O’Reilly: Inside RIA

Round 2 is now completed and the top 5 RIAs that will join last weeks winners in this weeks semi-finals are (Note: results as of 11:45pm eastern time) Balsamiq Mockups, iPlotz, Hot Gloo, SlideSix, & Digital Tutors move on to...

Round 1 is over and Round 2 now begins. The top 5 RIA's from this week's poll will move on to next weeks semi final. So, please vote for your favorite from this week's 10 nominees. Please click here to...

After well over 5000 votes, round 1 is officially over. The top 5 RIAs that will move into the semi-finals 2 weeks from now are (Note: results as of 10:15pm eastern time) Aviary, FlashMoto, Creately, Konductor, & Yooba move on...

Over the next 3 weeks, we will be conducting a tournament to determine the InsideRIA choice for the top RIA of the year so far. For the next two weeks we have nominated a total of 20 RIA's based on...

We asked you which frameworks you would like to see discussed at Adobe MAX this year and you responded with Parsley, Mate, Swiz, and Pure MVC as the top frameworks you would like to hear more about. Surprisingly Cairngorm came...

We need your help. O'Reilly is conducting a competition to highlight the best RIAs of 2009. We have been compiling a list of noteworthy applications, but we want to make sure we aren't missing any. It can be especially difficult to find independent developers that aren't receiving as much attention as they might deserve. Upon completing the list we will begin voting here on InsideRIA. The finalists will be showcased at a special session at MAX 2009 where we conduct and in-depth look at each app and conduct a Q&A with the developer/development team. Please leave a comment with any submissions/suggestions. The only requirements are that the application be created/powered with Adobe tools and that they were either created, released, or updated in 2009.

InsideRIA has some exciting news about Adobe MAX that we will be sharing very soon. In preparation for one of our planned sessions, we would like to know which Flex Frameworks (micro-architectures) you would like to see us debate in...

No, this isn't my new perspective on using the Google Maps API. In fact, it's much more exciting. Google recently released a new addition to the Maps API for Flash, including 3D perspective, and a new control set that is reminiscent of the controls in Google Earth! Straight from Google: "With a perspective map, the map is projected on a viewport (the screen) using a virtual point of reference in front of the screen (the camera). These three components (the map, the viewport and the camera) form a perspective on the viewport which gives the illusion of depth perception to the map."

Recently, Barry Diller, chairman and chief executive officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp, said that he believes that in the near future Web users will have to pay for what they watch and use on the Internet. Other media moguls including Liberty Media...

Augmented Reality has been a hot topic lately. I have recently been playing around with AR both in the Flash Player as well as my G1 Android phone. To this point, I can say that the technology is very cool but also has a lot of growing up to do.