I just wrote a post on The Universal Desktop about The Fan, a new application that came out of Comcast Interactive Media Labs page. It’s a pretty nifty little application and there’s a lot of content that I hadn’t seen other places. But while writing the post, I found something better, a full breakdown of why the Comcast Interactive Media team chose to use Flex (It looks like this hit pretty big on MXNA, but I missed it).

It goes through a lot of the minuses behind Flex and why they weren’t an issue here. He also notes that most of the team was made of up long time Flash developers, so moving to Flex wasn’t a small decision. But his post is a shining example of why so many people are choosing Flex to build their applications.

I wish we had more of these, becuase I seem to find them sporadically and am always excited when I do. If you have written or found a post that explains why someone chose a Rich Internet Application solution, I’d love to see it.

[Via Mike Potter]

Note: I didn’t link directly to my Comcast article on ZDNet becuase I don’t want to look like I’m gaming Techmeme.

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1. Building a Word Processor – Ajax vs. Flash
2. Interview with Jeremy Suriel, Chief Architect at Goowy Media
3. Integrating Rich Media with WPF
4. Flash Media Server 2
5. Flash Media Server 2 Public Beta