I was invited to present at the Wellington Software Association and I chose the subject “Social Software for Propserity and Growth”. Its a topic that had be whirling around my head for some time – how can on-line communities contribute to the sales of start-ups, Small businesses and large enterprise businesses? I put pen to [...]
Archive for July, 2009
So Amazon is to puchase Zappos which is probably a great move. My interest in the company culture which seems to be a lot of fun, check out the video.
The other night I was watching the rugby around a neighbours and I was talking to one of his buddies about Social media / networking tools. What was really interesting to me was this chap was a marketiun executive but he didn’t have any idea about the new social networking tools orr their value. So [...]
Augmented reality has come a long way in the last 12 months. Here is a great video showing browsing a real-life environment and information being laid over that image.
Lots of possible applications here for businesses to partner with telcos.
Crazy – Compare and think how odd.
The first video is the original, the second video is a cover using a Theremin. It is odd but also brilliant.
Original
Gnarls Barkley “Crazy”
Theremin
I was bored with TV so I spent a wonderful evening cruising around YouTube. As an ex-violin player (over 20 years ago) I was delighted to find this magnificent rendition of Mr Brightside by the Killers on the violin.
I wish we played this type of music when I was a lad.
This presentation has been doing the rounds. I can’t quite believe that someone managed to survive this crash – amazing.
What Lucky Looks Like
Question: Are you unsimulated?
Hold on there, let the video run, if your getting bored jump to 1:40.
The idea that we can bring together all the data and intelligence in the world and apply intelligence to problems isn’t a new one but maybe we are getting closer to actually being able to do it.
Someone asked me to explain cloudcomputing but someone explains it way better than me – rock on.


