AirTalkr (AIR chat app) starting to appear in media
I just visited Mashable.com and saw a post about AirTalkr, an AIR chat app that has been entered into the AIR Developer Derby. Great stuff to see more and more AIR apps appearing out in the wider spheres of the web comunity.
AirTalkr crosses the bridge of many chat protocols and has a cool feature called AirCard. With AirCard you can view your buddies blog entries and twitter postings as well as their social networking profile within AirTalkr itself. Very cool feature that I havent seen anywhere else.
Shunjie has done a great job with this application and has released a Web version aswell, enjoying the benefits of the flash platform. It aparently took him 30mins to migrate it, showing how great the AIR platform is.
"I spend 30 mins today porting AirTalkr from AIR to pure Flex"
Congrats to Shunjie on a great application and I wish him all the best in the derby. If you get the 100k come to NZ and say hi mate 
The article mentions finding some bugs, which begs the question, when are we going to have a stable AIR platform. The worry of more and more AIR apps coming into the public spotlight is that any application doing anything more than demos is likely to encounter bugs and impact on the user experience. Will it get tared with the same brush as early flash sites with its skip intro?
I don’t think bugs will be a problem for end users. Developers will encounter them, sure, but I know I would never release an application if it had bugs I couldn’t work around.
Also, one thing that’s interesting is that AIR is a true beta with features not yet implemented and current features incomplete. The new Web 2.0 meaning of “beta” is usually a bit more polished.
He, when I right-click to view an AirCard, it brings me the AirCard for the next person down in the list.
Not very reliable