We at squidder love all manner of technology, not just flash. Like wii remotes. And Johnny Lee. And you should too. If you haven't seen this stuff, be sure to check out the video above. 

It'll be the coolest thing you'll see today. More Johnny Lee's wizardry can be seen at his site.

That's where the "Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE" (sic) campaign comes in. Besides yelling at us, the project aims to end the spotty performance of the existing Sound packages, as well as push for some new, and nifty sounding (HA!), features for the next round of flash.

Almost offensively easy to use, Webthumb's API works off a simple xml query that you can make from almost anywhere. It's very easy to set up a lot of the finer details as well, including how the thumbnail is cropped, delay before taking the thumbnail and of course the size -- indeed, you could just have a full view the site as opposed to a thumbnail.

The service is free to try out, with a 100 free credits a month (one request counts as one or more credits depending), though additional ones are quite reasonably priced. And while I probably wouldn't recommend generating a thumbnail each time from the flash, there's certainly no reason you couldn't set up a cron job using flash or VRML or whatever the kids are into these days.