Mashable.com has a poll up about Microsoft Silverlight’s monopoly on all Olympic video content. So far it’s about 50% / 50% love/hate for Silverfish.

Frak, did I slip and call it Silverfish again? My bad. :-)

Disclaimer: The owners of this blog would like to take full responsibility for the total disrespect that the author of this post has for anything that has to do with Microsoft. Except for XBox which is pretty frakking cool and Windows XP which doesn’t totally suck.

I was going to have some lame poll about Science Fiction movies but John Wilker - jokingly - suggested that I poll to see where the next international 360Flex conference should be held. Vote over in the sidebar ->>>

NOTE: If you don’t have a vested interest in the poll - like if you live in the US - but you want to see the results then vote for Other.

The country choices are in order of visitors/month to polyGeek.com. Go ahead and comment if you have other suggestions. You might even want to suggest cities within your country of choice. I’m going to sell the results to Tom & John to pay for my next 360Flex conference. Oh, wait, it’s all public. Damn, foiled again! :-)

I’m counting down the days until 360Flex. No, really, I have a Firefox extension that displays the number of days left until 360Flex - San Jose, August 18-20, 2008 - down in the lower-right of my browser. ( Currently at T-25 days. )

There are many great reasons to go to 360Flex. I can hardly cover them in this poll here, which isn’t really a serious poll anyway. But if I had to say what the best reason is for going to 360Flex I’d say it’s the amazing lineup of session topics/speakers. There are so many must see sessions that many of them overlap. I’ve even talked to some of the speakers who said that they would skip their own session to go see another one at the same time, if they could.

Here are my must see sessions:

• Ben Clinkinbeard - Strategies for Creating Reusable Components
• Jacob Wright - Advanced ActionScript APIs
• Jeff Houser - How to Build Flex Components
• Josh Tynjala - Polishing Components for the Masses or Mike Potter - Promoting your Flex and AIR applications
• Ben Stucki - How to build a Framework
• Jim Cheng - Advanced Analytics for Flex and Flash RIAs
• Tony Hillerson/Juan Sanchez - See the Data, Be the Data
• Jun Heider - Using the Flex Builder 3 Profiler

There are lots of sessions that cover Flex and name your AMF backend integration. Fortunately I’m pretty much engaged to AMFPHP for database integration so I’ll probably blow off all the BlazeDS/ColdFusion/RubyAMF sessions, probably.

I’m looking forward to seeing everyone there. And don’t forget to ask me about RunPee.com. I’ll be giving out beta invites.

What would you do without Facebook? Or, twitter, LinkedIn, etc.? Well, suppose you could use only one of them. Which would it be? ( vote over in the right sidebar )

There’s a good argument to be made for FriendFeed since it aggregates many of the most popular social sites. But it pretty much just gives you a snapshot of each so maybe it wouldn’t be the best option.

My choice would be twitter because I work from home and it’s pretty much all I have to replace water-cooler talk.

But my RSS reader - Google Reader - would be a close second. It’s not just a way for me to keep up with the latest news in the Adobe Flex/Actionscript world. It’s also a great way to keep tabs of my friends who blog.

Why don’t you vote and then comment your thoughts below?