Google Experiments with ColdFusion and Flash

Aug 13, 2005

by Judith Dinowitz

I've been noting the different Google experiments that have been taking place in the ColdFusion and Flash communities. Jared Rypka-Hauer, Scott Stroz and others have been experimenting with using ColdFusion MX 7 to communicate with Google Talk through the Jabber protocol. (Damon Cooper did a nice article collating information on that, and speculating on the different things that can be built using Jabber and Google.) There has been some talk of Flash experiments and applications, such as Kero's News search application for Flash Lite and FlashInsider's reports on putting SWF files into Google's sidebar and using the Jabber protocol to work with Flash and Google (not just with ColdFusion). All of these posts show that Macromedia's forethought in adding Jabber support to ColdFusion and Flash gives people using these technologies a jumpstart above others that do not support Jabber.

ColdFusion and Google

CFObjective G-Talk Experiments (Jared Rypka-Hauer's Blog, August 24 - 25, 2005)

Auto-Add Google Buddies with Your CF Gateway (Scott Stroz' Blog, August 24, 2005)

Google Chat and CFMX Gateways (Cryptical Envelopment, August 24, 2005)

Google-Talk and the ColdFusion MX 7 XMPP IM Gateway (Damon Cooper, August 26, 2005)

Flash and Google Macromedia Flash for Your Google Sidebar (FlashInsider, August 26, 2005)

XML in Flash or Why I Can't Access RSS in Flash (FlashInsider, August 26, 2005)

Google Talk Via Jabber Via Flash for Pocket PC (FlashInsider, August 24, 2005)

Google News Search Application on Flash Lite (Biskero.org, August 27, 2005)

General Google Extensions

Gmail Drive Shell Extension 1.0.7 (Injun, August 25, 2005)

Conference Calling with Google Talk (Forever Geek, August 27, 2005)