Correction: I was told by LiveJournal Singapore that the sample size is 868, not 1.2 million. It is still a representative sample size though. And fyi, LiveJournal has 1.2 million Singaporean users. Looking for Christmas gifts? Try LiveJournal Singapore: There are over 50,000 ‘blogshops’ in the country selling anything from clothing to muffins. According to a recent survey by Livejournal (its 1.2 million sample size is massive, accounting for more than one-fifth of our total population!), it was found that blogshops on the platform generated more than US$72 million worth of transactions ...
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Sep 2 2011
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TackThis Now in Open Beta, Makes Social Commerce Stores Embeddable By Anyone
Singapore-based start-up TackThis is a platform that allows anyone to create an e-commerce store and embed it on their Facebook pages, blogs or any website. I like the concept and thought that the team has made a solid product that helps non-techies to get the job done. I learned that TackThis is now in open beta. Yes, everyone is now invited to use its service, and it's free for basic account. Damian Chow, co-founder at TackThis, gave me a run through of his creation. The backend of the product looks very ...
Aug 7 2011
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CEO of SUP Media Shares More About Livejournal.sg
Annelies van den Belt, CEO of SUP Media, the Russian parent company of Livejournal.sg, was in Singapore last week for the official launch of Livejournal.sg - a dedicated site for LiveJournal users in Singapore. In short, the new site aims to build a convenient one-stop blogshop community in Singapore — a community for LiveJournal users, powered by LiveJournal users. The blogshop phenomenon in Singapore started at least 5 to 6 years ago but only now has LiveJournal has started to enter this market. Every month, Singapore generates a whopping 30 million pageviews ...
Aug 5 2011
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LiveJournal.sg Officially Launched, Here Are Some Screenshots!
LiveJournal.sg has officially launched in Singapore, as the press conference just ended a couple of hours ago. As most of our readers know, Tickled Media is the managing partner for LiveJournal in Singapore. In a nutshell the new LiveJournal.sg site is more localized for its Singapore audience, and you might be surprised to hear that some of its user stats are pretty remarkable. Annelies van den Belt, the CEO of SUP Media, revealed that in Singapore there are currently 500,000 registered users and these bloggers/shoppers generate a whopping 30 million page ...
Aug 28 2009
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Cyxymu is “George” from Tbilisi
CNN has made the first move towards understanding why Cyxymu (his Twitter username) was the target of the recent DDoS attack on major sites like Livejournal, Twitter and Facebook. Cyxymu has identified himself as George, a 34 year old residing in Tbilisi, Georgia. George told CNN that his Livejournal blog posts might have "irritated" someone enough to incite a DDoS attack. His recent posts include: "How Russia was preparing military agression (sic) against Georgia, how they were training soldiers and mobilizing military equipment, what kind of provocations were carried out by the ...
Aug 7 2009
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Social Media Meltdown
The Social Media realm has in fact been hit by the DDoS attack. The more popular social network sites have been experiencing longer load times and inaccessibility to some of their services. Twitter users were the first to be denied access to the site. This resulted in more traffic being directed to Facebook, which was already having troubles of its own. This has caused them to point their fingers to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack - the work of hackers. Infected sites include Livejournal as well. Related applications such as ...
Aug 7 2009
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What is DDoS?
With Twitter, Facebook and Livejournal down, the evil Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack has caught the attention of Internet users, leaving them bewildered and curious. So what is DDoS? It is an effort to make a site inaccessible to its intended users and preventing it from working normally. This is usually done by attacking the site with a multitude of compromised systems (bots). Because the victim site can't handle the huge influx of traffic/messages, it would be slowed, dysfunctional and forced offline. Catch the video to understand more: Read more on Social Media ...
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