My Adobe Flex Ad Idea
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.
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 “
[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.