Archive for March, 2009
Come hear me talk augmented reality on April 20th
The nice folks at refreshevents.ca have asked me to take part in their speaker series at their April event (20th of April at the CSI in Toronto). Here’s what I’ll be talking about: Tom Purves, “How ‘Augmented Reality’ and the Mobile Web Changes Everything” Mobile broadband access and ever-smarter phones are shaking the internet out [...]
How the mobile web and “augmented reality” changes retail forever
At South by southwest interactive this week (SXSW) a huge theme was “augmented reality” the idea of, Amazon-app style, pointing your phone at any product to get more information -or a better price- online. We’re getting to a world where holding a mobile device means all of the potential knowledge and intelligence of the cloud [...]
PROTIP #67 For Social Media Marketers:
Tom Purves’ Protip #67 for social media marketing: STEP 1: Make a product actually worth talking about. STEP 2: See step 1. STEP 3: There is no step 3. Originally tweeted, reblogged here for posterity.
This is what I do now
A friend asked me today for a two line bio of what’s been keeping me so busy these days. And the most accurate description in very general terms I came up with was this. Stopping to think about it, I thought it sounded pretty good. I’d hire me. Thomas Purves is a Toronto based blogger, [...]
DemoCamp 19 (million) Toronto
[liveblogging as we go. here we go...] DemoCamp19 5 min demos, because 5 minutes is long enough. DemoCamp is like open mic night for high tech. At the lovably seedy Imperial pub. Austin Hill demoing Akoha, telling us about a card game that makes the world a better place. This app has come a long [...]
Thomas Purves
is a technology executive specializing digital payment systems, a futurist and sometimes entrepreneur living in the great city of 
