On the touch screens of steel.

Engadget posted this ill video of the ATTIGO TT touch screen turn tables! Very ill. I will say I that I wasn't sure how you could really scratch on there, but they seem to pull it off.

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Facebook AS3 api.

Jason Crist has got a Facebook AS3 API that I thought I would try to use. It uses Facebook's Javascript engine then creates a bridge between the two to talk to facebook. You can't do things like upload photos yet, but it's nice to have a framework to integrate with Facebook in AS3.

Setting up the app wasn't hard but it does take a while to get a key from Facebook, then making that key secure isn't to easy in Flash.

None the less I am working on my first Facebook app, I will post later about my findings.

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Yahoo! Flash Developer Center

I saw a post on Zues Labs about Astra in Yahoo!'s dev center, so I thought I would check it out. There are a ton of Flex and Flash Components in the site that you can use under the BSD license. I must say Yahoo! has got some mad love for us Flash Devs!

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They also developed some AS3 APIs for their current products. I used the Map API in AS2 before and it was super handy. The AS3 version looks dope! Adobe has got a post about the new Map API and Blaze DS.