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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 ...
Turning Glare Into Watts - New York Times: On sunny afternoons, those 10 plants would produce as much electricity as three nuclear reactors, but they can be built in as little as two years …
"You can watch movies online, for free!" exclaimed a colleague over lunch.At first, I thought she referred to downloading copies of DivX rips over BitTorrent from The Pirate Bay. I mean, if you're going to watch a movie, it might as well be DVD quality with full 5.1 surround sound right?Wrong.As it turned out, she watches movies from Movies On Demand--a quick and dirty hack …
Here Comes Another Bubble - The funniest videos are a click awayThe truth of Web 2.0 told in a viral video. Simply hilarious!(via Arron's blog)
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 ...
Blogger Jeff Ooi set to win electoral seat? « Unspun: “blogger Jeff Ooi may well make history as the blogger who successfully used his blog as a platform to launch a political career.”
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 ...
Iconfactory : Software : Twitterrific: Twitterrific is a fun application that lets you both read and publish posts or “tweets” to the Twitter community website.
(X)HTML/CSS Coding-Services | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
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 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 ...
I'm right now on a weekend break from my army reservist training which is two work weeks long. The Singapore army doesn't let me bring a mobile phone with a camera into the training camp so I have to live with a 3G-less, camera-less, java app-less Samsung SGH-C160.Days before having to pack my bags for my in-camp training, I tried to get my contacts over to this temporary …
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've been really interested in people search Web 2.0 apps such as Wink, Zoominfo, and PeekYou. These online apps are a cross between a phonebook, search engine, and social network and work really well for the narcissistic and the occasional voyeur.But I just learned about a new site via Guy Kawasaki's blog called Spokeo which, in my opinion, turns the small world of people …
Walter got Eee PC, Van got new MBP… *jealous*
Quick Embed Code to Add Comments To Any Site: Great way to add comments to any site
You know that nagging feeling that you're under-paid? You might just be right. Check out some stats for pay matters in Singapore.Median Salary by Job - Country: Singapore (Singapore)Median Salary by Years Experience - Country: Singapore (Singapore)Median Salary by Employer Type - Country: Singapore (Singapore)
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 ...
There is an increasing desire for people wanting to know who looks at their Facebook profiles.
Motorola’s hydrogen-powered phone When this technology goes mainstream, it’ll change the way we use mobile devices. If it scales up to power laptops, we’ll begin to have a different world.




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