Oh how lost we are when there’s little or no Google news! Mondays are bad anyway, but this is just silly: Google headlines centering on Google not buying anybody, how things are staying the same at the Googleplex and about how Eric Schmidt said Apple and Google were working together on some things he won’t talk about.

Let’s review: nothing; nothing; and nondescript something. That’s the Google news today.

Those of you based in the UK (and probably some of you who aren’t) may have noticed some recent changes on the BBC website, in particular the update to the audio and video player which now uses Windows Media Player as well as Real Player (it used to be just Real).

Adobe released the Flash Player 9 for Linux 2 days ago. Here are the list of known issues:

6 different web designers have asked me about making Flash SEO friendly in the last month, so I’ll post some tips here.

If you are on the ball when it comes to Flash Video then youre likely to have seen the press release that made the rounds in the last few days.

Internet Explorer can only make 2 connections at a time, which means that only two elements can be loaded while the rest is queued up.

I’ve been digging around on a few technology websites and came across a few interesting articles, some from way back (who remembers CNET’s Talk to us live series, courtesy of FCS? This was cutting edge back then. Check out the christmas countdown: -726 days left LOL).

I’ve been having an entertaining and slightly heated conversation with someone who insists that forums, such as the one I founded, are hotbeds of bad information.

I bet that got your attention

Of late, there’s no questioning the ubiquity of flash video on the web: Google, Yahoo, YouTube, etc..

Adobe’s John Dowdell has the best question (and best set of links) about Microsoft’s new “Blend:” why do it and not support Flash?

I saw Pikeo featured on Techcrunch after which I signed up and tried using it.

Flash Decompiler is an SWF tool that lets you decompile SWF files and converts SWF documents into FLAs.

Well, we all know that MySpace pages have the potential to drive a ton of traffic.

PHP security guru Chris Shiflett has a great post about the dangers of Cross Domain Flash.

In the good name of internet security, Microsoft added a feature in Internet Explorer that disables automatic activation of objects. All objects in an HTML <object> tag is affected and that includes Java applets and Adobe Flash content.

Once popularly known as Flash Studio Pro, Zinc in its current 2.x version have advanced way ahead in Flash Projector addition/enhancement/replacement capabilities.

Adobe announced the release of the Flash Player 9 for Linux.

I guess it’s the night for emails from the search engines.

This piece of code has been lying around for some time. I wrote it due to the fact that Flash 8 doesn’t smooth dynamically loaded images by default.

I needed a way to load XML data from a password protected source (user: testuser, pass: testpass), preferably without a login popup.