Flash can be used to create animations ranging from simple animated banners to complete presentations, and even MP3s . Flash resources include Flash Planet , Extremeflash and Flash Kit . Streaming Media - Developers should be familiar with the three main streaming servers, RealNetworks , Windows Media and QuickTime . Streaming Media World is a good source for the latest news. It's an important building block of the universal Internet to come, and in fact the cure for all worldly ills.
Multimedia authoring tools offer a timeline, which controls what happens when.
HTML includes no such concept, so SMIL was developed as a language for creating sequential Web content. The distinction between a SMIL presentation and a streaming media file may be a bit confusing. Next month on the Next Wave of the Web , we'll put the potential of the Internet to work, building the perfect radio station, which will deliver a completely personalized program for each user, including programming from around the world, and will be available from anywhere. Several attempts at this concept already exist, so we'll check them out and see how they stack up against the ideal. The truly perfect radio station hasn't been built yet, however.