Open source technology has opened doors that were once too costly for most organizations. Everyone can have a free blog and podcast but how can you enable your project to reach your audience using the latest tools such as facebook apps, video, audio, writing and photos? Take a look at our work below to get some ideas and contact us if you want to know more.

About Us

In 1994, Randomlink co-founder Loc Dao launched CBC’s first web site that included live webcasting with live interactive on-line with webchats with X-Files Gillian Anderson.

In 1997, Randomlink principles Loc Dao and Lara Kroeker incorporated the company and joined their skills in design, photograpy, programming and web hosting to deliver on projects for PBS, Group Telecom(now Bell), Douglas Coupland, UBC, End the Arm Race, Warner Bros, CBC among others.

In 2000, Randomlink developed the award winning flash based, user content upload sites 120seconds.com, justconcerts.com and newmusiccanada.com that became early inspiration for today’s Web 2.0 user generated content sites.

In 2002, as one of the Executive Producers of a team of 27 at CBC Radio 3, Loc co-created the award winning CBCRadio3.com web magazine that won 3 Webby Awards, 2 Communication Arts awards and an Art Directors Club award among over 20 others. He produced 105 issues of this magazine that combined photography, music, writing and early Flash video until 2005.

In 2005 Loc started working on a two year Web and Film Documentary project for the National Film Board of Canada that brings together all the Flash technologies available in 2007 and web based story telling. This site won the Best Narrative site at Flash Forward 2007, the 2007 Canadian New Media Festival Excellence in News and Information award and was shortlisted for the 2008 Webby Awards.

In 2005, Luyen Dao and Christopher Hamersley joined Randomlink from CBC TV’s Zed project. Chris and Lu were the technical architects and developers of the Zed custom JAVA CMS.

Using their collective custom CMS and flash experience they started developing Drupal based web sites and created social media networking web site Orato.com as well as community based sites for Capers Markets, and multisite platforms for the Polaris Institute in Ottawa and Canada Wide Media in Vancouver. The Randomlink multisite platform let clients build multiple community sites on one drupal CMS platform at less cost than building individually sites while capitalizing on shared data between their sites while integrating networking tools such as CiviCRM and Video uploading.

Canada Wide’s BC Business Magazine, GardenWise Magazine and the parent corporate site as well as a smaller implementation for TV Week magazine all run on drupal and let the publisher schedule stories and associated comments across all the sites changing the old model of one magazine, one set of content.

Orato.com has been gaining popularity on-line with recent large traffic spikes from DIGG and Fark letting users upload stories in text, audio and video as well as providing a community for people telling stories to meet and mingle in avenues from current events to entertainment to sports.

Lara Kroeker is an award winning photographer and after shooting, developing and printing for years, she started working in Multi-Media as a designer. In 1997 she became the co-founder of Randomlink and is currently the Creative Director on all of Randomlink's design projects. Lara has worked as a designer and flash developer on projects like Summerwood, Changing the Canvas, ArtsCanada, 120seconds.com, CBC Radio 3 and as a web developer for CBC British Columbia.

Luyen Dao has been working in new media since the early dot-com days, focusing on web development, usability and rich-media experiences. Most notably, he worked on CBC new media platforms ZeD TV and CBC Radio 3 - producing Emmy and Gemini nominated rich web content in the categories of new media and interactive television. He has also worked at Internet Direct, Samsports, Anastasia Foundation, ThoughtShare Communcations since 1997. Before that he taught computer usability at various ESL schools in Vancouver. He is committed to bringing the best possible user experience to every project.

Christopher Hamersley has been working in Software Architecture and Development for over twelve years working with a large variety of technologies and supporting multi-media online communities and other web-based applications.

For the previous two years he has been working with the Drupal open-source content management system, programming custom PHP modules in support for a large variety of sites including Orato.com -- a citizen journalism community featuring audio / video publishing. Before working with Drupal, Christopher was the Lead Software Architect for CBC's ZeD online community where he designed and helped build a custom java and flash based multi-media content management system. Zed, started in 2002, was a ground-breaking award winning interactive site credited as being the first to bring user generated content to a television show. Prior to Zed, Christopher worked as architect and analyst in a number of companies in fields such as computer-based training for big industry and inter-business XML transactions.

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