Not the Brussels variety.
Thought I would bring this to your attention as it may be useful:
Flash - online - easy
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Shame about the distressed typeface on the Flash bit, I thought he
had a very rude name!?!??!
Looks interesting though.
On 6 Jan 2009, at 12:41, John-Paul Kernot wrote:
Not the Brussels variety.
Thought I would bring this to your attention as it may be useful:
Flash - online - easy
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hmm - hadn’t noticed that! As it was probably built by a couple of 16 year olds in their spare time, perhaps it is an in joke?
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This widget will live on their server and be out of your control. If
you’re okay with that, then this looks like a lot of fun. If your
clients like to own their content and manage its distribution, then
this will not be much use to you. Very impressive, in any case!
Walter
On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:41 AM, John-Paul Kernot wrote:
Not the Brussels variety.
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You know Walter, I think that is the way the web is going. Every day I see innovative small companies coming up with exciting ways to present content on the web.
These companies allow us to integrate functions that it would take way too much time to do oneself with speed and flexibility.
I think that is where we are going - websites produced by juxtaposition of content widgets.
I would also go so far as to say that the old style corporate website is probably being trumped by the rise of the blog - in many cases indistinguishable from the ‘static’ site yet retaining maximum flexibility for changing content.
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Oh I agree – but there have been some notable flame-outs in this
brave new world, and people who trusted in the cloud had that trust
seriously abused. There are countless stories of people being given 24
hours to move gigabytes of data off of a server somewhere if they
wanted to keep it, and that’s when they were given any notice at all.
It’s something to think about, in any case.
Walter
On Jan 6, 2009, at 10:18 AM, John-Paul Kernot wrote:
You know Walter, I think that is the way the web is going. Every day
I see innovative small companies coming up with exciting ways to
present content on the web.
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Good point - but I think it’s a risk we are all having to take to stay in the game.
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Sometime around 6/1/09 (at 10:30 -0500) John-Paul Kernot said:
I think it’s a risk we are all having to take to stay in the game.
Or rather, that’s a risk we have to evaluate and determine if we want
to expose ourselves and/or our clients to.
It does look cool and clever. However, personally, I’m not hugely
encouraged by the fact that the creators have used copyright content
(Homer et al) in their promotional example. This will probably end up
with a legal takedown notice sooner or later.
But it isn’t that specifically that really concerns me, it is what
this says about the creators. Are they really in it or the long haul,
or is this ('scuse the pun) a Flash in the pan? What price having to
recreate a ‘sprout’ quickly for a client if/when the service stops?
Just wondering really. It does still look both cool and clever! 
k
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Its worth bearing in mind that much of the hardware upon which the net is
dependent is corporately owned and while it’s mostly hunky dory at present,
the possibilities of corporate over control or failure are not difficult to
imagine.
Though this is completely OT - it always makes me pause to consider.
Brian
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Oh I agree – but there have been some notable flame-outs in this
brave new world, and people who trusted in the cloud had that trust
seriously abused. There are countless stories of people being given 24
hours to move gigabytes of data off of a server somewhere if they
wanted to keep it, and that’s when they were given any notice at all.It’s something to think about, in any case.
Walter
On Jan 6, 2009, at 10:18 AM, John-Paul Kernot wrote:
You know Walter, I think that is the way the web is going. Every day
I see innovative small companies coming up with exciting ways to
present content on the web.
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