Posted on July 30, 2007 by Benjamin Koe
Today at PodCamp Singapore Mitch Joel of Twist Image (pictured) talked about marketeers using the social media as a platform for creating content. He gave great examples of companies creating great podcasts, and building genuine communities around real (not marketing fluff) content.
The same thought crossed my mind a few months back in a slightly different [...]
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Posted on July 29, 2007 by Benjamin Koe
Mediacorp’s new eBay wannabe, Mocca, doesn’t seem to impress me. For many of us who have been buying and selling online a lot within Singapore, we know that the best places to buy goods sold by others are not the generic portals like eBay, Yahoo, and definitely not Mocca–but the niche sites such as:
HardwareZone (for [...]
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Posted on July 17, 2007 by Benjamin Koe
I’ve been quoted in a story on Singapore’s blogging scene in today’s issue of Digital Life along with a few of my friends such as Bernie from Singapore Angle and U-Zyn from Ping.sg.
This is quite a good and well researched piece on the political blog scene as well as an overview of the local media [...]
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Posted on July 13, 2007 by Benjamin Koe
Just when I thought that anti-spam engines were doing a great job weeding out those obviously detestable spam peddling medication, and fake watches, good legitimate marketeers take their place and get past the trusted filters.
As you can see in the below screen capture, I’ve put up with mumtazz.com for a while, not that I subscribed [...]
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Posted on July 8, 2007 by Benjamin Koe
Yesterday I attended the wedding and banquet of my lovely friends Timmy and Cindy. They were one of the couples who saw significance in the 07/07/07 date and thought it would be nice to tie the knot then.
According to Channel NewsAsia, there was an amazingly coincidental 777 couples that tied the knot on 07/07/07 in [...]
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Posted on July 1, 2007 by Benjamin Koe
I never thought I’d say this, but I think I’ve hit the brick wall of information overload. I feel that I’m learning a lot less because I’m consuming more; and all this thanks to Web 2.0 apps and the social media.
I remember as recent as 5 years back, the Internet was simply made up of [...]
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