At the Martino Flynn Digital Media Services department, we constantly strive to find ways to be more efficient and bring down costs. This is especially important in these tough economic times. Many tools are available that help web developers accomplish cost savings. Enterprise-,ready content management systems and frameworks are some of these tools. Today lets [...]
Remember the controversy that occurred back in September 2006 when Facebook released the news feed? Many openly criticized it as a tool for cyberstalking. Facebook’s own Mark Zuckerberg responded with an open letter of apology shortly after: “We really messed this one up. When we launched News Feed and Mini-Feed we were trying to provide [...]
For those of you who are not familiar with Go to and Learn, it’s a free video tutorial site offering how-to’s for Flash developers and designers. Recently I stumbled upon this video tutorial on Ribbit. Ribbit is an API that allows you to send and receive phone calls directly from a Flash application. In addition, [...]
Recently I ran into a problem when loading external swf files with sound. Here is a snippet of ActionScript 3 code that loads in a swf. swfAnimation.load(new URLRequest(filename)); Oddly after unloading a swf with sound the sound stream continued to play. So if you loaded in a second swf you would have two sound streams [...]
Going through my feed reader I stumbled upon a blog post from “Web Work Daily” that had some interesting metrics for popular social networking sites. Here is some information I found interesting. Facebook vs. MySpace: These social networking goliaths have held the top two spots for a while. However, Facebook recently surpassed MySpace with 69 [...]
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