At the NUS University Cultural Evening this evening, President Bush delievered his speech about the Asia Pacific region, and began by lauding Singapore for its hardworking people and enterprising spirit, about how we transformed the nation into "from a small trading outpost to a confident and prosperous leader"Then he spoke about challenges facing Asia like trade …

Splendid creativity in advertising from Électricité de France (EDF), a power company providing electricity to France and UK to drum up awareness about how the little things can help conser …

Been playing around with BookJetty lately and think its a great way to keep organised on your reading list, especially if you are a voraiously reader like me. No more having to tell your friends "Yeah, I just read a book on [insert intersting subject] the other day which I think you would be keen on but I can't for the life of me remember its title ... "So, I've gone and …

This is the first time I've been asked to help do a quick review on a web startup so here goes :Pageflakes is essentially an Ajax-based startpage that allows you to customize which flakes (what they call widgets) you want to see when you open your browser. Essentially, this here below is what can be created to act as your startpage. I've managed to just drag and drop a couple …

I love tough times.That is because these are the moments when you actually spot the best teams and to some extent, the best leaders. The truth of the matter is that during the blissfully good periods, everyone (and I do mean everyone) can be made to look like a superb leader or team player. This is the same principle that states that it is far easier to look good steering a …

In an unexpected twist in the broswer wars, Microsoft has adopted the adage of "If you can't beat them, take their source code and release your own version! Behold - Microsoft Firefox 2007 Professional Edition!The Open Source community is in shock over this latest move and in my opinion, with that kind of resources Microsoft has, its definitely value add quite a bit on the …

EON Technology seems to have prefected a new-fangled holographic display which can users can interact with. With this new techonology, 3D images can be called up in the air which can then be controlled by the user's hands.It's not a totally new thing (augmented reality has been used in the military for some time now) but once it hits the end market, there are endless …

Ok, its official -- Google has announced its acquistion of youTube for $1.65Billion in stock.From the official Press Release on the Google Site :Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. …

A great post from The Mu Life on why and how socially generated media is able to beat even .. Google? --- Why Socially Driven News is Better. Reminds me of the last post I did on how the youTube aquistion news spread.According to the post, the story of Rumsfield's resignation hit various sociall driven content sites like Digg and Reddit in about 3-5 minutes. I don't think …

Whenever piracy is mentioned these days, people often tend to place it in a context of occuring either in the Music, Film or Software industries. This is the uncontrovertible extent of which these industries have championed their cause for a more comprehensive Intellectual Property Protections which they claim helps to substain the incentive for further creativity in their …