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Adobe announces plans to open-source Flex under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). Developers will soon be able to freely download, extend, and contribute to the source code for the Flex SDK, including the Flex compiler, command-line debugger, and application framework.
You can find more info on Adobe Labs

The Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 allows you to create interactive, animated content in Flash, and use it in Flex as a Flex component.
Use the Flex Component Kit when you want to use interactive or animated Flash content in Flex. The Flex Component Kit converts your Flash content into Flex components. These components work with Flex features such as view states and transitions, skinning, and tool tips. The content can be used as a child of a Flex container, or as a skin for any Flex component.

Check it out here:
Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3

Sean Moore has released 3 Apollo cheatsheets So if you’re a developer starting with Apollo, these are very usefull. All of the new Apollo Classes are on the sheets. Be sure to check the Blog to see all the cheatsheets. Keep up the good work Sean.

Here are the links:

Apollo mx.controls & mx.core Cheatsheet

Apollo flash.display & flash.events Cheatsheet

Apollo flash.filesystem, flash.html & flash.system Cheatsheet

This video comes from the Web 2.0 Expo where Kevin Lynch was presenting found on Daniel Dura’s weblog

Adobe is going to release a DRM solution for Flash Video via Adobe Media Player.(one of Adobe firs Apollo Apps) This player was anounced at NAB and with it the consumers will be able to play FLV content right in their desktop ( Mac and Win System Linux support will follow ) and the publishers of the content will have the option to restrict the content in various forms its suppose to have a Beta Version in the summer some of its features will be:

- Double click an FLV file to play it inside the Media Player, including HD footage, and do so cross platform.
- Stream, download and manage FLV content, watch it offline.
- Create Playlists.
- Automatically download your favourite shows.
- Protect FLV content both in downloadable and streaming format.
- Track your content.

Yummy can’t wait to have my hands on this baby.

I just subscribed this weblog to Technorati, Its a very good Internet search engine for searching blogs and they have The Technorati Developer Program that helps you integrate Technorati data directly into you apps. They have the SDK, some example scripts, a mailing list, and other helpful resources to assist in development process. When I get some free time I’m going to start playing with the Development side of it.