Trendspotting on Shoplette - Lofu shoes: The new Crocs?Lofu Sophie shoes in red from Starthreesixty, Paragon, SingaporeLofu Sophie shoes - made of Crocs-like cellulose foam material, but way trendier! These are the women’s versions, and they have men’s versions too. You can check them out here.      

xBarcamp Singapore II on Wednesday night was great. Some really interesting speakers from Google, Singeo, Lilihood (loved their control interface) and Homespace, and I loved Preetam's idea pitch about object-tagging. I didn't get to catch the Mobile breakout, because we were presenting a demo on Shoplette for the Maps session, but I'm sure it was great too. Will have to check …

Wonderful little find on Upper Thomson Road, along the same row of shophouse coffeeshops as the 24h Roti Prata House (with the crispy prata).It's called Hwa Nam Chinese Restaurant (华南菜馆) a …

It’s been a crazy-crunch couple of months and we’ve just popped up for air again after launching our latest site, Common Totes, over the Easter long weekend.Common Totes is a design community producing fresh tote bags every month, with designs submitted by the community, for the community, and where the community decides which designs go ...

If you visit Shoplette today, you’ll notice a few changes to the site.Your crowdsourced shopping guideWe’ve converted Shoplette into a crowdsourced shopping guide featuring products the community think are hot, that they’re craving for, or that they’ve bought. To participate, you’re no longer limited to posting something you bought. You can now …

Our friends at Deepcalm have just released a test of Priicr, their brand new search engine for video games. It’s the best video game price comparison engine we’ve seen so far and we love the simplicity of its design. To the point: search for cheap games, save money.It only searches UK game retailers at the ...

We got some coverage in Digital Life, the IT supplement of The Straits Times, on 7 January 2009. Here’s a quick extract from the article:Sharing best buysNow you can show the whole world the bargain you unearthed - and see if everyone agreesBy Chan Chi-Loong, ST Digital Life, 7 January 2009SHOPPING is a very social ...

This is interesting:http://www.luckypolls.com/10013/should-wong-kan-seng-resign-for-kastaris-escapeAt the present time, out of 452 votes, 375 voted "Yes, he should resign", 52 voted "No" and 25 voted "Not sure".How will the vote turn out with more voters?You can vote in the right-hand column of the online citizen's homepage:http://theonlinecitizen.com/

So what’ve we been doing all this while, coding away in a little corner and reading irreverent manga for entertainment? Here we go!…We’re happy to announce the launch of our new online zine publishing platform, Zinerepublic, and would love to count on your support and participation.Zinerepublic is our attempt at a revolution aimed at democratizing ...

At Zinerepublic, we believe in democratizing the magazine publishing industry and making it easier for all of us to create magazines. So we’ve introduced crowdsourcing as a way to gather articles for magazines.On Zinerepublic, you can create a magazine using your own and other writers’ articles on the site, contribute articles for other users’ magazines, ...