If you visit the Windows Vista page on CNET today you will notice some excellent ad placement. Click the “play again” or “play with sound” button on the Apple ad on the right side of the screen. You will see a great example of creative and ad placement. Also, the Flash geek in me appreciates the use of Local Connect (I assume) to make the ad on the right communicate with the ad above. Very nicely done Apple. If the ad is not there at any point you can view a screen record I did of the ad in action here:
View My Screen Record of the Ad (22 MB)

Mike Chambers has the scoop on the new Adobe AIR Logo on his blog. Check out his post about the new logo.

Mike Says:

I am not going to go into a detailed analysis of what the logo represents, but I do want to point out one of the core concepts behind the logo. Adobe AIR is built on top of three core web technologies (HTML, Flash and PDF), and we wanted the logo to represent this. Thus, each corner of the logo represents one of these core technologies.

I for one love it. I made a quick wallpaper in case anyone is interested. You can download it here (click to get the full-sized version):

Mike offers vector versions of the logo as well here.

I am pretty stoked about this. My Snow Class (AS2/AS3) that I wrote a year or two ago was used for a small animation on the web for the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership. They liked the look of the animation and wanted to create a 30 second TV spot based on it. Since Flash CS3 has excellent support for exporting Quicktime movies this was an easy task. I love the fact that a large number of items in the commercial use the Tween Class and all of the snow is dynamically created using my Snow Class (AS2/AS3). I just wanted to share as this was the first time that I have used 100% Flash to create a commercial and the first time that any of my programming has been displayed to a TV audience.

If you have used the Snow Class for anything cool let me know. I know that American Eagle had been using it last year for a small piece on their website.