights that creative teams can use to generate and champion these well-constructed ideas; within their environment.Creative professionals are acutely aware of the ongoing need to develop good ideas and communicate these ideas in compelling ways. However, it takes

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The January 15th keynote for IDG's Macworld San Francisco expo will see Mac Pros using new 45-nanometer, quad-core Xeons based on Intel's Penryn architecture, the French outlet reports -- systems which AppleInsider said earlier this year were dependent on Intel's supply of new processors before manufacturing could begin, and which would be available by the early 2008 event. These will clock up to

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RSS FEEDSRSS (short for really simple syndication) is a way to receive regularly updated web content and gather it in one place for easy reading. Instead of constantly checking multiple blogs, news sites, podcasts and other sources throughout the day, one can subsrcibe to "feeds" with an RSS reader (often referred to as an "aggregator"), which will automatically keep itself updated with the

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An interview with Mike Chambers about the Papervision3D V. 2.0 said to release sometime before the end of this year ! This looks amazing, 3D all in flash and AS3. Making the web a bit more 3D! Interview Video Here Find out more about papervision here Some projects that really show it's capabilityearth mineSONY Bravia

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Successful Creative Briefs should link business objectives and creative strategies together.In-house creative teams should be looked upon as trusted, value added problem solvers. A creative brief when properly developed and adhered to will promote internal power partnerships and eliminate power struggle. Call them what you will – “creative briefs,” “design briefs,” “marketing briefs,” “

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Interactive design is a medly of electronic displays, kiosks, animations and videos, video games, cell phone/device interfaces and websites. It surrounds our everyday lives and we come into contact with it throughout our day in our world today!It is essentially the meshing of graphic design/animation/interactivity created on the computer, with appreciation of technical constraints and an

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Technorati Profile

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I was recently challenged to defend my reasoning of why a proprietary unbranded interactive program was designed "unbranded". Further questions delved into what it would take to "brand" a interactive program such as this. This led me to a discussion of branding in general...A brand is the accumulation of perceptions in the mind of a consumer. Sometimes people say brand, when they really mean :

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I like this product !Save Time, update Storyboards quickly, present super-professional storyboards to your clients, export with script or as animated files.check it:visit Toon Boom StoryBoard PRO

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Source : New York Magazine (JULY 2007)Is there a threat to the traditional agency model, with a stable of "creatives" trained to provide print, radio, television ads to a passive audience?If you're a big marketer, why would you hire an enormous staff at great expense when you could have somebody like those guys who made the funny JibJab video about Kerry and Bush, the one that everyone saw and

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The older TV sets, that we grew up watching were called stadard definition—480 lines of picture stacked on top of one another to make up the picture. Pretty sore quality campared with today's standards. The TV refreshed itself 30 times per second (30 FPS, frames per second), it lacked the horsepower to process the full image on each scan. So it just drew every other line, and updated the

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There has been talk about this for a while, starting with a research project at the MIT Media Lab has a plan for getting $100 laptops in the hands of millions of people around the world. One notable feature is a hand crank for providing power in places where electricity is undependable or unavailable.EDUCATION FOR EVERY CHILD IS HERE !!!Now here's an article published by thNew York Times on

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Mired in the goo and muck of old-school thinking?throw out your old processes and start collaborating in an agile and innovative way.NOW new approaches.!!Explore how to be courageous, radical and innovative to erase the hard line between front and back design and development teams.Source:Microsoft MIX07 Getting UNSTUCKThis is a tremendous video, speaking about today's possabilities, where in the

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Flash has grown to be so much more than it was ever intended to be.Al Mandel, who helped market the original LaserWriter at Apple and later had several high-level positions at AOL, used to say, "The step after ubiquity is invisibility," by which he meant that once a technology had reached the point where everyone had it, then people simply forgot about it and from then on assumed it would be

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As many of us know the flash player has penetrated so deeply that it's content can reach 99% of Internet viewers !Adobe® Flash® Player is the world's most pervasive software platform, reaching 99% of Internet-enabled desktops in mature markets as well as a wide range of devices. Below are some image clips directly from the ADOBE® web site.

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Concept Design is a new publication just published by Fora, the R&D division of the Danish Authority for Enterprise and Construction, that is recommended reading for those working on the strategic side of design.The study focuses on how design can be utilised together with other disciplines to create new solutions to the global challenges faced by the private and public sectors in the

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Here are some helpful ideas on where to get keywords into your HTML code for Search Friendly code.Remember these are very basic techniques, It takes a great deal of time and work to propery search engine market your website, it usually takes from 3 to 6 months to see results, but nonetheless these basic things do offer some help.Title TagThe title tag of the web page is the first tag where search

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That Adobe® Flash® tell-tale right-click flash menu, ever wonder about changing it ? Adding your own links, or removing items from the list, here's how...

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Bringing your Animation to LifeUsing keyframe animation, it is too easy to create dull, robotic animation. Linear paths make for lifeless animation. Anticipation and Follow ThroughNaturally, before an object with awareness moves forward, it anticipates the motion, by moving backwards slightly, first. After finishing the forward action, it doesn't completely come to a stop all of the sudden- it

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GOE: New Pantone Matching SystemVisit the PANTONE® SiteGOE is the new colour system launced by the PANTONE®, available from the 1st October 2007."With more than 2,000 new PANTONE Colors, the PANTONE Goe System is designed to inspire creativity and fulfill the requirements of a fast-changing, technologically advancing industry. PANTONE Goe is more than a single product with exciting new colors;

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Until recently the most well-known and widely-used method for transferring variables of a Flash movie from HTML-view, was the addition of the segments to the URL of .swf-document, as shown below: Essentially, this is nothing other than the GET method, so it does not allow "hooking on" more than 256 symbols to the address line, and in other words – the transference in a clip of a large quantity of

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I found this visual chart in an article in the Wall Street Journal.Click Here for a larger image

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If you have worked with Flash...Check out this AMAZING Video from ALAN BECKER !It was forwarded on to me by a colleague.Credit: ALAN BECKER Source: Deviantart Website Source

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Adobe is expected to announce the release of a beta version of its Flash Player, code-named Moviestar, that adds support for H.264, the video compression portion of the MPEG 4 standard.The updated Flash Player also will be able to take advantage of hardware acceleration in most PCs' graphics cards and is optimized for dual-core processors, said Mark Randall, chief strategist for dynamic media at

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Featured Flash Site7259 Flash Sites | 8 New Flash Links 
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» Comments: Micelistudios is the portfolio website of Steve Miceli.Steve is an Interactive Creative Director for a major advertising agency in New York City. This website is a snapshot of some of his ideas, design, and motion design. Miceli Studios is dedicated to

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onEnterFramemy_mc.onEnterFrame = function() {// your statements here}Event handler; invoked continually at the frame rate ofthe SWF file. The actions associated with the enterFrameclip event are processed before any frame actions that areattached to the affected frames. You must define a functionthat executes when the event handler is invoked.setIntervalsetInterval(functionName, interval [,

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Forget tapes, memory cards, and uncharged batteries. Forget big and bulky. Forget ever having to say "I wish you could have been there" again. Starting today, what you see your friends see. And what makes you laugh makes everyone laugh. Starting today, there's Flip Video — a revolutionary, simple way to shoot video anywhere and send it to friends and family everywhere. • Full 30 fps video

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A Coffee table-shaped computer called "Surface". Direct Link To The SURFACE Flash WebsiteEnvision a time when surface computing technologies will be pervasive, from tabletops and counters to the hallway mirrorDesigned to do away with the need for a traditional mouse and keyboard, users can instead use their fingers to operate the computer.Also designed to interact with mobile phones placed on the

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Adobe Systems has officially branded its rich Internet application (RIA) technology known as "Apollo" with the name Adobe Integrated Runtime, or AIR. The new brand name accompanies the first public beta, being released today (JUNE 11th 2007)AIR is a runtime like Flash, Adobe's widely-used Web animation technology. Flex is the developer framework, which works in Adobe's DreamWeaver authoring

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//enter the movieclip you wish to stop this will stop the movieclip and all nested instances //e.g if we enter stopAllMovies(_root) this will stop every movieclip. Of course if you are wokring //with levels and have external swfs, then you can use levels instead e.g //stopAllMovies(_level5);stopAllMovies(movieclip);function stopAllMovies(movie:MovieClip):Void { movie.stop(); for (

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MapQuest has launched a new, Adobe ActionScript API that will allow developers to use a robust toolset with the benefits of ActionScript 3.0.Developers will be able to build rich applications with Adobe Flex or Adobe Flash software using a native API for ActionScript for better developer productivity."As an industry leading provider of geospatial web services, MapQuest has created a foundation

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Adobe announced an expansion of its Flash Media Solution Provider (FMSP) program. They are going after content publishers by offering recommended partners to help those creators distribute their videos.Those creators likely have in-house talent already working in Flash and other Adobe technologies, but the leap into distribution and hosting may be one that requires assistance. A Flash Video

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WDDG and James 'Baker 1-9' recently launched its killer new site usingan early version of After Effects 2 Flash: Transform Properties for the jitter effect.After Effects 2 Flash-Transform Properties is an Extension withthe objective of enhancing the integration between After Effects (AE)and Flash by enabling you to export Transform Keyframe data out ofAE as an XML file, automatically import and

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Mixing and merging media.Interactive creative and effective communication.Let's define and re-define what it takes to weave many threads into one consistent garment—that transforms information, and captures the moods and minds of our audience.We live in a very visually-rich world and society, where the use of rich media being: sound, motion graphics, design and interactivity engages us through

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"Jeff Han's Version of the Bud Select Spot"

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tight integration with ADOBE Products.AS3 !!!!Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects.">FLASH CS3 New features Overview

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check this out!But now MovieClipLoader class lets you implement listener callbacks that provide status information while SWF or JPEG files are being loaded (downloaded) into movie clips.After you issue the MovieClipLoader.loadClip() command, the following events take place in the order listed:When the first bytes of the downloaded file have been written to disk, the MovieClipLoader.onLoadStart()

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An interactive interface that allows you to browse through color harmonies by adjusting any of the 5 colors. Adjust one, and the others shift to keep the colors in harmony. Very cool tool for previewing color combinations for online or offline work - quickly and easily.Visit The Site From ADOBE

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I thought Google Earth was fantastic. I began by typing in the street address that I was born on—and it was amazing!!! It zoomed right into my childhood block. It flew over Manhattan, Europe, Antartica, anywhere I could think of. I was so inspired that I created a little motion design.November 1st, 2006 - Check out the latest version of Google Earth (Release 4 - BETA)Want to know more about a

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To Get The Answers :: READ THIS ARTICLEWith Javascript you can detect the presence of the Flash Player on your user’s system and either display the Flash content or leave the existing (X)HTML on the page. This is also a huge advantage when it comes to search engine indexing since the alternate content is on the page and will be indexed as normal content. This also prevents novice users from

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The ALL NEW web design New York is preparing for liftoff.

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