… where else but in a Youtube video! They seem delirious with joy. I’d be too, if I was in their shoes. Update: I like how Gizmodo calls it GooTube. (link via Boing Boing) Before the announcement was made, Kevin noted plenty of blogs theorising that copyright owners could just be waiting for Youtube to …
The Wall Street Journal reports that McDonald’s in China advertises beef as sexy, to men. A TV commercial is described thus: “…a man and a woman eat Quarter Pounders, and close-up shots of the woman’s neck and mouth are interspersed with images of fireworks and spraying water. The actors suck their fingers. The voice-over says: …
Did you know? Apple Stores take in almost half a million bucks (US$) a week. Each. And employee turnover is less than half the average for the retail industry. Infinite Loop reports. Bill Clinton visits a group of Democrat bloggers. The former President understands that this is the new wave of public relations. (link from …
This press release, just released today (17 August 2006) has given some food for thought: The Government has accepted the key recommendations of The Third Committee on the Supply of Lawyers chaired by the former Attorney-General Chan Sek Keong. The recommendations include: … Allowing Graduates with Second Class Lower Division Honours degrees to practise law: …
I was checking out the BusinessWeek Online feed using Rojo and saw this headline and blurb: What Will Google Use $2 Billion For? As if it doesn’t already mint money, Google’s raising $2.1 billion more in a new offering. You sure don’t need this kind of money to develop Web services, do you? So maybe …
I hadn’t heard about teen mag Vainquer until I read about it in the Sunday Times today, but this lad is going far. Congratulations to Kristiano Ang, who even has a Wikipedia entry about his magazine. I particularly like what he said in his Founder’s letter: Vainquer Teens is an international magazine. Despite whatever criticism …
There’s an ongoing discussion in the Straits Times Forum section, on customer service. Some Singaporeans complained that white people get better treatment. However, two white men wrote in separately to say that they treat sales staff with respect unlike the locals, and they also get charged more. Touche. Anyway, I’m sure we’ve all had our …
Some Flickr users were up in arms when Yahoo! bought over Flickr’s parent company Ludicorp. Off a tangent: Whenever I hear ‘Ludicorp’ I think ‘ludicrous’. And why is the co-founder’s last name ‘Fake’? Imagine when she’s quoted in the article. “We care deeply about our community, and their worries are ours,” Ms Fake told the …
This is a work-related post. Does anyone know of any Singapore companies who can configure existing content management systems, so that news feeds (RSS and Atom) can also be published at the same time as web pages? Experience with Podcasting is a plus. Let me know soon. Thanks.
It seems that you aren’t supposed to rip legally-purchased CDs into digital format. When I first saw Chris’s original post containing replies from IPOS, I nearly posted my own ‘thesis’ on the issues involved. Then I saw the long list of comments over at Mr Brown’s and I knew this was an issue that hit …