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On most occasions when I give out my business card to people I meet, I get a look of intrigue from them. Sometimes because of my rather unpronounceable Chinese name (don’t ask), but mostly because I have two titles: “Senior Associate” and “New Media Specialist”.
The first is a regular PR consultant’s title that denotes my [...]

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This is a follow up from a previous post where Technorati “lost” my blog. I since went on to unclaim it in hopes of claiming it again and starting over. That never happened… till today.
I’ve been on their forum, sent in trouble tickets, and today I got the ability to claim my blog back!
I’m glad [...]

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The bunch of us Media Socialists have discussed and felt it was a good initiative to start a wiki-based Singapore social media directory with the aim of consolidating an organic resource of everyone’s (in Singapore) social media platforms. Off the main page of the wiki:
This wiki aims to be a Directory to Social Media [...]

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For the last year or so, I’ve had the conviction that the TV was going to be the next big thing in media, so today I was glad to read Steve Rubel sharing the same sentiment:
The TV is undergoing a renaissance. In five year’s time, 50% of what the most coveted audiences watch on their [...]

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How many publications (including blogs) do you religiously follow? I have realised that my reading and dedication to whole publications has dwindled due to the increasing nature of ad hoc chatter.
Ben’s recent timeline of subscriptions:Q1 2006: Wired, Business 2.0, digg, TechCrunch, Micro PersuasionQ2 2006: Wired, Business 2.0, TechCrunch, Micro PersuasionQ3 2006: Business 2.0, TechCrunch, Micro [...]

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Installing Ubuntu on iBook (top). Updating Ubuntu (below).
Done! Only problem is that there’s still no driver for Apple’s AirPort hardware. This was an issue 2 years ago when I first tried this, but looks like there’s still no solution.
If you’re wondering, I completely replaced Mac OS X (Tiger) with Ubuntu 6.10 PPC because the poor [...]

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Yesterday was a full day at Nexus 2007, a web 2.0 / entrepreneur / technology conference organised by The Digital movement. I must say it was one of the better organised events I’ve been to even though it was put together by volunteers who are mostly university students.
Although the speaker line up included Nathan Torkington [...]

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The RSS focused start up xFruits has just introduced two very interesting products:

VocalFruits, a stand alone service that does text-to-speech for your RSS feeds.
Mail-to-RSS, which takes your emails and parses them as RSS feeds.

Mail-to-RSS is rather novel, but Gmail already does this so no big deal if you’re a Gmail user, but it would be [...]

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Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Singapore is trying to get the online locals to vote for their favourite TV commercial to be used for their 30th anniversary marketing campaign.
It looks as if they’ve taken a page from the social media especially YouTube. They appear to have the right goal in mind with getting as much social [...]

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I just got back from Siam Reap, Cambodia this morning. Went on a short visit to the ancient temples of Angkor Wat and the many others in the same area. But since this blog isn’t about my travels, let me just quickly note a few Internet “trends” I noticed while walking the tourist town of [...]

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