Latest tweetsCame across this post by Brett: Why Developers Should Never Agree to an Earnout… which reminds me of my own sad story of an earnout deal which although was much smaller, basically had similar endings. The profit targets were not met because the guys who took over changed the business strategy not too long after taking over. Makes me wonder how many other high profile M&A deals the likes of YouTube, etc had the same problems?
This is interesting. First of all, to have boot camps sprout out all over China for “internet addicts”. I’ve seen TV reports of these addicts given jabs daily but nobody knows what is contained in the jabs. And now this mutiny. Makes me wonder if these boot camps will ever open in countries like Singapore and Korea?
Had an interesting and eventful Saturday where I was invited to share at the PAYM Policy Forum @ Hong Kah GRC & Chua Chu Kang SMC. The discussion eventually centered more around policy making for online dangers i.e. what we more commonly know as cyber wellness topics like cyber security, cyber bullying, etc. There was a fair bit of discussion around Facebook privacy issues, especially since I mentioned that last week I could actually see very private information about my Facebook friends like their chat conversations, etc. Some of the tech65 guys were there which made the conversation more interesting. Of key discussion was whether the onus of cyber wellness and safety rested on the individual, the parents, the education system, or for that matter, the government.
After that,
So, this geek had absolutely no idea what to do when approached by Asia Pacific Breweries (APB)’s agency on hosting a party promoting savvy drinking. But they knew it was a cause close to my heart having seen my tweets and sure enough, I decided to host a party to promote this cause amongst my friends. To start off, I checked with some friends what date was best for them and then sent out a video invite along with my email invite:
Guests who signed up received this ‘e-ticket’:
(this ticket is Joe's, the dude who helped me take some pictures of the party)
This geek had many crazy ideas for my party, including Read more…
Tags: APB I Drink Savvy party
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).
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.
Tags: Beijing, HP DV2, HP Mini 110, HP Pavilion DV2 Entertainment Notebook, HP Pavilion MS200 All-in-one PC, HP Probook S-series, HP Skyroom, HP Thin clients, HP Touch the Future Now, HP Z series workstations
Reported on the Sun and the Telegraph.. Looks convincing enough to me.
But you can try zooming in on this and tell me what you see? Remember to zoom…
Tags: google earth, Google Street View, UFO
Totally unimaginable 2-3 years back, but the writing’s been on the wall for a while now.
ZDnet seems to think that it makes sense.
If it does happen, would be really interesting to see it’s impact to HP. It’d probably give mySQL a lot more mileage and acceptance, unlikely to do much for DB2 even if IBM kills mySQL.
Tags: acquisition, DB2, IBM, IBM buy Sun, mySQL, Sun
Recently, the Straits Times called me up asking me about the NTU Stabbing incident in regards to gaming. This was the resulting story.
I was quoted in the story :
Referring to the stabbing incident at Nanyang Technological University last week, Mr Nicolas Khoo, 31, co-founder of the Cybersports and Online Gaming Association, said: ‘Such incidents happen to a minority of gamers…In this incident, there could have been other reasons that led him to do it, so why was gaming blamed?’
Nothing seems to be wrong, except that : Read more…
Tags: Gaming, mainstream media, poor journalism, SCOGA, straits times, violence, violent
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
