These days, everything is about Obama. You walk into a restaurant and the next table is yakking about him. From his good looks to his promises to his speechwriter and even to how his body looks like! A friend of mine who just got back from Ethiopia reports that there are banners of support for him hanging all over the airport there! Back in the states, there are banner ads that flash his face, Google-looking sweatshirts and even chocolates with a cheap representation of him? Geez…

Well, I decided to …

If you’re a twitter-maniac and are following hundreds or thousands of Internet users – aside from the fact you’re quite crazy, you might want to streamline which tweets are prioritized over others. I can’t imagine having a tweet come in every minute or so and mess up your timeline.
Enter twitTangle which has the tagline of “untangling the mess of too many friends”. It allows you to assign ratings and tags to friends and based on those presets, you can filter what you want to see, and what you’d like to …

How did a single photo prove to be an astounding success and turn into a totally viral campaign? Even more interesting were the behind the scenes photos which many did not get to see.
The background to this campaign was a software reseller in Indonesia wanted to have a compelling reason for people to surf on by and find out about their products, and they engaged Bates 141 to work on it. The result was this amazing piece of work that was dubbed “hyper-realistic” by some blogs.
Within a week of the …

A quick post on how things change online depending on where you are. We transited at Kuwait International and I quickly wanted to check on a location I had to go to. And whoaa… things changed drastically on screen. Gave me a bit of a surprise for awhile.

Even Facebook was trying to serve me their localized ads. Sorry, I don’t read Arabic, though!

Wow, I end the year with spelling errors on the national postal service website, and I start the year with an “interesting message” for the Kuala Lumpur City Hall left by a certain interesting individual with the handle “manadocoding”. It’s supposedly left for a “malingsia” – or is that supposedly Malaysia? Whatever the case, it’s really embarrassing – and no one has stepped in to fix it yet. It’s been a good 48 hours since.

Our enterprising detectives at my office – Integricity, set off immediately to google the handles, and …