Smilebox was one of the first Web 2.0 sites using Flash, and they’ve since branched out quite a bit. Andy Plesser has a writeup of Smilebox and highlights an interview Robert Scoble did with Andrew Wright, the CEO of Smilebox.
Smilebox started out doing pretty basic greeting cards but used Flash to make them expressive. Since that time, they’ve gone more “Web 2.0″ and have added video, slideshows and scrapbook functionality. What’s interesting about the way they integrate video is that they offer a special desktop technology that compresses the videos locally. As a result, you can take videos directly from your digital video camera onto a Smilebox asset. It’s an interesting model (On2 has more info on their press release) and it’s a good mix of using the power of the desktop to enhance the web.
Smilebox is also a Seattle company, so what’s not to love!?
[tags]Smilebox, PodTech, Flash, On2[/tags]
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