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Harro recently did a media analysis on the classifieds market in SE Asia. It is interesting to note that the leaders of Web 1.0 have faded away, and new leaders are emerging.eBay naturally still takes the global lead, however, with new entrants like Mocca, Lina Alerts, 88DB, we will see renewed focus on auctions, and ...
I recently met some people who thought “Harro” was a person because their collegues were talking about ‘Harro said this’, ‘Harro said that’ etc… and they laughed when they realised that Harro is a business and not a person.We prefer that Harro is perceived as a person, approachable, and hopefully user-friendly. Our intention is to ...
Two great events for socialmedialites, and that is BlogOut and Village Talks. Although i couldn’t attend both events, I found I could read all about it online. Isn’t the internet wonderful?The event that I would like to focus on is Village Talks? Who?!!!! Yes, you heard me, its Village Talks.If I remember correctly, this would ...
Harro Page Rank has improved to 4/10 and we’re all wondering why over here in the development team. The main reason is probably the removal of blog accounts from the main site, and focusing on the main Harro site on posts.Well, that takes us to 1 rank behind Ping.sg and Tomorrow.sg who each have (PR:5). ...
I have been tracking NuffNang.com.my for sometime, and I am pleasantly surprised to have NuffNang launch its Singapore site. Welcome to Ming & Timothy! and Harro looks forward to support you.The value proposition of NuffNang is good BTW. For all your VCs out there, I would invest in NuffNang. Why? Did you know that typically AdBrite takes a 30% cut from the PPC …
Pacific West commented on an article by Greg Miller of Marketcom PR. Greg talks about how unmanageable the New Media 2.0, and really, with not much of a solution to address communications control. Pacific West then suggests that Google is the Media?I disagree. “YOU” are the media, and that is the problem that PR professionals face. You are alive, you move, your …
I hate to break to you all PayPerPosters, but Google has just declared war on “Pay-per-Post” and other paidpost networks by letting webmasters report “paid links”.See: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/how-to-report-paid-links/http://www.techmeme.com/070414/p37#a070414p37/The RationaleJust like the failed business model of User/Submitter which was quietly …
Currently in the US, a developing story about “death threats” issued on blogs to a popular web analyst Kathy Sierra (in the US) by alleged Chris Locke.Chris Locke is the co-a …
[Speech by Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports and Second Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, at the Foreign Correspondents Association Lunch Time Talk on 22 March 2007.]Ms Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop, President FCAMembers of FCALadies and gentlemen,Good afternoon.1 I would like to thank the FCA for giving this …
Google and Viacom locks horns over copyright infringement over content from media properties like MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Spike TV, BET, CMT, Paramount and Dreamworks. Viacom also has its own video sharing site called “iFilm”.This all sounds very serious. Open content is still the future. Business strategies for content just have to adapt. Read more here.
To be or not to be? That is the question. Google threads lightly on Singapore’s shores. Maybe a better way to setup R&D in Singapore is to participate in Media investments in Singapore companies?Read more.
The Associated Press reported today that Google intends to open an R&D centre in Singapore. This will be the first in SouthEast Asia making a total of 8 R&D centres across the world, with 3 in Asia.“Google’s research centers outside of the United States typically focus on adapting its products for local markets, but are also involved in developing new …
E27 held an Entrepreneur 2.0 session at SMU. This has been a series of events to pull the tech-entrepreneur community together out from the sidealleys of Singapore and hopefully turn them into an economic force.E27 featured presentations from lots of participants, most notably from James Seng, kindly hosted by Bernard and Gwen. Interesting comments came from Douglas Abrams on …
A Belgian Court has awarded a band of “scrappy” Belgian Publishers damages for copyright infringement by Google for publishing their content.Businessweek cites this as the &ldq …
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Ping.sg is a META blog aggregator. Its easy to use, and its got a thriving community of Singapore bloggers linking their posts into the system.Its creator is Uzyn and he has successfully launch Ping.sg v1.0. That means its out of Beta, and its ready for the BIG time. Though many of us may not understand what the hoo-ha of ths launch heralds, its actually represents the …
Just to push in the point home, Google releases its financial results today with a stellar performance and nearly tripling its profit. Google stock rises to exceed USD501Read more here.
As Harro lists all the blogs in Singapore, a question starts to pop up….“Just How many blogs are there in Singapore?”Currently, we sucked up all the bloggers listed in the various blog directories, and popular blogs, and we’re now moving out to other Singaporean blogs….Caslon discusses statistics taken in June06 with percentages of 3% in …
Harro!, I went to Barcamp (Singapore) on Saturday organised by Chandra of Pinko Marketing. It was an amazing event driven by youthful Singaporeans with a vision to drive innovation in Singapore.My take away from barcamp is:1) EPIC Presentation by Text100 - Carol of Text100 showed a presentation of PR Media issues facing corporations today. Although the presentation is dated …
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