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On 5 August 2008 I started @SGnews to automatically update news about Singapore over Twitter. Today, @SGnews has 1,494 followers. In March this year, I began tracking each news story’s link with Snipurl and since then I’ve collected a lot of data. This blog post will show you what readers of Singapore News on Twitter ...
According to Reuters, singing sensation Susan Boyle received over 103 million views on 20 different websites this week. I am amazed at how many viewers this single televised event could get.Compared to other single televised events:American Idol Season 1 Finale: ~50 million viewersFirst presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama: 52.4 million viewersPresidential …
Many of the companies I worked with and for in the past approached incentivised marketing (giving away prizes) for one purpose: sales leads.Gothere.sg, a Web 2.0 map startup in Singapore, is giving away an Apple iPhone 3G for… wait for it… noise. Yes marketeers, no call-to-action, no visiting the site, no registration, no send-to-a-friend gimmicks, ...
I’ve always been a very proud Twitter user. I kept away from following anyone that I didn’t know well. I gave myself the excuse that I’d not be able to keep up with the info overload. I was actually being very foolish, approaching the very social Twitter with a very passive attitude. On top of ...
HBO Asia is about to launch it’s Golden Globe award-winning series, True Blood, in Singapore on 9 April 2009 on Max (previously Cinemax). Last night HBO Asia hosted a blogger event to preview the show at Ink Club Bar, Fairmont. HBO Asia has been actively engaging the social media and it appears that they’re getting ...
I feel that it is especially helpful if your product’s webpage has a single paragraph, no longer than 1,000 characters, describing the product.Not only is it helpful and simple for a new customer to find out about your product, it fits perfectly in Delicious’s notes. I do a lot of bookmarking and I’m really lazy. ...
I’m going to be upfront here. I love Dropbox so much, I want more disk space on my account. If you sign up using my referral code, both you and I get an additional 250MB added to the 2GB default disk space. Dropbox is free by the way.With my greedy ambition out of the way, ...
I spent my day checking my own sites to get other people’s content.I log into Twitter to check about 200 other people’s TweetsI log into Facebook to check about 400 friend’s updatesI log into Google Reader to read about 160 websites and blogsetc…If your site can’t be plugged into another, you’re missing out on a ...
Apparently, for me (in Singapore) to reach this blog, the data has to travel approximately 13,878 miles across two major continents. Starting with my local ISP, it hope over to Lake Mary, FL in the Southeast of USA, then travels over land to Los Angeles, CA on the West coast before making its final stop ...
Last week this video clip (above) from the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC calling global PR consultancy Burson-Marsteller (BM) “the PR firm from hell” did its rounds across the Internet. According to the video, BM was hired by AIG, who has taken government bailouts, to spruce up its corporate image. The producers of the show ...
What I want to know is who convinved the CEO?If you visit skittles.com today, you’ll notice that there’s not much of a Skittles site save a floating widget. The rest of the site points directly to Twitter’s raw search results of “skittles”.This publicity stunt is amazingly daring and has definitely got a lot of people ...
I’ve realised that most of my daily necessities exist and reside in the cloud.My Email - Gmail hosts my personal and work emails. Yahoo is my backup.My Documents - I used to have a Documents folder where I keep all my work, but now that folder is replaced by one called Dropbox. Dropbox syncs all ...
If you’re a marketeer in Asia, you probably manage your company’s online brand and reputation across multiple markets (countries). I know many of you already use Google Alerts generically hoping that something relevant to our region pops up in your emails and that’s great, but here’s a better way to get right into each individual ...
I was so intrigued by this when I read it because it is so true but none of the newsletters I get follow this rule.“…the best time to blast email industry newsletters to subscribers is around lunch because many people eat at their desk but want something that can make them look busy.”From Email Campaign ...
I watched this great video today called The Crisis of Credit. The reason its great is because it makes simple a complex issue. Our world today is filled with complexity. How does Aircon work? Why are there Tsunamis?Taking a hint from the above video I can imagine brands making use of this explaination method to ...
Click this link if you haven’t already signed up: http://www.tdm.sg/events/blogoutBlogOut! 2009 is here and I’m particularly excited. We have my JamiQ co-founder Kelvin Quee talk about sentiment analysis and businesses on Day 1 and my co-founder of Scoopasia, Melvin Yuan speak on social media.But since I already knnow these guys well, I shall look forward ...
I was just reading this article on the Singapore government’s reaction to negative comment online. In it, Singapore’s Senior Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts, Mr Lui Tuck Yew was quoted saying:“Significant numbers were unkind. A small number was downright outrageous. It’s disappointing.”Mr Lui added that the internet …
Today I finally got the time to muck around with Windows 7 Beta. Since I use a MacBook Pro, I decided to install Windows 7 as a VM in VMware Fusion. I followed to simple guide from VMware and it installed pretty smoothly without too much trouble. The only troublesome thing faced was that my ...
We’re in TODAY! Also in the story are my friends over at buUuk. Here’s also a shoutout to Hedirman who wrote a this fantastic page on Singapore startups.
I’m so proud. This is the first media coverage of JamiQ and we haven’t even put out a press release. I’m glad Irene decided to focus on sentiment analysis because that’s what we’re all about and that’s what’s really exciting. To have computers come in and do the “intelligent” things that humans are required for ...
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