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At Integricity, the company I started that comprises of a digital agency, visuals arm and technology company, we use Google Docs a lot. It helps us keep tabs on the 30 odd staff we have and collaborate on documents. At some point, I should run a workshop on how to squeeze productivity from using this awesome tool. Its used for timesheets, claims and project management – nobody signs on to our company and leaves without a fairly thorough knowledge of … Continue reading
LiveWire! is a cross-denominational, inter-church & even inter-faith media network. It is an organization with the hope that by linking up media artists in Malaysia & beyond, it would encourage & equip them with a greater experience & passion in their work, service & lives. I’ve been helping out at LiveWire! conferences over the last 4 years or so and have seen astounding creative work emerge from it. Lives are transformed and creativity is unleashed. Last year, I was invited … Continue reading
Last week, in conjunction with Launchpad, an agency that provides marketing and branding services, consultancy and project management, I had the pleasure of addressing a group of professionals to talk about how they are marketing their products and services. I was given a 2-hour session, and I hope my illustrations were clear enough to explain the role of digital marketing. Bearing in mind the average attention span of people is a mere 5 minutes these days, filling 120 minutes with … Continue reading
“Quick, download this app named Viber – it gives you free phone calls”, was the WhatsApp message I received. What really is Viber? In a nutshell, it is to voice calls what WhatsApp is for text messaging. This means, 2 persons with Viber installed can exchange phone calls for free (merely using a 3G data plan or WiFi). For now, there are no ads at all, and no fees. Very honestly, I wouldn’t mind paying WhatsApp prices for an app … Continue reading
Up until Maxis passed me a unit of the HTC HD7 for review as part of their Maxis10 initiative, I’ve never had the opportunity to experiment with HD video capabilities of a mobile phone. Naturally, I was most pleased to be given the chance to use a phone with a LARGE (believe me, it is SO VERY LARGE) screen and 720p HD video. One of our Integricity companies was headed to Kuantan for a server deployment and 2011 planning retreat, so … Continue reading
The Internet landscape in Malaysia has long been dominated by our national telco, TM but in recent years, competition has picked up with more players emerging on the field. Aside from the 3G spectrum that is dished out by our regular mobile companies, a 2.3GHz WiMax spectrum was awarded to 4 non-Telco companies in 2006, Bizsurf (YTL), Packet One Networks (P1), Asiaspace Dotcom (Amax) and Redtone (REDtone WiMAX). Four years on, I received the invite to attend the prestigious launch … Continue reading
I’ve been working with video for more than a year now and have learnt so much over that period. I really want to thank my wife Grace who runs her video/photography company called Stories for teaching me so much. Now, I teach her stuff too! With all these awesome videos, I want to show them off on our iPhones and iPad. Digging around for the best and optimum video settings to compress to is just a pain. I’ve summarized my … Continue reading
Right now, I’m traveling the US on a three week tour of the West Coast. Though I brought my trusty MacBook Pro along, I installed a fair number of apps on my iPhone so that I could get to them from my fingertips at any time. Here’s what I found really handy. (Of course I didn’t install ALL of them! Some are based on findings and recommendations by friends). They’re my unbiased reviews of apps I’ve found. Do feel free … Continue reading
You’ve heard the phrase, you cannot create something viral: it just becomes viral. And it’s absolutely true! On January 16th 2010, the Malaysian Information Communication and Culture minister, Dr Rais Yatim stated the following, which was deemed as rather preposterous. This had the whole Internet up in arms against him, especially on the Twittersphere. Here’s an excerpt on what he said taken from The Star Online: SEREMBAN: Malaysians, especially Muslims, must avoid being totally immersed in the internet culture, especially … Continue reading
Today started off as any other day, except for the fact that tweets flooded in about FREE COFFEE at Starbucks! Never mind the ingenius barista who tried to upsell me the full-blown breakfast, I still got a swell deal on coffee. The concept of the campaign is awesome – freebies will definitely engage the general population and word of mouth will be the powerful medium in addition to social media tools that will spread the brand like wildfire. Literally 50% … Continue reading
Here lie my thoughts: that of an entrepreneur, media-junkie, gadget-junkie, photographer, videographer, once-PC-user-but-now-Mac-user and husband.