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here: community apps in flash. Seems reasonable. There's lots of ground here. "Community apps" have gone the way of the dodo. These days, we have linked-in networks. Do I need to go near flash? Clearly AJAX, a superior platform, has universally replaced it. A quick google for "is dead" is quite illuminating. Some samples: blogging is dead. trackback is dead. xhtml is dead. pauly shore is dead. the internet is dead. ]]>

here: community apps in flash. Seems reasonable. There's lots of ground here. "Community apps" have gone the way of the dodo. These days, we have linked-in networks. Do I need to go near flash? Clearly AJAX, a superior platform, has universally replaced it. A quick google for "is dead" is quite illuminating. Some samples: blogging is dead. trackback is dead. xhtml is dead. pauly shore is dead. the internet is dead. The internet is going strong, millions of pages still use trackback, and Pauly Shore's greatest success was a vehicle about his death (if only we could get him posting to a blog on the internet, we'd have a trifecta). While it may seem sensational to write about the end of an era, the internet is far too lingering. An idea or tool will have relevancy as long as users have adopted it - regardless if whether or not an "improved" technology has come along. ]]>