I spend the whole day at New Media @ Art House yesterday. Although the attendees are small (only ~100 people), they are definitely the mover and shaker of the media industry. More importantly, the discussion was a blast. There are too many things to summarize in one blog entry. But if you are keen, check […]
Some of the people I met today, not in any particular order: – Douglas Merrill – John Seely Brown – Cory Ondrejka and Jean Miller (yes again :-) – Paul Saffo – Madanmohan Rao – James Lim – Jose L. Encarnacao Its late and I need to go to bed so I can wake up […]
This is going to be a busy week for tech geeks in Singapore. CommunicAsia and BroadcastAsia is happening this week. In conjunction of CommunicAsia and BroadcastAsia, IX 2007 also bought about a whole list of interesting speakers in town, like Cory Ondrejka and Jeremiah Owyang. Speaking of Jeremiah Owyang, we are going to have dinner […]
On the last trip to China, I remember there was a big story about CCTV remaking Dream of the Red Chamber 红楼梦. The last Dream of Red Chamber made by CCTV is in 1987. For those who don’t know, Dream of the Red Chamber is like Romeo and Juliet for Chinese. It is a Chinese […]
This is probably a good time to disclose that I was recently asked to serve on Internet & Media Advisory Committee (INMAC*) under MDA. INMAC is the new committee formed in April 2007 to advise MDA on ongoing media literacy initatives, industry co-regulation policies and other regulatory operational issues. Chaired by Stephen Yeo, the other […]
Happy is when I receive a call from a reporter who wanted to do a story on Citizen Journalism a few weeks ago. Excited is when I see a Special Edition on today Straits Times titled. “For the People, By the People“. I even bought a copy for the first time this month! Shock is […]
SharedCopy.com is in the news again, this time on Wall Street Journal Now, eight years on, another Singaporean is back doing much the same thing. James Seng has set up a service called SharedCopy, which allows users to take a snapshot of a Web page and add and share comments and even doodles on it. […]
Lately, I have been meeting with a lot of young entrepreneurs. As for why so, it is a story for another day. Anyway, I met one gentlemen for lunch yesterday and I said: “I know people who are more successful than me at my age. They are not necessary smarter than me but they are […]
Yesterday, I was talking to a Chinese reporter. At the end of the phone call, she suddenly complimented my Chinese, as she is surprised. This also happens a few months ago, while I was doing a Chinese radio show. Now, I am not trying to boost here. I being to China and Taiwan enough to […]
Microsoft Surface is making waves across the blogosphere in the last 48 hours. It brings the meaning of “desktop computer” to a new level…it is a table-top :-) This is mostly based on the multi-touch technology from Perceptive Pixel, a less then 12 months old company founded by Jeff Han of NYU that changes how […]