TechCrunch40 pretty much took over the news today and there were a couple of applications that used Flex. The first was Bluestring by AOL (TC post). It allows you to mash up a bunch of rich media to create a tapestry of content that you can share with friends and family. It’s a pretty cool interface and they’ve taken away all of the stock Flex look so you can’t even really tell it’s Flex. I threw a bunch of random stuff together but it’s really meant to be a way to capture all of the rich media from something like a trip or event all in one place for easy shareability.

The second application I noticed was StoryBlender, which I believe is a Flash application but I can’t get in (and can’t understand why because it’s in Korean). There was also a really slick application called MusicShake which would have been a great Flash application but was instead built on something else and required Internet Explorer and a pretty significant download. CenterNetworks had some thoughts on both.

Adobe also had a pretty strong showing in the Crowd Sourcing section. DocStoc, the “YouTube of documents” (yes, I hate myself for repeating that) is using Flash to embed the documents on pages. The coolest use of Adobe technology however goes to Ponoko, the personal manufacturing service. You can actually have them make a toy from an Adobe Illustrator file. Cool stuff. More of the recap action over at CenterNetworks.

[tags]TechCrunch40, Bluestring, StoryBlender, MusicShake, Ponoko, DocStoc, Flex, Flash, Adobe[/tags]