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Below are the vids from last month’s Facebook Developer Garage. I was asked to come and talk from an agency perspective. So, although a little underprepared, I duly obliged.

There was a good cross section of people in attendance and I met some really interesting players from the field of social media. I was particularly impressed with the talk that followed mine from Mat Clayton & Chris Thorpe. Which is surprising because it had been billed in a way that suggested that there would be some sort of head to head between me (representing agencies) and them (representing all the people who are frustrated by agencies). Luckily, most of their gripes do not apply to Saint (because we are not typical of other agencies) and they were extremely impressed by the thinking that we demonstrated. Indeed there were many similarities in our presentations. PHEEEW!

Afterwards, I had a pint with Toby Beresford from Nudge and found him to be an very knowledgeable and likable chap.

We will definitely be contacting these guys in future regarding our social media initiatives and I will continue to attend the Facebook Developer garages. I recommend you do too.

Adam Graham Part 1

Adam Graham Part 2

Mat Clayton & Chris Thorpe Part 1

Mat Clayton & Chris Thorpe Part 2

Mat Clayton & Chris Thorpe Part 3

nice site collating peoples mixtapes given to them by ex’s, along with the story behind them, back when love was a warm and fuzzy feeling. some good tunes too:

cassette from my ex

The Moleskine is reputedly (or is that ‘allegedly’) the notebook of choice for artists and writers, counting Picasso, Matisse and Hemingway among its owners. Of course it’s hard to see the real history of the brand through the slightly smokey marketing but that hasn’t stopped them amassing a loyal and creative fanbase.

I came across this group in Flickr, mainly because Rob Northam, one of our painfully talented designers at Saint, is a contributor (and definitely one of the best).

http://www.flickr.com/groups/moleskinerie/

Proof that we don’t need to leave old ways of creativity behind in order to share and build communities online – it’s dedicated to beautiful examples of Moleskine notebook pages: sketches, collages, in some cases just delighting in the handwritten word in this era of digital type.

Here’s one of my favourites:

“Heart Grenade” by Robert Northam

And more here from Rob.