Flash SEO video by Technoracle – How search indexing Flash Player works…

This is exactly how we imagined it works, as it was the only normal way… I am a bit worried about Flash apps without states, how the crawled goes through that stuff.
Anyway let’s see how much we’re going to wait for this to be implemented by Google and rest…

Insight into OpenScreen project

Thanks to the User Interface Resource Center, we can get an insight in what is happening with OpenScreen project directly from Adobe’s Anup Murarka, Director of Partner Development and Technology Strategy, Platform Business Unit who was interview by EffectiveUI senior developer Doug Schmidt.

Interview can be found here …

Taito Space Invaders Anime Music Video

source : technabob.com/blog

Wakeup Later : The Evolution of Websites: How 10 Popular Websites Have (And Have Not) Changed

Wakeup Later brings very interesting article about changes in popular websites through years. Few pictures to describe the change and simple comment makes it intersting to take a look…

All this worlds are yours, use them together, use them in peace [pic]

THE CONTENT > THE CONTAINER -
SOUL > BODY -
WEBPAGE CONTENT > WEB DESIGN

Adobe / Google / Yahoo : SWF dynamic content indexed by search engines

Until now static content in SWF files (Flash Player file format) was indexed to some point by search engines like Google and Yahoo. Any dynamic content was not even close to be read by search engine, and developers worked with alternative content. Alternative content is content displayed in HTML page behind the Flash file, which containts infomation equal or similar to ones current flash page is displaying. Problem was that alternative content coudn’t be set dynamically and read by search engines as Flash file change it’s content without reloading.

Great news is, Adobe has came out with Flash Player which will be used by search engines, for now Google and Yahoo which enables them to get all content from Flash, going through it and retrieving the dynamically loaded content… You can read more at Adobe Developer Center

I think this doesn’t mean Google and Yahoo would be able to link to your dynamic pages directly, because there is no fake clicking capability in current Flash player, or time skip functionality. Something like that may be an option but for now I don’t think Google or Yahoo can lead  directly to your dynamic page inside SWF but they can be aware of your content and show it in search results.

This is surely a great news, with deep linking already enabled on your site this will work like a charm surely.
Thanks Adobe… And please keep this good news coming every month!

200,000 visitors and counting

Past days number of visitors of my blog exceeded 200,000 which makes me happy again. Thanks all the people who came by, used something from the blog in their life, posted a comment or whatever that involves visiting Cyberspace Nova…

Thank you and watch out for my next blog which will be fully oriented to Flash/Flex!

Busby SEO Challenge – Earn $5000 in SEO Challenge

Busby SEO Challenge is SEO challenge where you compete to get first on Google search rank for keyword “Busby SEO Challenge”. Busby is rewarding first place with $5000.

My friend Analogik.com stands great chance to win in Busby SEO Challenge.

Rules and description are taken from Busby website :

BUSBY is proud to invite SEO specialists, guru’s, masters, authorities, hot shots and aces (and anyone else who thinks they may have a shot at the pot) to take part in our Busby Web Solutions Search Engine Optimisation World Cup. The rules are simple and the rewards lucrative:

SUMMARY Set up your own website and optimise it for the key phrase we announce on 1st June 2008. Welcome to the Busby Web Solutions Search Engine Optimisation World Cup!

Entrants will be given 3 months to use their best endeavours to optimise a key phrase so that it appears as high as possible on www.google.com, when that particular key phrase is searched for. The winner will be the person whose site is ranked the highest, when that particular key phrase is searched for, on 31st August 2008, 12:00 midday, Perth, Western Australia. The runner up 2nd and 3rd place prizes will be awarded to those two entrants whose site is ranked the second and third highest.

REWARDS

First prize:		$5,000		<!– –>
Second prize:		$2,000
Third prize:		$500

We have a blog starting in March so you can chat with fellow contestants to discuss techniques. Enjoy yourself and good luck.

Take part in our Busby Web Solutions Search Engine Optimisation World Cup.

RULES

• Start date is 1st June 2008, 12:00midday, Perth, Western Australia at which point the phrase will be posted on the Busby website.
• End date of 31st August 2008, 12:00 midday, Perth, Western Australia.
• Only ethical SEO techniques may be engaged and the judges reserve the right to review the techniques engaged by the winner to ensure they comply.
• No pornography, no discrimination and no illegal behaviour is permitted.
• The competition is only open to domain and sub domain names that do not include the key phrase in any form
• Only registered entrants are eligible to compete and win the prize. Busby will maintain a list of entrants which can be view on the Entrants List page.
• Registration is free, open to anyone of any age, gender, race and domicile and can only be made through Registration Process.
• All entrants pages must have a visible link back to www.busbywebsolutions.com with the following text (including the hyperlink) in black Arial 10 font:
  Participant in the Busby Web Solutions Search Engine Optimisation Challenge
• Only one prize per person.

Employees, franchisees and licensees of Busby (and each of their family members) are eligible to enter but are not eligible to win any prizes.

3D Websites in Flash

As Javascript get capable more and more in competing with flash in transparency and transitions on web pages Flash is getting more and more serious about next step website interfaces. 3D is and will be a big part of new experiences on the web, and some of the latest site showcase it in great style.

Definitly one of the best 3D sites done in Flash is The Eco Zoo. It is surely great designed and very unique, with remarkable performance. Pop up books are so cool

Uniqlo hits it again with Uniqlo Try. Camera movements are really Uniqlo style, music and feeling at the site is great as always…

Third in series is Play > Smart, advertisement site for Benz-Mercedes mini car. Design of the website could be better as well as the texturing, but site definitly have a good catch with game mode and keeping score live.

Things are going in good direction, and I think web people will follow.

Flash vs Silverlight HD Video – links

I was interested what I can find between differences in VC-1 (user for HD in Silverlight) and H.264 (used for HD in Flash) video standards

Good kudzuworld.com article
Wikipedia

I like H.264 personally, being a standard in HD video on discs (Blu-ray and HD-DVD).
Today I watched new Adobe HD video showcase site… It looks great surely, loading times are acceptable, I can easily say very good…
Only one thing Flash Video is suffering I think is performance on slower CPUs, hopefully Flash player will soon get much faster as more hardware is included in processing. Anyway this is all great, HD is much more interesting then DivX-like quality videos!

EDIT :
Thanks to the reply from John Dowdell from Adobe I am posting updated page on recommended requirements for smooth HD playback in Flash Player
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/