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Some great news this morning from the guys over at Adobe. There is now an ActionScript 3 API for Facebook on Google Code. This is an official API and Adobe have included a new section over at the DevNet purely for Facebook.

This is fantastic news for all those people developer apps and widgets using the Flash Platform. Daniel Dura has a quick introductory video tutorial on creating your first Application using Flex Builder on the DevNet.

Another written article on the DevNet takes you ...

GlobalSign have a limited offer for Adobe AIR developers for getting a security certificate for only $99 USD for a limited period. This is a massive saving of $130 USD so get yours today.

They also have some interesting white papers and guides for AIR and security certificates well worth reading.

Rich Tretola has posted an article on the EverythingFlex blog around getting the community to feedback ideas and wishes for the next BIG release of Adobe AIR. With the recent announcement from Microsoft on Silverlight how do you see Adobe upping the game with the next major release for AIR?

Well now is you chance, no matter how strange a request Adobe are listening and it’s time to get those suggestions in.

So if you have any great wishes, suggestions or fixes that you want to see then ...

At Mix 09 Microsoft announced that it’s Silverlight product can now run on the desktop for both Windows and Mac. This places the Microsoft offering as a competitor with Adobe AIR.

However upon closer examination the two technologies are coming at the desktop RIA space differently. There have been a lot of confusing reports regarding the Silverlight offering and I wanted to get a more rounded understanding before a rightup. It appears that with Silverlight you can turn any Silverlight web app ...

Interesting read today on InsideRIA by Giorgio Natili about creating an AIR application that uses a plug-in based architecture model.

It is more of an exploratory article rather than tutorial, however it’s a very interesting read on the subject of architecture and security considerations.

From a tweet by Chad Udell (@visualrinse) this is a video of a concept tablet with mulitouch built using Adobe AIR.

This is direct from the MIT Mobile Experience Lab (mobile.mit.edu) and look totally awesome. There is some detailed notes in the description of the video as to the system setup they used this included a PS3 webcam.

The application is an Adobe AIR app programmed in AS3, loading in Google Maps and plotting geo-coded photos onto a map of Venice, Italy.

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