Google and other search engines can now be able to crawl and index Flash content which is so far is indiscoverable for search engines crawlers, thanks to Adobe enhanced Flash Player Technology and Flash indexing algorithm because of which now search engines can crawl the Flash based sites, however crawling will be limited to textual content in Flash only and not the images that could be Flash media.

Search engines can now be able to crawl and index text that users can see as they interact with Flash based website or file (.SWF). The textual content in Flash files will than be used to generates snippets to display in search engines results.

Moreover, search engine cant index FLV files as well, such as the videos on YouTube, because these files contain no text elements. All in all, search engine with Adobe’s optimized Flash Technology can now find themselves feasible to crawl textual content in Flash based SWF files and others are still under R&D block of search engines and Adobe to fix Flash indexing algorithm further.

Webmasters and Web designers can find the general FAQs for further clarification Google Flash Indexing FAQs and Adobe Flash Searchability FAQs, although they do not have to do any extra work to get their Flash website indexed in google, as Google crawlers would index the flash textual content automatically, however they may look towards Google Webmaster tool if they want to go deep down to it.

YouTube has launched YouTube Remixer (Beta), a service powered by Adobe Premiere Express to alllow Youtube users to edit their videos online on YouTube itself. This seems to be an effort to engage youtube audience especially frequent users/ uploaders to spent more time on the site.

This service lets YouTube users assemble new video in an easy drag-and-drop timeline and with a simple interface supports insertion of graphics, text and audio as well as overlays and in-video transitions and then publish it right back to YouTube.

This is YouTube’s second add-on/ service within YouTube website, earlier Youtube has also launched  YouTube Mobile – a mobile phone version of youtube.

Via – Techcrunch

Just after announcement of Google Gears plug-in, which is one of the ongoing effort of google to create applications which work online and offline as well, across browsers using Javascript APIs, Adobe has released its public Beta of Flex 3 for creating RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) for both online and offline usage.

Adobe Flex 3 created applications don’t necessarily have to run on internet. A free open source cross platform framework to create rich internet applications of web 2.0 traits using HTML/ CSS, AJAX, Flash and Flex 3 itself will let developers to engage internet audience more in their products while they are offline.

Adobe along with Microsoft and Google are focussing on new generation of applications that work across operating systems and both inside and outside the browser, bridging the gap between the web and the personal computer. Google’s Gear plug-in while Microsoft’s Silverlight are branches of same tree to stretch the web 2.0 to users desktop.

Microsoft’s Silverlight is also a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of Microsoft .NET based rich interactive applications for the Web. Its Free beta release which will expires on August 2007 will let users create applications with all that microsoft technologies in support and develop mash-ups, interactive applications by incorporating data and services from anywhere on the web. Silverlight has flexibility of programming like AJAX, Visual Basic .NET, C#, Python, and Ruby.

Installations – Adobe Flex 3 | Google Gears | Microsoft Silverlight