Flex/Flash Apps at TechCrunch40

September 18th, 2007 by ryanstewart

BluestringTechCrunch40 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.

MusicShakeThe 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.

PonokoAdobe 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]

Posted in Adobe, Flash, Flex, Rich Internet Applications

4 Responses

  1. Campbell Anderson

    Go the Kiwi’s with the coolest use of flash. :)

  2. michael galpert

    Hi Ryan,

    Avi and I were at TC40’s demo pit showing off the amazing capabilities of Flex/Flash in Aviary’s Online Creative Suite.

    I’m sorry if you couldnt make it to the demopit and see what the Aviary team has been working on, not to worry we will be sending out early invitations in the coming months.

    Michael

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