Mugsho is a Facebook application that lets you add visual effects (color, distortion, mirror, ...) photos taken from a webcam or already existing on your Facebook page or on your computer.

This application, developed by Neoia was developed using Adobe Flex and you can test at: http://apps.facebook.com/_mugsho/

Neoia took advantage of new opportunities for Flash 10 to add new effects created by Pixel Bender and apply deformations in real time on photos or a webcam.

This application was designed to provide an initial innovative service users for their pictures and their webcam on the Internet. However, given the exponential growth in the number of users Mugsho, Neoia looking for a business model for its application and companies are already interested in Mugsho for use on their sites.

So how do you think this kind of rich applications can be marketed? Feel free to leave ideas in comments to help Neoia in its reflection!

To learn more about using the Mugsho on Facebook:

- PDF version of press release for Mugsho Facebook.
- Application for Facebook Mugsho.
- Official Website Mugsho.

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Adobe Systems announced Tuesday that it plans to publish the specifications of the protocol RTMP (Real-Time Messaging Protocol) for transmission of high-quality audio, video or data between Adobe technologies.

RTMP has been developed by Adobe to manage the flow of streaming with Flash Media Server. The specifications would be included in the project-led Adobe Open Screen Project, a project to enable the creation of a Memorandum of display terminals to allow a user experience the same on all screens.

[For more information about the Open Screen Project, see the presentation on Flex-info.fr]

"We are currently opening documentation and specifications as we did for SWF (Flash file format) and PDF (Portable Document Format) to provide market access," said Jennifer Taylor, product manager Adobe Flash.

She added: "The Flex developers and companies that implement the specification will provide stream video, audio or data regardless of the terminal used or where data proviennent.Un example of potential use would be to incorporate different terminals to produce a stream of streaming security camera to databases.

"It is a protocol when the intelligent routing of data, so you can expect it to be used in different contexts," says Taylor.

The specifications are expected to website Adobe Developer Connection in the first half of this year 2009.

Supports RTMP AMF (Action Message Format), SWF, FLV (video) and formats F4V compatible with the Adobe Flash Player.

To be complete, we can add that the RTMP contains no security layer. Developers should therefore use their own measures to secure their contents.

Adobe Open Screen Project

Mathieu Chatel, EPITA student in Paris, warned me he holds with his school an unprecedented event on 22 January 2009 in
Local EPITA on:
"The RIAs, new internet for the digital economy."
This event is divided into three main parts:

• A forum with booths where students will present projects in direct connection with RIAs (many Flex).
• Conferences involving the 3 major players in RIA: Microsoft, Adobe and the Open-Source.
• A round table on "The RIA / Web 2.0 to upgrade the e-Government: Revolution or Evolution?"

For more information, please visit the website of the event.
And to register for the event there are two options:

• register directly from the site of the event
• use the direct form

If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me, I will pass questions to the students EPITA.

We will look back on this day with more ...

Camille Roux has posted a presentation as part of an HMI (Human Machine Interface) in an engineering school in Nice.
The content of this presentation entitled: "When there are rich clients in the Air (Adobe Flex and RIA).

Thank you to him

Adobe has announced the immediate availability of a version of its suite LiveCycle Enterprise Suite mode hosted on the infrastructure of Amazon cloud computing (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - EC2). LiveCycle ES Developer Express incorporates all the features that can be found later in the editor. Remember that Adobe LiveCycle ES is an integrated J2EE server solution for businesses that combines data collection, information security, document production and management processes of transformation of contents, and in many formats for the exchange: PDF, Flash (. swf), XML, HTML, etc..

According to Adobe, this new offering helps accelerate testing and deployment of applications. Indeed, a "virtual development environment for self-testing, development and testing of applications Adobe LiveCycle ES is offered to developers of enterprise solutions the members of the Adobe Enterprise Developer. This allows us to exploit the Following the editor without having to install or configure. The Adobe LiveCycle ES can run as server instances on the platform Amazon EC2. Developers can start and test phases and to amend their applications without having to invest in a development environment.

A winter gift came from the Adobe website by Thibault and Michael who have posted some videos in English dedicated to some aspects of Adobe Flex on Adobe TV. Here is a list of videos:

- And Flex Charting Components: implementation of graphs in a Flex application.
- Communication between AIR and LiveCycle: Communication between AIR and LiveCycle ES.
- Generating PDF in Flex with LiveCycle Data Services
- Generating PDF with AlivePDF (open source)
- WiiFlash: how to connect a WiiMote with a Flex application
- Programming in AS3 Bitmap optimize application performance Flex

Enjoy

We know more about the former Thermo Flash now called Catalyst. The latter was presented at the latest Adobe MAX is available on Adobe Labs. Recall that the purpose of Catalyst is to facilitate a direct interface to the image format (Photoshop or Illustrator) created by a graphic artist by affecting behavior. It is then possible to view the report and export it for a Flex developer. This will make possible direct prototyping RIA. A presentation by Peter Flynn shows that.

A 15-minute video gives an overview of what can be done with Flash Catalyst.

Source: Michael Chaize

From Wednesday 10 December, will be posted vidéso of MAX since 2008 to AdobeTV. The sessions were recorded at 1024 × 768 with 15fps to see all the details of the presentations contained in videos, animations and more subtle features of the Flash platform.

The MAX is online here and the first session is now online!

Flash introduction to Catalyst and the new generation of Adobe Flex

Ryan Stewart, Steven Heintz, Tim Buntel etHeidi Williams show you how Flash Catalyst, the interactive design tool, is about to change the collaboration between designers and developers of Rich Internet applications (RIAs). We also discover the next generation of the Flex Builder development environment for creating rich applications on the Flash platform. The meeting received a DVD with all the software.

Discover over 292 sessions on the AdobeTV!

Source: Ted On Flash

So far, the console from SONY only allowed to run the Flash Player 7 and Adobe Flex was therefore not available on the PS3. No announcement was made at MAX and we thought that was the Player 9 not be flown on the console until Renaun write this article ...

He announced a very good news: Flash Player 9, you can develop games and run on 4 different platforms: Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Playstation 3! What other development environment games give this possibility? ;) Another interesting feature of the PS3 is that it allows up to 7 players in the same network for Flash game and in the same room. I think it promises a new interactive gaming experience that Flash Player has never been so far!

If you know of cool Flash games on PS3 do not hesitate to tell us!

Here is a video game TicTacToe Flash coded by Tom Ortega running on a PlayStation 3:

Source: Tom Ortega