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[13 May 2009 | View Comments | 404 views]
The Importance of Being Social – A Talk on Online Social Networks

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In this year’s For the coming UnConference 2009 organized by E27 team in the Biopolis, I will be doing a breakout session entitled “Much Ado about Social Networks in Asia” about online social networks in Asia. I will discuss the trends and observations emerging that I have seen from my experience in building an online private social network (SENATUS), investing in social networks (iHipo, Eteract) under Thymos Capital LLP and observing dominant home-grown social networks in Asia (CyWorld – Korea, Mixi – Japan and Xiaonei – China). This talk will …

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[13 May 2009 | View Comments | 276 views]
Much Ado About Social Networks in Asia @ Unconference 2009

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In this year’s Unconference 2009 organized by E27, the topic led by me for the breakout sessions is entitled “Much Ado about Social Networks in Asia.” The talk addresses the trends of online social networks in Asia. Since it is not a keynote address nor panel discussion, I broke the session into two parts. In the first part of the breakout, I presented a set of slides which I have prepared that give a broad and perhaps academic definition of online social networks and its features, followed by looking at …