Today Adobe Announced COCOMO.

From labs.adobe.com

“Codename “Cocomo” is a Platform as a Service that allows Flex developers to easily add real-time social capabilities into their RIA (rich Internet applications). Comprised of both Flex-based client components and a hosted services infrastructure, Cocomo allows you to build real-time, multi-user applications with Flex in less time than ever before. And because Acrobat.com hosts the service, issues like deployment, maintenance, and scalability are taken care of for you.

Add social features to your existing Flex apps or build totally new ones, such as real-time productivity/collaboration apps, multiplayer games, and audio/video chat.”

Real-time social features that can be added to Web applications include:

* Robust Data Messaging
* VoIP Audio
* Webcam Video
* Real-Time File Sharing
* Text Chat
* Contextual Presence

This is very exciting. This will open up new possibilities for Flash Platform to create Real Time social applications which will enable to communicate efficiently and easily.

Links:

Cocomo @ Adobe Labs : http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/cocomo/