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Today I sent this page from SingTel to the office following the 3G iPhone’s hype from last night. It was done in good faith that SingTel was making an effort to reach out to those who want to reserve themselves a 3G iPhone in Singapore. But instead of enthusiasm and excitement, I heard complaints. Not ...
When I got my i780 a week back, I was under the impression that the GPS chip was locked to only allow AGIS’s NAVfone software and maps to work on the machine. Reviews I read before my purchase mentioned its inability to work the GPS on Google Maps even though it was detected by the ...
Eddie was a good man. I didn't get a much opportunity to work with him, but the interaction we had at work was enough to tell me he was a man with a good heart.Just last month Eddie took me out for lunch at a nice Japanese restaurant with Jolene simply because I bought him Panadol the week before. And to think I actually grumbled when Kaitlyn asked me get the tablets, I …
A couple of days ago, a man standing outside MediaCorp in Singapore filmed himself aggressively scolding a taxi driver and went on to post the above video on YouTube and MediaCorp Videos (both now removed, Google cache links only) under the alias andrewteo777.This immediately caused a great debate at Hardwarezone forums and STOMP and of ...
This is a note to bloggers and also a followup/response to Vanessa’s and Claudia’s honest and very helpful blog posts to PR folk. Being a PR guy before, I’d like to propose that the reversed approach could work for bloggers too and possibly reduce the amount of miscommunication and frustration felt on both sides.If you’ve ...
OK, I admit. To be able to introduce myself as a Consultant gave me quite a thrill, and a social media consultant was a recognistion many people coveted. But as of last Thursday, 21 August 2007, I exchanged my Consultant at Hill & Knowlton status for an unpaid entrepreneurship with our new startup, JamiQ (say ...
Since my exit from PR, I’ve been getting a couple of invites to blogger/media events organised by PR agencies for their clients. Being on the “other side” has made me think about the effectiveness of reaching out to bloggers.I’m beginning to realise, at least in Singapore’s technology industry, that it’s always the same few bloggers ...
I'm here at Geek Terminal now. It's a yet to be launched restaurant / cafe for the bohemian geek. I was here to meet Kevin for our little "project" (you'll see it soon) and it so happened that the Ping.sg meetup is here too! (But that's another story)Here are some photos of some of the cool stuff you'll find here.The Flash bar. Its really Flash, as in Macromedia Flash. There …
Yay! Another new toy for me! Today I left work on time, went out for dinner and stopped by Wheelock Place to pick up a JBL On Stage Micro to accompany my iPod Nano. OK, this was a pure (but sinless) splurge. Not too bad what some chalked up credit card points can get you ...
I got this email from the PR agency for Virtual Maps telling me that Streetdirectory.com is back up again after the fiasco.But when I went to the site and tried to use it, what I got was map-less green boxes! That suppose to be Beach road where my office is.As much as I’d love to ...
It’s the same in every market with high Internet penetration rates. Blogs are now a part of our media consumption. Every marketeer and PR agency and agency wants a part of the crowd but most can’t figure out what to do with them. Those of us who’ve tried have realise that our simple outreach and ...
Over the weekend I bought myself a new “toy”, the Samsung i780. OK, it’s not really a toy because this is essentially an extension of my work life. This is my first Windows Mobile device and for a Mac user this is a weird experience, but I purchased anyway and in a matter of 2 ...
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, ...
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 ...
If you haven’t tried Plurk, you should. Its like Twitter, only messier. In fact, with only 13 friends since I started a day ago, it’s getting a bit too much to track all the plurks and replies to plurks.I discovered by accident an easier way to manage Plurk making it more Twitter-like.Plurk has a mobile ...
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 ...
I recently watched the geek thriller Untraceable, where the above web site was taken from. The show follows the FBI cyber crime unit as they try to track down a crazed computer genius who kills his victims through crowdsourced voyeurism. The more people visited the site killwithme.com the faster his victims died.This started me thinking ...
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 …
I’ve been invited by the PR Academy, a division of the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA), Singapore to be on a panel discussing the challenges of communicating in the new media environment at the 7th Annual PR ...
The gap between information “haves” and “have-nots” is widening, and there is a real danger that the world’s poor will be excluded from the emerging knowledge-based global economy.– Kofi A. Annan is the Secretary-General of the United Nations (2002)The issue of bringing technology ...
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