Here’s another great example of how powerful the Flash Platform has become… YouTube Social allows you to simultaneously watch YouTube videos with your friends in an easy to use Flash based application built with Flex by SocialVision.

You can easily invite your friends from Facebook to join your viewing party or you can just send someone the URL. Once they join the party the video you’re watching starts playing on their screen. It starts at the exact same point that you are currently watching.

Give it a try yourself on http://www.youtubesocial.com/

“Aruba, Jamaica, oooh I wanna take ya…”. That’s the first thing that came to mind when I heard the Cocomo codename. Cocomo is far more than a cheesy song though. It was actually the acronym of Common Collaboration Model.

Cocomo is now the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service. AFCS is a Platform as a Service that allows Flash Platform developers to easily add real-time social capabilities into their RIA. Using both Flex-based client components and a hosted services infrastructure, Adobe Flash Collaboration Service allows you to build real-time, multi-user applications with Flex in less time than ever before.

Check out the AFCS team blog for more information on the roadmap. Want to start adding collaboration and multi-user capabilities to your applications? Then sign up for a free developer account on Adobe Labs.