Since I can’t blog about everything tech I come across in the week, here’s like a summary of what caught my attention on this week’s news, with a quick take from this geek :
Tech sector overtakes financial sector
I guess this must be because of the ’super’ players like the Googles and Microsofts as well as sub-prime credit crunch that affected many financial institutions.
Trader Journal - Tech overtakes financials as largest sector in S&P 500
ASUS and MSI caught rigging?
Asus and MSI rigged the same pic of an old iBook laptop to do their promotion for their Eee and Wind laptop. Typical Taiwanese tech here?
TechieLobang - ASUS and MSI caught redhanded
Twitter vs Ariel Waldman (works for competitor)
One respected blogger in the social media circle getting support from other popular bloggers in deriding most popular micro-blogging site Twitter. The only problem? She works for the competitor Pownce.
theory.isthereason - Ariel Waldman vs Twitter: A story so dirty, I’m taking a shower..
Street Fighter movie - Chun Li’s first look
Just a light one on THE arcade game I grew up with - Street Fighter!
Capcom’s Street Fight - The Legend of Chun Li movie slated for next year’s release.
Kotaku - Chun Li’s nose hairs now available for your viewing pleasure
White label social networking
Web strategist Jeremiah Owyang shares his findings on what people would want when selecting their white label social networking vendor. Very interesting area of study with the advent of social media and every other brand wanting to create their own little customer communities.
Web Strategy by Jeremiah - Findings: What you said you wanted in a White Label Social Networking Vendor
Ogilvy Digital Summit - Verge
A whole day of discoursing about new media and social media featuring some of the ‘best minds in the business’
Coolinsights - Future of marketing in age of social media
TheDigitalMovement (TDM) - Vint Cerf, the ‘father of the internet’
After a rather long silence, TDM burst back into the scene with a well-organised event with Google and IDA for Vint Cert, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist. Personally I thought the event was great but a little disappointed with Vint’s speech coz his predictions were not new, most of what he predicted for 2035 I’ve already seen/touched in one way or another. Given the rapid rate of technological growth, if these technologies don’t proliferate within the next 10-15 years, they probably never will. So what’s with the 2035?
But all in all, he’s definitely a great communicator and thought leader and IMHO, he definitely hit the nail on the head with many of his predictions. I just don’t understand why 2035? Almost 30 years down the road of technology is a LONG LONG time to make any predictions and I’d dare say his predictions are not bold or big enough. Just my 2 cents, but great event anyways kudos to the new team at TDM!
DISCLAIMER : I am a member of TDM
Ian on the red dot - A very special evening with Vinton Cerf from Google
James Seng - Evening with Vint
Podfire saga
This new local podcasting outfit seemed to have run into problems with one of their show host and producer recently. You judge for yourself.
Ian on the red dot - Sabrina & Podfire: It doesn’t help to escalate issues through a blog
Anyways, Podfire has just launched a new show with one of the gamers I know. The show is called ’small girl big appetite’. Check it out.
HTC Touch Diamond
Having declared the HTC Touch Cruise to be one of the WM6 PDA phones around, you can imagine how disappointed I was not to be able to attend this launch when I was invited coz I was outstation.
CNET Asia ‘High on a Hill’ - My brief fling with the HTC Touch Diamond
Claud continues to talk - ditch iPhone! I want the HTC Touch Diamond!
Barcamp Singapore II
A ‘consortium’ of sorts organised this event with Google’s sponsorship. Too bad I missed it!
Singapore Entrepreneurs - Aftermath of Barcamp II - Maps and Mobile Unconference
Racist Blogger Arrested in Singapore
I have no idea what happened actually but everyone’s talking about it. You can read all about it for yourself.
Aaron Peng - New media watchdogs caused racist blogger to be caught?
SimplyJean - Local blogger arrested
Two local porn sites banned
Bombers, I didn’t get a chance to access the sites before they got banned :p
SimplyJean - Singapore’s hottest porn
SGFrag - MDA bans two video-sharing porn sites
Hot Singapore news - Pedra Branca
When I was at the local radio 938LIVE show on Friday, I was told this is one of the biggest local news of the week - everyone was waiting for the results. So even though it’s not tech, I thought it was worth a mention.
Endoh’s Dungeon - Singapore wins Pedra Branca - Malaysia wins Middle Rocks
January 10th, 2009 at 9:55 am
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