Flash walk-overs?

March 18, 2010 6:20 PM

There was a comment link to a guy doing walk-over video for websites. I'm pretty sure it was a joke. I lost the link and now I wonder if it was on MeFi at all.

So this website shows a guy with a...European? name walking over the top of these horrendous Flash videos. The point of the website was to demonstrate that he could really help you make your site better if you had all these overlays of yourself walking onto your website and talking to visitors.

Anybody remember that? I think it was within the last two months...but Google isn't helping.

posted by circular to MetaFilter-Related at 6:20 PM (16 comments total)

All I can remember specifically was a similar thing involving RNC Chairgoldmine Michael Steele, though I'm sure other folks have also been leveraging this exciting new technology.
posted by cortex (staff) at 6:26 PM on March 18, 2010

I think the term was "walk out" (maybe?)?
posted by Alt F4 at 6:48 PM on March 18, 2010

There was a product called "Weblin" - now defunct - but it was aimed at users as a sort of chat client, not at sites that I know of.
posted by restless_nomad at 6:48 PM on March 18, 2010

http://walk-outs.com/
posted by Alt F4 at 6:49 PM on March 18, 2010 [11 favorites]

Was it Webouts?
posted by Sphinx at 6:57 PM on March 18, 2010

http://walk-outs.com/

Holy shit.
posted by dead cousin ted at 7:18 PM on March 18, 2010

http://walk-outs.com/

It is happening ... again
posted by neustile at 7:51 PM on March 18, 2010

holy shit that walk-outs thing is the greatest thing ever.
posted by shmegegge at 7:52 PM on March 18, 2010

Thanks Alt F4!!! That's it. Ha ha.
posted by circular at 9:31 PM on March 18, 2010

Maybe you saw it on MonkeyFilter (the link has been switched to a porn site).
posted by tellurian at 12:18 AM on March 19, 2010

I'm pretty sure that 80% of the content on the web is sarcastic.
posted by Plutor at 7:37 AM on March 19, 2010

There's another site by the same guy where he walks out in front of a big still image of a water fall. I think I prefer that one. It's just as bad, but more audacious. I can't find the link right now.
posted by brundlefly at 9:50 AM on March 19, 2010

MonkeyFilter: (the link has been switched to a porn site)
posted by Sys Rq at 10:18 AM on March 19, 2010 [1 favorite]

http://virtualliveactors.com/

People who think this is a good idea are also people who thing that their web content should be in a PDF delivered through a Flash app that requires them to drag the corners of pages to the left to continue reading.
posted by ardgedee at 10:41 AM on March 19, 2010

I wasn't even going to look at this thread, but I'm so glad now that I did.
posted by ishotjr at 10:51 AM on March 19, 2010

"Hi, and welcome to flashpastyoureyes.com -- like orange juice, only not."
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 12:00 PM on March 19, 2010 [1 favorite]