even if they do have 8m in funding, their solution is limited by the fact that there is are no standards that are being used, and because not all flash content is capable of being decompiled, especially since content being loaded from within the flash file may not be embedded, but may be streamed from other servers, which is usually the case.

essentially they are extracting the source xml path of the slideshow or youtube video or mp3 slideshow that is being dynamically generated by the server they are leeching from, and then rebuilding something on the fly.

there’s still one problem with this: the iphone only supports video and audio audio playback in independent full screen mode from inside safari, so even if they managed to scrape together a table of contents of hyperlinks of mp3s from some mp3 playlist or video playlist, they are still essentially doing what everyone has done to date, for free – point a simple hyperlink at an mp3 file.

can you imagine how many rules and parsing scenarios they’ll have to keep up with to integrate with the top 10 or 20 sites on the internet? too many.

i guess they’ll spend 8m on paying over glorified developers to do something any perl or php programmer can do with a simple http proxy like charles, and how do you make money, injecting video or image ads into other peoples content when you recompile it?

sounds like a bunch of pissed off users.

It seems that there is a wrong link in this part of the article, the link refers to mobylng.com, but it should be moblyng.com.