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9 July 2011 – this day will be emblazoned in the minds and hearts of Malaysia for years to come. It’s a sign of protest. A sign of democracy. A sign of change. A sign of oppression. And hopefully, a sign of freedom. Bersih 2.0 is a movement for the people, by the people to fight for reform of the Malaysian electoral process. It is independent of political parties and it strives for fairness. On the media front, it was … Continue reading
Oh well… the battle was fun while it lasted, though it didn’t carry on for too long. Upon arriving in Beijing, China, I was presented with an Internet connection in my hotel that totally blocked YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Blogspot and many other sites (I wrote about it here). Sure I had heard about the issues before arriving in China, and I was determined to get around them. The solution that several sites stated was to sign up for a VPN … Continue reading
And so… I have arrived in China, and have already been warmly welcomed by The Great China Firewall. Facebook, nope. Twitter, nope. Gmail, nope. Blogspot, nope. And many other websites – all NOPE! Only Foursquare and LinkedIn work, among a few other international social media websites. It’s no wonder the local Facebook / Twitter clones known as Weibo and RenRen are thriving. I’ve declared war on it and will endeavour to get around it. When I do, I’ll share more … Continue reading
In yet another bid to make Facebook Pages become even more human, or more like profiles, you can even tag these Pages in photos. Previously, you were only restricted to tagging your friends from your network within photos, but now, it opens up a whole new dimension with opportunities. How will this affect Facebook users? For the most part, it won’t have any effect at all on the average user. For businesses, however, it opens up lots of possibilities. Your … Continue reading
As a proponent of social media, we know how important it is to be transparent and to treat everybody with utmost respect. One golden rule that I uphold is, “whether a person is online or face-to-face, treat them the same”. However, we oftentimes witness brands / companies disrespect people online, just because they leave negative comments. It is seemingly too easy to merely hit the delete link and remove the pain. Now that would be the quickest are surest way to … Continue reading
Chanced upon this video illustrating how the Facebook Profile Team works and it’s interesting to have an insight into how their office is laid out, how meetings are conducted and who some of their engineers are. After all, they are the team supporting the “third largest country in the world”, with 600 million users! * Video from time.com
Many people have heard the terms, “Cloud Computing”, “Cloud Storage”, “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” but what really is this cloud? More importantly, how can this benefit you? You may be surprised, but you’re probably using some form of cloud computing and storage already! Do you have a Yahoo! or Gmail account? Surely you use Facebook? Dropbox? Google Docs? Or Flickr? All of these services represent usage of the cloud, which in my layperson’s explanation is basically making use … Continue reading
These days, bloggers are almost heralded as mainstream media – they are treated princely, wined & dined and given exclusive privileges to events & products. There is no denying the strength a blogger can possess. Someone once compared a pastor of a church with a blogger. He estimated that a pastor needs 20-30 staff to help run a church that spreads its message to a congregation of 2,000 people, once a week. In comparison, an average blogger can reach an … Continue reading
There is no denying that Facebook is one of the hugest things to happen in this century for the online world. Knowing that, it is crucial we harness this knowledge for ourselves to increase traffic to the sites we own. Riding on the “Like” functionality that is spreading like wildfire all over the Internet, here’s an instruction guide on how to get it onto your WordPress blog (if you’re not using WordPress, I’m sorry… but there’s definitely similar guides to … Continue reading
Facebook fan pages can be really creative these days. You could either install applications that have been created already, design your own tab using FBML (which is a variant of HTML – it’s not too difficult) or program your own application (which is the most challenging of the lot). To show you what some sites have done for their fan pages, here’s a cool website called Facebook Showcase that highlights what’s cool out there. You can even submit your fan … 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. 
