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Third article in Sitepoint series: Build Flex app that Uploads Video & Twitters

The final part of my "Share Media on Twitter Using Flex" series for Sitepoint has gone live.  This is an interesting one, I show you how to upload video for your tweet to Flickr, pull that video back from Flickr and play it in the Flex app and do "frame grabs" of the video and once more upload those images to Flickr - using bit.ly in the background to shorten the URLs for the video and images and once all that's done post to Twitter (phew, now that's a mouthful).

It's been a good application to build and write about, I hope that there's something in there that Flex developers will find useful.  A shout out to Danny Patterson whose uploadBytes addition to the Flickr ActionScript library was a great help in building this application (Upload ByteArray to Flickr http://blog.dannypatterson.com/?p=250).

Read the article and get the source code here: Share Media on Twitter Using Flex Part III, Video - http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/share-media-flex-twitter-video 

New Sitepoint Flash Builder/Flex 4, Flickr, Bit.ly, Twitter How To

Sitepoint have just published another article that I recently wrote for them, it's a "how to" using Flex to upload images to an online service, Flickr, shorten the URLs with Bit.ly and post the whole thing to Twitter - services, services, services!!

Uploading from Flash is straight forward, that and using Flickr and mixing it all together as a post to Twitter can be found here: Share Media on Twitter Using Flex, Part II: Images - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/share-media-flex-twitter-images/

Oh, and there will be a part III, watch this space...