Spark!09 at Wintec Hamilton. New Zealand
Online ID, GoogleID, Blogger, You Tube, Gmail, Docs, Facebook ID, Open ID, Twitter, Skype, Your own domain name, Whois?, .co.nz - $30 p.a.
Brands take to time to grow, Tagging, Twitter #hashtags, The Semantic Web
High value of intangible assets, The Whuffie Factor
Work your social networks, 33 Million People in the Room
Grow a large digital footprint
Online, iTunes, Webisodes
Mobile, Vodafone Live!, Mobisodes, Do not underestimate mobile markets
Music, CD Baby, CDs & Digital downloads
Books, Lulu.com, Books, Calendars
Fabric, Spoonflower, Custom printed fabric, no minimum order
Art, Imagekind
Merchandise, Zazzle, Tshirts, Skateboards, Hoodies
Designs, Ponoko, Jewellery, Furniture, Art,
3D Objects, Shapeways, "we bring your 3D design to life"
Own your own copyrights, Creative Commons, Encourage some remixes / mashups, Artists should fear obscurity not piracy
Sell it yourself, Keep largest %, Multiple formats, Multiple Income Streams, Think series or universe, Create a lifelong, profitable career
Radio with pictures from a network of studios. Some shows live, some podcast.
Little know Auckland law
Launch a mag, site or station in 10 yrs or be sent to Australia!
Acquired Twisted Radio in 2009
Re-booting Sept 09 as Twisted Radio & TV, Radio with picturs
Kickstarter
Crowdfund your Creativity
Givealittle to Twisted
Facebook Group
Merchandise, Zazzle, Twisted Store
Twitter Stream
Radio, LPFM Radio on 88.3 Waitakere, LPFM Radio allows only ½ watt (many cheat), P2P Radio, Trialled Audiorealm stream., Up to 20 concurrent listeners $35 p.m., Doesn’t scale very affordably. Need sponsors., Outgoing bandwidth = 56kbit to seed stream, $15 p.m. in extra bandwidth, Stream + P2P – free to scale potentially to millions, Kit & Tools, Radio board from US = $500 (inc transmitter), Radio s/w SAM Broadcaster, TV / VJ mix into Arkaos., $150 webcams, Adobe Live Media Encoder. (Free), Output into Livestream Channel
TV, Livestream, Live to air, Video on Demand, Free with overlay ads, US $350 pcm to serve own ads, Twitcam - stream live on Twitter
Mobile, Qik.com, Stream or mobicast from your phone
Online, You Tube, Tag carefully for related links, Tube Mogul, Cross channel publishing & stats, Posterous, Publish to multiple spaces, Twisted Website, Aggregation station of RSS feeds, Dynamically generated pages, Silverstripe NZ Open Source CMS, Click to buy links, artists info, clips
Strategy, Finance & New Biz
Senior Producer
Writer, Animator, Director
Radio NZ & Kiwi FM
Animation, Radio & TV
VJ Mixes & Live Shows
Online Strategy, R&D
The MsBehaviour Files, Re-animating in multimedia format
The g33k show, Broadcast on Alt TV in 2008, Season 2 on Twisted TV in 2009
Twisted Radio & TV, Live to air & podcast shows
Cloud based company
Collaborative network of studios
Stay Small & Lean
Bootstrapped to profit
Scaleable without external funding
Business Management, Xero - finance, Invoices, accounts, Pocketsmith, Free for personal finance, Both Made in NZ, Basecamp - project management, Try for free, Diigo - bookmarks / annotated links, Two way knowledge flows, Read Tshirts & Suits, Free ebook
Why?, Multiple Income Streams, Home studios, Independent, Flexible, Fun is our prime directive!
Hacking = re-purposing tools & ideas
Driven by time and $ 0 budget
Graphics card held together with elastic bands
Ancient PC
Borrowed Broadcast Camera
Animation quicker than filming
Google Earth, Camera fly throughs
Google Sketchup, 3D objects
Mobile Phone Camera, Nokia 6021, Easier, more authentic
Mobile Animation Tools, Facial animation for avatars
