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When I walked into the office today and was told of the deal everyone’s talking about today, I was in disbelief. I had to check the dates on the articles being shown because I remembered seeing an April Fool’s Day article about the exact same topic. Once I realized it was official, I was kinda torn on how I should feel. So, although it’s been blogged to death, here’s my take on the situation.

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Eyezberg has posted some pictures from the LA Flash meeting the other night showing off some of the demos Mike Downey did.

If you look closely in some of the photos, you can even see me!(In the green shirt) It’s no big deal as you can see a lot of other people too, but it’s kinda fun for me to see show up on other people’s sites now and then.

I haven’t posted in a few days for a few reasons - One, it was my anniversary. So I’ve been out of town for that. Two, the day I got home, I started packing again to head down to LA with MediaRain on business.

Since we were in town, we decided to check out the sneak peaks of Maelstrom being shown by Mike Downey at the LA Flash Macromedia User Group. We RSVP’d last week, got directions to the meeting, and then proceded to just about get lost on our way there.

It was great! Just about everything shown in the videos already posted online by Colin Moock and others was shown to us, along with one or two other surprises. New video effects, the filter effects, better text rendering, you name it. The videos were great, but seeing this stuff in person was enough to just about make me wet myself.

In between being excited about each little demo, and asking questions trying to get Mike to reveal more than he should about the new stuff, you could see everyone in there trying to imagine what they’re going to do with this next version. It’s still a ways away, but I can hardly wait to see what’s going to be done with this stuff.

I won’t be posting for another few days, but when I do, I’ll be adding some photos from the trip. Unfortunately, I have no pictures of the meeting, but I have a few others that might be entertaining.