I just blogged about uvLayer a really interesting blend of social networking and rich media that uses an AIR client built in Flex as the primary application. The team over at uvLayer has done a lot of things to help create a social experience out of a rich Internet application. They’ve incorporated Facebook and a real time sharing feature that makes watching videos a collaborative experience. Head on over and download the application.

It was a really great week for Flex and AIR at DEMO this week and there are some really awesome companies building on the Adobe RIA platform. BusinessWeek picked up some of the standouts from DEMO and highlighted some of the AIR applications that were shown on stage:

Another intriguing trend at this year’s DEMO is the way numerous entrants have made use of Adobe’s (ADBE) AIR technology. Unveiled at last year’s DEMO, Adobe AIR is used to create rich Internet applications that can run both while a computer is connected to the Internet and, to some degree, when it isn’t.

AIR-based entrants at this year’s DEMO include Joggle, an online service designed to organize the files you have scattered among the hard drives on multiple PCs in a single browser window. Joggle was created by Fabrik, a vendor of external hard drives that is familiar with the confusion people face when trying to remember which documents, songs, photos, and videos are stored on which computer. Other DEMO participants that utilize Adobe AIR are Acesis, which created data-management software for health-care providers, and Israel’s 2Win Solutions, which built a Web-based collaboration application called KonoLive.

Pownce opened up registrations today and also released a new version of their desktop client. Pownce was one of the very early adopters of AIR and this new client runs on Beta 3 of the AIR runtime. It includes system notifications when you get a new message as well as the ability to reply to people right from the application. That means you can do almost everything you need to in a desktop client. So far response seems to be pretty good. Have you downloaded it? What do you think?

Serge Jespers talked to the team at Boulevart, the company behind the Google Analytics AIR application and found out that they’re working with Google and that Google is going to both host the application and is supporting development on it. Serge has a video interview up including some news about the new features.

The Google Analytics AIR applications was by far one of the coolest applications we saw from the community. Nocolas Lierman created his own API for Google Analytics and wrapped a valuable desktop experience around that. It’s great to know that Google was as impressed as everyone else with the application and they’re helping out. It’s a great application for users of Google Analytics.

The Adobe evangelists are spreading out across the United States, Europe, and even Australia this month to talk to Adobe user groups about the new features in Flex 3 and Adobe AIR. If you’re interested in hearing about how Flex and AIR can help you or even just what all of the buzz is about, this is a great, informal way to do it. Here’s the full list of cities and dates:

Updated: Now with Australia/New Zealand dates

Joe Johnston has updated his working AIR iPhone application to run on Adobe AIR beta 3. He’s still using Ribbit so you can actually use the iPhone to make calls. It’s a great example of custom chrome and how a pretty simple desktop application can help convey a lot of concepts. He’s also got a lot of other AIR applications that he’s updated. It’s well worth checking out so if you don’t have it, grab Adobe AIR Beta 3 and get the .air file!