Waldo Smeets .com on Rich Internet Applications

Last week Philips launched a new product selector on their Consumer Electronics website. I was involved in this project so my opinion is biased, but hopefully you agree that the result is a very nice Rich Internet Application. You can experience the application by going to www.consumer.philips.com and then drill down to a specific product [...]

[via Serge Jespers] 3 renowned interactive agencies show you their latest Flex work. DAD, Nascom and Mediacatalyst will tell you why they chose Flex and how they convinced their clients, which difficulties they came across and how they fixed it.
During this session you will see front- and backend (with code samples) of 4 real [...]

Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam launched a really cool noise monitoring system a few months ago. See It was created with Flex 1.5 as a flexible dashboard with a huge amount of data. The purpose is to display current noise emission data from airplanes that are in the Schiphol area.
The application uses a number of [...]

Awesome Flex-based portal for Belgacom TV in Belgium, www.belgacomtv.be. Created by www.DAD.be, subsidiary of LB Icon.
Highlights:

Portal look and feel (nice reference for enterprise customers that consider a next generation customizable portals)
Drag and drop of pods
Multi-lingual application
Rich User Interface
Nice calendar interface

It’s only the first release (they are planning several) and I am impressed with the speed at [...]

The NOS, the Dutch TV news broadcasting organisation, celebrates 50 years of news broadcasts with an online archive of historic news video clips. Powered by a Flash Video interface, visitors can vote for their favorite news fragment.
The clips load very fast and this is a great showcase of how progressive downloads can be used for [...]

I’m here at MAX 2005 with Martijn de Visser from LostBoys and Ralph Hauwert from Satama Interactive. Ralph finally has set up his own blog and will be blogging about all his Flash and Flex advantures from now on (I hope ;-)). Another great  Dutch developer sharing his knowledge!

Akzo Nobel - a giant in the health, chemical and paint industry - launched their new corporate website last week. It’s a Flex enabled site running on  Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, BizTalk Server 2004 and webservices and one of the largest deployments of it’s kind.
This is the first release of a platform that will help [...]

Check out the Vodafone Welcome Tunes site, great usage of Flash audio & Flash video. It’s just as if these little persons are alive in my computer screen. Thanks to Owen van Dijk for passing on the link.

Record a free Flash Video Card, how appropriate for Christmas, at www.easycardz.com (Powered by Flash Communication Server).

Found a link to Floorplanner in my mailbox today (thanks Jeroen). Floorplanner is a nice example of efficient Flash usage to design the layout of rooms, offices and any other buildings (like creating your own meeting room layout when you book meeting space at a hotel).
Some more Floorplanner demos: Hotel New York, design your own floors and [...]