Alex McFarlane - Web Developer

Adobe is making a big play to make Flash the de facto viewing environment not only for Web apps on your PC, but also on your mobile phone, your TV, and any other screen you can think of. It is announcing the Open Screen Project to make it easier ...

The BBC iPlayer is now available via a TV platform after a partnership deal between Virgin Media and the BBC

View Larger Map A map that shows a custom map that includes YouTube videos using Google Maps. The map features custom icons and can be used to show clips around the world. URL: Google Maps Google Earth: Show

Two Google scientists presented a paper (pdf embedded below) at the World Wide Web Conference in Beijing last week that outlines their vision for the future of image search. Notably, the new image search technology doesn’t just index text associated with an image in determining what’s in it. Google is now ...

Update: Microsoft’s Bill Sisk offers a denial on the company’s IIS blog that the MS SQL Server technology has no association with the SQL vulnerability described in the security concern mentioned below. SQL, one of the most widely utilized server technologies today, is going through a particularly rough time. According to ...

We’ve got the scoop on an announcement set to be delivered by Steve Pearman this morning at the Web 2.0 Keynote address. Pearman is the Senior Vice President of Product Strategy for MySpace, and he’ll be unveiling the MySpace Application Gallery. The gallery will showcase all the applications available to MySpace ...

Many branded applications on Facebook have failed to take off as members of the social network choose not to install them.

Just a quick test using Papervision3D to create a simple navigation object. It was quite easy to setup and animate using Tweener.

Seesmic, the video conversation startup founded by Loic Le Meur, has launched a WordPress plugin that allows users to leave video comments on blogs. Le Meur describes the purpose of the plugin as follows: ”We warmly welcome Wordpress users to the Seesmic community. With over 70 million blogs worldwide, there ...

A very slick game for Coke Zero. Url: http://www.cokezerogame.com/

Greenroom Digital was winner of the BVA agency of the year, 2008

More than half (59%) of internet users worldwide view at least one video clip every week, according to Universal McCann

In this new millennium, our lives are becoming increasingly digital, thanks to proliferation of devices — from MP3 players to digital cameras to cell phones and of course computers. The challenge is to keep a handle on the data on these digital devices and the software programs that go ...

Google has released an updated developer sandbox for iGoogle, the company’s personal startpage service. The key new feature is support for OpenSocial APIs, which means that activities from Google Gadgets can be posted to activity streams on OpenSocial supporting networks. Jessica Ewing, Product Manager for iGoogle, offered the ...

It looks Sony has decided to play catch up with the PlayStation 3, and offer a service that Xbox owners have been enjoying for a while now: online video distribution. According to Dawn Chmielewski of the Los Angeles Times, Sony has been engaging in talks with Hollywood studios to negotiate ...

Sprout - the impressive browser-based tool that debuted at DEMO in January and suddenly made it feasible for non-developers to create rich Flash-based widgets - has got even better with the release of v1.5. One of the most promising things about Sprout was that it integrated third-party services. At launch, publishers ...

However you feel about Google’s implementation of software within YouTube to combat the publication of copyrighted content on the video site sans content owners’ express permission, the company has chosen to apply the technology as an aid to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to help identify ...

This is the first widget based on the AM:TV experiment. Its uses the new YouTube API to stream videos from a playlist on YouTube. It also includes Facebook and iGoogle quick add links.

Mark Zuckerburg’s creation has a new role. Fighting crime in Manchester, England. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) (reports TechCrunch UK) has launched a Facebook application which adds local crime alerts to your profile and news feed, getting the news about crime incidents out there to more youthful users of the Net ...

Flickr’s been getting some headlines these past few weeks, mostly due to the vocal outcry resulting from the backlash against video on Flickr. The company even opted to placate donut crazies as a sort of pseudo damage-control measure. (Not really. It was mostly humor. Done in jest. But the story ...