Binary WAIS & indexing for searchable Flash animations
I blogged several days ago about Internet technology at the moment not widely being able to index multimedia files, so podcasting content can be indexed and searched through by services like Google. So for the moment, WAIS searches are limited largely, if not exclusively, to text documents.
Undoubtedly, such functionality will come along and be consumer-affordable, but I would think that the Flash community would be highly in favor of this. I don't clain to be an expert on Flash, and I know to a certain degree an animation can procude metadata about an animation. But how far away are we from making this work for long-form animations and movies?