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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 ...
Just grabbed VMware Fusion 2 Beta 1 off the VMware site and installed it. Immediately you can tell the menu is different, even the dock icon looks brighter (I think).What’s the changelog? In summary from the VMware site:VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1 brings support for multiple displays, tools for even easier switching to VMware Fusion, ...
This week at the WiMax Forum Congress Asia in Singapore, SingTel's CEO Allan Lew mentioned plans for a 40Mbps nationwide wireless boradband network in two years.Considering I only have a 2Mpbs cable connection at home, HSDPA only at 3.6Mbps at max while on the go, and Wireless@SG is unreliable at best, the 40Mbps pervasive wireless network is most welcome.In layman speak, for …
At home I use StarHub's MaxOnline Express, the cheapest one which promises download speeds of up to 6Mbps (6,000Kbps) and upload speeds of up to 256Kbps. Judging from the result, I have to say their advertised specs are almost there. Maybe there are a couple of overheads from my router and wireless network.(StarHub MaxOnline Express)For mobile broadband, I've been a GPRS user …
In the last two weeks Singapore Press Holding's latest local search venture, Rednano.sg, made quite a bit of buzz in the Singapore blogosphere. To no one's surprise, the incumbent media giant received its fair share of criticisms mostly surrounding the question: "Why do we need Rednano.sg when there's Google.com.sg?"I couldn't figure it out too. I gave the engine a couple of …
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 ...
I normally advise people to bidget S$1,000/year for personal computing procurement. In other words, get a S$3,000 laptop keep it for 3 years and dump it. It makes sense because that's as long as any warranty would cover you for.But I now have a new theory on how to make that purchase last longer. And for this theory, I'll use my MacBook Pro as the subject.So here …
Last week Kevin pointed us to Evernote. There was a mad frenzy for the private beta invite, but he made sure there was enough to go around.If you feel you’re not taking remembering things as effectively as you should, you need Evernote. In essence it is currently the best note taking application since txt files ...
gOS 1.01, the unofficial Google OS launched last week, is Ubuntu 7.10 with an idealistic twist. This lightweight ready-to-go operating system was built to be a desktop for the masses--some …
Tonight I had the opportunity with about 200 others listen to and speak with Vinton G. Cerf, a founding “father of the internet” and Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. It was amazing to meet the guy that built TCP/IP in his protein form and listen to a true technologist speak about what ...
Why is Mediacorp trying to do an eBay in Singapore when it has been proven that the model doesn't work for the tiny island?Mediacorp's new eBay wannabe, Mocca, doesn't seem to impress me. For many of us who have been buying and selling online a lot within Singapore, we know that the best places to buy goods sold by others are not the generic portals like eBay, Yahoo, and …
This short video of Microsoft’s founder, Bill Gates, was taken last month at the 16th World Congress on Information Technology 2008 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Although this isn’t the first time a life-size hologram was used to deliver a speech, it was the closest to home.I think this is a great technology with amazing implications. ...
Today I was inspired by the use of Twitter by news agencies such as CNN, BBC, and even our local ChannelNews Asia and wanted to take this innovative usage to the next level by adding multiple sources of Singapore news in a single Twitter stream.Since there wasn’t a consolidated Twitter stream of Singapore news, I ...
It’s almost here….12 girls, 4 years in the making, 1 unprecedented television event.
This week at the WiMax Forum Congress Asia in Singapore, SingTel’s CEO Allan Lew mentioned plans for a 40Mbps nationwide wireless boradband network in two years.Considering I only have a 2Mpbs cable connection at home, HSDPA only at 3.6Mbps at max while on the go, and Wireless@SG is unreliable at best, the 40Mbps pervasive wireless ...
I’m trying out what I feel is a better way (for me) to blog. I can do everything I did on my previous blogging platform, but with less structure.You’ll notice on this Tumblelog that I’ve i …
Today I got a private beta invite to Hulu.com, a joint venture between NBC and News Corp that places a bet on us watching TV online on our computers as opposed to the big screen TV.Oops, did I say us? I meant them. Those folks who can actually watch it. All I get is a message that goes "Unfortunately this video is not currently available in your country or region. We …
Michael first mentioned to me a plan to build a web version of the famed Mac comic creator Comic Life during the after party at Nexus 2007.Today, Comiqs is in beta, has appeared on TechCrunch, and is off to a great start. I couldn't help but give it a little play myself.I'm not daring enough to post/embed my creation here, but here are a couple of points I picked up about the …
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 ...
YouTube Insights is one of the most significant upgrades to the video sharing site. Now every video you upload can be tracked not just by total views, but when the views occur and where in the world they come from.This is great especially for the marketing/PR community where measurement is key to campaigns.Questions that can now be answered include:Was your video viewed by …
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