Yahoo! has release a beta version of it messenger application built in Flex:
Now who can wait for the desktop version via Apollo? As of today the flex version of messenger is in beta and is only available in certain parts of the world.
Pretty nice to see flex being used in arenas such as this.
Yahoo has release APIs for ActionScript 3! Here is the lowdown:
“Yahoo! AS3 API libraries are a set of wrapper tools that facilitate access to Yahoo!’s Web APIs from Flex and Flash. These libraries create an abstraction layer above the communication protocols used by Yahoo! servers, enabling Flash and Flex developers to send and retrieve data without any additional parsing. The AS3 libraries are easy to install and all accessible methods are fully documents.”
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