My Adobe Flex Ad Idea

Posted on July 20, 2006 | 4 comments

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Adobe recently ran some ads Federated Media sites that did not go over well on winning brownie points with Flex coders. You can pick up the post by Ryan here.

The cool thing was Jeff Whatcott of Adobe picked up on the blog and decided to ask the Flex community for ideas. Good job on Adobe’s part for that one.

I decided to give it a try, I am a Flex Developer not a marketing guru so don’t laugh, please (hehe).

My first idea was some small code example with an WOW affect. Well, I tried it and the code is not that small but still not bad for a Web 2.0 mashup in banner space. I decided to do it all in Flex but most of it could have been images making it about 20-30 lines of code.

Here it is:

Right click on the SWF file to view the source or go to the links below.

Adobe Flickr Ad Idea

Adobe Flickr Ad Idea Source

Either way this was a good excuse for me to finally try out the Flickr AS3 library. The Flickr and Corelib Adobe AS 3 libraries are required for the AdobeFlickrAd example to work and can be found on the labs.adobe.com site here.

You will also need to get a Flickr account and an API key. Then just change “” out with your API key in the code below (AdobeFlickrAd.mxml):
[code lang="javascript"]
private var API_KEY:String = "";
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Now some of my ideas that I did not get to would be to have a "View Source" link below the flickr pictures that takes the person to the source and info about Flex2 etc....

Also you can do play off the acronym RIA some more. Like "Real Important Advice", "Rapid Integration Applicator", "Rebel Innovation Artist", etc... all could work for other ads.

Well, there goes all my marketing juices.
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Adobe最近做一些Federated Media网站的广告, 但Flex的爱好者受不了这些广告。原文在这儿。

最棒的就是Adobe的Jeff Whatcott看到这个blog之后决定问整个Flex社会的意见。Adobe问意见是非常好。

我决定试一试, 我很会写Flex的代码, 但我不是一个市场专家--别笑我 (哈哈)

原来我是想做一些很有"不可思议"影响的小代码例子。所以试了以后发现代码不是那么小, 但对于Web 2.0的banner space是还可以的。

你们看:

为了看代码程序在SWF文件上右按或按下面的连接。

Adobe Flickr广告意见

Adobe Flickr广告意见代码程序

反正,这就是一个"终于试试Flickr AS3 Library"的借口。为了看到Adobe Flickr广告的例子Flickr和Corelib Adobe AS3 libraries是必要的,也可以在labs.adobe.com的网站找到。

注册Flickr的用户和API钥匙是必要的。然后在下面的代码程序(AdobeFlickrAd.mxml)把" "改成你的API钥匙。

[code lang="javascript"]
private var API_KEY:String = "";
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我还有意见但时间不够, 那就是在Flickr的图片下把"View Source",来源和Flex2的信息等等连接起来。你也可以把RIA这个缩略词,做出更多有意思的事像"Real Important Advice" (实在重要的劝告), "Rapid Integration Applicator" (迅速共同体应用), "Rebel Innovation Artist" (寇贼革新艺术家) 等等, 都可以。

所以我的市场本事都用光了。
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