Bernard Leong

Reviewing Dan Ariely’s book “Predictably Irrational” giving a us a glimpse on how the hidden forces shapes our decisions in daily lives.

About my TEDx Talk in Kuala Lumpur on “Self Organization, Economics and Football Managers”. An interesting idea to share that I hope that it’s worth spreading.

To quote the problem, “If A, B, C, D each speaks the truth 1 in 3 times (independently), and A affirms that B denies that C delcares that D is a liar, what’s the probability that D was speaking the truth?” I thought I share my solution to this problem which attracted different answers from different people.

After the talk in Unconference 2009, I have received some queries about social networking sites in China. Based on what I have known, Xiaonei is not the number 1 SNS in China, but 51.com. Other than these two top social networks, there are other social networks which are also dominant within the Great Wall. As Gang Lu mentioned during the panel that the Chinese internet landscape has now moved from cloning era to an reformation era, where the sites are innovating within after realizing that some of the cloned …

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 …