Everyone which is into Flex is screaming for AIR and I’ve already seen a lot of cool applications build in Flex and exported to AIR, and they all look awesome, nice and actually they work 
(which is the most important at the end of the day). Today I’ve decided to install Flex 3 Beta and play around with it and try to export a project to AIR.
So I started with a datagrid, and an external datasource which is an XML, then created some effects and at the end, a media player which would play the contents of my xml, the cool thing about it, is that I’m feeding a complete itunes-podcast compatible XML into my datagrid, I don’t have to rework the XML for the purposes that I need.
Believe me or not, but just in a matter of 4 hours, I was able to create a fully functional and I hope soon in production application, with a basic knowledge of AS3 and Flex.
Bottom line is, i had a hell of a fun creating that application, you can design your apps very clearly, they are nice and shiny, and they don’t look so bad as some of the applications among us which were done in Java 
“Grey windows with no styling are out”
I will try to get a public version for you guys, and I will write a small tutorial explaining how it has been created in the hope that beginners like me can also learn from my first steps
Till then
Tiago
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Hey man, AIR really rules because it has all the power of Flash / Flex and breaks some limitations like accessing different domains, online data etc.
Check out my experiment with AIR, Google 3D Map Application. This wasn’t possible with flex due to the scripting restriction for images loaded from web.
Hey Tiago, glad you like it! Keep giving us feedback and let me know if you have any questions.
=Ryan
rstewart@adobe.com
Now you`re infected. This will change your live – it will never be the same again.
Have fun keep posting your progress.
Benz
Rostislav:
That mashup looks really great.. keep it up
It’s just so fun to work with it
Ryan:
Will you be at MAX in september?
Thanks a lot for your comment, I really apprecitate it, as more I come into the logic of AIR, I start to see the issues around it and the logic as well.. I will definately save your email for future questions
Benz
so I think I have to thank you for the bump into Flex/AIR 
and yeh.. I’m definately infected now, I even think about it during sleep…
It was you that started it with your RichFLV