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Last Friday I spoke at an workshop hosted by the certain government organisation. My portion of the workshop was about using the social media as a marketing and communication platform. I approached the topic in an allegorical fashion by looking at the impact of the social media as the ripples in a pond produced by ...
I thought I’d write about my bus trip from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur and back over the weekend since there was actually interest expressed on Twitter. What’s most fascinating for the technorati is that this is a high-end luxury coach that provides power sockets for laptops and free WiFi as well as a personal movie/games-on-demand ...
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 ...
Last week I had the chance to play with three of Sony’s latest Cyber-shots: the T77, T500, and T700 at their media/blogger event. For a guy who’s last digital camera was a Canon PowerShot A70 from 2001 (it was revolutionary at that time mind you), these new point-and-clicks were gifts from the future.My favourite was ...
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 ...
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 ...
Think there’s a lot of new technology going into cars? Well, you’re spot on! So much technology in fact that in about 2 years, we Singapore drivers will more likely be driving data packets on an Ethernet cable with packet shapers and QoS to make us more efficient. Now doesn’t that remind you of Tron?When ...
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 ...
Today I hosted bloggers Claudia, DK, Isaac, Nadia, Nicole, and Vanessa at Singapore’s Sony VAIO media launch. It was a blast! These bloggers are just lovely.Of the three new models launched today, I dare say that Sony has done a great job this time round in building an amazing notebook with the Z Series. It’s ...
Just when I thought there was wisdom in Kelvin telling me that it information-based start ups should not recreate spiders to crawl the web but instead use Google as the “universe” comes a new search engine that not only claims to honour privacy but also indexes 3 times more web pages than Google!If you haven’t ...
Meet who? Tan Chade-Meng, apparently he’s the first of my countrymen to be hired by Google. I’m not the kind to go meet a successful Singaporean for nationalistic pride, and normally I’ll look at a person’s credentials and expertise before signing up for an event. But this time round, of all the fantastic things I’ve ...
I think they finally got it! Singapore’s Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports has put out a new TV commercial directed by renowned Malaysian film maker Yasmin Ahmad. Yasmin has a gift for creating emotive shorts and has lent her brilliance to the creation of many tear-jerking TVCs in Malaysia.Apart from having the TVC ...
I use multiple computers, one at home (Mac) and one at work (PC). Both are laptops, both I own, both I leave in their respective shrines. I take them out when needed, but put them back right after.So clearly as a Firefox user, Google Browser Sync was a God-send. Well, until Firefox 3 came along. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Two weeks back I was on a panel at the PR Academy’s conference discussing “new media”. Unlike the barcamps and unconferences we social media folks are so fond of, this conference was done old skool with a government Minister as the guest-of-honour and panel mates that were my father’s age.I was the only “digital native” ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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