Sean Toohey

One of my favorite website designs of 2009, is not even a website, but a YouTube video and campaign by Ad Agency Boone Oakley. They use YouTube to host their entire site, and make it easy to embed their site on anyone's blog. Enjoy:

I had this interesting error message on youTube Today at login: while(1);{"errors": "I call shenanigans", "success": false} 

I spent many years developing Flash toys for the web, here's a great example of taking a Flash action script and adding it to Augmented Reaility. I will post some of my own versions soon: Great use of AR and Flash by James Alliban

Another one of the great speakers at Gnomedex 9. Thanks once again to Chris Pirillo and Gnomedex .

Esquire Magazine is featuring Augmented Reality in their December Issue, here is a promo video. Unfortunately, interaction with the AR edition requires a plug-in and web cam, but it looks like an interesting use of the traditional and new media. More info can be found on their AR website .

Air New Zealand has launched a killer twitter Contest with @kiWeets that is sure to drive huge followers. I just started following them today around the < 300 mark. Follow @KiWeets for daily trivia questions and a chance at one of 30 free flights to New Zealand - contest starts today, October 22nd. More datails here: http://www.kiweets.com/

Another great presentation form Gnomedex09: Thanks @micah @gnomedex

How To: Create a Comments Box with Facebook Connect in 5 Minutes from Dave Morin on Vimeo .

In the second video in our Facebook Connect series Facebook Engineers - Ronnie Cheng and Luke Shepard - will show you how to give your users the power to share content from your site into their Facebook Feed through Facebook Connect. All in 10 minutes. Enjoy! http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php

Hey Facebook Developers! This video is the first in a new series of how-to videos we'll be doing to show you how to make your web site or application more social with Facebook Connect. Engineers from the Facebook Connect team - Luke Shepard and Wei Zhu - show you how to add Facebook Connect to your blog in 8 minutes.

At Gnomedex 9, Byron from bikehugger.com gave ths great Ignite session Bike Culture: [Best viewed in Full screen mode]

Good video from TIME.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel on using multimedia to tell stories online.

The Washington Post actully does something funny with social media satire, picking on celebrity tweeters (twits): Twits: Episode 1 - P. Diddy, Lindsay Lohan, Brooke Hogan Twits: Episode 2 - Tila Tequila, Courtney Love, J. Simpson

As many developers already knew, Google explains how it does not use Keyword Meta tags in its Search Engine Ranking. Read the Full story on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking

Looking to get started with Google Websiteoptimizer (GWO), here's a video form the team at Google.

Frank Eliason speaking at #gnomedex 09 Thanks once again to Chris Pirillo and Gnomedex.

Powerful presentation from @Drew at Gnomedex 09.  Tweet with Hash Tag #BlameDrewsCancer :  http://blamedrewscancer.com  

Another Good Plain English video for the folks at commoncraft.com

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After hearing non-stop chatter about locally developed Flock browser, I decided it was time to give it a try. Flock is a "social web browser" build on the Mozilla platform, developed in Victoria, BC and  I was looking for a way to easily integrate Blogger and Twitter postings. Although I've not yet figured a way to make it work, so far it looks promising. I'm using flock for this blog post and although I like the drag and drop interface, my first attempt at dragging a photo to the blog editor has caused some strange re-sizing  issues. I'll continue to use put Flock through its paces for the next week, and re-post my findings.

I've had a few days to decompress from Gnomedx 09 in Seattle. It was a great conference filled with insights, innovations & emotion. I purchased a book, a CD and left with a bag full of swag, which i doled out to family and friends. I left feeling re-charged and with a desire to do more in the social media realm, to start writing again and to put myself out there. Many thanks to @ChrisPirillo and his crew, for hosting this event.   Here are some of my thoughts/takeaways: Location : Great, i loved the bell centre and the fact that it was right next to the Victoria Clipper dock. Format : I really like the single stream format, you could just sit back and enjoy the ride.   Speakers : Eclectic mix, some emotional, some funny, and some inspired, only one i found a bit dull, but I took something from each of them. Vibe : Cool, fun, geeky, excited. Food : Excellent! Attendees : I admit, I knew people already and I was not as social as I should have been, but everyone