To Heidi's request I am going to share the website I am using to develop in Flash and ActionScript.

First, the IDE (Integrated Development Environment): Flashdevelop

http://www.flashdevelop.org/wikidocs/index.php?title=Main_Page

I really love it, it is easy to use and really complete! Everything is integrated, I just had to add a couple of library (called package in Flash) but then it was plain fun!

DevelopRIA, nice website where I originally found the Interactive Globe, I still have to dig it to try to find some interesting stuff

http://www.developria.com/2009/02/creating-an-interactive-globe.html

On this particular page, you will found links to Papervision3D and Tweener, 2 package I added and that seems often used by developers.

Showmycode, useful website that allows you to see the code of a .swf file, was really useful when I had to study the links whared by Eewei ;)

http://www.showmycode.com/

Kirupa, I didn't have time to look on this website deeply but seems to be a nice community for developers.

http://www.kirupa.com/

They have tutorials too: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash/index.htm

Always useful, a definition of ActionScript for wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActionScript

Finally, this is what I did to date:

(download)

Click here to download:

GlobeI.swf (2.25 MB)