I am in the Palo Alto, on a transit back to Shanghai, with strange ecounters in the last 24 hours. Like sitting at University Cafe talking to some friends (Nick, David and Andy) yesterday and turning my back to see Loic, who is meeting Benjamin, another new friend I just got to know just 2 […]
Category: Random Musing
Obama Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages
One member of the White House new-media team came to work on Tuesday, right after the swearing-in ceremony, only to discover that it was impossible to know which programs could be updated, or even which computers could be used for which purposes. The team members, accustomed to working on Macintoshes , found computers outfitted with […]
Association of Bloggers (Singapore)
Cowboy Caleb message me a few days ago whether I have seen the new Association of Bloggers (Singapore). I have and was one of the things I followed with quite a bit of amusement after the fury. But I hesitated to comment on it because, 1) I could be one of the “foreign blogger” who […]
More like a father…and feeling more guilty
It was a relatively warm weekend (10degree…how fast your expectation of “warm” changes :-). So we spend the weekend with the kids; playing with their scooters and electric automobile in the garden and shopping/dinning in the nearby mall. Out of the blue, my wife said to me that I am beginning to behave “more like […]
Moving to China
I spend most of my time this year in China – My family has made an important decision to move to China. Things has being crazy for the last couple of months with the logistics but we finally have our first Christmas over here. The decision is a combination of my work, but more importantly […]
How to Sell in Economy Downturn
You can’t just lower all the prices in your operation. There are two reasons this doesn’t work. First, you no longer communicate the story of ‘special deal’, instead you communicate ‘we’re in trouble.’ Second, you end up charging everyone a lower price, even the people who were happy to pay more–who wanted to pay more, […]
Obama Team Review of FCC
Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach has being appointed to lead Obama Team Review of FCC! I know both of them; Kevin is an advocate of all things open (open spectrum, open access, net neutrality) and Susan is an advocate of public space online (privacy, online rights :-) Now, these appointments really mean CHANGE! Wohoo! Congratulations […]
Licensing Technology from A*STAR
When someone ask you how much it cost to license your technology, the last thing you want to say is “depend how much you value our technology”. 1. You don’t know how much your own technology is worth. 2. You going to charge different people different licensing fee. Most important of all, you sound like […]
Go Obama Go!
In Cairo, waking up at 2am to watch the election on CNN and online and watching the votes come in. I hope I am not disappointed as I did in 2004 tho. Go Obama Go! I had enough for the last 8 years! Update: Wohoo!!! I look forward to CHANGE!
Billionaire who wasn’t
Billionaire who wasn’t by Conor O’Clery A book about Chunk Feeney, the co-founder of Duty Free Shopping, ranked 23rd richest man who gave away all his money, mostly anonymously until people discover he don’t even own a house or a car. (Incidentally, I realized I was an indirect benefactor of Chunk after reading his book […]