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Ping.sg is proud to be the official online media for BuyButtonz eCommerce Fair & Bloggers Flea Market which will be taking place on Sunday, 6th May 2007 at Far East Plaza in Orchard Road.For the first time, a fair will be live-streamed through the Internet. This will allow Internet users from all around the world to participate in the fair by viewing it online and …
Hi all Ping.sg users (Pingsters?),You probably would have already noticed that there is now an advertisement on the top right corner of our site. We are proud to have Nuffnang as a sponsor for this period and they are also our very first sponsor!Nuffnang is a Singapore-based blog advertising company. By signing up with them, bloggers would be able to earn ad revenue. Unlike …
Just received this news from the official Dream Theater newsletter that the upcoming Dream Theater album, Systematic Chaos, would be released this 5th of June, 2007. It got my so excited to do an entry for an almost dead blog.If you haven’t already known, Dream Theater is the band that is on top of my personal favourite list. I attended their concert in Singapore last …
It was a fun night out with the Ping.sg users on Ping.sg Meet Up #2 at Essential Brew. The meet up was attended by ntt, dk99, uzyn, kevin, ridz, tstar, clappingtree, rinaz, eastcoastlife (& boyfriend), and ebie (the co-owner of Essential Brew).Not only the food was great, there were a lot of constructive (and also plain fun and useless) discussions going about. The …
It’s been months after the fun first meet up that we’ve had. After Nexus, Ping.sg has been getting quite a number of new users. For the past few weeks, the site has been really busy. Thanks to all your support.In other to get to know the new members and for some chit-chatting sessions among the members, we think it’s time again for another meet up. There …
After Nexus2007, one of my projects, Ping.sg, has got some attention by the local technology and blogger community. There have been a lot of discussions and blog posts that are comparing Ping.sg to Tomorrow.sg. Well, it’s natural to be comparing these 2 sites as currently both of them are probably the biggest blog aggregators in Singapore.I’m not going to comment …
It’s time the forum gets some street lamp.Ping.sg’s homepage would now show the latest discussions on our forum, which once known as the dark alley of the main site. Look out for the “latest on forum” box right underneath the shoutbox.Do join in and participate in the forum. There have been some pretty interesting discussions going on in the forum, …
Well, shake it up, baby, now, (shake it up, baby)Twitter and shout. (twitter and shout)C’mon c’mon, c’mon, c’mon, baby, now, (come on baby)Come on and work it on out. (work it on out) oooo!Ping.sg has just got into Alexa’s top 100K ranking! As of today, we are officially ranked 98,890 at Alexa and surely we are still climbing our way up.As a way …
I have lost count on the times, over the last few days, that I have switched between PHP-GTK and GTK+ (in C) to program my GUI on. I started with PHP-GTK initially, thinking that I could program it easily with minimal glitches for my experience in PHP but I was wrong. Well, the basic GTK libraries are working fine on PHP-GTK, but when I wanted to embed mplayer onto my PHP-GTK …
It’s a lazy Saturday 2.0 afternoon. I’ve just woke up from my state of the art Sleep 2.0 about 2 hours ago and am feeling kind of hungry. I guess it is time for some Lunch 2.0. Enough of all those 2.0 shit already ok? Web is web, there’s no Web 2.0. Business is business, there’s no Business 2.0. And so are most of the things in this world. Since when …
The final episode of Stargate SG-1 has just aired on SkyOne (UK) a couple of hours ago.If you haven’t already known, Stargate SG-1 has been showing for 10 years and is currently the longest running sci-fi television series in the USA. It’s kind of sad to see a series that have been with me since I was just a kid ends. I practically grew up with Stargate SG-1. I …
It has been quite awhile since Ping.sg gets an update. The ideas sections are almost full with juicy ideas. We would love to implement most, if not all, of them as soon as possible but uzyn is currently tied up with his studies in the final semester. (Don’t do electrical engieering. The workload is horrible.) Thanks to all the Pingers for the continuous support and the …
It’s been awhile since I have had any dose of live music. If you know me, you should know that I’m a big fan of live music, especially progressive rock and metal.Just attended 30-min of Lunarin acoustic show in NUS. Free of charge. It’s short and I only got to hear 4 of Lunarin’s in-progress new songs.Lunarin’s probably the only Singapore band …
… people around me are always happy.… I am always happy.… I worry about things less.… I have less things to be worried about.… I have graduated.… I have attended more classes this semester.… I am not making the wrong move by choosing to do web development professionally upon my graduation.… I would never need to …
There have been so much attention by the masses on this thing called Web 2.0. Everyone sings praises about Web 2.0, everyone thinks it’s today’s biggest thing, and oddly, also the next big thing. People who are in it thinks they’re cool and they are like the rock stars of tech. People who are are not in it hope that they could be part of it. Even Singapore …
Yes, finally, after all the days of discussing in the mini-forum, aka “shouts”, we are proud to announce that our forum (http://forum.ping.sg) is now up and running.Existing Ping.sg users please proceed to your profile page at http://ping.sg/profile/ to activate your forum account. Click on the “Activate Forum Account” button and simply enter your …
There have been a lot of new Web2.0 sites that are launched everyday and it’s been awhile since I really get excited over a really good one.As I was reading my newsfeeds just now, I discovered this new service by Yahoo! - Yahoo! Pipes. It’s a web-based widget-development tool for users to create mashups using feeds and APIs. It’s so easy to use and looks …
For the past few days, there have been a few commercial blogs that have been seen using Ping.sg’s services. In order to keep Ping.sg as a healthy community for local bloggers to interact and to discover and read each others’ blogs, we have decided not to allow any commercial blogs to use our free service. Any commercial blogs found using the service would be …
We had lots of fun at the Ping.sg 1st meet up. The users who attended the meet up had plenty of fun meeting and interacting with each other. We even managed to play some board games later in the evening.Users who attended were:uzyn, veron, harro, ntt, jugend, matthewchong, brennan, sweska, cibailang (2 persons), lostin, dk99, ridz84First Group PhotoSecond Group PhotoLeaving a …
I have been looking for a good feed analytics tool or script that is as good as Feedburner but haven’t yet found any. Anyone knows of any that fits the following criteria, please do let me know:1. The most important statistic that I’m looking for is the number of subscribers to some particular feeds with accuracy as good as possible as Feedburner’s. Some …
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