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Sony has come up with yet another great looking VAIO. The VAIO P Series made the press at CES go gaga this week and I had a hands on session with it at the Singapore launch.I held it, opened it, pressed it, tried to flex it, typed on it and the VAIO P felt rock ...
This is a follow up form my previous post on finding conversations on the social media. Since posting that up I was sent and stumbled upon many more social media search engines. Yes, not just blog search engines like Google BlogSearch or Technorati, but social media search engines that attempts to index the conversations on ...
All social media practitioners need to monitor the Web for conversations made about their brands and products. Most don’t want to pay for it.While Google is the almighty, it returns a lot of non-conversational result such as corporate websites and even splogs. Here’s a list of new, and some obscure, specialised search engines that you ...
There were at least 40 people in the queue outside of the clinic. The one at the head of the queue had waited from 1pm to 7pm just to get a consultation with Dr Ong in her evening session. Located in the East (Tampines) of Singapore, the queue was made up of patients young and ...
If you’re a social media practitioner or just really interested, here’s a quick tip for a must have.Go to Google AlertsLogin to your Google account if you haven’t alreadyCreate an alert for “social media” (include the quotes)Type: Change to NewsHow often: Once a dayNow you have a daily update on the state of the social ...
Was just watching CSI:NY and the intro showed a typical public service call for a missing person on TV. This got me thinking about the effectiveness of mass media in our social media age. With so much content (on and offline), and just as many channels to consume them by, how does anyone convey a ...
I was recently interviewed on a show called Giant Steps In Mobility which was aired on ChannelNews Asia. During my interview I talked about social media trends while seated at the corner table at Borders Bistro. Although I had a friend who spotted me on the show tell me that I was really professional, re-watching ...
Check out Singapore’s Google Zeitgeist page. It gives you a good sense of what we local folk are interested in. Sadly, it’s leaked sex photos of a Hong Kong celebrity.2008 has been a year of change in Singapore and people have certainly been using Google to access information about these changes. The fastest rising searched ...
Love this video. Although Louis C.K. is a comedian, his observations are so true and I don’t know if I should be laughing or nodding. We do take technology for granted don’t we?
If you’re interested in finding out what people are saying online but don’t have the budget for expensive social media monitoring services, here are some tips for doing it the Google way (read free).Be site specificUser opinions are best found on specific community sites such as TripAdvisor for travel and IMDb for movies. In Singapore, ...
I’ve noticed in recent months, many marketeers are trying out simple campaigns that involve bloggers linking to a microsite, survey, or some interactive game.While web analytics is a great way to track visitors, it doesn’t have the best view of who’s linking to your site. I found Yahoo’s Site Explorer tool to be very handy ...
If you like HungryGoWhere or Yum.sg, you’re gonna love this. I’ve just got myself a beta version of BuUuk, an iPhone App for finding places to eat in Singapore. I’m gues …
Had a lunch session with Jeff Roberto, Marketing/PR Director at Friendster today and contrary to the buzz about Facebook and MySpace, Friendter is apparenty doing pretty well in Asia and stands at #1 in Singapore “with over 1.6 million registered users and 974,000 million monthly unique visitors”. Their claim is that over 60% of Singapore’s ...
This happens a lot with technology. When something becomes common place, we begin to see an “ecosystem” form around the technology to support it and leverage the value that can be added to the technology. While the iPhone is with a good example with its apps, hacks, and websites, I believe the netbook is beginning ...
I got my Eee PC 901, the 12GB version that comes with Windows XP, yesterday. Today, it runs Ubuntu 8.04. No, I’m not a Linux fanboy. In fact, I wanted Windows installed to use this netbook as my mobile office especially when I do presentations. But within 24 hours I learned that Windows XP is ...
Kelvin sent me this interesting blog post by Andrew Frank of Gartner. In it he decides to test social media monitoring companies to see if if they practice what they preach. In other words, do they listen in on their own brand to see who’s talking about them. Andrew had listed all the social media ...
Today I went back to visit Plurk and updated it since I last left it in favour of Twitter back in June. While I was trying to re-familiarise myself with Plurk, I had a sneaking suspicion that there were many like me who tried it when it first came out but now exist with 0.0 ...
I was inspired today to follow the lead of Peter Kim and publish a list of brands that have been using the social media for marketing. This is a great exercise that has given me a good picture of what’s been happening. Unlike Peter’s, my list isn’t as long and it’s focused on Singapore.What’s interesting ...
This morning I was at Social Media Breakfast 4. It was my first time to SMB and I have to congratulate the organisers on getting a great crowd. I loved the fact that there were so many people from PR agencies and corporations there trying to pickup on new ideas and network with bloggers.Today’s session ...
I’ve been thinking about the way PR folks measure their success. In Singapore and most markets I’ve worked with, the standard KPI is clippings. But I have a problem with that. Yes it is easy to count, but as a boss or client, what is my influence?You see, the mass media is dead. By dead ...
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