Chris Sparshott

I just found this video researching on techcrunch what a prosumer is and how we qualify that definition. 
Welcome to the Web 2.0 Revolution!!

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Mashups are getting a lot more focus at the present time. I believe that the reason for this is that mashups can deliver to the 3Rs
* Return value quickly
* Rapid deployment
* Reuse of existing capabilities
As part of my understanding in this area a pulled together a slide show on the evolution of mashups.
The next steps [...]

I have been a close observer of the Media Industry and in particular broadcasters and professional media producers such as Fox and MGM.
2007 and 2008 have been interesting in terms of media distribution with YouTube in dominance but a bunch of other web sites offering video such as Current TV, Revver and now The Damn [...]

Wordle is a cool little tool for building your tag cloud from del.icio.us. (thanks to wonderwebby for blogging on this). I thought I would give it a go and see what mine would look like and here it is!
Blogged with the Flock Browser

Yesterday at IBM Auckland I attended the a Retail industry session.  The keynote speaker was Myron Flickner the Global Industry leader for Disruptive technologies.
One of the most interesting developments for me was Augmented Reality.  This is where virtual world constucts, web sites and video technology meet.  It allows us to take a real life image [...]

I am just researching Government 2.0 and I was looking at the New Zealand Digital Strategy website.  I thought I should subscribe to the RSS for this site so I looked at the URL field in ‘FLOCK” where it tells me about the RSS fields available and to mu horror there isn’t one!!  It just [...]

I have just returned from the first International Conference on Computer Mediated Social Networking ICCMSN . It was a really interesting conference. I will blog on aspects of the conference in later posts but for this post I want to focus on Virtual Worlds. First of all I want to highlight the [...]

I have finally caught up with the rest of the Social media folk and joined Flock and I have to say that I am really enjoying it. The main reason being that I don’t have to log onto loads of sites everyday, its all done for me.
Have a look at the flock video and [...]

I was looking at the post on Facebook going open where I added an MTV “Mashup”. I forgot how much I liked the song Tupac Vs BIG remixed with the Police “Walking on the Moon” riff so I hunted out the full track on YouTube as sung by PDiddiy. Not my [...]

 
My primary laptop at work (T60p) has a problem in that the screen is Kaputt. I have now switched to my secondary laptop (T60) which has the company build loaded onto it. Now comes the task of configuring it for my usage. This really means that I have to go and get [...]