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I think they finally got it! Singapore’s Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports has put out a new TV commercial directed by renowned Malaysian film maker Yasmin Ahmad. Yasmin has a gift for creating emotive shorts and has lent her brilliance to the creation of many tear-jerking TVCs in Malaysia.
Apart from having the TVC [...]

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I use multiple computers, one at home (Mac) and one at work (PC). Both are laptops, both I own, both I leave in their respective shrines. I take them out when needed, but put them back right after.
So clearly as a Firefox user, Google Browser Sync was a God-send. Well, until Firefox 3 came along. [...]

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Today I sent this page from SingTel to the office following the 3G iPhone’s hype from last night. It was done in good faith that SingTel was making an effort to reach out to those who want to reserve themselves a 3G iPhone in Singapore. But instead of enthusiasm and excitement, I heard complaints. Not [...]

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This short video of Microsoft’s founder, Bill Gates, was taken last month at the 16th World Congress on Information Technology 2008 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Although this isn’t the first time a life-size hologram was used to deliver a speech, it was the closest to home.
I think this is a great technology with amazing implications. [...]

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If you haven’t tried Plurk, you should. Its like Twitter, only messier. In fact, with only 13 friends since I started a day ago, it’s getting a bit too much to track all the plurks and replies to plurks.
I discovered by accident an easier way to manage Plurk making it more Twitter-like.
Plurk has a mobile [...]

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Two weeks back I was on a panel at the PR Academy’s conference discussing “new media”. Unlike the barcamps and unconferences we social media folks are so fond of, this conference was done old skool with a government Minister as the guest-of-honour and panel mates that were my father’s age.
I was the only “digital native” [...]

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Tonight I had the opportunity with about 200 others listen to and speak with Vinton G. Cerf, a founding “father of the internet” and Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. It was amazing to meet the guy that built TCP/IP in his protein form and listen to a true technologist speak about what [...]

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I recently watched the geek thriller Untraceable, where the above web site was taken from. The show follows the FBI cyber crime unit as they try to track down a crazed computer genius who kills his victims through crowdsourced voyeurism. The more people visited the site killwithme.com the faster his victims died.
This started me thinking [...]

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I’ve been invited by the PR Academy, a division of the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA), Singapore to be on a panel discussing the challenges of communicating in the new media environment at the 7th Annual PR [...]

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Just grabbed VMware Fusion 2 Beta 1 off the VMware site and installed it. Immediately you can tell the menu is different, even the dock icon looks brighter (I think).
What’s the changelog? In summary from the VMware site:
VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1 brings support for multiple displays, tools for even easier switching to VMware Fusion, [...]

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