With demos, drums, and dancers, we recently christened a new space in San Francisco's SOMA neighborhood. Located in the former Organic Online headquarters, our new digs will be home to Brickhouse, a new group that allows Yahoo! "intrapreneurs" to turn great ideas into prototypes and products; the Design Innovation Team, which encourages design-driven innovation at Yahoo!; and the Jumpcut and Yahoo! Video teams.

Various teams had a chance to hawk their wares, offering demos of various prototypes and products. These ranged from a giant touchscreen globe that displayed Flickr images from around the world; a wall-sized Answers Cloud that featured the most-used words in questions and answers; and some of our more recent beta products, like the latest Yahoo! Widgets and Yahoo! Messenger integration with email. All this in a space with all the typical accoutrements of a start-up space — lack of traditional cubicles, no offices, rolling white boards, and lounges with funky furniture for jam sessions.

Speaking of prototypes, our Media Innovation Group just started letting me play with one of theirs. Below you'll find a presentation that documents our Open House party using "StoryTellr," an internal prototype written in Flash as a standalone Flickr-integrated photo-montage tool. It lets you marry Flickr images with an audio file and add pans and zooms. You can publish projects in an embeddable Flash player or as a video file. Yahoo! doesn't intend to offer this as a product, but rather as an R&D proof of concept. The Media Innovation Group is an advanced development team within Yahoo! Media that creates prototypes to show users new ways to consume, product and interact with digital media. They've got some cool stuff cooking. Let us know what you think.