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THE RECENT FINANCIAL CRISIS is “hyperlink” crisis, said BG Yeo in a speech at the Global Governance Conference at the Four Seasons Hotel, Singapore on 5 December 2008. Opportunities and problems can arise when the world is linked so closely together:“When we talk about globalisation, we are talking about the way in which we bring ...
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ONE GREAT IDEA that I took away from Nexus 2007 is what Nathan Torkington (O’Reilly) calls Continous Partial Attention. Not that the phenomenon is new, but because it describes succinctly …
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DO YOU KNOW THAT the default friend feed settings on Facebook is “full on stalker mode”? Are you sick of receiving invitations, gifts, pokes, etc. from has other people (especially complete strangers)? See Happy Slip’s Facebook Fever parody below:Do you know that you can turn some (if not all) the notifications off? And that you ...
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A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!I’m in the midst of a really urgent project. So, taking a break now.
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STUDENTS, DO YOU GO ONLINE while attending a face-to-face (f2f) class? Where do you surf and what do you use? So far, has going online helped or hindered you (the learner), other learners and/or the instructor? What happens when your phones have Internet access too?Most likely, your class is NOT going to be as exciting ...
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IS THIS NORMALLY DONE? I received an email message a few days ago from someone who calls himself/herself “DMOZ Editor”, asking for a sample/test username and password + access code to the courses on my elearning portal.The message was as follows:From: DMOZ Editor <kt.dmoz@gmail.com>Date: Apr 28, 2007 9:05 AMSubject: DMOZ - Requesting test …
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SOMEONE SNEAKED into my blog and turned my “Insight#4: Of Alexa, Dmoz & Technorati” post private!Who’s that? Why did s/he do that? How did s/he do that? How to stop her/him from doing the same thing again?
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TROUBLING TIMES AHEAD. The Tribune Co., the second largest US newspaper publisher in terms of revenue and the third in terms of circulation, filed for bankruptcy Monday in the latest blow to the struggling newspaper industry — according to AFP, as reported on Google News. The media giant is the owner of the Los ...
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FACEBOOK HAS REPLACED FOX INTERACTIVE, owners of increasingly untrendy MySpace, at position 5 in ComScore’s MediaMatrix Top 50 U.S. Web Properties list. The top 4 is still the same as last year (see 2008 chart below) : Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, said ReadWriteWeb.Top 10 U.S. Sites, July 2009; source: comScoreTop 10 U.S. Sites, July 2008; ...
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ONE MYTH STARTED BY A GURU during the WIS 2007 seminar was: Google does not index the blogs on Blogger.com! To prove this point, the speaker said he scanned through the Top 100 blogs on Technorati and found that not a single one comes from Blogger.com.This is definitely NOT true. First, blogs on Google Blogger ...
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I HAVE A “SECRET” BLOG since 2003 which I’ve hardly publicized over the years. I don’t even ping any Web services such as Pingomatic or Technorati or Ping.sg. There are a few reasons:I’m a rather private and introspective person, which may come as a surprise to certain people. Someone had once commented, “But you’re so ...
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Yes, it’s already Feb. Still, utility is valued here much more than the latest and the coolest. So, here’s a handy list of the best Web 2.0 software in 2006 from Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 blog:Social Network: MySpace. Runners up: Bebo, Facebook, Vox, XuQa, MyBlogLog (Me> Personally, I find MySpace rather sleazy. Academics, ...
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Is this how the actual Google “office” is like? I wanna be there too!Note: Found this video because someone from Harro left a note on the shoutbox on one of my websites. So I checked out his/her website. It happened to be Harro Channels which has a link to ping.sg, a community meta blog for ...
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28% OF TWITTERERS ARE GAY, 5% mostly gay, 12% mostly straight and 54% straight, according to Bruce Wagner’s “Are You Gay?” twtpoll:IN CONTRAST, 9% (not 28% as above) are …
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AS OF 10 MARCH 2007, although Asian Internet penetration is only 10.7% of total Asian population (compared to 25% for the rest of the world), Asian Internet users already comprises 35.8% of world internet population, according to Internet World Stats (based on data compiled from World Gazetteer, Nielsen/NetRatings, ITU, and other local sources). Extrapolating this ...
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PIN TUMBLER LOCKS CAN BE PICKED through a series of taps (known as “lock bumping”) with a specially crafted bump key, according to Wikipedia. Apparently, one bump key will work for all locks of the same type. And this Action News 5 video illustrates how:(Found this on CESBloggers.com who in turn references SlashDot.)
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THE WORD “SOCIAL” in social media says it all. When one participates in SOCIAL media, you’re supposed to be “social” - be sociable or at the very least, human …
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JUST FOUND A REALLY PRACTICAL MARKETING site maintained by Mr Mark Nagurski who had just posted a great comment on my post, “Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2008“.Among t …
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AFTER WATCHING THIS VIDEO, I’m glad to be Chinese and bilingual. （看了这影片，我庆幸自己是双语皆通华人。）Chinese version （中文版）:
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[Submitted this request, slightly edited, to Twitter this morning:]This is what I DID:I added another username, hoping to have TWO CHANNELS (or usernames) on the SAME PHONE LINE: One for business subscribers and one for friends/fans/family.This is what I EXPECTED to happen:I truly hope that Twitter would give TWO CHANNELS on the SAME PHONE LINE: ...
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