Geekonomics

• 26Mar

  Linkedin hits 100MM members, Reid sends personal thank you to early adopters

  Internet, Social Media, news, tech jobs 3 Comments

  What a nice surprise email from Reid this morning, made my day for sure:

  

  Dear Nicholas Aaron,

  I want to personally thank you because you were one of LinkedIn’s first million members (member number 382059 in fact!*). In any technology adoption lifecycle, there are the early adopters, those who help lead the way. That was you.

  We hit a big milestone at LinkedIn this week when our 100 millionth member joined the site.

  When we founded LinkedIn, our vision was to help the world’s professionals be more successful and productive. Today, with your help, LinkedIn is changing the lives of millions of members by helping them connect with others, find jobs, get insights, start a business, and much more.  

  We are grateful for your support and look forward to helping you accomplish much more in the years to come. I hope that you are having a great year.

  Sincerely,

  (Reid’s signature which I did not include here)

  Reid Hoffman
  Co-founder and Chairman
  LinkedIn

  *Your member number is the number embedded in your LinkedIn profile URL (after "id=").

  

• 15Nov

  Spirit of Enterprise Awards 2010 Honours Local Entrepreneurs

  Enterprise, Press Release, Singapore Tech, Startup, news, tech jobs No Comments

  I wasn’t at the ceremony tonight but pleased to know that Adrin from Yakun won the special category award! Now, where are the tech companies? I count only 3 of them amongst the 30 winners!

  SINGAPORE, 15 November 2010 – Champion of small and medium entrepreneurs (SMEs) in
  Singapore, the Spirit of Enterprise (SOE) tonight convened its annual SOE Awards naming 30
  honourees and the inaugural winner for its new award category. This year’s awardees come from various industries, including beauty and wellness, clean technology, food & beverage, logistics, media & entertainment and professional services, among others.

  Eight years into igniting the entrepreneurial spirit among Singaporeans, SOE Awards has since recognised and honoured 304 self-reliant local entrepreneurs operating small and medium-sized businesses. Through the annual awards, SOE distinguishes the SMEs’ tenacity for building up their businesses.

  Guest of Honour, Mr Lee Yi Shyan, Minister of State for Trade & Industry and Manpower, in his speech during the awards ceremony, urged SMEs to improve their productivity: “While our SMEs actively seek growth opportunities, they must have the capacity back home to innovate, create new business models and improve existing product and services. The objective is to stay ahead of global competition, by creating new values from their solutions. To achieve this, our SMEs need to invest in their innovative capabilities.”

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• 15Sep

  Platform Wars Rage On at APPNATION Conference Day Two

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  Here’s a summary of the proceedings from day two of Appnation. Day one can be found here.

  Samsung also unveiled its new Android-based tablet “Samsung Galaxy Tab” onstage for first time in North America

  San Francisco - September 14, 2010 – On the second and final day of APPNATION, the first major conference focusing on the App Economy and ecosystem, the issue of open or closed, and fragmented or uniform smartphone OSes was the most hotly contested topic. Also, Samsung publicly displayed their unreleased Galaxy Tab for the first time in North America—both on the APPNATION stage, and in the hands-on DEVNATION area.

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• 14Sep

  Appnation predicts One Million Mobile Apps by 2012

  Android, Developers, Press Release, World, mobile, news, tech jobs 1 Comment

  This geek heard that Intel AppUp Developer Program was showcasing at the premier developer conference next door called Appnation so I popped over to take a look. Pretty cool show opened by the Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom. Check out the proceedings of Day 1:

  Day One of APPNATION defines Net 3.0 with heavy hitters from New York to London to locals focused on mobile app development and where the $$$ is being made

  San Francisco - September 13, 2010 – San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom welcomed a registered crowd of over 1,000 regional and national app developers, media companies, ad networks, press and other members of the app ecosystem at the inaugural APPNATION Conference at San Francisco’s Moscone Center North. Drew Ianni, chairman and founder of APPNATION, also revealed original APPNATION research that there will be one million mobile apps available for download by the year 2012. APPNATION is an ambitious and bold new thought leadership conference and exposition focusing exclusively on the burgeoning consumer applications revolution and global app economy.

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• 11Sep

  Mayor Gavin Newsom to Welcome First AppNation Conference to San Francisco

  Developers, Press Release, SaaS, Social Media, news, tech jobs No Comments

  AppNation is happening next week across the street from the Intel Developer Forum. Peter Biddle from Intel AppUp Center will be moderating one of the sessions. Will be trying to catch a session or two if possible.

  Here’s the press announcement from the organisers:

  In a jam-packed program, The Nielsen Company will also announce findings from latest Mobile App Playbook on the App Economy

  SAN FRANCISCO, CA - September 10, 2010 - On Monday, September 13, 2010, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom will welcome regional and national app developers at the inaugural APPNATION Conference to be at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. APPNATION, an ambitious and bold new thought leadership conference and exposition focusing exclusively on the burgeoning consumer applications revolution and global app economy will assemble an esteemed set of executives from the app economy, bringing together leaders from media companies in New York to meet the vibrant and growing mobile developer community in the Bay Area.

  When:           Monday, September 13, 2010

  Where:          Moscone North, 747 Howard Street

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• 23Jul

  Intel Atom Developer Program now supports Adobe AIR* based applications

  Developers, news, tech jobs 1 Comment

  Intel Atom Developer Program now also supports Adobe AIR based applications, with an Intel Atom Developer Program SDK for AIR. Adobe AIR based applications will be accepted staring August 14.

  There’s a video by Bill Pearson in which he announces that as of July 21st, Intel and Adobe have released a new AIR SDK with support for the Intel Atom Developer Program and its AppUp Center store.

  For more information on AIR for AppUp go to http://appdeveloper.intel.com/adobe-air or directly download the SDK at http://appdeveloper.intel.com/sdk

  

• 22Jul

  HP Celebrates Singapore’s SME I.T. Heroes with HP Total Care Challenge 2010

  Enterprise Tech, Press Release, Singapore Tech, news, tech jobs No Comments

  So, you’ve always thought of yourself as an IT "hero” at work or know of one? Here’s your chance to put some glitz and glamour into that boring IT deskjob. Details in the press release:

  A first of its kind for SMEs, I.T. HERO 2010 aims to shed light on the significant role played by IT managers in Singapore

  SINGAPORE, 21 July 2010 – HP today announced the launch of the HP Total Care Challenge 2010: I.T. HERO 2010 – a nation-wide campaign to discover and celebrate IT talent amongst small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore, and draw awareness to the critical role they play in helping SMEs leverage technology to realize business potential.

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• 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

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