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Apparently, for me (in Singapore) to reach this blog, the data has to travel approximately 13,878 miles across two major continents. Starting with my local ISP, it hope over to Lake Mary, FL in the Southeast of USA, then travels over land to Los Angeles, CA on the West coast before making its final stop ...
What have you been doing with your time last week? Well, here (above) is what I've been doing with mine.In a quick summary, most of my time was spent in the office and I've actually done more writing and email than listening to music! Well, that's not entirely accurate of my life, but it's a sure indicator based on the applications I've been running. The service is called …
Today I finally got the time to muck around with Windows 7 Beta. Since I use a MacBook Pro, I decided to install Windows 7 as a VM in VMware Fusion. I followed to simple guide from VMware and it installed pretty smoothly without too much trouble. The only troublesome thing faced was that my ...
Here's a plug for a good friend and fellow blogger, Olivia Choong (aka Greenie). She's organizing the inaugural Green Drinks Singapore.Green drinks is an international movement where people who care about conversation and the environment gather to talk and drive for positive action/change.Event DetailsWho: You!What: Green Drinks SingaporeWhere: Food#03, a new vegetarian …
There's some truth to this ad. My colleague Voal keeps reminding us Apple users how when Windows Vista came out we were saying it was "bloated", too resource hungry, needs new graphics card, can't run on VMware, etc. Everything that was bad about it was said. But when Apple released Leopard, it was the most fantastic operating system to date. 300+ new features and did you see …
Cutting and pasting is something computers have spoilt us with, but when it comes to pitching that desires a response one should never do it through cut and paste.Be it a PR pitch, sales pitch, whatever. If you want the recipient on the other end to actually respond you should always understand what they are looking for, how they prefer it, and what can help them. Once that …
Redmond | Feature Article: The 2008 Editors' Choice Awards: VMware beats mainframe on reliability? Time for banks to replace those IBM monsters with generic x86 machines. =)
My colleague gave my this ZITS comic strip this morning. So telling... I'm sure most of you geeks can relate to this too.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Yesterday was a full day at Nexus 2007, a web 2.0 / entrepreneur / technology conference organised by The Digital movement. I must say it was one of the better organised events I've been to even though it was put together by volunteers who are mostly university students.Although the speaker line up included Nathan Torkington (O'Reilly) and Cory Ondrejka (Linden Labs), I …
Last week this video clip (above) from the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC calling global PR consultancy Burson-Marsteller (BM) “the PR firm from hell” did its rounds across the Internet. According to the video, BM was hired by AIG, who has taken government bailouts, to spruce up its corporate image. The producers of the show ...
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 ...
LineBuzz.com - Inline Blog Comments: A good way to add comments function to a Tumblelog
I feel that it is especially helpful if your product’s webpage has a single paragraph, no longer than 1,000 characters, describing the product.Not only is it helpful and simple for a new customer to find out about your product, it fits perfectly in Delicious’s notes. I do a lot of bookmarking and I’m really lazy. ...
I’ve realised that most of my daily necessities exist and reside in the cloud.My Email - Gmail hosts my personal and work emails. Yahoo is my backup.My Documents - I used to have a Documents folder where I keep all my work, but now that folder is replaced by one called Dropbox. Dropbox syncs all ...
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