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Since 'the geek shall inherit the earth', this geek is just waiting for his day to rule the world. In the meantime, he is a young Padawan for CNET Asia whilst toying with a myriad of fun stuff disguised as work and pretending to advise companies on tech business and new media strategies. His playmates range from startups, (un)Fortune 500s, to government organisations.
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Now in this geek's bag:

. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 mini pro
. Sony VAIO VGN-P23G
. Blackberry Bold 9700
. Nokia N900
. iPhone 3GS 16GB
. Lenovo Thinkpad W700ds a.k.a. "Chewy"
. Canon PowerShot G11
. Lenovo S10-2
. Jawbone 3rd Gen Bluetooth Headset with Noise Assassin
. Ultimate Ears Triple.fi Pro

Formerly in this bag:
. HTC Snap
. Plantronics Discovery 975 headset
. Acer beTouch E100
. Zune HD
. Nokia N97 Mini
. HP Probook
. Apple iPod Touch 2nd Gen with Ultimate Ears super.fi
. Nokia BH-902 Bluetooth Headset
. Blackberry 8800
. Nokia N96
. Blackberry Bold 9000
. LG WM6.5 Prototype
. Jawbone 2nd Gen Bluetooth Headset with Noise Assassin
. HTC Touch Cruise
. Lenovo Thinkpad T400s
. Canon Powershot G10
. Lenovo IdeaPad U350
. Canon Digital IXUS 990 IS
. Samsung Galaxy
. Canon Legria FS200
. Canon SX10 IS
. Blackberry Curve 8320
. Canon EOS 5D Mark II
. Canon Digital IXUS 980 IS
. Gigabyte Netbook M912V Tablet
. Lenovo Ideapad S10
. Lenovo Thinkpad X200
. Samsung Innov8
. Samsung Omnia
. Apple iPhone 3G
. Apple iPod Shuffle
. Kohjinsha SX Series
. Kohijnsha SC Series
. Canon Powershot S5 IS
. Canon EOS 1000D
  • 17Aug

    Just received this notice from Facebook for an ad I helped SCOGA to book recently. The ad was targeted only for Singaporean audience and I specified in my profile clearly I’m from Singapore. Not sure why I received this. Anybody else did?

    Hello, Nicholas Aaron Khoo,

    Based on the information we have about your residence or principal place of business, your advert purchases will be made from our European Headquarters through Facebook Ireland Limited from September 2010. As a result, your purchases may be subject to Irish Value Added Tax ("VAT"), which will be automatically added to your purchases. To check or change the information that we have about your residence or principal place of business, please go to the settings page. VAT may then be charged based on the requirements applicable to your revised location.

    If you are established or located in Ireland:

    Because you are established or located in Ireland, your purchases will be subject to VAT. The appropriate VAT rate will be automatically added to your purchases.

    If you are established or located in the EU outside of Ireland:

    If you are purchasing adverts for a business purpose and your principal place of business is not in Ireland, Irish VAT will not be added to your purchasing costs provided you have supplied us with your VAT registration number (including country prefix) prior to the purchase, but you may be required to self-account for the applicable VAT in your jurisdiction of residence or establishment. For more information about the meaning of business purpose or self assessment, please see the VAT FAQ. If you are not purchasing adverts for a business purpose, Irish VAT will be automatically added to your purchases at the appropriate Irish VAT rate.

    If you are established or located outside the EU:

    Because you are not established within the European Union, these purchases will not be subject to VAT, but you may be required to self-account for the applicable VAT in your jurisdiction of residence or establishment.

    If you have any questions, please review our VAT FAQ.

    Sincerely,
    The Facebook Adverts team

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  • 16Jun

     

    I stumbled upon this random page created for my blog, by Facebook apparently. Don’t have to time to investigate why or how it happened. But I take it as a wake up call for me to start a Facebook page for my blog so here it is, my brand new glorious Facebook page:

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Geekonomics/101925233191279

    Actually I’m away in Bangkok now trying to look inconspicuous with my red shirt so I don’t have time to update the page much yet. However, I just got a pair of free tickets to give away for the Wonder Girls Music Showcase in Singapore this weekend (Thanks to Sony Ericsson and also to Hillary for passing me her extra ticket) so I will be picking a winner to join myself and Hillary at the concert this Friday evening!

    How to join and win?

    1. Like my new Facebook page

    2. Tell us why you must go to this concert on the Facebook wall.

    The answer we like the most wins!

    Terms and Conditions applies:

    1. Final decision is made by myself and Hillary and our decision is final. *evil laugh*

    2. Closing date and time shall be Thursday night 8pm Singapore time. The winner will be notified via Facebook with details on the ticket collection.

    More information on the concert taken from http://entertainment.xin.msn.com:

    Back for more island lovin’, sensational Korean group The Wonder Girls are set to take our city with their addictive pop hits and maniac dance moves

    Wonder Girls(MediaCorp)

    Photo credits to MediaCorp

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  • 26Jan

    This geek’s disciple “GReekonomics” decided to throw a party to atone for his failure in learning his master’s true abilities:

    Pretty excited about tomorrow’s party, though I’ve had absolutely no time to think about it nor plan it. Too bad the invites are ultra-limited and max-ed out already due to the limitation of the room booked.

    A big sorry to all you reading this whom I couldn’t invite!

    Woe to those who are coming though, for they have no idea what’s gonna befall them. Neither do I. Bwahahaha! Well, here’s a little hint for my 10-odd guests:

    *rubs hands in evil glee*

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  • 26Jan

    This geek saw the product demo for myself and was pretty impressed so I agreed to be listed as one of the talents/consultants on the site since it’s non-exclusive anyways. Not sure about the World’s 1st claim but they’ve already filed the patent it seems. Check out the worldwide release of Pepperconn’s “Social Media Groupware for Enterprises”:

    Pepperconn Logo

    - A major breakthrough in Enterprise Social Media Software with patent filed

    - Groupware lowers entry barriers for SME owners and marketers to self-manage their own social media or digital campaigns (programs)

    - Creates a new ecosystem of online talents and opportunities to monetize one’s talents

    Singapore, 25 January 2010pepperconn LLP today launched the pepperconn Groupware, a collaborative software for enterprises to manage content and talents in social media programs where the goal is to engage customers, solicit feedback and generate marketing buzz on the internet.   Such programs leverage on one or more social network (eg. Facebook and Twitter), the company’s blog and corporate website to aggregate user-generated content and grow its base of readers.

    Typically, an agency will be appointed to manage such programs and to source for bloggers and talents – an option that is usually frustrating for both corporate clients and agencies due to a lack of real-time visibility, measurements of success, project management inefficiencies and it is costly for SMEs and marketers with tighter budgets

    “It was from this frustration as a corporate marketer driving social media marketing campaigns at SingTel, Samsung and Nokia, that I Read more…

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  • 07Aug

    A friend’s twitter account just got hacked yesterday, thought this notice from Symantec is quite timely:

    Symantec Security Response is currently monitoring the reported distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Twitter and Facebook. Users visiting the Twitter and Facebook sites may notice a slowdown in service, or they may not be able to gain access to the site at all.

    It is not known at this time if Read more…

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  • 27Jul

    Some of you might have read about a new investment which I just made which I couldn’t announce earlier.

    I’ve finally completed the investment this month and it’s now official: I’m privileged to be able to advise and invest in the company which owns and operates Singapore’s most well-read entrepreneurship and startup site: SGEntrepreneurs.com (SGE).

    SGE seeks to provide the most comprehensive coverage on Singapore’s startup and entrepreneurship scene and some of the startups featured in SGE have gone on to feature in renowned international sites like Mashable, TechCrunch, KillerStartups, folksonomy, Malaysia Entrepreneurs, etc.

    You can read SGE’s announcement about this investment in their latest ’state of the site’ report as well as check out the updated team bio.

    This geek is definitely looking forward to an exciting journey ahead working with the good folks at SGE and if you are a startup, an entrepreneur, or toying with the idea of starting out, do feel free to ping us and pop by often!

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  • 23Jul

    Have you been reading this blog even though I’ve not been updating it for a while? At least the stats seems to hint at that.

    Anyways, this geek has been really busy but you can still catch my weekly posts at my CNET Asia Blog where you will read about how I recently got involved with Singapore’s Blogathon and somehow by some miracle managed to win the Judges’ Choice Award after 24 hours of blogging. It was definitely a very unique experience that I wasn’t sure about in the beginning but came out of it with memories that will surely last a lifetime.

    Anyways, I’ve been working on a book on gaming and new media which you’ve hear about soon enough as we are working on the publisher now. I’ve also got involved with a new site which you’ll hear about very soon.

    It doesn’t look like I’ll continue blogging here anytime soon, but do keep the press releases and news coming, I’ll put them up as and when I can (and if I find them interesting enough of course).

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  • 27May

    So this geek is in Beijing now witnessing the launch of a flurry of new HP products like the HP Pavilion MS200 All-in-one PC, HP Pavilion DV2 Entertainment Notebook, HP Probook S-series, HP Mini 110, HP DV2 notebooks (refreshed with AMD Dual-cores), HP Skyroom, Thin clients, and the Z series workstations.

    I’ll be doing a series of posts on this on CNET Asia and you can follow my live tweets here while I try to live update my CNET Asia blog now with more information on the HP Mini 110.

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  • 10May

    Hey folks, it’s been terribly busy for me and I’m suspending my blogging here for a while due to my ultra busy schedule. Well, I oughta tell you what’s been keep me so super busy :

    Licence 2 Play 22-24th May SUNTEC Convention Hall 603.

    Quick spill: First ever physical Facebook gaming competition in the world, first ever World of Warcraft Arena 3v3 Tournament in Asia, Launch of Maplestory 2, breaking a record on the Singapore Book of Records for number of turnups for Maplestory, etc. Do I need to say more, especially to the gamers?

    e27 unConference 16th May Matrix @ Biopolis

    Quick spill: 31 startups from 10 countries (numbers updated) come together for the premier unConference of the region! Tickets selling out fast!

    and I’m also helping to promote Video Games Live! on 19th June. THE gaming symphony event! Have you got your tickets yet?

    All this in between my crazy travelling schedule over the next 2-3 months. Which is why I really have no time to blog here for a while.

    I’m still blogging at CNET Asia though, do drop by often and I hope to resume my blogging on this site soon!

    I’ve also taken on some new work and there should be an announcement soon regarding a new site I’m working on. Stay tuned for the announcement!

    Thanks for reading and hanging around, the traffic for this site, given how little I’ve managed to give to it, always baffles me:

    • 13318 Visits 
    • 22257 Pageviews
    for the last 30 days even though I didn’t blog.
    • 122198 Visits 
    • 225418 Pageviews
    for the last 10 months of this blog’s existence.
    And it’s all only thanks to YOU! Keep in touch and stay tuned!
    p.s. do send your press releases coming, if I find it relevant for the readers here, I’ll still put them up when I find time!

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  • 15Mar

    Many people tweeted this. Found it quite amusing that all the iPhone users are having problems at the US geekfest. No, I don’t think AT&T realises that geekfest is in Austin. Fail.

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