Steve Jones, creative director here. I have decided to start using Twitter because I just liked it from the first moment I saw it, in the same way as I instantly hated Facebook.

First thing I noticed was that the API situation for Flash was pretty woeful, so I’m writing a bunch of new “TwitterService” classes right now – starting from scratch – and will “tweet” the URL to the ZIP of AS3 files when I’m done. If anyone else fancies jumping in to develop them, that will be cool.

G-RAFF ON TWITTER

Manically busy at the moment, hence the sorry lack of updates. Moving into a new office next week, writing a killer PureMVC/PaperVision3D app for a big company you all know, working on a lovely trio of sites for Nigerian superstar Dare Art Alade, microsite for Orion Books, a great new community-funded film site, new stuff for Suburbia Media as they launched LOVE magazine, just about to go live with Bermondsey 167… the list goes on.

We’re also looking for freelance Flash developers if anyone is around. Familiarity with PureMVC will be a good help. Please don’t even launch your email client unless you are serious.

EDIT: Now 00:10 on Sunday night (no, its not Monday morning until I wake up) and I have just launched FlashTwitter as an open-source beginning to a decent Flash API for Twitter. I’ve had fun during the day, and hope this will be of some use.

How do you cram a multi-layered works archive, full screen photo gallery, two channel music player, Yahoo Maps guestbook, RSS-friendly news engine and script-driven aurora borealis into a minimalist Flash website? Answer: Brendan-Perry.com.
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When “No Surprises” – a company based in Nigeria – called us back in January, I was predictably suspicious – all I’d previously had in the way of email from Nigeria were countless offers of $19,000,000 for the use of my bank account…
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Forget Adobe’s Tween class.

Get thy ass over to Greensock and get TweenLite. I simply can’t believe how much it improved the performance of my stuff.

I noticed that although SWFObject (javascript for displaying Flash with a reasonably graceful HTML fallback) works on iPhones from a javascript point of view, the Flash content itself fails. So iPhone users are left looking at a blank screen… hardly particularly cool, eh? Solution (uses PHP) follows…

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