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I watched Ratatouille tonight on a 22.4m wide movie screen in 2K digital. I'm not sure if I've got this right, but I hear that 1K refers to the 1080 resolution on current HDTV, and 2K is twice as many pixels.Well, whatever 2K digital really means, the experience was amazing. The graphics were amazing, clarity was crisp, and sound was clear (although a bit loud). The only …
Yesterday I lay on the grass looking up at the war memorial in the middle of the city. Lovely weather, I lay in the shade on my laptop bag.
I love it when Google buys something because it is often turned into a freely available resource. This year, Google bought Hans Rosling's Gapminder which he used in his 2006 presentation at TED where he spoke on "Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen".This is an awesome free tool. Now everyone to be their own statistician. I've had my bit of fun as …
When I was in journalism school they taught us that a journalist's quotes have to be attributed to credible and if possible authoritative persons with full disclosure, including age, to be noted in the story except in extremely sensitive (criminal) situations.Today I read a Channel NewsAsia story online with quotes that went like:"I think its okay to work till 65 because in …
Totally awesome dream from Intel. The amazing thing about all the coolness seen in this video is that all of it can be achieved with today's technology.And the silent club... can't recall who told me about it, but it's already being done.(Thanks for the video Johnny)
I've been using del.icio.us for quite a while now and have found it to be way more than bookmark voyeurism. Here are some useful tips that are good for folks in PR agencies like me:Create an ad hoc, organic directory of blogs. I tag Singapore blogs I find "sgblog" in hopes of building my little own localsphere.Tag press releases you place on PR wires by clients so you have an …
We all know that the most respected and credible media outlets never allow their journalists to be "bought" in exchange for editorial. These media have traditions of anti-corruption and thus their editorial is trusted by many.Is the same to be expected of the blogosphere? Of late, I've seen an increase in bloggers being "bought" with products to keep after a review is done or …
Today at PodCamp Singapore Mitch Joel of Twist Image (pictured) talked about marketeers using the social media as a platform for creating content. He gave great examples of companies creating great podcasts, and building genuine communities around real (not marketing fluff) content.The same thought crossed my mind a few months back in a slightly different way. I thought: …
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 …
I've been quoted in a story on Singapore's blogging scene in today's issue of Digital Life along with a few of my friends such as Bernie from Singapore Angle and U-Zyn from Ping.sg.This is quite a good and well researched piece on the political blog scene as well as an overview of the local media aggregators.I'm glad to see yet another article on blogging out in the national …
Just when I thought that anti-spam engines were doing a great job weeding out those obviously detestable spam peddling medication, and fake watches, good legitimate marketeers take their place and get past the trusted filters.As you can see in the below screen capture, I've put up with mumtazz.com for a while, not that I subscribed to it in the first place, but even after I …
Yesterday I attended the wedding and banquet of my lovely friends Timmy and Cindy. They were one of the couples who saw significance in the 07/07/07 date and thought it would be nice to tie the knot then.According to Channel NewsAsia, there was an amazingly coincidental 777 couples that tied the knot on 07/07/07 in Singapore. The Registry of Marriages said 777 weddings on a …
I never thought I'd say this, but I think I've hit the brick wall of information overload. I feel that I'm learning a lot less because I'm consuming more; and all this thanks to Web 2.0 apps and the social media.I remember as recent as 5 years back, the Internet was simply made up of pull medium (the world wide web) and push medium (email, chat, IM). Navigating the web was a …
I must have stepped into a time warp today while entering Bugis MRT station. I felt a weird sense of deja vu and realised I had travelled back in time a couple of months to April.The large LCD display on the train platform greeted me with a familiar movie trailer I knew I've seen somewhere. If you can't guess from my snap shot from the past above, it was the movie Fracture. …
This Friday the above movie will open in Singapore cinemas island wide. And if you're like me, you'd be all excited about it. Even after all these fancy trailers it still amazes me how they managed to make a real-life movie of the Transformers.And if you like a bit of nostalgia, check out the video below. That's Transformers episode 1.Amazing isn't it how Transformers has... …
My lovely colleagues gave me a cupcake, a card, and a present. So nice of them. The technology team bought me lunch too. I don't understand why people like to take birthdays off, there's so much fun in the office!
One of my favourite lifehacks ever is by Marc and Angel called "Turn Google into Napster 2000". Basically they've used Google's "web command line" to narrow down and search specifically fo …
Since attending the iX 2007 conference's academic forum at SMU yesterday, I've been full of AIR. Adobe Integrated Runtime that is. That was basically the only thing new I got from the conf …
Ever since the army decided to ban the use of mobile phones with camera's from army camps, every time I go to a camp I have to live without digital communication for the duration of my visit, including today's IPPT (physical fitness) test.I never really minded it really... until today when the lost my $700 phone! Well, almost.After my test, all sweaty and completely pooped, I …
Many of my clients and colleagues, based out of Singapore, often take on regional roles which requires them to travel a lot. This requirement places them on planes and hotel rooms in neighbouring countries very often, and every time the leave, the activate the dreaded triple "O" (aka Out of office) auto reply email.After years in the corporate world, I understand the role of …
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