Ever since Adobe has made its recent announcement about the improved ability to index Flash I have had a question. Where is the SDK for developers? Late last year when Google announced that they were using the Adobe Search SDK to begin to index flash files it was great because it was an SDK that developers could download.

What is the benefit of this you may ask? If Adobe was to release a new SDK based on the new tech that they are providing to Google & Yahoo developers could use this to build a Flash file that would be indexed properly. If they expect developers to simply hope that their file would be indexed properly they are mistaken. Files need to be built to optimize it for SEO, much in the same way that we optimize html files for SEO.

If the search engines were able to index most of the current flash sites, us as developers have no idea what will show up in Google? Do we have to wait for the file to be indexed before we can fix issues? How do we test it locally before deployment? The older flash SDK at least allowed you test and see what would be indexed from the file.

Adobe, we need a new SDK based on this "headless" flash player.

It looks like Microsoft is upping the stakes against Google by purchasing its rival Yahoo. Microsoft is offering 45 billion dollars to purchase Yahoo and marks a major milestone for Microsoft.

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I own a Verizon XV6700 and I have been waiting rather patently for the new Yahoo! Go service that Yahoo has been touting as a mobile phone revolution:

"A revolutionary design

Yahoo! Go is the first application optimized for the "small screen" of a mobile phone that truly makes it easy and fun to access the Internet. Everything about the Yahoo! Go interface is designed to be both visually stunning and give you what you want with the fewest clicks possible."

The funny thing is that they have been promising for months to release their Go! application for the XV6700. Before April they were promising its release by April. Now that April has come and gone they are still saying "Coming Soon". What has happened? Did the steam die out on the whole Go! application?

These delays to me just means that I should give up waiting for something that apparently will never come.

http://mobile.yahoo.com/go