Twitter’s downtime over the last couple of months has really pissed off a lot of people, most of all me. And I’m a #1 Twitter advocate. I mentioned it as a conference, been interviewed in the papers on Twitter, I wrote how to guides, encouraged an SMU Twitter challenge, the works.I tried to be tolerant, ...

Going through the name cards I exchanged from tonight’s event, I count four from Ogilvy, one from SMU and Nadia’s. (Note: no companies)Looking around the blogosphere on ping.sg, there are four posts from Jean, Ian, Ridz and Plaktoz (for now). Now I don’t mean to go back to flogging a dead horse, but there is ...

I’m wasn’t going to blog about this because it’s seriously bigger than it should be, but I think we need to realise what we’re doing. (I’m going to echo Estee a little bit here)When are we going to stop realising that this is not about “us“? It’s not about who is the core group of ...

Yesterday Gerard asked me to do a survey, where I saw this question:It got me thinking about our favourite anonymous bloggers in Singapore, ie The(new)mediaslut, Thenewsocialite and WorkWhore.Hisham has speculated that NewSocialite is Brian or myself, well it’s not me because1) I believe in transparency and trust2) I don’t make terrible grammatical errorsWhy do …

Now that the SMU = NTU ad buzz is dying down (or is it just picking up? TIMM Guru put an ad up on Google for people to discover why NTU used the keywords), I think it’s important to look at a few lessons from the whole fiasco:1) Track What’s HappeningI set up a Google ...

Back in the first quarter of 2006, my then-partner-in-crime on the air, Chui Ling and I had a show called In Vogue where we talked about the latest issues, the more controversial the better. I happened to chance on one of our old recordings last night:invogue-1invogue-3I can’t believe I didn’t retort with some pun when ...

Second social media event in two days (the other being The Open Room by Ogilvy), is none other than Podfire’s soft launch at Geek Terminal. I came armed with my camera because Michael says I don’t post pictures!What Is Podfire?Podfire is a network for local podcasters/videocasters to come together and basically run their shows. Issues ...

I was out with Le Raine yesterday and she mentioned that the smart girls go out with the older guys, say 26 and up.So I looked at her and said “That’s very disturbing for a guy turning 24.”I see it not empirically, but anecdotally at least with my friends, dating guys many years older than ...

As much as I think SMB:S2 definitely did better than the first, there are a couple of things that bug me:1) Retention metrics2) RSVP-ingRetention MetricsI ran through the name list from the last SMB and looked for overlaps with today and it showed that only 17 out of 34 people who came for the first ...

Awhile ago I questioned whether bloggers with overlapping audiences is a good or bad thing. Last weekend at Social Media Breakfast: Singapore 2, I found out the power of overlapping audiences in conversations to be very powerful indeed.Case Study: Tommy PrintI don’t know how it works in other countries, but in Singapore, everyone has a ...