I am very happy that the community is getting more and more involved in P2P. I told you, it has endless possibilities!

AS3-P2P-LIB
AS3-P2P-LIB is a pure ActionScript 3.0 Library by Dominic Graefen that helps Flash developers get started with P2P easily.

All Classes | Example | Project page at GitHub

P2P Video Calls on Android

My fellow evangelist Mark Doherty built a great demo app using P2P and AIR 2.5 for Android. Watch this video, where he shows how it works. And btw: I should really teach him how to pronounce my name Mark, you are going to get a lesson at MAX 2010!

Check Mark’s blog post for further information.

I tend to stay away from the HTML5 vs Flash "debate", principally because I think it's inane. Both platforms offer certain advantages over the other and some interesting results can be achieved by utilizing their strengths. Case in point, Flash's built-in webcam support and WebGL's hardware-accelerated 3D graphics are features that only exist in their respective platforms (for now). Bridging the technologies produces something unattainable by only using one, as the following quick examples illustrate.

Simple interactive cube.

Plane deformation (Kaleidoscope shader by iq ported from Shader Toy).

Raytracing (Kinderpainter by iq ported from Shader Toy).

Passing webcam data to Javascript involves a few steps. The BitmapData drawn from the Video object needs to be compressed to JPEG and encoded to Base64 for the data URI to read it. This can be a very taxing process in native ActionScript, but is nearly negligible when done in haXe or Alchemy. In this case, I'm using both. The JPEG compression is performed by metalbot's Alchemy JPEG encoder, while the Base64 encoding is handled by Bloodhound's haXe crypto library. ExternalInferface passes the resulting string to the WebGL's texture Image source with the following method:

Not only is it possible for HTML5 and Flash to peacefully coexist, but they can also help each other achieve a result not possible on their own. Kumbaya.