Here is the overview of the most popular payment rates systems. We want you to vote for the one that you find the best:

Author type: Exclusive Grid and Non-exclusive Flat Rate

Author type means you have to make a decision at the very registration:

• If you choose to be an exclusive author – you have a nice payment rate growth grid, depending on your overall sales volume;
• If you pick a non-exclusive author – you have a flat payment rate, no matter how much you sell.

Author type: Exclusive Grid and Non-exclusive Grid

Again you choose your account type, but now your options are slightly different:

• If you choose to be an exclusive author – you have a decent start percentage and quick growth to a maximum value;
• If you pick a non-exclusive author – you still have the grid, but the starting point is much lower, and you got to make a lot more sales to have your percent grow.

Flash Files Diversity: Payment Rate Per Component

This way you can have 2 types of flash components under single author account. You can set your components to be exclusive, or either you can choose a non-exclusive option. Each component has its own payment rates grid since then, and those grid is dependent on the sales volume of this particular flash file.

• By setting a component to exclusive it gets a high starting payment rate and a fast growing grid;
• Non-exclusive components have very low starting payment rate and a much slower grid.

Flash Files Diversity: Payment Rate Per Group

Means that you can have 2 groups of components, exclusive ones and non exclusive ones. Each group has it’s own grid, which is dependent on the sales volume of all components in this group.

• Exclusive components group has a more beneficial grid;
• Non-exclusive components have a less beneficial grid.

Here’s a little secret for you. Once we have the results – we’ll redo our current payment system here at FlashScope to fit your needs :)

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Social media is now taking over the internet! What used to be the first thing that you open in your browser once it’s launched? It was Google, or your favorite blog, or some web mail. What happens now? The majority of browsers have FaceBook as their homepage! And there’s no surprise – the whole online life moved from chats, forums, blogs into social accounts!

I must admit that having a well configured FaceBook account is beneficial in many ways: you can communicate with any of your friends quick & easy, you can share things with the rest and see what they are sharing with you, you can join pages & communities to stay up to date with specific topics, etc.

All the big brands have joined FaceBook long ago: Coca Cola, Nike, Mercedes, McDonald’s – name any and I’m sure it’s there! Actors, artists, movies, restaurants, products – everyone and everything is on FaceBook this days!

What’s so special about FaceBook? Why do marketers love it so much? All simple – it’s an extraordinary marketing opportunity, it’s a great way to get in touch with your target audience and it helps a lot in terms of feedback! It’s a lot easier to create a worldwide “Sandwich Lovers” club on FaceBook, than trying to make a real one!

The time has come and FlashScope marketing team has launched a personal FaceBook page for our marketplace!

I’m sure you want to know why you should click those “Like” button and become a fan of our page. So here are just a couple of reasons:

• news about FlashScope marketplace;
• our contests;
• giving out flash files for free;
• exclusive payment rates and author commission offers;
• all the latest flash news;
• useful Flash, Flex & ActionScript tutorials;
• flash videos selection;
• lots of funny stuff.

All above is just a tiny part of what we’re going to use our FaceBook page for in future! The choice is obvious! “Like” our page and be informed of what’s happening at FlashScope as well as in the whole Flash industry!

FlashScope on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FlashScope
FlashScope on Twitter: http://twitter.com/flashscope

A few days ago Adobe launched a new beta version of its Flash Player 10.1. Including several important improvements and bug fixes, Flash Player 10.1 Beta 3 is definitely a pleasant release both for flash devs and users.

Beta 3 release probably brought the biggest piece of cake to owners of netbooks (at least to those with the Intel GMA 500 and Broadcom Crystal HD Accelerator graphics chipsets). As you might already know, the third beta provides better HD Web video streaming performance.

Early Web video tests conducted by numerous techi observers and enthusiasts, (Cnet test, Engadget test) show great results: both 720p and 1080p streaming videos play back quite smoothly. Of course, experts don’t hurry to call this an outright performance, but the progress is obvious and more is expected to come with the final release of Flash Player 10.1 later this year. If you still haven’t tried Beta 3 on your netbook, catch up and share your impressions in comments! One thing we’d like to caution you about is that you need to install updated drivers for the aforesaid chipsets before attempting playback after the player update.

Another long-awaited feature brought by Flash Player 10.1 Beta 3 is a microphone access. Back in Flash Player 10 Adobe Team added a feature called scripted audio playback, gave developers a possibility to write an AS code and then generate sound of that. In this version of Flash player they added the capability to do the same thing for audio recording, so you could write a script, capture an audio, process it and then output it. Basically, in order to record audio in AS you can now use right the same event you used for playback, just in reverse. The ability to manipulate the audio coming into the microphone/line input enables flash developers to create some really cool audio triggered applications.

The new 10.1 also introduces some clever innovation in the field of RTMFP protocol which now supports groups. The main benefit of this technology is that when you want to broadcast flash files to multiple viewers, FlashPlayer spreads the bandwidth load across different users.

The new version of Flash Player is a step towards mobile integration. It introduces new mobile-ready features that take advantage of native device capabilities, such as support for multi-touch, gestures, mobile text and accelerometer input. No doubt, currently Flash Player runs on devices with a number of limitations, but this is just a beginning and the very fact that it can run on rather limited mobile platforms is impressive.

The list of new features of Flash Player 10.1 is much longer, you can find the full list of improvements and download the third beta on Adobe Labs.

Flash Scope: New Flash Components Marketplace

Now beta, but will be betta!

We are glad to welcome you on FlashScope – a brand new marketplace, which was created to help designers, developers and people who seek to buy some flash components have an easy way to reach their goal. With FlashScope flash developers can promote and sell their products, without having any expenses connected with this. The only thing that needs to be done to start earning money is upload a product to our site, and we take care of the rest. We promote, advertise, attract customers to help you increase your sales. There is no registration or upload fee, and you can earn up to 70% from each sale.
You are also free to choose whether you want to sell only on our website, or not: and our non-unique products are not tied up to a low percent, like on other resources. If you decide to sell a non-unique product, you can earn 25%-70% depending on the number of your sales. But if you choose to sell your product only from our website, you start getting as much as 40% right from the first sale, and this percent GROWS all the time. As a member you can upload both unique and non-unique products, without any limits or restrictions.

FlashScope also aims to become a homepage for those who are looking for flash components: this is an all-in-one resource where people can easily find and buy flash files, receive help and leave their feedback on them. Our customers can always know how unique is the product they are buying and how good it is.

What you see now is only a beta version of the website, but the final one is coming soon. We welcome you to register, upload, buy, comment, and of course, let us know about the bugs you’ve found on the website, so that we can fix them. We appreciate your trust and help!

Flash components Marketplace Analytics

Flashscope has prepared a little tidbit for you today! We’ve been evolving from a tiny blog and now we have a huge community of prominent flash developers from all over the world here at FlashScope! We’ve been pondering this a lot and finally decided to launch our very own marketplace of flash components! Since the decision we were doing lots of analytic work exploring existing marketplaces and weighing the pros and cons. Some of the information that we’ve came up with can be of a tangible value to our future customers.

We have explored top 5 sellers of the most popular marketplaces to determine which components are of a great demand at the moment.

The metrics that were used:

• Product type – we did not pay attention to differences in functionality of the products, or their capabilities so we have grouped similar products under one category;
• Sales – the time period for collecting sales data was different from site to site, but globally we were using monthly data in our analysis;
• % Sales – this metric reflects the sales volume of each product in comparison with the total sales of all 5 top produts: %Sales = Product#1 Sales / (Pr#1 + Pr#2 + Pr#3 + Pr#4 + Pr#5);
• Price – we have included the price for it is one of the decisive factors when purchasing a product.

Activeden.net

We have taken the data from “Top Sellers – 3 months” section under Popular Files. As far as we need only monthly sales volume all the data was divided by 3.

It’s not that hard to notice that the most popular product type at activeden is banner rotator, which has more than half of top 5 files sales volume.

Flashcomponents.net

Flashcomponents store has a handy Order by: Last Month Sales option, so the data for the second table is accurate.

As you can see – 3d Carousel is the most popular product at flashcomponents.net, while it’s not even listed in top 5 at activeden.

Flashjuggler.com

Flashjuggler sorting options do not specify whether it shows you overall sales volume, or monthly one. So we just took the numbers provided and compared them.

Appears that Flashjuggler visitors like 3d Carousel as well. But this time this is one specific product, which seems to be very attractive. Probably it’s the low price.

Mmfiles.com

Mmfiles does not specify the time range for it’s best sellers too, so we just took the info and processed it along with the rest.

Mmfiles has 2 image gallery components out of 5 top files, however even summing them there’s no leader product according to statistics.

Flashmint.com

We have managed to contact the major flash templates online store Flashmint.com and asked them for some statistics regarding their flash components for the past month. And here is the data:

As you can probably see their most successful product is 3d carousel, it’s image gallery at the same time, but we’ve decided to assign it to 3d carousel category. But nevertheless 2 banner rotators have made almost the half of top 5 sales.

RECAP

Now it’s time for a little re-cap and rethinking of the data that we have collected:

Total Sales Volume = 100%
Banner Rotator = (51% + 33% + 32% + 47%) / 5 = 33%
3d Carousel = (40% + 47% + 33%) / 5 = 24%
Image Gallery/Scroller = (15% + 11% + 13% + 32% + 10%) = 16%
Other Flash Components = 100% – (33% – 24% – 16%) = 27%

Flash components can be: animated photo albums and portfolios, Flash menus or even complete site navigation, flash forms, guestbooks, RSS, flash preloaders, video and MP3 players, movieclips, motion, masking and text effects, flash maps and weather widgets, animated backgrounds and many others.

If you start searching for advanced Flash components, you’ll come across a great deal of websites. But probably FlashScope.com is one of the most reliable providers of high quality products. Go and see for yourself! Below are some exclusive free Flash components available at FlashScope.com.

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Free Flash Photo Gallery

This free Flash photo gallery is created with Flash MX 2004 with use of XML file to store information about photos and descriptions. There are no hosting requirements. The black background makes the other colors stand out and it contrasts well with bright colors, so it’s a perfect color for the online galleries of art or photography.

Download flash photo gallery here.

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Free Flash Gallery

Create an awesome online Flash portfolio with our free Flash photo gallery. It has never been easier! You can just add, edit or delete pictures by editing the xml file in Notepad. All images are loaded externally. There is no limit for the number of images. This photo gallery includes a simple fade-in and fade-out transition effect for the photos.

View free flash gallery demo here. Download flash gallery with source files here.

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Map V

This free Flash component uses Equidistant Cylindrical Map Projection and Longitude and Latitude position data to display location points. Component also allows users to set a custom map and location icon.

Download this geo map flash component here.

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Flow List

Flow List Component loads external images and creates a 3D flow animation. Flexible API makes it easy to integrate this component into your web application.

Download this flow list component here.

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Free Flash menu navigation

It’s an easy to use and customize flash navigation menu component powered by XML. You mau also modify the navigation menu width and height.

Download this flash menu navigation component here.

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Hoping this collection will come in handy to you. Visit our free flash components page to find out more! Also here is a stunning collection of free flash templates for your notice.

FlashScope is a highly tailored portal of next generation presenting quality content and services created by the established community members themselves. This all-in-one resource is being created by Flash professionals for Flash developers and designers and is aimed towards providing them with richer and more relevant experience.

FlashScope is a community website or to be more precise, it is so called social “content management system” that allows everyone not only to create and join new social networks for their interests and passions but to manage and control the website content. It means that each FlashScope member can influence the content value: he may create new pages and edit them, add blog entries, write articles and participate in forum discussions. The most active and qualified members obtain an opportunity to modify information in any way. FlashScope experts appear as moderators who have additional abilities and rights working with the content (forum moderation, article editing and publication, consultancy and etc.)

FlashScope is also a social bookmark and publication sharing system that organizes personal bookmarks into a searchable hierarchical directory. It is one of the fastest and efficient ways to share content, promote personal articles and at the same time stay up to date.

Another words, Flash Scope performs a function of interlink between quality content and Internet users. Join the community to find the like-minded people and share your knowledge. Just let yourself go! There is much you can afford here. :)