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Adobe Influxis Latin Flash Tour is an event targeting all enthusiasts of the Flash Platform in Latin America. It will discuss the latest news of Flash for iPhone, Flash CS5, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst and more.

As you might know the Adobe Influxis Latin Flash Tour has already started and has gone through the cities of  Santiago – Chile, Buenos Aires -  Argentina,  Lima – Peru and will continue on Nov 13th in Bogotá – Colombia , Nov 16th in San Jose -Costa Rica  and will be closing on  Nov 18th in Mexico City  – Mexico.

I was invited by the organizers (RIAHispano, RIActive and FlashMC) of the event in Mexico( .FLAT  Latin Flash Tour ) to participate giving a  Flash Catalyst Workshop where I will be talking about what is and how to use Adobe Flash Catalyst in a production environment. The workshops will be held in Nov. 17 a day before the conference From the folks of Adobe.

Registration for my workshop has finished but there are still space in some of the other workshops and conferences that are equally interesting and taught by very talented people of the Latin Flash Community, both the conferences and workshops that will be given that day are completely free so all you will need is to register and bring your Laptop to be part of them. Click here to  see the workshops schedule and availability.

The conferences by Lee Brimelow (United States), Evangelist at Adobe focusing on the Flash Platform and Flex developer communities and AIR , Mike Chambers (United States), Principal Product Manager for developer relations for the Flash Platform at Adobe, Enrique Duvos (Spain), Group Manager of the Flash Platform evangelists in Europe will be held in Nov 18 .

I thank the organizers of this event for their invitation and for being  the people that will make the Latin Flash Tour Mexico happen,  in particular Edgar Parada ( @edgarparada ) who has been my contact all this days.

The official site for the event in Mexico is: www.latinflashtour.com.mx be sure to check it for more info and details on the event.

See you there.

Keep updated on Twitter: Use #latinflashtour hashtag and follow the account @latinflashtour

Adobe teams up with Facebook and releases new Adobe Developer Connection (Adobe Flash Platform and Facebook Platform ).
So if You where thinking on how to start developing  Flash Applications for Facebook you will find this site very useful.
It includes various how to start videos , useful information and a brand new ActionScript 3.0 Facebook API:
Get the API

• For the latest ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform:
  Go to Google code

Get started

• Quick start: Build your first Facebook application with Flex
• Video: Build your first Facebook application (12:08)
• Article: Understand the architecture of Facebook applications

Deliver rich, social experiences on the web

The Adobe Flash Platform and Facebook Platform provide the ideal solution for building rich, social experiences on the web. Flash is available on more than 98% of Internet-connected PCs, so people can immediately access the applications, content, and video that enable social interactions. The Facebook Platform is used by millions of people everyday to connect and share with the people in their lives. Together, both platforms allow you to:

* Share: Create rich interactions for users to share with friends.
* Have fun: Make games social; let users compete against their friends.
* Connect: Let users connect to your RIAs with Facebook Connect.
* Solve problems: Build RIAs that harness the power of community.
* Reach people: Reach millions of Facebook users through social distribution.

The new ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API, fully supported by Facebook and Adobe, makes it easy to build applications that combine the strengths of the Flash Platform and Facebook Platform.

Adobe announced yesterday at Adobe MAX the advancements to the Adobe Flash Platform, a complete system of integrated tools, frameworks, clients and servers to develop Web apps, content and video that runs across various OS  and devices.

Some of the highlights of this announce are the preview of Flash Catalyst( formely code named Thermo in Adobe Labs), a professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating application interfaces and interactive content without coding. Flash Catalyst enables artwork created in Adobe Creative Suite 4 to be imported with full fidelity and quickly converted into dynamic components such as buttons, scrollbars, input fields and more. Finished projects can be published directly to Flash Player or AIR. When combined with the next version of Flex Builder, Adobe Flash Catalyst enables design and development to be done in parallel. This workflow supports iterative development and delivers higher quality results with faster time to market. A preview release of Adobe Flash Catalyst will be available for MAX 2008 attendees. A public beta version is expected to be available on Adobe Labs in early 2009. For more information, please visit www.adobe.com/go/flashcatalyst.

The Flex Builder “Gumbo” preview release, also available yesterday for MAX 2008 attendees, expands the use of Flex to a wider audience of developers, offering new data-centric development capabilities to create rich Internet applications. Gumbo also enhances project productivity through the improved design and development workflow with Adobe Flash Catalyst and improvements to core development capabilities such as the debugger, profiler and code editor. For more information, please visit http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/. A new preview release of the open source Flex framework is also available on www.opensource.adobe.com.

Adobe AIR 1.5 is available immediately as a free download for Windows and Mac, and AIR 1.5 for Linux is expected to be available before the end of the year. For more information on Adobe AIR, please visit www.adobe.com/products/air/.

Furthering Adobe’s commitment to the Linux community and as part of ensuring the cross-platform compatibility of Flash Player, a pre-release 64-bit Linux version of Adobe Flash Player 10 is now available on Adobe Labs at www.adobe.com/go/linux64player.This offers easier, native installation on 64-bit Linux systems and removes the need for 32-bit emulation.

UPDATE:

Here’s a link to Adobes Page for The Flash Platform

http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/

And an image shameless ripped form Keith Peters post on the subject