Sean Toohey

Intel combines Facebook, Vanity and mood music to produce one of the best interactive online Ads I’ve seen this year. Using Facebook Open Graph to pull your data into a Flash movie that creates a Virtual Museum Tour of your online presence: It is both very cool and very creepy how much Facebook data is open to   3 rd party developers with a couple clicks of the mouse. Check it out here: http://www.intel.com/museumofme/r/index.htm

Since Facebook released its new profile layout last week, designers and hacks alike have begun playing with their photo stream to create cool looking profile pages. Here's a shot of my first attempt (a hack of www.jolt.ca ): NOTE: Alignment in google chrome is slightly off, and probably not noticeable if i wasn't using text. Safari and Firefox look fine on the mac. Florian Stravock created a nice video tutorial that shows you the basic steps in creating your own using photoshop: Techcrunch wrote a good blog post on Florian's tutorial with a few examples and links to his PSD file if you want to take a shortcut :) .

I Love infographics and here's a cool one from Game House, showing Women are the masters of social Gaming. I know Women rule the social web (IE: Facebook, et all), but I question if they take in all the social gaming, like World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, etc. Source for Gamehouse.com Online Games

Quick 2 min video for those that do not already get it: What the Hell is Social Media

The Mantra of Agile developers - Move Fast And Break Things! Marc Andreessen of Netscape, Kevin Ryan of DoubleClick, Thomas Gensemer of Blue State Digital (the company that developed Obama's online campaign), and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg reveal their strategies for innovation and give tips on how to build a successful company. VIA: businessinsider.com

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.

Recently I've been getting a lot of questions from co-workers and friends about Facebook & Twitter and other social media and how it can be used to promote their websites and online business. I work in the media business and the newspapers are looking to grow readership and ultimately drive traffic to their websites. In these lean times people are also looking for ways to self promote in non traditional methods and emerging trends without spending any money. Here are some basic social media sites and tips to driving traffic and readership on your website: 1. Start a Blog - In the fast paced world of micro-blogging, traditional blogs are still a relevant form of social media. Blogs that inform and help people are worth reading. And Opinion based witting is perhaps the most popular form of blogging today. With everything you do you should try and keep you Blog on topic and with a general purpose. Of course with Blogging the hardest thing is to keep it going, so set some re...