Geekonomics

• 07Feb

  Singapore beats Taiwan to win the Dawn of War 2 Asian finals at 2010 Taipei Game Show

  Asia Tech, Citizen Journalism, Gaming, Geek Travels, PC, Singapore Tech, Youth Culture, gadgets, geeked, news, tech jobs, toys No Comments

  Ravana and TH15 of Team 1MS has done Singapore proud by winning the Dawn of War 2 Asian Finals organised by Replay Interactive, THQ, and Gigabyte at the 2010 Taipei Game Show!

  

  Besides USD1.5k cash, they also win for themselves a Gigabyte M1305 laptop each complete with an additional dock that has a graphics card to add on to your graphics capabilities.

  It was a nail-biting finish between Singapore and Taiwan as Team 1MS lost the first round to the Taiwanese boys due to various hiccups. More on their exciting finals here.

  More photos from the tournament and the of 2010 Taipei Game Show can be found here.

  Over the next couple of days, this geek will not only be bringing you coverage from the rest of the 2010 Taipei Game Show, but most important from the Intel Extreme Masters where Singapore will be represented by Team Titans.

  Stay tuned!

  

  Tags: asia, Dawn of War 2, Dawn of War II, Dennis Ooi, DOW2, DOWII, Gigabyte, Ravana, Ravana001, Replay Interactive, singapore, Taipei Game Show, Taiwan, team 1MS, TH15, THQ

• 26Jan

  SINGAPORE START UP LAUNCHES THE WORLD’S 1ST SOCIAL MEDIA GROUPWARE FOR ENTERPRISES

  Enterprise, Enterprise Tech, Internet, Press Release, Singapore Tech, Social Media, World, Youth Culture, news, tech jobs No Comments

  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”:

  

  - 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 2010 – pepperconn 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…

  

  Tags: Enterprise, pepperconn, social media groupware

• 20Jan

  A Serious Education For A Serious Career

  Gaming, Press Release, animation, news, tech jobs 1 Comment

  At the invitation of the Singapore Economic Development Board, DigiPen, world renowned institute for video game development education, set up its Singapore campus in 2008 to develop high-demand manpower capabilities for the interactive digital media industry.

  The DigiPen cutting-edge:

  • DigiPen has produced more students’ award-winning video games than any other universities
  • Consistently achieved more than 95% employment placement rate with DigiPen graduates being hired by top companies such as Blizzard Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Read more…

    

  Tags: degree, Digipen, game design, game development, singapore

• 27Jul

  Investing in SGEntrepreneurs.com

  Citizen Journalism, Enterprise, Finance, Singapore Tech, Social Media, m&a, news, tech jobs 5 Comments

  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!

  

  Tags: investment, SGE, SGEntrepreneurs

• 01Feb

  Poor American employers

  Finance, Thoughts, US elections, news, tech jobs No Comments

  Going to suffer from Obama’s signing of the Ledbetter Law big time. No wonder the stock markets crashed when he got elected and again when he was inaugurated. I’d (or anyone for that matter) now seriously think twice before starting a business in the United States.

  

  Tags: fair pay act, ledbetter law, lilly ledbetter

• 01Feb

  LinkedIn CEO one of the only few positive ones in Davos

  Finance, Social Media, World, news, tech jobs No Comments

  In a meeting of doom and gloom at the World Economic Forum in Davos, surprisingly LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman was one of the very few optimistic ones..

  

  Tags: Davos, linkedin, optimistic, pessimistic, Reid Hoffman, World Economic Forum

• 12Dec

  Singapore’s Silicon Valley success story- Ong Peng Tsin (Part I)

  Citizen Journalism, Enterprise Tech, Singapore Tech, m&a, news, tech jobs 1 Comment

  Just put up an exclusive interview with the founder of Match.com and Interwoven. Read it at my CNET Asia blog here.

  

  Tags: Interwoven, Match.com, Ong Peng Tsin, Silicon Valley

• 08Dec

  This is junk

  Citizen Journalism, Random, Social Media, Thoughts, cnet, geeked, tech jobs 3 Comments

  I was just reviewing my blogs recently and I think this is the most worthless of the blogs that I maintain.

  You see, according to ://URLfan recommended by Pat Law, this blog is not even listed.

  At least my highway blog is listed on ://URLfan though I don’t write on it much. And even though I don’t write on my highway blog much, it still has pretty decent traffic.

  Geekonomics @ CNET Asia of course is the most high traffic of the 3 blogs I painfully maintain amidst my busy schedule. And I do make time to blog there regularly 2-3 times a week - for contractual reasons. And it’s has to be all original content, I can’t just sticky something up there - a big Juniper (tree) will probably crush and kill me.

  But look at this blog. Although it has a pagerank of 4 and just crossed the 100k pageviews mark (since it’s inception around June according to stats counter ‘wassup’), it is not even listed on urlfan and I don’t spend half as much effort on it as I do on my CNET Asia blog. And at least the highway of life has been recognised with a blog of the day award before.

  Briefly scrolling through my posts on this blog, most of them are either press releases or just stickies of what I’ve read. I haven’t made enough effort to create better content. (And I have to login regularly to delete the spam that chalks up to 3 figures on akismet weekly)

  It’s junk, even to me. I don’t even know why you even bother to read it.

  I think I should either close it down or revamp it.

  Thinking.

  

  Tags: close, lousy blog, shut down, sucks, terrible

• 20Nov

  Yahoo’s CEO leaves.. the beginning of the end?

  Enterprise Tech, Thoughts, m&a, news, tech jobs 2 Comments

  Big news I guess, hard to ignore - Jerry Yang, Co-founder of Yahoo! leaves as CEO!

  Well, the way I see it (and I could be wrong), he’s just taking the fall for a failed M&A which shouldn’t be entirely his fault. But too bad they need a fall guy and he’s the one.

  Isn’t it so typical of companies? A co-founder/director does a great job all the way from the start and is made to look like a complete villian because of some silly corporate decisions which he/she has to take the blame and leaves in shame? Seen it before, a bit too often.

  So they wanna try merge with Microsoft again? Well, they now have an excuse. But If I’m Microsoft, I wouldn’t take the risk at this economic downturn and even if I wanted to, probably can’t find a bank that’ll lend me that much money. So if a deal is reached, my guess is that it’d be at a much lower valuation which might cause Yahoo!’s shares to drop further. Lose lose.

  Shares can soar now, but my take is that it’d come tumbling down like a roller coaster in due time. What a waste for such a great company. Personally I think that the slimmest hope for the company now is to keep Jerry on the board of directors and hope that he’ll still contribute to the company’s growth and direction. Then again, that’s about as likely as asking Bill Gates to join back Microsoft, so… good luck Yahoo!

  (Signing off from Seoul)

  

  Tags: CEO, Jerry Yang, microsoft, quit, resign, yahoo!

• 16Nov

  World Professional Blogger Journalist Association Inaugural Meeting in Seoul - 17 November 2008

  Asia Tech, Citizen Journalism, Geek Travels, Singapore Tech, Social Media, Thoughts, World, cnet, news, tech jobs 2 Comments

  I’m in Seoul now and tomorrow I’ll be presenting at this conference

  

  WPBA

  Amongst the familiar faces will be Hillary (Malaysia) and Victor (Hong Kong) from CNET Asia as well.

  Initially I thought I’d just be coming here as an attendee and not a speaker. However when they invited me to present, I took sometime to think about the theme of the conference and decided to present on the topic ‘Citizen Journalism in Singapore’ giving a snapshot of what’s been happening here in this area as well as some key learnings. In Singapore, citizen journalism has impacted brands, government, sports, traditional media (STOMP,OMY and RazorTV), legislation, local blogging communities, and much more (depending on how much I can squeeze in hurhur).

  Although I don’t really like to talk about social media and citizen journalism (as mentioned in an earlier blog post), when I started preparing the materials, I surprised myself how I managed to put a presentation together in less than 2 hours. In fact, I had much more materials than I had time to present. This alone convinces me that citizen journalism is truly well and alive in Singapore. Since I’m the only one from Singapore here, I hope to give the rest of the world a better understanding of what’s happening here in our part of the world, especially when folks from some really popular sites like Digg and Gawker Media (Gizmodo) will be here as well.

  Hope to share more about the conference again soon. Till then!

  p.s. Some of the gadgets I’m reviewing on this trip : Canon EOS 1000D and Gigabyte Netbook.

  (Signing off from Seoul)

  

  Tags: Aving, Citizen Journalism, Digg, Gizmodo, S.Korea, Seoul, World Professional Blogger Journalist Association, WPBA

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