Want to know what the coolest interactive technology trends are and how to use them? Point your browser at labs.adobe.com and get a leg up on your peers. Creative and Technical Directors alike will find the information on the latest from Adobe quite interesting. Having early access to future interactive technologies can make the difference between leading and following within the industry. Being the first out of the gate with something new is a great way to get you or your agency noticed.

Besides the obvious ones like AIR and Flex 3 here are a few others you should pay attention to:
ActionScript 3.0 Libraries
provides AS3 APIs for Flickr, Mappr, Odeo, YouTube and others.

Flash-Ajax Video Component
open source Flash video playback component for AJAX applications

Adobe Flex Ant Tasks
manage Flex builds and deployments with Apache's Ant

Flex Compiler Shell
shell environment for compiling Flex applications

Flex Scheduling Framework
sophisticated calendaring component

Flex Module for Apache and IIS
web-tier compilation of MXML and ActionScript

Flex-Ajax Bridge
exposes all your ActionScript to JavaScript

Adobe FLVCheck Tool
conforms FLVs not encoded with Adobe products to conform to the Adobe FLV file specification

JSEclipse
JavaScript plug-in for Eclipse

Spry framework for Ajax
JavaScript library for building RIAs

Flex cookbook
great ideas for Flex development

kuler
create and experiment with color and then share it

CSS Advisor
CSS sharing with the web development community

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