This must be Flex week on TechCrunch. It started earlier this week with TringMe, who have developed a Flash based click to call widget. They quickly realized that a lot of companies are building out Flash based IP telephony software, and did an article about Ribbit and its upcoming platform. (Om Malik has a list of other companies using Flash for VoIP).

On Monday they posted an article about Empressr, a Flex based PowerPoint competitor (did you have them in Flex Office Bingo?)

Finally, there was another post yesterday about EyeJot, a video messaging service written in Flex. Ryan Stewart has more information about EyeJot as well.

I posted a few days ago about the increase in posts relating to Flex and Apollo applications over at Digg, and I've noticed lately that the same thing is happening at a number of different websites. TechCrunch is one of my daily reads, and lately you can't go there without running into a Flash or Flex based application. Here's a list of articles that they've had recently that cover Flash, Flex or Apollo applications in the last 3 days alone.

• Today: Photobucket to launch new Flash Video Editing Tools - A Flex based application
• Yesterday: Formatpixel Makes Sexy Presentations - A Flash based application
• Two Days Ago: Conde Nast Launches Flip - A Flex based application
  Scrapblog New Release Coming - A Flex based applciation
  Mosoto Share Files and Chat on Facebook - A Flex based application

TechCrunch is running an article about Adobe Apollo, complete with a 37 minute podcast interview with Keivn Lynch.