A whole lotta awesome stuff

I was very distracted from looking at the happenings in the Flash/Flex/AIR world in the last month due to certain personal and work related reasons. But looks like a lot has happened in this time… This post is trying to capture some of those interesting stuff.

• Yahoo! announced that from now on, you will be able to edit your Flickr Photos on Picnik – This is awesome news, something that prompts me to go for premium accounts.
• YUI Got a Little More Flashy! – Yahoo! Flash Blog talks about the YUI 2.4.0 release that has the experimental YUI Charts widget that makes Yahoo! Astra Flash Charts accesable to YUI folks
• Oracle bets on Flex UIs – James Ward has an awesome series on how Oracle is convinced of the Flex technology. The series talks about his visit to the Oracle OpenWorld.
• Nominate your rich Internet application for a Crunchie award – Ryan has a scoop on the Crunchies, a start-up competition being hosted by Read/WriteWeb, TechCrunch, Venture Beat and GigaOm. The deadline to submit a nomination is December 12th
• Online Video Series: Salesforce.com & Adobe – Catch this interesting series on James Ward’s blog…
• Progressive Image Loading with URLStream and Loader.loadBytes in Flash Player 9 – Thanks Ted… I’m sure a lot of people would dig this.