SpatialKey is featured on the cover of this months ComputerWorld magazine, and in the feature article “Can Web 2.0 Save BI?”. The article includes an interview with Chief Jon Greiner of the Ogden Police Department in Utah, which is the first police department in the country to implement an enterprise version of the SpatialKey Law Enforcement Dashboard.

Universal Mind released a technology preview of SpatialKey last week, which is the information visualization product that I’ve been working on in its various forms since late last year. Andy and Doug already have detailed posts about the release, but I wanted to mention a few more things that I think make SpatialKey the best web-based mapping product in existence. 1. It answers the big questions.

OpenFlux is getting ramped up for some exciting new demos at 360Flex San Jose, but we’re still waiting for that one component that really shows what the framework is capable of. Luckily for us the guys at 360 conferences decided to sponsor the official OpenFlux Big Idea Contest. Here’s how it works. OpenFlux makes it so easy to build custom components that we’ll prove it. We want to see your best component ideas and designs. You come up with it, and we’ll build it.

OpenFlux is now officially open-sourced and available at http://openflux.googlecode.com/. If you haven’t heard of it yet, I’ve included some information below. Please try it out, join the mailing list, and let me know what you think! What is OpenFlux? OpenFlux is an open-source Flex component framework which allows developers to create radically new and custom Flex components.

There’s been a lot of buzz around the Degrafa Origin release that went out over a month ago, but there was something included that you probably haven’t heard of yet, Degrafa CSS Skinning. If you’re still putting the finishing touches on your submission to the 360Flex API Contest or you just want to get your existing application in the Degrafa Derby, maybe you should take a look. It’s dead simple to use, and it could give your application the edge you need to win.

I’m going to be in Atlanta next week for the always incredible 360|Flex conference. I’ll be introducing a few of the new open source projects that I’ve been working on, as well as fielding questions on Degrafa at Juan’s session. I’ve copied my own session description below, followed by a few others that I’m dying to attend. Reinventing Flex Big changes lie ahead for Flex. Are you ready?