According to Marketing VOX, Adobe has released a tool to Google and Yahoo to interpret Flash content for search engines. The tool will allow search engines to read text and links from within SWFs and display them in search engine result listings. Google is apparently using the flash-indexing tool already, so we can now look for SWF results in our searches. This starts to address Flash SEO issues, but using something like the Gaia Flash framework to display unique page URLs still seems necessary.

Further, the wider discussion of proprietary media formats and where they fit in is the more interesting discussion. Apple developed the new version of .Mac, MobileMe, using SproutCore, an open source Javascript framework.

In our ongoing search to find fun online tools, we found Jing. It’s a great tool to annotate screenshots and includes a really easy upload component so that sharing is easy. You can also create a video of user interaction on a site and share that. However, the best thing we found on the site is the refreshingly lo-fi demo video. It’s a simple and fun use of Swift3D.