Social Networking & Adverstising

I agree with him on quite a few points ,

• mobile phone is the center of gravity for teens today !
• Virtual gifting is growing at a rapid pace ( $600,000 a month ) any one send you a scrap but how do i show that i really care ... spend on a virtual gift !! People show off virtual gifts on the social networking sites.
  
• Dating is Gaming... It has been traditionally popular on tv shows , it will be HUGE hit on internet
• Twitter has grown from "what are you doing" to "what r u doing & where are you"
• Etsy : Your place to buy and sell handmade things online. its limited place
  
• Threadless : consumer generated fashion label
• StartMobile :

An individual seeks "youtube" , "google" , "etsy" , "threadless" all day and advertisers sees them on these sites.

Bebo n Me

I am not talking of Bebo as in Kareena Kapoor , the bollywood star , who happens to be nicknamed as Bibo , To be very frank there is nothing that will force ANYONE to put my name and her name in the same sentence ;-)

Anyways I heard about this social networking that...

• Bebo is a social networking website
• This social networking site is about sharing content.
• You can share the videos , music etc that you like with your friends
• You can even create a quiz and pass it to your friend.
• Bebo has skins ( like most soc networking do ) that can be sponsored
• Created by Michael Birch and Xochi Birch
• The growing popularity drew the attention of media giants, and AOL shelled out $850 million for Bebo earlier this year.

the couple was recently intervievied on Europe 2007

One can create an application on facebook and port it to bebo. They seem to be compatible.

Flipping Card in Flex

Was doing some RnD , was looking for a kind of flipping card in flex
Here is what i found ..

• Rotate card sideways
• Flip card : 2 sided
• Other 3D Effects

Other sites for flex components

• http://flexbox.mrinalwadhwa.com/
• http://seantheflexguy.com/blog/2007/08/21/list-of-31-flex-apis-libraries-components-and-tools/
• http://www.rogue-development.com/
• http://labs.flexcubed.com/
  

ActionScript and MXML relation

How do MXML and ActionScript relate to one another? The compiler, after parsing through the different idioms, translates MXML into the same objects, so that
< mx:button id="btn" height="100" label="My Button" >

and

var btn:Button = new Button();
btn.label = "My Button";
btn.height = 100;

produce the same object. ActionScript and MXML compiles into a SWF file

Adobe Flex Buildre Free for Students / Proffesors

Flex 4 : Gumbo

Found some interesting links for same
Plan for Gumbo
Gumbo architecture

Flex : Self Growing Button

I have been experimenting around with flex , figured out you can make a Self growing button easily in flex.

< id="button1" label="Click to Increase Size" height="20" click="button1.width+=10;button1.height+=5; ">

I am not trying to display something unusual here. But just a thought its so easy in Flex. If I had to do something similar in JSF or Ajax then it would have involved lot more coding and would use Partial Page Refresh.