As a supportive member of Apple's cult brand, I used to be very sure that I would never look at any other brand of laptops other than Mac. But sad to say, I am getting very disappointed with Apple. The only reason why I am still sticking to a Mac is because there isn't any other brand (in my eyes) that can beat it. But as soon as I find something as fast and virus free, I am ready to jump boat. - Why am I saying this? I bought an aluminum Macbook (missing a ...
Feb 14 2010
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STATS: 50% Twitter Users Dislike Google Buzz
Connect with us via Google Buzz here Despite the loud buzz on Twitter, Google Buzz isn't that well received by Twitter users. According to Crimson Hexagon's findings, 50% of the people surveyed dislike it and another 15% have privacy issues with it. But Twitter users aren't that loyal either - only 6% of the people surveyed pledged loyalty to the micro-blogging giant. The data was collected from 9 to 12 February, representing only the first impression Twitter users have on Google Buzz. Google Buzz might not be spectacular at first sight, ...
Feb 14 2010
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Happy Chinese New Year!
Gong Xi Fa Cai! We would like to take this chance to wish all our readers a very prosperous Chinese New year! To people who are not familiar with this festival, today marks the first day of the first month in the Chinese calender. During the whole period of the festival, it is only normal to see people wearing red, children collecting ang baos (red packets with money in it) from married couples, families exchanging mandarin oranges and everyone celebrating with dragon dance, fire crackers, food goodies and songs. Before we go collect ang ...
Feb 11 2010
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Twitter and Super Bowl 2010 [STATS]
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More people are accessing the Internet while watching TV - Super Bowl proved this point last Sunday. @kevinweil from the Twitter analytics team managed to produce an informative graph that illustrates the reaction (in terms of tweets) of Twitter users during Super Bowl. Kevin explains it best: "We categorized each incoming tweet as about the Super Bowl itself, about the brands or the commercials, or neither. Dividing each group by the total volume of tweets, we produced the graph below which represents a minute-by-minute reflection of people's thoughts and emotions during ...
Feb 10 2010
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Infographic: Facebook’s Amazing Growth
Facebook celebrated its 6th birthday five days ago looking bigger than ever. With 400 million active users, only China and India have larger populations than that. At this rate, if it was a country, it would soon have the biggest population in the world. Besides being huge in size, we also have 34 interesting facts of Facebook that are equally mind blowing. But first, check out this concise infographic by pingdom below.
Feb 9 2010
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Screw Focus Groups, Use Social Media
Social media is not only great for building relationships, it is great for collecting feedback as well. But how many companies actually take feedback seriously? How many are like Starbucks and Dell, which actually turn feedback into change for the better? We all know that we don't have the whole universe in our hands, and that some feedback generate either too expensive or infeasible ideas. But if you are looking at the long term, you must be ready to commit resources to improve product flaws. That brings me to using social media ...
Feb 7 2010
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Facebook’s New Photo Uploader
More than 2.5 billion photos are uploaded to Facebook each month. Imagine how many more there would be if uploading wasn't such a pain sometimes. A new photo uploader that is faster and simpler certainly sounds appealing. According to Inside Facebook, "The company has rebuilt the uploader to run as a browser plugin, which should mitigate the bugs and other problems that users have sometimes encountered with it to date. To get started, users will need to install the plugin in their browser, a process the company says should only take a couple ...
Mar 3 2010
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PICS: World’s First Tweetup On An Aircraft
The world's first tweetup on Bombardier Q400 has successfully ended! We would like to thank all who have attended and the Bombardier team for making this special event possible. Besides the Q400 aircraft, we got to tour the luxurious challenger 850 business jet as well. Check out some of the many pics that were taken during the tweetup: - - Congratulations to @unfluff - the lucky winner of the 1:55 scale Q400 model worth over 500 USD! P.S: Penn Olson was mentioned on Channel News Asia for co-organizing this unique tweetup (Thanks Alan for the ...
Feb 5 2010
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PIC: A Guide To Facebook’s New Homepage
Facebook has changed its homepage design again. But I trust it will make our experience a better one. This new homepage basically promises the same things: faster, better, easier, as explained in a relatively lengthy blog post. 80 million users are already able to view the new homepage live. The picture below basically tells you everything you need to know about this new homepage. Let us know what you like or don't like about this new design after. Click to enlarge image. Special thanks to Eric Stoller.
Feb 4 2010
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BREAKING: The World’s First Tweetup On An Aircraft
It's official. SimpliFlying and Penn Olson are proud to bring you the world's first tweetup on an aircraft thanks to the peeps at Bombardier. And not just any aircraft. It's the Bombardier Q400, painted in airBaltic colours, we are talking about! Not only that, we are throwing in free beer and munchies generously sponsored by the Bombardier team. Can it get any better? I don't think so. Even though this tweetup is by invitation only, if you are heading down to the Airshow this Friday from 3.30 - 5.00pm (which means ...
Jan 31 2010
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Twitter Marketing As Simple As Chatting
Even though there are tips on how you can improve your Twittter marketing efforts, sometimes things are best kept "business-free." Sending out too many business related tweets can be overwhelming for your followers. On the other hand, casual tweets don't really benefit your business, or do they? - No one cares about you Who are you and why should I care about what you have to offer? This is the cold reality we live in, especially when you are new on Twitter. For those of you who have succeeded on Twitter, you probably started ...
Jan 29 2010
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Singapore Airshow 2010 On Social Media #SIN10
This year, The Singapore Airshow is finally going social and Penn Olson is part of it! We are proud to be its unofficial Social Media partner, a joint effort with SimpliFlying, an award-winning aviation blog and branding company. In case you are unfamiliar, The Singapore Airshow is the world's Top 3 aviation events, and also the biggest aerospace and defense exhibition in Asia. The event is taking place from 2 to 7 February 2010. Along with Shashank, author of SimpliFlying, we will be blogging about the latest happenings and how you ...
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