FourSquare in Singapore: Impressions, Muses and Hacks
FourSquare is a location-based social networking service combining the web and mobile phone. FourSquare has incorporated a game element that makes it extremely viral among her users. Originally, the app only works for major cities in the US and Europe. Recently on 20 Nov 2009 (a day before Barcamp Singapore 4), FourSquare has expanded beyond 150 cities including Singapore. After evangelizing, stress-testing, discussing and reviewing the app, here are my muses, impressions and hacks on FourSquare for those who want to know more about the app. Related posts:Google Chrome OS: Initial Impressions The Chronicles of a Mobile-Web Economy
The Audacity to Win by David Plouffe
The book "The Audacity to Win" by David Plouffe focuses on the inside story from the perspective of the campaign manager for the Obama Presidential campaign 2008 and the lessons learnt from the historic victory to elect the first African-American president. With an insider view, the story starts from how David Plouffe together with Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod put together an inner circle with candidate Barack Obama that subsequently led to a two years campaign culminating to his presidency. The book does not talk about the present day where we are debating whether President Obama have lived up ...
Google Chrome OS: Initial Impressions
Last week, Google released their initial version of how Google Chrome OS will look like. Within 24 hours, a lot of developers took a look at the first release of the OS. There are two ways to build Google Chrome OS: (1) You can build the Chrome OS from source code on Ubuntu following thru with this set of instructions (finally, I can now justify why I put a Ubuntu Linux in my Macbook Pro) and (2) Use the Google Chrome OS image from gdgt.com and run it on VM ware. I tried both ways and both worked. Of ...
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Books, Reviews »
When I was listening to Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tech special episode on the CES, Tom Merritt mentioned and recommended the book “Daemon” by Daniel Suarez. The author self-published the book, sought the influencers in Silicon Valley and ended up with a book deal. A science fiction thriller destined to be made into a movie, the story left me thinking about the inter-connected world which we lived in even though the premise started from the online gaming world. So, here are some thoughts after reading the book …
Discourse, Web/Tech »
Google has released an interesting statement today that in light of cyber security, they have decided not to censor search results on Google.CN and accept the possibility of shutting down the entire business operations if the Chinese government will not allow them to operate an unfiltered search engine. With a multi-national company of such magnitude having the possibility in moving out of China, what are the implications that one can explore in the realm of business? I will draw a couple of thoughts from history to examine this event. …
Presentations & Projects »
Today, I was invited by Institute of Infocomm Research, A-STAR to present on the status of mobile-web space in the 16th InfoComm & Media Horizons conference focusing on the theme “Quad Play Services – Maximizing Opportunities” in the Genexis Theatre, Fusionopolis. My talk centered on the how media content and apps play a part in the mobile-web ecosystem, the features of various mobile-web apps stores (Apple iTunes, Nokia Ovi, Google Android Market, Blackberry Apps World and Microsoft Marketplace) and what are the interesting lessons for developers to create, share and distribute apps thru the stores?
Reviews, TED »
If I have to organize a TEDx event, which are the five videos I will choose to show? Here are my choices, ranging from topics in social media, social entrepreneurship, education, culture and economics. Other than attaching the abstracts, I have also included my own thoughts on why I like about these TED videos.
