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Register for 360|Flex and Be the First to Win Uber CS Next

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Are you planning on going to 360|Flex San Jose March 7-10th? Have you registered yet? If not I’ve got a deal for you. I’m going to be giving away a copy of whatever the highest suite level is for the next version of Creative Suite to a random attendee who registers on the 360Flex site with my URL which is http://360flex-rfs.eventbrite.com/. Here’s how it will work. I’ll randomly select one person from the list of people who register with that URL. If you’re the winner I’ll email you to find out if you want Mac or Windows. Then, if CS Next is released before 360Flex, I’ll bring you a copy to take home. If it’s released afterwards I’ll take your address and send it to you.

I’m also going to be holding a contest for the designer-types which I’ll announce later when I nail down the specifics. But hopefully this gives you all a jolt to register for 360Flex sooner rather than later.

What Can You Do With 10k Worth of Silverlight Code? Win Stuff!

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10k_logoAre you planning on going to MIX? Then why not get Microsoft to pay for it? They’re running a fun contest that is looking for the coolest Silverlight or WPF application that you can create in 10k – and that includes image assets, so you can’t be crazy with the bitmaps.

The winner gets an all expensed paid trip to Vegas for MIX09, AND they get a $1500 Visa gift card so they can take all of their friends out to dinner. Do they let you cash in those gift cards in the casino? There’s also a community winner which will receive a $1500 gift card and three runners-up get $500 clams each.

But the best part, and the reason I’m blogging about it, is that I get to be a judge. So if you’re doing Silverlight work, and are planning on going to MIX, this is a great way to get there. And I’ll help!

Create a Pixel Bender Filter – Win Awesome Stuff from Nvidia

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This is really cool. The folks at Nvidia are running a contest to see who can come up with the best Pixel Bender filter. NVIDIA wants to see what you can do to make use of their GPU, so they figured a great thing to do would be to give Pixel Bender a spin.

They seem to be focusing on Pixel Bender in Photoshop CS4, but what’s great about it is you’ll be able to use that same filter in After Effects CS4 or the Flash Player. If you’re looking to get started, Lee has a couple of great Pixel Bender tutorials.

Announcing the Flex SEO Contest

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Peter Elst has a really good post up (with some concerns) about SWF Indexing in some of his Flash files. And it’s clear that a lot is changing and we’re not sure what’s going to be exposed or how it’s going to be exposed.

Flex SEO Contest
But what I’m most worried about is how we can expose valuable data from Flex (and Flash) to search engines in a way that makes the user experience better. So I’m starting a contest in the hopes that the community can learn the best way to expose data from a Flex application to search engines.

Rules
I’ve come up with a phrase: “Fleximagically Searchable” which currently has absolutely no results on Google. In two months, whichever Flex application is number one in the search results wins. Here are the rules:

  • It has to be a Flex application
  • “Fleximagically Searchable” must be dynamically loaded. It can’t be static text inside of your application. – But I don’t care how you load it, in fact that might make a difference in how Google ranks you.
  • The first link must be deep linked directly into where you load “Fleximagically Searchable” into your application. Feel free to use any deep linking methods out there.
  • Nothing in your code can dynamically load the phrase automatically. It has to be the result of a user interaction.
  • You must provide source code and be willing to talk about exactly what you did.
  • Multiple entries are allowed if you want to try different things.

Prizes
The winner will get a copy of CS3 Master Collection (or CS4 if they want to wait) and a copy of Flex Builder 3. Second place gets a copy of Flex Builder 3.

I’m working on getting more prizes. Maybe a MAX pass or other Adobe goodies. If any companies want to contribute prizes or cash or anything to give away, send me an email.

Disclaimer
The rules may change as the contest goes on. The goal is to let the community know the best way to expose content to Google for SEO purposes and to actually have that content deep linked. I think the rules I’ve got cover that but I don’t want someone winning through a loophole. I’ll be checking, posting updates, and letting people know how it’s going over the two months. If you have any questions, feel free to email me. I encourage you to try a bunch of different methods for embedding, for deep linking, and loading data. That’s part of the fun of the contest is seeing what works best.

Also, if anyone wants to do a logo for the contest, that would be awesome.