I'm excited to announce that we have iTwin coming on board as a sponsor for Startup Asia Singapore. We had announced that the first 50 registrants would receive a somewhat geeky gift (in fact, we're also offering it to the next fifty registrants as well) and here it is, as promised. iTwin is a reinvented form of thumbdrive that allows secure and wireless file-sharing between two computers anywhere in the world. With an iTwin you do not need to hand your files over to a third-party server. They stay with you ...
Mar 25 2011
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Twestival Singapore 2011 Rocked
The team is back from Twestival Singapore; a local Twitter festival that just ended a few hours ago at TAB. Twestival is an offline event held in more than 175 cities, aimed at raising funds for charity while harnessing the power of social media. Not only did people meet up to have fun, they also remembered to give. This year, Twestival Singapore had chosen to raise funds for the local non-profit organisation Children-At-Risk Empowerment Association (CARE Singapore), to help them in their mission of changing lives of youths at-risk. Our local talent, Jack and ...
Mar 16 2011
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Artyii is a Sales and Social Platform for Asian Artists
"There are enormously talented emerging artists in Asia but many lack the opportunity to showcase their brilliant work." They finally can, thanks to Artyii. Singapore based start-up, Artyii, is a sales and social platform for emerging Asian artists to sell, learn and network with the art circle which includes gallery owners, art schools, independent art groups and curators. The site also provides a dedicated suite of services such as payment, logistics, framing, liaison, escrow for Asian artists. Since its founding in July 2010, Artyii has over 1000 quality art pieces and about 400 artists ...
Mar 8 2011
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Explore the Potential of Acrobat PDF
PDF is a file-type invented by Adobe and is a common work tool in the office used to create professional documents. We use it all the time, but are we maximizing its potential? Be sure to impress your co-workers with your Adobe Acrobat skills after going through Adobe's engaging learning journey at the Adobe PDF Guild. Specifically, the guild aims to help users to understand how they can create high impact communication with rich content, driving tighter collaboration and productivity across their personal or corporate work. As an incentive to motivate users to participate in the learning ...
Mar 5 2011
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Get a Profile Video on your Facebook Profile
There are over 140 million Facebook users in Asia and most of us use it everyday. Otherwise, some of us we might suffer withdrawal symptoms without logging on to Facebook. Here's a piece of great news for the narcisstic ones who enjoy changing their profile pictures every alternate days: Thanks to Flip Video, a shoot-and-share HD camcorder, there is now an application on Facebook "Flip your Profile" that makes profiles more engaging by empowering users to upload videos as their Facebook profile picture (instead of a static one). Launched on 14 Feb ...
Jan 15 2011
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The Facebook Obsession [INFOGRAPHIC]
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In 2010, Facebook overtook Google as the most highly visited page on the web – nothing too surprising. With 600 million members and growing, more than 10,000 applications to be utilized, Facebook has changed the way people use the web and connect with one another. Here's a confession: Even though I do chose to remain Google as my browser homepage, the first thing I unconsciously do is type "fa" on my address bar. Tell me I am not the only one?
Jan 20 2011
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Indonesia Is A Huge Social Media Nation
Earlier at iStrategy, John Goodman from Ogilvy Noor had shared about the rising opportunities and abundant potential in marketing to the third one billion after China and India. “Being the 4th largest country in the world, with a population of about 238 million – it isn't a surprise to know that Indonesia is the second largest market for Facebook and third largest for Twitter. We are a trending topic creator,” said Andi Primaretha, a social media consultant at Virtual Consulting. Because the prices of mobile phones and contracts are so cheap in ...
Jan 5 2011
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The Penn Olson Story [INFOGRAPHIC]
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To welcome the new year, here we present to you a simple Penn Olson story to share the site's milestones and achievements thus far... in an infographic! 2010 was a good year for Penn Olson and we are glad to be able to connect with so many readers. And this year, we're certainly looking to connect with more. If you have ever been curious to know how the blog name came about, Willis answers. We also look forward to any feedback to improve Penn Olson in 2011. Let us know how we ...
Dec 31 2010
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Web Giants’ Resolutions for 2011
A year is coming to a close again. How was 2010 for you, and what resolutions have you planned for a better 2011? The guys at JoyOfTech have wrapped up the year with some resolutions they think our web giants like Twitter, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft will be making for the year 2011. Enjoy and happy holidays!
Dec 10 2010
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More Bloggers Becoming Self-Employed [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Is blogging still hot? Sure is. In today's age of user-generated content, we no longer need to rely on media for information. Anyone with internet access has the opportunity to create their own blog, publish their thoughts to communicate to the rest of the world, establish themselves as a thought leader in their field, and possibly even make money out of it. Grasshopper Group has compiled the current state of the blog economy in 2010. Most of the blogging are happening in America, compared to 19% coming from Europe, 8% from ...
Dec 10 2010
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How the World Searched in 2010 [VIDEO]
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Can you guess what were the most popular search terms people typed into Google's search engine over the past year? No prizes for that, but they were Chatroulette, iPad and Justin Bieber. Based on the aggregation of billions of search queries, Google releases Google Zeitgeist, and has put together a great video that captures the spirit of 2010 to wrap up the year. ("Zeitgeist" means "the spirit of the times") For your convenience, they have grouped the data in categories: Entertainment, Sports, Consumer Electronics, Food & Drink, Maps Searches, People, News, Translations, ...
Dec 4 2010
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@LadyGaga and More Celebrities Digitally Dead
Well-known celebrities like Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, Usher, Serena Williams, Jennifer Hudson, and Elijah Wood have stopped updating on their Twitter and Facebook accounts. And it looks like they left a last message and testament video before they departed. Their last tweets direct fans to buylife.org where there are pictures of them resting in coffins. On 1st December, they have taken part in 'Digital Death' as part of World Aids Day to raise awareness and garner donations to save millions of real lives affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and ...
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