So, it turns out a Myspace page is not really cutting it any more. This dark, atmospheric environment is a genuinely original approach to what a band website can be.

Prizes

The winner will receive 3 fully featured Flash templates courtesy of Flashscope (worth over $80):

• XML Plus advanced flash template
• Clean style premium XML flash template
• Super Scalable Multipurpose XML Flash Template

How to enter

• Comment on this post = 1 point
• Tweet this post = 5 points
• Promote this post on a Flash forum = 10 points
• Blog about this post = 15 points

The winner will be the person with the most points at the end of the contest. The twitter posting is limited to a maximum of 5 tweets per account. Forum posts are limited to one per site.

Please leave a comment with links to your posts, tweets etc so we can calculate totals.

The deadline

The contest has now closed and the winner notified.

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Its strange to hear Steve Jobs profess concern about a open web when everything else his company does is so militantly closed. This is the company that first put DRM into music, that won’t let your change your own battery, will tie to you to one phone carrier and will only let you install software from their store.

OK, but we are talking about the open web, not Apple’s OS…

People tend to associate Flash content with two things; video and games. Fortunately Jobs provides alternatives for both, for video he cites the H.264 codec. Which is fine, but isn’t H.264 a licensed, closed technology? so much so that the Firefox developers want nothing to do with it. Apple are also the company that have their own propriety, closed video plugin – quicktime, something Jobs appears to have forgotten all about.

As for games, Jobs mentions the 50,000 games in the App store, you know the same marketplace where you have to buy a Mac, pay a yearly license fee and pray Apple deems it worthy and does not pull it for some arbitrary reason. Ironically, a lot of those App store games are Flash ports, which otherwise could have been universally viewable on nearly every device with a internet connection.