What is the Open Graph Protocol?
The Open Graph Protocol specifies how to provide structured data and turn content into objects recognizable by Facebook. The goal is to make consistent information available to Facebook’s software so that it can understand how to organize and present the content within its platform. As a result, content that lives on any website can become part of the Social Graph.

While there is a good deal of debate about what this protocol means for the open web movement, it is difficult to ignore a protocol that will affect the presentation of content to Facebook’s massive user-base. Among other things, integrating this data within a site will improve how content appears within users’ newsfeeds and their profiles as well as likely boost the content’s ranking within Facebook’s search.

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David Bliss, Partner and Technical Director of Odopod, documents some of the outstanding bits of Adobe MAX sessions day 1 including publishing Flash for iPhones, Flash Player 10.1 Improvements and the Flex Mobile Framework.

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It is no secret that Flash programmers seldom use the “Actions” window inside Flash Professional. Flex/Flash Builder is a full featured IDE for writing object oriented code and offers incredible efficiencies for all ActionScript (AS) programming tasks.

This being the case, writing code in Builder and publishing SWFs in Flash Professional is a fairly common workflow among Flash developers. Unfortunately, it is also a slow and clumsy process.

Publishing from Builder using mxmlc is quicker and more convenient but integrating it within existing Flash workflows can be complicated.

Earlier this year, we decided to start using mxmlc exclusively for our Flash projects. We have since refined our process to a point were it works very well.

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Odopod's Founder and Technical Director David Bliss answers one of the questions we are often asked by our clients: Can Flash sites be indexed by search engines?

The short answer: Of course it can. In this article, David takes a look at the necessary steps and best practices to properly make Flash content available to search engines.

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Here’s a site that Microsoft built using Silverlight. I’ve not seen a lot of work done with Silverlight, but I assume that they have tried pretty hard to showcase the capabilities of Silverlight with this one.