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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 …
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 …
Here's a plug for my buddies at the National Heritage Board. I think I'll join the competition and see if I can win me a camera that's better than the one built into my phone.
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 …
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 …
Of all that is amazing in Leopard, I can't have to say I'm rather disappointed with the OS's default design.Changing the wallpaper is easy enough, but if you're less than happy with the new 3D dock, here's how to change it to something better.The dock is made up of five different PNG files:frontline.pngscurve-l.pngscurve-m.pngscurve-sm.pngscurve-xl.pngThese files are found …
Michael Banks has written a book published by Wiley on today's top bloggers called Blogging Heroes. 30 of them to be exact.What is even more interesting than the content of these blogs is the marketing behind it. Wiley has given the PDFs of each chapter (where one chapter is an interview with one blogger) to the bloggers themselves to be shared on their blogs for free.This …
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 …
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 …
The company has decided to get everyone a 19-inch LCD monitor. Everyone, both laptop and desktop users have one and are free to use it as they wish. Now I get to have two desktops, one as my primary work desktop the other for blogging email.I think everyone here is feeling a bit like this:
CNA and TODAY ran a really interesting transcript of Singapore's Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew speaking with US columnist Tom Plate and new media expert Jeffrey Cole.What I got out of it was: Print is getting old and slow, online is fast and overflowing. Newspapers got to do deep with analytics and web needs services like digg.The only thing I don't get is, why even bother …
Here's an article in MEDIA that I commented on. My 20 minute interview ended up becoming a simple PR tip, but still good. The funny thing is that I didn't even realise the article was out until my global CEO sent it to me. I guess that's a good thing... right?Anyway, a good read and overview of the monitised Asian blogosphere. Interesting point to note: Malaysia seems to be …
Walang Bato', or 'Without a Kidney' in Tagalog, is an independent documentary project about body parts sales in the Philippines. We're still in the midst of production.If you have any related information/stories , do drop us a mail at colouredsky@gmail.com. We're definitely open to funding opportunities.A digital media kit is also available upon request.This is from my …
The next Web 2.0 startup that's worth owning or buying would be the one that finds the cure for the information overload created by the social media.If necessity is the mother of all inventions, then the solution to help us pick only the ripe fruit and consume it would be her next child.It's the natural trend already with social gatekeeping services such as Google News, Digg, …
6 Volt Battery Hack! You'll Be Amazed! - video powered by MetacafeThis is one of the best lifehacks I've ever seen. So simple. Makes me wonder how it is that no one discovered and shared it before.
My colleague, Audrey, just came back from VMworld 2007 in San Francisco and guess what I got? A brand spanking new MacBook Pro!OK, so I paid for it. But it's such a bargain. This is the deal I got:Singapore store price: S$3,452.00Singapore student deal: S$3,106.00US store price: US$1,999.00 (w/o tax)What I got: US$1959.52 (incl tax)What it means to my countrymen: S$2,970.00I …
I wrote an article on reaching out to bloggers that appeared in Marketing Magazine this month. This article was written with tip & tricks contributed by the Media Socialists.For some strange reason, the article was cut off just before it ended. Sub-editor must have been asleep.Download the page as a PDF or read the original (unedited) full-text here.
Just read a great post on Seth Godin's blog about ideas. He says:I responded that ideas are easy, doing stuff is hard.My feeling is that the more often you create and share ideas, the better you get at it.This is a philosophy I absolutely agree with.I work in a business that's all about ideas (some say relationships, but that's for the folks without ideas I say. hee...). On …
I love wikis. The concept of the open canvas empowered by crowdsourcing is simply one of the best things to happen on the social media. Recently I've been looking around for Singapore resources on wikis and realised there aren't too many that are really exciting.Apart from the Singapore Social Media directory which was put together by my Media Socialist friends, I thought up …
I'm disappointed. According to an article in PRWeek on Facebook:Ketchum, Edelman and Hill & Knowlton have put policies in place, particularly with regard to blogging.And to make things worse:Off all the agency bosses, Sally Costerton, CEO of Hill and Knowlton, was most reserved about Facebook use. She said it had been 'discussed a lot in recent management meetings due to …
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