Adobe's announcement that Google and Yahoo! will be indexing Flash content at a much deeper level was met with all sorts of reactions last week, ranging from praise from the Flash and Flex communities to utter shock and horror from some HTML fundamentalists expressing fear that the end was nigh.

Well, it appears that Google has already started using this new indexing system and some Flash developers are not happy by how much it is revealing about their applications.

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It's my pleasure to welcome ace Flash developer and author of SE|PY, Alessandro Crugnola and his site sephiroth.it, to the Pistach.io Flash Pack in July.

Buying an ad on the Pistach.io Flash Pack puts your ad on all of the following web sites: Alessandro Crugnola (sephiroth.it), Andre Michelle, Aral Balkan, Chad Udell, Flash Magazine, Grant Skinner, Keith Peters, Marco Casario, Mario Klingemann, OSFlash, Peter Elst, and Seb Lee-Delisle.

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The Pistach.io Flash pack has officially kicked off and I want to take this opportunity to thank our first advertisers.

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Google released version 1.0.2 of the Google App Engine SDK two days ago. If you're using Google App Engine, you should definitely upgrade.

You can find a list of fixed issues in the release notes, including the template cache issue that I was running into.

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Pistach.io is entering beta testing.

You've probably noticed the Pistach.io ad on my site for a little while now. Peter Elst was helping us alpha test the ad rotation. Seb's got his badge up as well and the other beta testers from the Pistach.io Flash Pack will be adding theirs shortly.

So what's Pistach.io and the Pistach.io Flash Pack? We're a group of highly regarded and influential Flashers who are banding together to monetize our web sites in an elegant way: With a single ad, prominently displayed across all of our web sites. (Read more about Pistach.io here.)

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