How to turn your mobile into the ultimate blogger tool

In my opinion mobile blogging hasn’t really taken off. Most bloggers are wizards of the keyboard and have LCD-trained eyes. But the reality is that most things a blogger needs can be found on a regular 3G mobile phone (save the qwerty keyboard). Everything from email and RSS feeds to camera and video are on [...]

Microsoft could be the next Twitter

Since Facebook just launched a possible Twitter rival that integrates right into its social network, it suddenly dawned upon me that Microsoft could do something very similar that would immediately create a user base many times larger than Twitter’s without the users themselves realising the change.
Let me explain, since Microsoft Messenger 6 (I think) users [...]

Taxi technology with a heart

I hopped into a taxi this morning to get to work in the pouring rain. After tumbling over my wet self trying to fit through the Toyota’s door with laptop bag, umbrella, while wrapped in a business suit, I noticed that there was a nice new touch-screen panel sitting right above the meter.
I happen to [...]

Courting bloggers

Ben McConnell from Church of the Consumer Blog wrote today in reply to Thom Brodeur’s comment in a Chicago Tribune article around “cultivating bloggers” that:
Bloggers are not traditional media, so the last thing a PR person should do is create another column on a spreadsheet that includes in future email blasts.
I’ve been pondering this same [...]

The social web is going mobile

Just this afternoon I twittered…
There’s Twitter, Velvet Puffin, now Peekamo. Social networking moving to the mobile. Making SMS a social medium. Interesting trend to watch.
This this evening Mashable published a leak on Socialight, yet another mobile social network.
It appears that any device with enough computing power that commands human interaction is a prime candidate for [...]

Easiest way to win a new Motorola mobile phone

Motorola is running a simple poll to find out what the public thinks of WiMAX and is giving away three new Motorola L7i mobile phones! The poll is terribly simple, just 3 MCQs and you’re done.
Try it out at: http://wimax.motorola.sgizmo.com/
(Motorola is a Hill & Knowlton client)

Gran Turismo meets Tony Hawk

Found this on Michael’s blog. Totally awesome!
Comment on Metacafe says the game is called TrackMania. Cool!

My personal thought centre on a Tumblelog

I’ve been mucking around with my tumblelog hosted on Tumblr this weekend. If you’re new to this, a tumblelog is basically…
a quick and dirty stream of consciousness, a bit like a remaindered links style linklog but with more than just links. They remind me of an older style of blogging, back when people did sites [...]

Nokia’s marketing tries out the blogosphere

I knew about the Nokia “You Make it Reel” competition from a friend over at Ogilvy PR (Singapore), she asked if I or my friends wanted to participate in the music video making competition.
What I didn’t know, and now I find fascinating, is Nokia hosted the competition exclusively on Veron Ang’s blog sparklette.net. We’ve all [...]

First-gen social media still good for citizen journalism

The Straits Times today ran a follow up story on a reckless incident from 2005.
Driver crashes test car, sales exec diesNetizens outraged that he’s shopping for another fast car while still under probe over fatal test-driveBy Christopher Tan, Senior Correspondent
The story has resurfaced because of outrage against this young man who on 21 March 2007 [...]