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Here are my thoughts on the government’s New Media engagement and the qualities of the disaffected Singaporean netizen. This discussion refers to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s recent National Day Rally Speech, with particular emphasis on the newly formed “Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society” (AIMS) and their consultation paper on ...
Ripped open my StartupSchwag #11 yesterday, which contained an awesome FriendFeed t-shirt (it’s a keeper!), some stickers from Twiddla, Shoutlet, PeekYou, Answers.com, bookglutton.com, tips.net, as well as a pretty useless flyer for fan-drive music site, OurStage.com (come on… get clever!).Last month, my StartupSchwag #10 included 1 of 50 pieces of Zivity …
I found this new library addition, aptly titled “Access Denied“, from the UB Library homepage. Figuring that it’d be useful for my dissertation, I got the dewey decimal location, went to bookshelf on 3rd floor, but I couldn’t find it. Went back to office, got on my Mac, messaged ublibrarian10 on AIM, gave all the ...
Stewart & Colbert ‘08 ? on 12seconds.tvI’m so outta style. Meantime, you can catch all the action at demconvention.com. They’ve even got live streaming HD video so you’ll feel as if you’re right there.Similar Posts:Stephen Colbert and his take on political satire via NPR’s Fresh AirFlickr video? Yeah, you’ve got 90 seconds to …
Pimping his spanking new Nokia n96, Singapore’s “non-political” blogger MrBrown now rolls deep with Qik. You can find him at http://qik.com/mrbrown, while I’m at http://qik.com/kevinlim. Since being inspired by PM Lee’s use of Qik at his National Day rally, MrBrown has also documented his bike ride shortcut to work.As I’ve mentioned before, …
BAK2u, maker of anti-theft software for Macs, Windows, and most mobile phone platforms, is almost done with their world’s first anti-theft iPhone & iTouch app called PhoneBAK.Founder Paddy Tan (whom I’ve interviewed before) explained that they are just down to a few more features then it all depends on the iTunes App Store approval process ...
Click to see enlarged photos…Found this neat USB stick at the Apple Store yesterday. Looked online for more info, but all I could find was the previous, less portable, USB biometric scanner dongle. If you’ve ever been clamoring for a simple yet secure way of logging into your Mac, this might be the way to ...
In his National Day Rally 2008 Speech today, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong explained how his Singapore government has been, and will continue to, interact with citizens through new media on the Internet. Among significant developments in new media and local politics (which I hope to talk in-depth later), a highlight included the Singaporean Prime ...
Watch this 17min clip on Blip.tv or download the iPhone version (.m4v / 120mb).Watch previous episodes on Blip.tv or subscribe to theorycast via iTunes.In this episode of theorycast, I chat with Zivity model MixieMoxie to learn from her experience and to understand the motivations and economics behind Zivity, as well as the earlier competitor, SuicideGirls.comIn ...
Click to see entire DEFCON photo set: Skip Day 0 and head to Day 1 and 2!Here’s the complete leak of photos and videos I’ve shot from DEFCON 16 in Las Vegas over the weekend. Rather than embargo my media until I write elaborately about my incredible experience there (in an upcoming blog post), I’ll ...
After a poke from my friend Shady, I decided to book a last minute flight to join him in Las Vegas for DEFCON 16. It’s going to be an eye-opener for me, with everything hackable under the sun put to the test; from botwars to lockpicking contests, warballooning (airborne surveillance baby!) to Spot the Fed, ...
Star Trek facing off Star Wars? Last year, that happened in Singapore in a cleverly orchestrated joint blood donation campaign. Just check out at their sick bay photos…But that’s not all. I did a quick search on Youtube and also discovered this gem…Aside: I’ve been busy with my dissertation writing so light blogging for now. ...
Back in the 90s, my mum got me this phone since I would be away for national service. I used it rarely since calls were expensive.I forgot which Alcatel model this was, but it features two lines of LCD character display, so it was quite awesome old skool. Big squishy buttons made dialing fun, unlike ...
As a die-hard del.icio.us user with 2,969 bookmarks today, it’s nice to see an old friend dressed for future. Gone is the minimal typographical-centric design, and in with the aggressive cubic shades of blue, black and grey. At first glance I was thrown off a little by the redesign, but thankfully their neat “morphing” video ...
While I haven’t heard of any Singapore RFID-enabled passports being cloned yet, I did hear that all you need is a good crack of the hammer to prevent the RFID chip from ever working, thereby preventing the hack. That’s unless the RFID has already been sniffed and cloned while being mailed. In truth, it’s no ...
Spotted by my friend Leon Brown, now I know I’m not alone looking like a cybernetic mofo. Here’s a side by side comparison with a Japanese researcher on the left: We both use Logitech cameras, but to different ends.According to The Register (Hardware), the left photo shows a prototype device aimed at replacing remote controls:Kazuhiro ...
As you can see, the Plurk t-shirt was the best schwag in this month’s StartupSchwag bag. Zivity’s not too bad, but it’d be better for a girl I think (it’s a crowdsourced modelling site).You do have to fork out $14.95/month subscription for StartupSchwag’s mystery bag, but at least the comfy t-shirts are from American Apparel. ...
Via Clay Shirky’s twitter, I had discovered the most beautiful textcloud generator I’ve ever played with. Straight from Wordle’s mouth…Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different …
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Watch on Youtube or download the iPhone version (.m4v / 47.5mb).Watch previous episodes on Blip.tv or subscribe to theorycast via iTunes.Want a mouse that works in the air, like a Nintendo Wii controller?Perhaps Gyration’s GyroTransport Pro is the answer. Here’s a demo of the portable wireless air mouse working with XBMC Media Center for the ...
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