MP3 jukeboxes. Talking virtual website assistants. The website for the latest Hollywood blockbuster. Educational online games. Homestarrunner. What do these things have in common? Flash. No, we’re not talking about the little USB hard drive on your keychain. (That’s flash memory, little “f”). In the context of web technologies, Adobe Flash (formerly by Macromedia) is a software program originally designed for creating vector based animations. The Flash player, touted (by Adobe) as “the world’s most pervasive software platform” is used by 99% of Internet users and allows animations created in the authoring program to play in your browser.
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It’s something that everyone seems to be talking about, so what is this much ballyhooed Web 2.0? First of all, it means different things to different people, and some might say it really means nothing at all. Those who use the term are really just talking about the so-called second generation of the World Wide Web in which collaboration and sharing are the main focus.
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