Interactive Video How-To and Examples
I talked awhile back about personalized video and how it could be (is) the next big marketing medium. The benefits of personalized video are obvious, you’ll get better quality personal information and it is very viral. Read more
Desktop Takeover – April fools joke using Flash
This is a little trick I’ve pulled on some family members in the past and most recently on my boss for April Fools. All you need for this is a working version of Adobe Flash. Read more
Anatomy of a Blog – Scripting for Social Media
There’s a small back story to this entry. Ive been working with an open source content management system for my company Magicomm and it eventually came time when we decided we were going to start our own blog. My goal was to use the preexisting framework of the CMS to smoothly integrate the blogging software into the back end of the system. It turns out this was the easy part…. Read more
Realistic Fog/Smoke Effect
Here’s another effect using AS3 to make fog with source files below. Read more
Realistic Flame Effect
This is my first attempt at creating a realistic flame effect in Actionscript 3.0 so be gentle. Read more
Personalized Landing Pages 2.0
So its no news that a personalized landing page as a response portal to any kind of direct marketing campaign can increase response rates dramatically, but where’s the next step up? Read more
SEO and Flash
Can search engines read flash? A lot of people think that because flash is a program running on a website, it cannot be read by search engines. This is true to some extant however that does not mean there aren’t methods to make your flash movies Search Engine friendly. In fact Google CAN index your flash movies. In “Google Can Now Index . . . Flash!An Interview with Michael Marshall by Robin Nobles” (here), they discuss how Google indexes your flash movie and different things the author can do to help the process. Read more
