Adobe Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow has posted a great tutorial on using SWFObject 2.0 for embedding SWFs in your HTML content over at gotoandlearn.com.

Go check it out here >>

PCWorld reports Adobe: Flash Gaining Traction in the Enterprise.

While most people know Flash as primarily a multimedia delivery and development technology for Web sites, it is catching on as a front-end user-interface (UI) technology for business applications, an Adobe manager [AIR Group Product Marketing Manager, Adrian Ludwig] said Wednesday.

The article goes on to discuss Flash’s growing use behind the corporate firewall and the impact that Flex has had in gaining interest from traditional application developers.

Adobe’s Flash has been making progress against legacy desktop applications — such as those built in C++ — although that progress hasn’t been widely publicized…

“One of the problems with Flash is people only think of it as being used to do public Web sites,” he said in an interview in New York Wednesday. “It’s a misconception. A significant percentage of [Flash] applications people are making now are enterprise applications behind the corporate firewall.”

He cited as an example an application that Siemens and development partner Thrasys created for Siemen’s health information system. The companies created a front-end, Web-based interface using Flash and Flex to unite several back-end applications and streamline how employees use information from different systems.

Read the full article here >>

Adobe Platform Evangelist, Lee Brimelow, has posted a good interview of Justin Everett-Church, Sr. Product Manager for Flash Player on theFlashblog.com.

Today I was at Adobe HQ in San Francisco and got a chance to interview Justin Everett-Church, who is the Senior Product Manager for Flash Player, about some of the most frequently asked questions regarding Flash Player 10 and our new search technology.

Check it out here >>

When major corporations and small businesses alike need to promote their most important products with high-end, engaging user experiences that combine multiple media formats with dynamic data and motion graphics they must make tough decisions on which rich client technologies they should bet their business on.

Like so many other companies, Microsoft chooses Flash. Can you blame them?

[via Serge Jespers, Ben Forta, and Ted Patrick]

Alan Lewis, Product Manager for eBay Desktop over at eBay, has reported the very exciting news that AIR-based eBay desktop has been downloaded over 1 Million times! I first demonstrated this application at the DEMO conference in Palm Springs after Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch lost his voice the day before the presentation. I have since demonstrated this application to thousands of people in all parts of the world.

It is great to witness the ongoing success of this desktop application. I can’t wait to see what new features get rolled out next.

If you haven’t installed it yet, get it at desktop.ebay.com.