Andrew Laffoon’s Thoughts

I took a trip to Taiwan to visit our Mixbook team there in April, and had a blast when I was there! Check it out on Mixbook:

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I have to say, developing this embed widget has reawakened my love for Flash. I forgot how much I enjoy using a timeline and editing my applications more visually. Flex is beautiful because of the power of its framework, and when I’m building a Flex app, I tend to focus on making beautiful, modularized code. But when I’m in flash, I remember that I like my app to look pretty too.

And I forgot that you can choose exactly which characters to embed in a flash .swf. That’s a great feature! We’re at 108,902 bytes right now. I need to get this thing down to 50 KB!

This is a test of the Mixbook Embed Widget. Very nice, eh? (The buttons don’t do anything yet…)

Updated: Here is the new version. The only thing left is the email feature.

Update 2: We ousted the email feature - who needs it anyway? Just the spammers…

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Mixbook launched a couple of weeks ago with a new take on Web 2.0 and monetization: actually giving users a product. Mixbook is a rich internet application that lets you create a digital photoalbum using a series of templates and photos that you upload to the site.

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Here’s a sneak peak of our sample book:

My web site, Mixbook, has launched. Now you can Create Amazing Books with Your Friends online, for free! Try it now!

http://www.mixbook.com

Also, you can read more about Mixbook on the Mixbook blog: http://mixbook.wordpress.com.