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Metaliq Acquires FlashForward

The Flashforward Conference and Film Festival is a historic event as the longest-running and largest gathering of Flash designers and developers in the world. It was developed nine years ago and has been managed by lynda.com events and Lynda Weinman since 2005.

Chinese Olympics Site Accused Of Game Thefts

Online Flash games appearing on the Beijing 2008 site may have been appropriated from at least one other designer after one game maker found his had been pirated.

Flash! Yahoo Updates Maps API To AS3

The developers spoke, and Yahoo answered. Support for ActionScript 3 arrived for the Yahoo Maps API today.

New Version of Yahoo Browser-Based Music Player

In keeping with the “open media” vision described by Yahoo Music exec Ian Rogers in his latest call to arms (which I wrote about yesterday), Yahoo launched a second iteration of its browser-based music player — this one allowing anyone to add a line of Javascript and have a Yahoo-branded player pop up wherever there’s an mp3 link.

Orkut Has A Worm

Google's recent addition of an Orkut feature for writing messages containing HTML code allowed someone to send a pesky worm through the network.

Adobe Announces Flash Player 9 Update

Adobe today announced the immediate availability of Flash Player 9 Update 3(version number 9.0.115.0), previously code named Moviestar.

MSN UK Homepage Redesign

For the past couple of weeks or so there’s been a flash page featuring a tour of what the new MSN UK Homepage will look like when it’s released. Well now The MSN UK Homepage Team have finally launched this new and improved redesign of the MSN UK Homepage Portal for all to see at http://uk.msn.com/

Microsoft, Eolas Interact To Settle Suit

The long-running battle over technology in Internet Explorer appears to have come to a finale, as Eolas informs its shareholders the case has been settled.

YouTube Ads (The Aftermath)

YouTube finally unveiled the first real version of its a platform last week, and we’re still processing the results. Some stories:

Use Flash, But Don't Offend Google

The Flash Player has been installed on millions of PCs worldwide, making it an attractive way for web developers to present content to their site visitors.