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I’ve been busy of late as every man and his dog seems to want a machinima. Here’s a couple of recent ones that have gone public:
Another set of videos I was really pleased with that shows the quick and easy potential for creating video content using virtual worlds for real business is here (on Facebook no less!):
Agile Software Development Series with Grady Booch – 7 short tech chats
As my Twitter followers will know I’ve been dabbling with Linux this week. I’ve never really had the need before, but a friend kindly gave me a dead laptop, to which I attached an old external LCD screen, keyboard and mouse and installed “crunchbang Linux” on a 4GB thumbdrive. This has given our house a new kitchen “info-station”. Kinda like the smart fridge idea everyone talked about a few years ago only smarter cos rather than knowing what’s in your fridge, you can facebook easily on it! 
So… gone is the paper calendar by the phone… now we have google calendar, which we can access from our PCs / devices, including my shiny newish iPod touch. Finally, one version of the truth and less To Do lists around the place too!
That’s 70 solid days worth of viewing!
After a quiet start to the year, it’s suddenly got very busy here in IBM land. We have been working on a couple of new ideas for supporting IBM’s sales and marketing efforts and the world and his blue dog are beating a path to our door. The credit cruch has meant that people are spending less on things like events and so are looking at what they can do – things like smart marketing and online / virtual events. Some highlights so far:
- Made a Smarter Planet trailer for IBM using Second Life.
- Have been working on a proposal for doing some new (hush hush) 3D internety things.
- Have been pitching our machinima and events capabilities around IBM with lots of interest.
- Have been developing a new internal video hosting and streaming offering for IBM which I am getting a LOT of interest in. Practially getting my hand bitten off!
Aside from that, I’ve been busy working on my wife’s business: “Sarah Aires Photography“. We now have automated online ordering – products go straight to clients, with online credit card payments. There has been a recent flurry of interest from people wanting Sarah to photograph their weddings – people still get married even in a recession. I’ve been having fun learning more about web design. I’ve been trying to avoid using flash as I’ve noticed many photographers over-use it. I have a javascript slideshow on the front page now, which is a big improvement from the single image we had before. At some point we’ll do a full redesign, but we have to get some more basic things done first like overhauling the pricelist/offerings etc. We’ve just added online booking forms (hidden) and a feedback form. We really MUST do an about us section too. A while back I integrated a blogger blog to the site, so have been blogging there. It’s great to have two such creative and fun jobs!
Here’s to a great rest of Q1!
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