Flash Communication Server MX
Macromedia, Inc. - $499
Words: Philip Stockton
Marking Macromedia's latest push for World Wide (Web) domination through the uber sleek MX series is Flash Communication Server MX. By using a real time messaging protocol (RTMP for ambiguity), users can stream audio and video in a multi-user Flash chat room, opening the doors for virtual Ebert and Roeper sessions from the privacy of one's own screen. Leaving the forgettable cookie-cutter presentation programs behind in a cloud of cross dissolves and car horn sounds, Communication Server MX ups the ante with the incorporation of the Flash actionscript language and the possibility of an audience extending beyond the faux wood conference table. With some scripting know-how, heads to gab with and video streams to ridicule, you'll be hosting Internet banter before you can type "kewl."
