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	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Flash mob
		Following this flash mob, about 200 people flooded the lobby and mezzanine of the Hyatt hotel in synchronized applause for about 15 seconds, and next a shoe boutique in Soho was invaded by participants pretending to be tourists on a bus trip.
		Flash mobs started as pointless stunts, but the concept has already developed for the benefit of political and social agendas.
		Flash mob computing is a temporary supercomputer made when a large group of people get together and tie computers together for a single purpose or event.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Flash_mob (918 words)

	SocioSite: PECULIARITIES OF CYBERSPACE: FLASH MOBS
		A 'flash crowd' describes the sensation-seeking mob that is suddenly transported to places where accidents or disasters had just occurred.
		A flash mob is a group of people who are mobilized via the internet and other electronic media to come together somewhere at a certain time for a short period of time in order to do something absurdist or provocative.
		Without long, flash mobs will be included in the action repertoire of social movements, of political parties that want to mobilize their supporters in election campaigns, and of companies that want to sell their products and services to customers.
	www.sociosite.org /flashmob.php (4732 words)

	Riding the Meridian - Flashes on the Meridian
		These small flashes are also often identified by the surprising twists that take place; twists throughout the story, or stories that have a twist at the end which turns what came before on its head.
		Writers of short-short flashes are not only turning out pieces that stand complete on their own and which are published as discrete stories, but some are also using them in other ways.
		Flash fiction is clearly a worldwide phenomenon, a mode of writing which seems particularly well-suited to our current fast-paced, often breathless lives, in which we still crave the insights good literature can bring.
	www.heelstone.com /meridian/meansarticle1.html (1888 words)

	Fibreculture Journal Issue 6
		Flash mobbing was described as ‘self organized entertainment’ (Rheingold, 2003b), hailed as ‘a startling intervention in the life of the city’ (Young, 2003), likened to ‘speed dating’ (Nold, 2003) and labeled ‘an incipient form of social protest’ (Shnayerson and Goldstein, 2003: 20).
		Flash mobbers were instructed to admire the furniture and then call someone on their mobile phone to talk about it, the experience presumably or maybe the furniture, ‘without using the letter ‘o’’ (‘Smart mob storms London’).
		Flash mobbing shaped and was shaped by a worldwide shift in mobile phone use from private communication characterized primarily by mobile phoning in the 1980s and 90s to more collective uses dominated by mobile texting in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
	journal.fibreculture.org /issue6/issue6_nicholson.html (8519 words)

	Interview: Joey Lott - Flashmagazine
		Flash's ActionScript editor has never been spectacular, but the contrast of Flash MX 2004's editor and PrimalScript is just night and day.
		That's a loss for a lot of people because Flash Remoting is one of the coolest technologies related to Flash that's happened in the last few years.
		The interesting thing is to see how seemingly diverse the Flash crowd is. So many people, each with their own unique talents and skills.
	www.flashmagazine.com /1032 (3918 words)

	Research Projects
		This unexpected demand surge, or better known as flash crowd, was triggered in the past by World Cup, Bridgestone-Firestone’s massive tire recall, news coverage on the September 11 attacks, and webcasting of Madonna concert, just to name a few more well-known flash events.
		Flash crowds could also very well be triggered by semantic hacking, severe weather reporting, large-scale online auction, and on-line voting.
		Moreover, by the very nature of flash events, a failure of meeting the demand surge could result in users’ perception of poor quality-of-service, financial losses, unfairness in auction and voting activities, and even loss of lives in the case of emergency broadcast.
	www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk /~csrchang/projects.html (1851 words)

	tweeeeeek: On Sept. 6, people aimed remote controls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Flash mobbing has become the doyenne of the "silly season", as seemingly random groups of people converge in a public space to behave in a rather odd manner.
		Flash dating is apparently the result of mobbers going for drinks together after an event but there has been speculation that it's only a matter of time before the big corporations get in on the act, instigating a mob event to publicise their product.
		Flash mobs are a distinctly 21st century phenomenon, the latest and most flamboyant example of how Internet connectivity is inspiring do-it-yourself communities in the offline world.
	tweeeeeek.livejournal.com /180388.html (4413 words)

	Flash Crowds and Denial of Service Attacks: Characterization and Implications for CDNs and Web Sites
		Given the increase in the frequency of flash crowds and their overall unpredictability, it is important that we have a broad understanding of flash crowds.
		A flash event (FE) is a large surge in traffic to a particular Web site causing a dramatic increase in server load and putting severe strain on the network links leading to the server, which results in considerable increase in packet loss and congestion.
		They found that flash crowd behavior was identified by rapid rise in traffic to a particular flow followed by a gradual drop-off over time.
	www.research.att.com /~bala/papers/www02-fc.html (8537 words)

	miss megan wilde \| the website \| essays \| flash mobs
		The original series of flash mobs in Manhattan were part of the Mob Project, organized by a man known to the public only as Bill.
		The flash mob was almost a failure, because the store owner had already closed the store when the flash mobbers arrived.
		Political flash mobs are catching on, but not to the same degree that the original flash mobs spawned a global phenomenon.
	www.wildewildeweb.com /personal/schoolessays/flash.html (1912 words)

	My Crowd: Part 1 (Harpers.org) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Perhaps this is the explanation for Fusion Flash Concerts, an otherwise inexplicable marketing program this past summer in which Ford, attempting to sell a new sedan to the underthirty- five market, partnered with Sony to appropriate what may be the most forgettable hipster fad of the past five years.
		Not only was the flash mob a vacuous fad; it was, in its very form (pointless aggregation and then dispersal), intended as a metaphor for the hollow hipster culture that spawned it.
		It is part of My Crowd, which is part of Features, which is part of Harpers.org.
	www.harpers.org /MyCrowd_01.html (1696 words)

	My Crowd: Part 4 (Harpers.org) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bill Wasik, inventor of the Flash Mob, describes the role of the blog (and the blogger) in his experiment, and connects the Flash Mob phenomenon to the Howard Dean campaign.
		We looked out at the restless crowd of “flash mobbers” packing up against the stage, their boredom having prompted them to throw a hailstorm of increasingly dangerous material into the air: balloons, then empty water bottles, then full water bottles, then aluminum cans.
		The idea seemed to be that flash mobs could be made to convey a message, but for a number of reasons this dream was destined to run aground.
	www.harpers.org /MyCrowd_04.html (1621 words)

	This Is Broken - Flash fascism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In some environments, it's not even possible to install the latest version of Flash-- such as in a public computer lab where the plugins folders are writable only by administrators, for instance.
		I might add that while Flash penetration is (claimed to be) rather high, on corporate computers, Flash is often not installed or prohibited.
		Unfortunately, Flash is often implemented in a way that results in a broken user experience.
	broken.typepad.com /b/2005/06/flash_fascism.html (1468 words)

	NW 200 issue - 10 companies to watch: Akamai
		Hear the words "flash flood," and you'll likely envision muddied, churning waters raging out of control, wiping deep swatches across the landscape and leaving havoc in their wake.
		The words "flash crowd" don't have quite the same effect - but start-up Akamai Technologies has launched a business around the belief that if one hits an unprepared Web site, the devastation could be just as dramatic for the business owner.
		During the trial, FreeFlow handled live traffic, including several flash crowds, with "aplomb," Goodtree says, noting that the beta traffic taxed only 1% of Akamai's network and that each beta user has decided to become a paying customer.
	www.networkworld.com /nw200/200akamai.html (504 words)

	Halfbakery: Virtual Flash Mobs
		A flash mob is a mob, usually organised online, that appears suddenly, does something, and disappears equally suddenly.
		In the event that cheap, instant transport to distant locations becomes possible, any (live) televised riot or other public disturbance will quickly swell to unmanagably epic proportions, due to people hearing the news and travelling to the site themselves, to be spectators or participants.
		Flash mobs are great and could work well on the internet in a 'let's all go hang out here today' sort of a way.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Virtual_20Flash_20Mobs (741 words)

	NSDI '05 — Technical Paper
		To circumvent detection, attackers are increasingly moving away from pure bandwidth floods to stealthy DDoS attacks that masquerade as flash crowds.
		We emulate a Flash Crowd by playing our Web logs at a high speed to generate an average request rate of 2000 req/s.
		Note that Flash Crowds is just one example of a scenario in which Kill-Bots only needs to perform admission control.
	www.usenix.org /events/nsdi05/tech/kandula/kandula_html (8800 words)

	Splatt Projects - PhpNuke and OpenSource - - Flash Mob or Flash Crowd: a new kind of social movement! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Flash Mob or Flash Crowd: a new kind of social movement!
		what are flash mobs or flash crowds: "Flash Crowds are seemingly unplanned gatherings of large groups of people who converge in public (or semipublic) places for brief periods of time.
		All members of a Flash Mob simultaneously converge to form the mob and then quickly disperse again at a given time, everyone departing in different directions.
	www.splatt.it /article1155.html (321 words)

	» Macromedia Studio 8 » developedtraffic.com
		Having verified with Macromedia that Studio 8 would be shipping mid-September, I just saw that the "pre-order Studio 8" has been removed, so I went ahead and purchased the boxed set.
		But, in my view, an awful lot can be done with Flash that can't be done so well nor so easily with other technology.
		As a contrast, a recent Adobe email newsletter; here's the first in the CS2 series, Adobe Photoshop CS2, that made me buy the program even though I had Photoshop CS and no intention whatsoever of upgrading to CS2 … before I saw the movie.
	developedtraffic.com /2005/09/12/macromedia-studio-8 (453 words)

	The Movie Sounds Page: Flash Gordon
		All the Flash Gordon sounds are sampled at 11kHz.
		If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror.
		Flash: I don't know, but it was pretty sensational.
	www.moviesounds.com /flash.html (881 words)

	kaourantin.net: FireFox SVG and Flash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I am always amused that when anytime there is a post about Flash on Slashdot SVG is mentioned in the same breath explaining that it will kill Flash and that Flash is simply evil.
		The very reason Flash was adopted with such enthusiasm by developers was the consistency across browsers and platforms at a time IE4 vs. NS4 war was in rage (yes, I use Flash since version 2).
		I haven't done any flash, and was pretty annoyed when it first came out and it was used mostly for things that don't need flash.
	www.kaourantin.net /2005/08/firefox-svg-and-flash.html (1472 words)

	Streaming Media World: FlashForward 2000 New York: The Book
		The fact is, the leadership and charisma of Lynda Weinman and Stewart McBride and their staff were not to be put off by a hostile exterior environment.
		The crowd was there to see, enjoy, and learn from lectures and workshops (and another Flash film festival) and were gleefully oblivious to negative environmental input, such as wholesale mosquito pesticide spraying and local flooding that marked New York's welcome.
		If the "big news" at the San Francisco FlashForward 2000 was the release of Adobe's LiveMotion, the New York news was Macromedia's Flash 5, a newly-designed version of the company's vector graphics and animation program, and along with it a new Macromedia User Interface and Flash 5 Player.
	streamingmediaworld.com /flash/voices/ffnyc2000book (369 words)

	WWW2003 Poster Template
		In this paper we propose a multicast-on-large-demand (MOLD) approach to the flash crowd problem.
		Flash crowd refers to a sudden surge in the demand for certain Web resources in the Internet.
		Therefore, similar to the effect of a distributed, denial-of service (DDoS) attacks, flash crowd could exhaust a Web site’s resources for accepting new (TCP) connections, processing capability, or network bandwidth [1].
	www2003.org /cdrom/papers/poster/p270/P270-Chang.html (1086 words)

	CSI: Miami: Murder in a Flash - TV.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The original message triggering the "flash mob" is traced to a high school senior whose father is a high-powered defense attorney.
		The concept of a flash mob was pioneered in a 1973 short story, Flash Crowd written by science fiction author Larry Niven and included in his 1973 anthology The Flight of the Horse.
		Niven's flash crowds differed from the mob depicted in this episode in that they were supported by teleportation technology.
	www.tv.com /csi-miami/murder-in-a-flash/episode/346846/summary.html (542 words)

	The FlashCanon » Blog Archive » This ain’t your daddy’s Flash
		I think that for those of us who work/build/create with Flash, that kind of thing can be very frustrating to hear from someone.
		I feel that a part of my responsibilities as a Flash Developer is to inform others outside of the Flash community about these kind of things.
		Turn the Flash haters around through action as well as words by creating apps that people can’t help using, they are so cool.
	flash.fincanon.com /archives/51 (1170 words)

	Listener/Event Mechanism for FIS Components
		As we discussed in our book, rather than follow Flash MX v1 component's changeHandler route, we took a "listener"-centric approach from the beginning, meaning that all our components communicate events with other objects through an event/listener mechanism.
		Our event/listener approach is similar to the approach embraced by the Flash MX 2004 v2 component architecture.
		If you are unfamiliar with listeners, we suggest that you look over tutorials on www.ultrashock.com in the Flash MX and Flash MX 2004 categories.
	www.flashsim.com /fiscomponents/setup.html (1023 words)

	Word Spy - flash crowd
		A sharp and often overwhelming increase in the number of users attempting to access a Web site simultaneously, usually in response to some event or announcement.
		This is where incidents, such as the US lingerie firm Victoria Secret's Webcast fashion show, or a surge of stock market activity, generates unforeseen activity levels."
		This phrase was coined back in 1971 in a novella called "Flash Crowd" by science fiction writer Larry Niven.
	www.wordspy.com /words/flashcrowd.asp (227 words)

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		A new algorithm, the Cached Guaranteed Timer Random Drop (Cached GT-RD), was designed to maximize the effect of the cache during flash crowds.
		A flash crowd is a large volume of legitimate access requests from all legitimate clients in a sense that the sheer volume of requests overwhelms a server [15, 16].
		The primary cause of the performance degradation during a flash crowd is thrashing, named “receive live-lock” by Mogul [17].
	www.siue.edu /~hfujino/CNIS2005_499_089_Fujinoki.doc (1678 words)

	Flash Crowd Mitigation via Adaptive Admission Control Based on Application-Level Observation
		We design an adaptive admission control mechanism, network early warning system (NEWS), to protect servers and networks from flash crowds and maintain high performance for end-users.
		NEWS detects flash crowds from performance degradation in responses and mitigates flash crowds by admitting incoming requests adaptively.
		Flash Crowd Mitigation via Adaptive Admission Control Based on Application-Level Observation.
	www.isi.edu /~johnh/PAPERS/Chen05a.html (381 words)

	Jersey Shore Web Marketing Specialists - Macromedia Flash
		Macromedia Flash is a program that allows for animation and a more interactive site, similar to a TV commercial!
		Flash once was only reserved for large, national companies, but as you will clearly see, that's not the case any more!
		Flash introductions created and uploaded to our server or yours!
	www.shoreadvantage.com /flash.htm (185 words)

	numCanadianFlashDevelopers++ at Aral Balkan
		Yesterday, Flash on the Beach announced that I was “one of the UK’s (adopted from his native Canada) top Flash/Flex authorities.” So, there you go, eat your hearts out Grant and Colin!
		Talking about the LFPUG, it was great to catch up with friends from the London Flash crowd after my time away in strange and exotic lands.
		Nice to see all the flash stars together like in the old days when you were running the London MMUG.
	aralbalkan.com /751 (400 words)

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