The following was originally posted on the StruckAxiom blog on 1/14/10 by Matt Anderson.

Like any good children of the 80s, we love LEGOs. So when our friends at Pereira & O’Dell hollered at us with a couple LEGO projects (the LEGO Photo iPhone app and LEGO CL!CK site), we didn’t hesitate. Coming into the studio to work/play with LEGOs all day—physically and virtually—has been ridiculously inspiring.

Now that the results of a few (okay, more than a few) late nights are alive and kicking on the Interweb, we’re predictably giddy about the positive response. LEGO Photo is the #5 Free App in the iTunes Store as of today. Good (and incredibly smart) people from Fast Company, Mashable, KRonikle (the Kidrobot blog!), app.itize.us and WIRED have all had nice things to say about the projects.

So. Download the app. Get inspired on the site. And… please upload your LEGO-fied photos to the Flickr group we just discovered.

Please be careful. LEGOfying an already-LEGOfied image may disrupt the balance of the space-time continuum.

In case you missed the big news from the Mobile World Congress over the weekend, Adobe have made a number of official announcements about the future of Flash and AIR on mobile devices. Beta versions of Flash Player 10.1 have been made available to partners and it's expected to start appearing on various mobile devices over the next few months. In addition, AIR is planned for Android and Blackberry release in the second half of 2010.

Ryan Stewart, as usual, gives a great overall summary of what this all means. Kevin Hoyt has posted a video demo of AIR running on the Motorola Droid. The AIR Team has a post with some more specifics, including screenshots of some apps that beta partners have already built.

With announcements from major video players such as Brightcove detailing their plans to ensure their platforms support video for Flash Player 10.1 on mobile devices it's clear that Flash is positioning itself to be a core part of the video ecosystem for some time to come despite the efforts of Apple to fight this.

Possibly even more compelling is the efforts being put forth by the computing industry to make sure they aren't left behind in the tablet market the way they were left scrambling to play catch up to the iPod and iPhone. A number of hardware builders are choosing to use Android as their OS and are putting Flash and AIR front and center on these devices.

With Flash CS5's ability to publish native iPhone apps, the only hole left in the Flash ecosystem is the lack of in-browser Flash on the iPhone. For video delivery this won't be a huge deal as it's easy enough to swap out the right player/video file as needed but it still presents a pretty massive problem for thousands of other Flash apps out there. We can only hope that pressure from the rest of the players in the mobile industry and from consumers will ultimately force Apple to get friendly with Adobe again.

We are excited to announce that not only do we have Byron of Textura Design speaking on 'Changing the world with bikes' at our upcoming FITC Amsterdam 2010 event in Feb, but Byron also has hooked up a Mobile Social event through bike hugger during FITC Amsterdam! What is a mobile social you ask? As they put it, " Mobile Socials are an intersection of bikes, technology, and culture. We ride, talk bikes, blog, party, and give away product. The event offers no douchebaggery or lameness, but is for like-minded cycling fans of all types to get together and talk about bikes."

The Amsterdam Mobile Social, or MoSo, will happen on Sunday Feb 21st, the night before FITC Amsterdam kicks off. For all the details, please visit the bikehugger website.