CNN television reports that a woman caught two young men who stole her Palm Pilot. She went to Craigs List and arranged to meet with them. They tried to sell her Palm Pilot back to her. She also obtained identification of one of them, from his MySpace account. Using social media to right wrongs…
Eric Meyer made a brave statement on the lack of gender diversity at web conferences (as previously posted by Kottke). He said it shouldn’t matter. I agree with him. Who cares if the speaker is male or female, gay or straight, white or black? If they are the expert on the subject, that is all …
Just saw some unusual photos – Steve Jobs and Bill Gates having a conversation in public. Aww. Possible captions Bill: Hey Steve… er, about that iPhone …
Just found this on the HP Singapore website, one click away from the home page: I’m chuckling. Haven’t seen this kind of thing on a commercial website in ages.
Avid followers of Second Life news would have heard of Crayon, the first new media marketing agency to be established in this virtual world. Well, since I couldn’t break into IBM land (see previous post), I decided to try my luck with an agency that welcomed visitors. Here’s a shot of Crayon from the outside. …
I have been visiting various campuses in Second Life to learn how visitors can be engaged and learn new things using this medium. Worthy of mention is the Second Life Planetarium (Slurl:Second Life Planetarium) where you can view the constellations moving around you, with a guided voice tour. It felt like I was in an …
This dude did something awesome with his Second Life house. Technorati Tags: Second Life
Managed to sit on my bum after 2 hours of family choir rehearsals (I skipped the ballroom and salsa dance practice because of the swift movements required). Yesterday I created my Second Life account and looked for Kevin and Ivan online. Met Alvin as well. Yay, our own little Singaporean community in Second Life. Look …
A new search engine which claims to be ‘more natural and intuitive’, may pose a challenge to Google. Quoting Techcrunch, I haven’t seen a demo of upcoming search engine Powerset yet, but reportedly many people who have are impressed, saying they’d never use Google again. Sounds mighty powerful to me. I’ll wait for the public …
I abandoned Friendster after a while, when it got slower and I lost interest in the whole social networking fad. But now that it’s improved, I’ve logged back in and discovered: Horrors – old incriminating photographs of me and my past lives! Many friends have updated their profiles and photographs and it’s fun going through …