http://outburst.jloop.com our daily brew of rich media Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:19:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Found this article to be a really interesting assessment of the trends happening with all the big players around the trend towards web-enabled desktop apps. One of Apple's announcements at WWDC was their embracing of SproutCore for this purpose. Read on...http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/06/14/cocoa-for-windows-flash-killer-sproutcore/ http://outburst.jloop.com/2008/07/01/sproutcore-and-the-rise-of-desktop-web-apps/ Finally some seemingly real news about Search Engines having the ability to search Flash content. With the players involved, this seems like it might be legit:http://mashable.com/2008/07/01/google-adobe-flash-search/ http://outburst.jloop.com/2008/07/01/flash-gets-searchable/ Great article from A List Apart The Cure for Content-Delay Syndrome Favorite Quote... It’s a disrespected line item in a schedule: “final content delivered.” It’s the perennial cause of delay and the stuff of myth (I once shelved a project for three years while the client “wrote” his content http://outburst.jloop.com/2008/05/20/copywriter-editor/ We have a weekly ping pong tournament that jloopers live for. Lots of fun, very competitive. This weeks championship round was Mike v Jason. See if you can tell who won. Time is valuable, so the video is @ 5x. idotjapan v bromike - JLOOP - 05.02.08 from Greg Stratford on ... http://outburst.jloop.com/2008/05/03/may-2nd-ping-pong-champion/ I'm trying out this little IM widget for quickly creating a way for users of your website to IM with your existing IM client. http://outburst.jloop.com/2008/04/10/plugoo/ We're very proud to announce the launch of the new City On A Hill Productions website. This project was an amazing amount of fun for us. Shane Sooter and Kevin Bryan came out to visit us last Fall (from their homes in Kentucky) and we laid out ... http://outburst.jloop.com/2008/03/31/site-launch-city-on-a-hill-productions/ I spent some time this weekend upgrading a bunch of WordPress sites to the newly released 2.5. So far, I'm completely impressed with this upgrade. The admin functions are truly improved and the overall design is beautiful and much more intuitive than the last admin panel. The ... http://outburst.jloop.com/2008/03/31/wordpress-25-and-svn-updating/ We're very excited to announce the launch of www.earthfolio.net.  Its a site we've been developing with Blue Marble for quite a while now.  There have been many hurdles to bringing this amazing product to the market, but it is now officially available to the public.nbsp; We're very proud of the ... http://outburst.jloop.com/2008/03/04/earthfolio-be-invested-in-your-world/ I'm a big fan of the Son of Suckerfish CSS dropdown menus at HTML Dog - executed entirely using CSS with just a touch of JavaScript to give a little extra help to certain browsers out there. Lately, we've also been making use of the Blueprint CSS framework on a ... http://outburst.jloop.com/2008/03/03/suckerfish-dropdowns-and-blueprint-css/ This is a truly impressive piece of work from BigSpaceship. http://www.adobe.com/flashon/ I love seeing the next evolution of video in Flash. The fullscreen abilities are at full effect here and the HD video is awesome. http://outburst.jloop.com/2008/02/14/adobe-flashon/ I blame Curtis for getting me hooked on America's Next Top Model - as I ended up watching way too much of the ANTM marathon this weekend. Three hours I will never get back. Arg. But during commercial breaks (yes, I watched it live thinking I would turn it off ... http://outburst.jloop.com/2008/01/28/now-what-customizing-your-message-for-the-audiences/ A while back I pronounced on this blog that Google Analytics had killed an industry. I had used products like DeepMetrix in the past and had decided that not only was Google Analytics easier, it actually gave me much better information at a glance than the DeepMetrix tools did. ... http://outburst.jloop.com/2008/01/23/the-differing-focuses-of-analytics-tools/ Once of the first interesting things I learned in "art" school was how the video game industry had outgrown "Hollywood". To me that meant all of the time we wasted as kids playing video games had potential of turning into something meaningful. For example, here at JLOOP we produce online ... http://outburst.jloop.com/2007/12/19/hollywood-buys-its-way-into-video-game-industry/ We've been talking about the concept of the "Identity Crash" that people can experience when they get too involved in too many social networks. With the advent of Google's OpenSocial and the explosion of Facebook and their platform... it does seem that there is a new frontier. I've recently ... http://outburst.jloop.com/2007/12/06/the-social-web/ I saw this logo on TV last night and had to share. One of my favorites dennis winn http://outburst.jloop.com/2007/12/05/save-the-music/