social media addict, rails and objective-c learner
Toronto, Canada Area
- Past
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- Technical Lead at Fusion Ads
- Web Manager at Discovr
- Weekly Contributer at MacFocusMagazine.com
- Occasional Contributing Writer at WPCandy
- Education
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- East York Collegiate Institute
- Connections
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- Industry
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Chris Thomson’s Summary
Chris is currently learning Ruby on Rails.
Chris was the technical lead at Fusion Ads, an online advertising company. Chris worked with the OpenX software package (which he says was horrific for the needs of Fusion Ads at the time) to create an ad platform perfectly suitable for Fusion Ads. He also created a simplistic PHP-based API for serving ads to desktop applications.
Chris has written for a number of technology publications that focus on Apple or WordPress.
Chris has been involved in the podcasting community for a few years now, but has been on a brief hiatus since fall 2007.
Chris has managed the Discovr website for Michael Mistretta — the show's host. Discovr is a weekly audio podcast that focuses on one tech topic each week and helps you learn as much as possible on that certain topic.
Chris has previously written for MacFocus Magazine on a weekly basis, which is an online technology magazine providing you with the latest apple news, from the view of teens.
Chris has also previously written the occasional article for WPCandy, which is a popular blog in the WordPress world.
Chris Thomson’s Specialties:
wordpress, podcasting, blogging, social media
Chris Thomson’s Experience
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Technical Lead
Fusion Ads
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
August 2008 — January 2009 (6 months)
I chose a web host for an ad server that Fusion now uses, re-factored some of the ad server code, and simplified the interface to require less clicks for common tasks. I also helped to enhance the stats page to fit the needs of Fusion Ads. Lastly, I created a simple internal XML API for zone invocation.
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Web Manager
Discovr
(Media Production industry)
May 2008 — July 2008 (3 months)
I helped out the Discovr host, Michael Mistretta, with managing and tweaking the Discovr website.
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Weekly Contributer
MacFocusMagazine.com
(Writing and Editing industry)
May 2008 — June 2008 (2 months)
For a short period in Spring 2008 I contributed weekly articles to MacFocusMagazine.com.
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Occasional Contributing Writer
WPCandy
(Internet industry)
January 2008 — May 2008 (5 months)
Every couple of months I wrote an entry for WPCandy, one of the premier blogs about the WordPress blogging engine.
Chris Thomson’s Education
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East York Collegiate Institute
2007 — 2011 (expected)
Additional Information
Chris Thomson’s Websites:
Chris Thomson’s Interests:
blogging, social media, microformats, activity streams, oauth, openid, ruby on rails, rails, objective-c, iphone development, new technology, web semantics, twitter
Chris Thomson’s Groups:
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Chris Thomson’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
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- expertise requests
- business deals
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