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WHICH ARE THE TOP BLOGS in Asia? How does one measure the success of a blog?In China, Ya, I Yee came up with a list of “Top 40 Chinese blogs” based on stats given by RSS reader Zhuaxia (ap …
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ACCORDING TO TWEETVOLUME, recently announced by Biz Stone, the Japanese seems to love Twitter:A Japanese IT journalist confirms this in an online article in April, “Twitter booms in Japan / Twitter from Skype“. Nobi has been seeing more and more early adopters getting on board with Twitter. He wrote:“I also started to see the third ...
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A BLOGGER gets an amazing offer to do a joint research project with an overseas professor AND joins a management council in her estate AND works almost full-time around the same time? She could choose to spill it all, complete with juicy bits, rumors, maybe even email messages, photos, podcasts and vidcasts… ...
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THANKS TO A G1:1 MESSAGE FROM YISHAY MOR, a researcher with London Knowledge Lab, I got this special chance to read a very focused and balanced review of one of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) machines — by SG, a 12-year-old! He wrote like an adult (and some say, better than an adult):“My expectations ...
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Summary:1. Structured Web2. Real-Time Web3. Personalization4. Mobile Web & Augmented Reality5. Internet of Things
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THANKS TO WEB 2.0 AND CHILLYCRAPS, I managed to follow this morning much of what had happened at the Ping.sg’s first anniversary celebration at the Geek Terminal yesterday afternoon on 07/07/2007.First, I read Chillycraps’ Pinging Party post and found the official recording of the live Ping.sg webcast on Ustream:.This recording, however is almost three hours ...
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NINE TYPES OF BLOGGERS (slightly adapted from Collis’ 9 Essential Posts Every Blogger Should Know About, thanks, Lucas):Speedlinker: Roundups, Comments, Trackbacks, etc of interesting posts. E.g. Problogger.comQuoter: Blockquoting an interesting point of view, extract or news snippet and add a short bit of opinion and sourcing information. E.g. Susan Mernet’s …
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NOW THAT SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING has become the in-thing, it’s useful to revisit the concept of “Permission Marketing” probably first introduced by Seth Godin in his book, “Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends, and Friends Into Customers”. As quoted by William Taylor in Fast Company:The biggest problem with mass-market advertising, …
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ABOUT TWO MONTHS AFTER STARTING the Asia Social Media directory, map and network, the percentage of Asian visitors (excluding Singaporeans) to my site has now jumped from less than 5 % in March to almost 20%. For example, the Geo Locations for this blog in March were:And the Geo Locations for this blog in May ...
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INSPIRED BY THE REASONING and examples of Lucas McDonnell (To Follow or Not To Follow) and Loren Baker (13 Reasons Why NoFollow Tags Suck), I’ve installed two plugins: DoFollow and ShowTopCommentators.The DoFollow plugin disables the automatic rel="nofollow" attributes added to external links. The ShowTopCommentators plugin displays the names (linked to their website if …
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IS FACEBOOK TURNING INTO A CRIME BUSTER’S FRIEND?A 26-year-old fugitive was caught after he told his Facebook friends, including a former Justice Department official, he was livingin …
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“… ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD (OLPC)… it’s about eliminating poverty,” said Nicholas Negroponte, ex-chairman of MIT Media Laboratory and chairman of the OLPC projec …
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MY RESULTS:You are YodaYodaWise and all knowing you are…yes. Tall, dark, and handsome? Not so much I’d say. Which Star Wars character are you?Click here to take the Star Wars Perso …
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PING.SG’S RANKING IS ABOVE TOMORROW.SG — according to Alexa. I know that Ping.sg is NOT competing with Tomorrow.sg. And I know that Alexa statistics are biased or based on the visits of people who have installed and are using Alexa toolbar. Still, out of curiosity (and since Compete.com does not profile ping.sg yet), I ...
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ReadWriteWeb's Top 5 Web Trends in 2009View more presentations from Richard MacManus.Summary:1. Structured Data2. Real-Time Web3. Personalization4. Mobile Web & Augmented Reality5. Internet of Things
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Nine good reasons given by Luis Suarez and quoted by David Guerteen. I totally agree, especially on the parts concerning my blog visitors (or audience). That’s why from one or two days ago, the Comments, Commentators and Recent Readers sections are displayed prominently on this blog’s sidebars. Find out some more about the audience of ...
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HERE’S A FUNNY VIDEO REPLY to the excellent point that Estee (Geek Goddess) has been making while giving feedback on Nexus 2007 in her blog and later on the Nexus wiki: “Very disappointing at Nexus today. Lo and behold, as always at events of such nature, girls are totally under represented! I wish I could ...
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在 《道德经》里，老子 (Laozi) 曰: Laozi began his "Tao De Jing" (The Way) with: 道可道 The Tao that can be spoken of非常道 is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. 名可名 The name that can be named非常 …
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HAD A PLEASANT SURPRISE just now. Received this email message from the Slideshare Team:Hi jktan,We’ve noticed that your slideshow on SlideShare has been getting a LOT of views in the last 24 hours. Great job … you must be doing something right. Why don’t you tweet or blog this? Use the hashtag #bestofslideshare so ...
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A WEBCAM WILL BE TRANSMITTING happenings of an upcoming flea mart at Far East Plaza from 11am to 8pm this coming Sunday (6 May), according to organizer APLink.“Visitors to the Ping.sg website will be able to see what is going on at the fair and chat online with the stall holders and visitors to the ...
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