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

In honor of Earth Day I give you Pale Blue Dot by animator Adam Winnik, for his Sheridan College final thesis. Enjoy Adam's beautifully crafted homage to the writings of Carl Sagan. Pale Blue Dot - Animation from Ehdubya . Written and Narrated: Carl Sagan Music: Hans Zimmer "You're So Cool" Art and Animation: Adam Winnik

I don't claim to be an apple fanboy, but I really like the iPad as a platform and recently have begun playing with the SDK and developing Apps. Many moons ago I developed apps on the Palm platform, primarily for my own use, and I am a strong believer in building your own tools. Unfortunately my knowledge of C dates back to a second year comp-sci course back in late 90s and I need to ramp up my knowledge of objective C before I can build some serious applications. As development is all about collaboration, I did what I do best and made a quick and dirty prototype, wrote a basic spec doc, and then solicited a talent friend to make it work they way i wanted it to. Below is a live shot of Jolt Media's first basic brochure app, Ducati 748 , featuring my favorite motorcycle. I no longer own this motorcycle, but now I can carry one around on my iPad. Here are some screenshots of my specs doc:

I can't get enough of Infographics, here's another one produced by Online IT Degree that shows how we use our cell Phones.

Report: Career Path of the Corporate Social Strategist: Be Proactive or Become Social Media Help Desk via @ethernick.

Source: Flowtown - Social Media Marketing Application

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 :) .