YouTube announced the release of a new set of APIs today that (from what I've read so far) allow you to use YouTube as a web service. You can use API calls to log into YouTube, upload videos, list videos, edit the metadata about videos, and more.
Flex is obviously well-positioned to make use of these new APIs, given that the videos themselves are done in Flash. I wonder what apps will come out of this new development?
This may get missed in the news about the release of AIR and Flex, but apparently Adobe released a new website dedicated to the open source projects they're involved with (Flex, BlazeDS, Tamarin, etc.):
...Fortunately it didn't escape Nick Tong's attention (I read about it on his blog). Good catch, Nick.
Check out the pages on the Adobe site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/
http://www.adobe.com/products/air/
...I'm a little disappointed that AIR still isn't quite ready for Linux, because it's not truly cross-platform until it is, but I know they're beta-testing it with Linux users so hopefully it won't be much longer.
Ed Burnette, a blogger for ZDNet, posted his thoughts about how Flex and Apollo may compete against Java:
Ben Forta posted a link to this article on his blog. It's written by a Java developer who has decided that Java is no longer a good option for writing RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) and that Flex is the way to go. He explains his reasons in detail in his blog post:
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