Malaysia gets WiMAX, Singapore only WiFi

This is a sad day for the Singapore mobile geek. Malaysia’s Maxis begins trials for WiMAX (802.16e Mobile WiMAX, not the pathetic 802.16d fixed WiMAX Qmax tried for a while in Singapore) and Singapore is only in the initial deployment phases of Wireless@SG (Mesh-WiFi).
Sure M1 has its HSDPA service going, but from my experience neither [...]

A shuffle of new colours

Oooh…pretty new colourful iPod Shuffles. It’s like iCandy (1999) all over again!

How to increase productivity by up to 50%

This is my desk at work. Actually it’s bigger than this picture shows, but all that’s important is what you see–my HP (widescreen) laptop and my second monitor.
I’ve been using two monitors for years, and I’ve always been asked why I needed two monitors when my work doesn’t involve graphic design or monitoring the [...]

When do comments become spam?

Sociologist and anthropologist studying the social media might agree with me when I say every social community has a unique behaviour or culture even though many of its users overlap or the communities do the same thing. For example on video sharing communities, I’ve noticed YouTube users to leave more “happy” comments while it appears [...]

Why the social media matters to Singapore

If you’re having trouble convincing your bosses, colleagues, or clients that the social media matters to Singaporeans, you might want to point them to the Hitwise Singapore datacentre where statistics on Singapore’s Internet usage is publicly published.
This is their latest update of top 20 websites visited by Singaporeans as of November 2006:
As you can see, [...]

HEROES: Beyond the TV show

HEROES, the current #1 show in the US, will only debut in Singapore on 31 January 2007, yet without reading any online reviews or flipping through any entertainment magazine I can tell you that I wish I had the superpowers of Hana Gitelman who has the ability to read and alter computer data that’s being [...]

PR has a Long Tail too

Earlier this week Chris Andersen wrote in his blog a post on the Long Tail of PR which I feel every PR consultant (and their clients) should read.
The part that really struck me was when he ponders…
I wonder whether the solution to this is to evolve the role of PR from external relations to internal [...]

Ubuntu & Mac OS X on VMware Workstation 6 beta

Yesterday VMware released the public beta of VMware Workstation 6, and like any good fan who doesn’t want to afford the commercial release (yet), grabbed it off the net and started mucking around with it.
Today, I’m happy to announce the successful installation of Ubuntu 6.10 and Mac OS X (Tiger) happily, though not perfectly, [...]

Blogging begins with me

Today I’m starting my blog, something I’ve been debating within myself for a long while, not sure if I should. What made me change my mind? A change of heart. Coming from a background in journalism, writing was always done for the reader, the public. But a friend, long-time blogger, and expert in the social [...]