Good news for designers, developers ... just about everyone. Google announced Google Analytics Tracking For Adobe Flash, which will now make it much easier to track Flash widgets, embedded videos and microsites, for example. Essentially, this standardizes Flash tracking, so that developers don't need to come up with their own, custom solutions.

Below is a video showing the capabilities with Sprout VP of Engineering, Matthew McNeely. Also of note, the code is open source, so that developers can make improvements as they see fit.