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Twittervision is sweet! It gives up you to the second update from Twitter worldwide as a mashup on Google Maps. I like the way it displays the world map and how it slides from side to side. Reminds me of the Twingly screensaver.
You know what will be really nice? If only we could [...]

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Here’s an interesting article on ZDnet Asia today. The basic gist of it is…
IT and PR must also buddy up if companies are to be prepared for crisis management.
This is so true, and I’m glad to see such an article on a publication targeted at business and technical folks. In fact, it’ll be best if [...]

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Here’s a good reason to get a Sony PS3. It helps researchers find the cure for cancer! Apparently, the IBM Cell processor in the PS3 is not just good for gaming, but is 20x better at “folding” than the regular home PC.
Sony and Standford University have teamed up to run Folding@Home on your PS3 which…
squeezed [...]

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The Singapore Girl’s not going anywhere according to an official press release issued by Singapore Airlines regarding its leaving of the advertising agency who created the iconic campaign.

Between fear of loosing an icon and criticisms of sexism, I’m just glad nothing is changing. Not for DDB, Publicis or TBWA’s sake, but for the female cabin [...]

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It was just a matter of time and resources before we see clones of the amazingly successful news voting site, pioneered by Digg, in Asia. Yahoo has seized the opportunity in Japan. According to Pronet Advertising:
Aside from the Anime characters in place of the yellow number of Diggs button to the left of the story [...]

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I used to only have Google Reader for reading feeds, but soon I realised that using a single reader wasn’t ideal because too often feeds from sites that update quickly, such as digg or Engadget, began to dominate the reader. This was terrible as I often didn’t have enough time to screen through all of [...]

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In the technology industry, when you see products being consolidated, it often means the technology is mature and beginning to be commoditised. Today we see a first time a company is consolidating social networking and virtual worlds. TechCrunch has the scoop on Kaneva.
At first I thought, in this age of mash ups, what’s the deal [...]

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Yesterday we had Sports Day at Hill & Knowlton. The whole company (just about) headed down to East Coast Park for an evening of Captain’s Ball, Frisbee, and Soccer! Believe it or not we actually played mixed 10-a-side soccer!
Click above for an annotated picture of our Sports Day’s champions at H&K Singapore!

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Yesterday I was a guest lecturer at Kevin’s class at SIM (University of Buffalo). The topic given me was “online communities” but I figured that since they’re young and have been under Kevin’s wings for a while now, that they didn’t need an introduction to online communities. Chances are, they are the online communities.
I ended [...]

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Last week I gave my colleagues at Hill & Knowlton a demo of Second Life. As a preamble, I said that there wasn’t just one virtual world, and went on to proudly name the rest I knew: There, Active Worlds, and Metaverse.
But today I was humbled to find out that there are at least 24 [...]

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