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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
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
Tweetdeck groups are now obsolete. They have since been replaced by Twitter lists, which are the universally accepted way for organizing contacts. Transfer your groups to lists with these instructions Continue reading
Time-to-market is key in the race to “break the news”, but news agencies oftentimes seem to falter with information that is seemingly handed to them, and not verified. Some, as with this case, have their new media staff on standby to write up and post news quickly, even on weekends! Today, the Daily Mail, UK’s 2nd biggest-selling newspaper made a boo boo by quoting a parody Twitter account, thinking it was the REAL Steve Jobs. Many of us who spend … Continue reading
If you’ve been on Twitter over the last 3 days, you would surely have encountered the dreaded fail whale (if you don’t know what this is, you’re absolutely not Twitdicted… yet!). Here’s what a fail whale is, and it generally rears its head when Twitter is overcapacity, or not performing as it should. We’ve just found out via Twitter engineer (@jeanpaul) that the cause of these outages is primarily due to internal sub-networks being over-capacity. He outlines 3 problems and … Continue reading
It seems Tweeting has reached higher heights and a sign is needed to ban it in the event of a fire! Though I’m sure this is a comedic image, it shows how reliant we are on Twitter at all times. Continue reading
On the street I saw a small girl cold and shivering in a thin dress, with little hope of a decent meal. I became angry and said to God; “Why did you permit this? Why don’t you do something about it?” For a while God said nothing. That night he replied, quite suddenly: “I certainly did something about it. I made you.” For many months, I have been silently following a website that is interestingly called InvisiblePeople.tv. It is an … Continue reading
Was on Twitter today, and saw a new blurb pop up announcing Local Trends. Find out what’s trending in a locality near you… but only if you are from one of these countries or cities. Twitter currently supports: Brazil Canada Ireland Mexico United Kingdom United States (filter down to: Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Francisco, Seattle, São Paulo, Washington D.C. Here’s a comparison of what is trending worldwide … 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.