Heartfelt thanks to the speakers, sponsors, exhibitors, judges, finalists, and attendees who took part in Flashforward2007 Boston. Your enthusiastic participation is what makes the event worth producing, and we hope you came away feeling educated and inspired by everything you experienced. From our perspective, the Flash platform and the Flash community have never been more vibrant. Thank you for letting us be a part of it.

If you missed the event or want to relive it from another perspective, here are some links worth visiting; we’ll update this post as more are discovered, so please share yours in the comments if they aren’t here already.

Updated 15 October, see [NEW] items below.

interviews, podcasts and video-blogs

• Flashforward: Robert Hoekman, Jr.
• Flashforward: Marc Leuchner & Matt Wright
• Flashforward: Dave Schroeder
• Flashforward: Lisa Larson
• The DV Show: Andrew Kirkpatrick
• The DV Show: Chad Perkins and Chris Florio
• The DV Show: Lisa Larson
• The DV Show: Mike Sommers
• The DV Show: Scott Janousek
• Zoom In Online: Mike Chambers
• Zoom In Online: Aral Balkan [NEW]
• Zoom In Online: Jay Laird [NEW]
• Aral Balkan’s Vlog:
  • First day in Boston
  • First evening, including Speaker Dinner
  • Wednesday interviews with speakers and attendees
  • Kevin Lynch interview
  • Day 3

image galleries

• Flickr tag: flashforward
• VUVOX galleries

press & blogs

• eWEEK:
  • Adobe Maps Future of Flash, Flex, AIR
  • A Pitch for the ‘Deseloper’
  • Adobe AIR Bus Rolls On
  • First Adobe Media Player Beta on Tap
• CNET: ‘Astro,’ ‘Moxie’ and AIR on display at Adobe Flash confab
• Barrett Sonntag: collected speaker notes
• Daniel Rinehart: notes from various sessions
• Jay Laird: 1, 2
• Peter Elst: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Robert Hoekman, Jr.: 1, 2
• Mike Chambers: 1, 2
• Seb Lee-Delisle: 1, 2
• Aaron Simpson: festival higlights
• Bill Perry: 1, 2, 3
• Kathryn Rotondo: 1, 2
• dirtystylus: 1, 2
• Donovan Adams: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Tony Macdonell
• Craig Campbell: 1, 2
• Matt Wright

This post will be updated as new links are discovered. Please post yours in the comments!

Aral Balkan spent some time chatting on-camera with Kevin Lynch yesterday and posted the results earlier this morning. It’s an excellent, lengthy conversation, enhanced with URLs and illustrations of the subjects being discussed, and you should definitely check it out.

Well done Aral, and thanks again to both you and Kevin for joining us at Flashforward!

Yesterday evening was our seventeenth Flashforward Film Festival awards ceremony, and if you’ve already perused the finalist works, you can guess how amazing and inspirational the show was.

Thanks once again to all the finalists, especially those who were able to join us in person last night; to the judges; and to everyone who submitted a nomination for the festival.

Here are the winners:

Art: Creep
Cartoon: Congo Windfall
Commerce: Nike Air
Experience: Get the Glass
Game: CDX
Instructional: BrainPOP
Motion Graphics: Adobe: The Creative Mind
Narrative: NFB – Filmmaker in Residence
Navigation: Lab | Mathieu Badimon
Online Application: Try on a Floor
Original Sound: Move the Crowd
Technical Merit: Finetune Player Collection
3D: Papervision3D
Typography: Javier Ferrer Vidal
Video: Toyota Yaris Virtual Test Drive
People’s Choice: 30 Shorts in 30 Days

Complete credits for these works and the other finalists will be posted in the coming days. Congratulations to all the winners!

For the past several events we've encouraged attendees to collectively document their Flashforward experiences on Flickr.

This year we're hosting a new way to experience this group artistic effort: a gallery viewer from VUVOX. It's drawing from the "Flashforward Boston" group and "flashforward" tag on Flickr, so any pictures you add will work their way into the viewer.

Whether it's your first time in Boston or your home, seeing the experience through the eyes of your comrades will be fascinating as always. Enjoy!

View from The Boston Marriott Copley Place

Hello from Boston!

Today is setup day for the Flashforward team, as we assemble stages, signs, and goodie bags to ready for your arrival. We couldn’t do it without our volunteers, so be sure to thank them when you get here.

If you are already in Boston yourself, don’t forget that you can stop by this evening to pick up your badge, workbook and other materials. The registration desk will be open from 6-8 pm, and opens again Wednesday at 7 am. Whoever checks in tonight can avoid the queue tomorrow!

Be sure to sign in to MeetingPoint, our online forum and networking hub for attendees. Several hundred of you have activated your profiles so far, and lively discussions are already taking place about what to see and do in Boston, among other topics. Join the fun!

As you exercise your photographic skills in a new city, remember to upload the shots you want to share with other attendees to Flickr and tag them with ‘Flashforward‘. We’ll be launching an interactive gallery from VUVOX later today that draws from that image stream, so please contribute.

Happy travels everyone, and we’ll see you soon!