29. January 2007
I thought it would be a good time to blog about why we doing Nexus. We started from scratch about 7 months ago, and the journey towards obtaining the advisory board and speaker list, and resources to pull off Nexus was not trivial. It is quite funny how we underestimated the difficulty of many things. [...]
Continue reading...29. January 2007
I stumbled upon Harish’s blog posting recently. It is a review of the Barcamp event that TDM played a part in organizing. It is a good read, so check it out! I like to comment on one particular section: While I do find a lot of people in Singapore who have heard about Web 2.0, AJAX, news [...]
Continue reading...25. January 2007
Ported from my own blog. I sometimes port stuff that i think is relevant. :) ———————— Skype launched Skypecast recently. Check it out. It is a service where they allow people to put live public conversations are put on a directory. I tried using it just now, and while at first glance, it looks like a phenomenal [...]
Continue reading...25. January 2007
Today had 4 superbly fun meetings! Ok, we have meetings all the time, but today is one of the days we just meet so many fun people. With the NTU professor of YOUTUBE fame! Zen can comment more on this ya? With James Seng, founder of tomorrow.sg, and an ultra cool guy! Gained a lot of great [...]
Continue reading...22. January 2007
K, for those who know me, I used to work in Proofpoint, the enterprise email security company in Cupertino. So i see a lot of spam messages. Anyway, this is one i got in my gmail inbox recently. This is seriously compelling stuff. Most copywriters can even take a cue from this message! Hope spam [...]
Continue reading...22. January 2007
Recently, there was a comment that we were focused on the big boys of the landscape here. We understood that comment, but that is a very one sided view of what we had been doing. While we had put much effort into gaining traction with the “big boys”, we had put even more effort into [...]
Continue reading...21. January 2007
Yesterday the first ever barcamp happened in Singapore! Organized primarily by Chandra, we helped out by chipping in ideas, and getting the venue and the pizzas! The venue was supported by Young NTUC, while the IDA gave us Canadian Pizzas. Yahoo SEA also gave us very nice T-shirts! Woah! In any case, it was tonnes of [...]
Continue reading...20. January 2007
There is this pretty mad craze for developers and designers who can do web2.0 development and design. Essentially it means all the standard web development stuff like php, RoR. What is new is an added emphasis on javascript and xml. Besides hearing from a lot of friends and industry people about how badly they need [...]
Continue reading...17. January 2007
The whole issue of networking popped up here and there during our discussions, the questions of what exactly is networking and how do we actually go about doing so? But i’d like to ask what is the objective of networking? Sometimes, people tell me networking is bad. Other times, i hear that you shudnt network [...]
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31. January 2007
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