Chris Sparshott

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 [...]

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.