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65Bits Episode 77 : The end of an Era

June 30, 2008 by SGEntrepreneurs  

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: (1) Good Bye Billy Boy Gates, (2) HP Touchsmart showcase in Singapore – Shout out to Podfire and Suyuen, (3) Creative Commons in Singapore finally – Support Creative Commons in Singapore, (4) Microsoft promises to support XP until 2014, (5) Nokia buys Symbian, turns software over to Symbian Foundation and finally, Byte of the Week: Street directory Alternatives. Do click and check out their podcast.

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SYINC Connect 08 – Youth Conference on Social Entrepreneurship

June 29, 2008 by SGEntrepreneurs  

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Want to meet like-minded people who are passionate about making a difference? Want to learn from respected and experienced community leaders and social entrepreneurs? SYINConnect is a one-day youth conference that connects participants to urgent social issues, and what people are doing about them in Singapore. Participants will get the opportunity to meet the community leaders making change in our society today, and build the skills, networks and confidence to be effective agents of change. Read more

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Interview with Julian Low and the team behind ZopIM

June 25, 2008 by Bernard Leong  

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Zopim is a company incubating under Garag3 from NUS that helps improve your visitors’ experience on your website. Their product enables your visitors and clients to stay in touch with you through your website, using the most convenient form of communication, instant messages. Of course, they have a larger than life story on how they got started. So, we managed to lock Julian Low and his fellow team mates in the Zopim team (Wenxiang, Royston Tay, Yang Bin) for an interview to tell us about ZopIM. Read more

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65Bits Episode 76 : The one with open secrets

June 24, 2008 by SGEntrepreneurs  

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: (1) Apple’s open secret: SproutCore is Cocoa for the Web, (2) Youtube tries long form content, (3) Communicasia and multitude cellphone announcements, (4)iPhone wannabes and why they don’t cut it or why they DO!?:, (5) ASUS gets official with Atom-powered Eee Box, (6) Nvidia and AMD launch TONNES of new graphics cards and Snow Leopard, (7) Solar energy concentration by 1000 at a low cost and SMALL sized?!, (8) Opera 9.5 vs Firefox 3, (9) SIA A380 Super-Jumbo made from Lego and finally, Byte of the Week: Spore Creature Creator. Do click and check out their podcast.

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Change of venue for eBay.dev.shack

June 23, 2008 by SGEntrepreneurs  

Please take note that the venue for the event eBay.dev.shack organized by our partner organization, E27, has been changed due to unforeseen circumstances. It is now at The Arts House and NOT at Timbre @ The Substation. Please refer this map for details. The address of the venue is The Arts House, 1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore 179429 and you are assured that the quality of the event has not been compromised in any sense. For more details, you can directly check out at this wiki page or in their facebook event for details.

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Interview with Ridzuan Ashim, co-founder of Widgeous

June 23, 2008 by Bernard Leong  

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Widgeous is a platform that allows applications and people to communicate via multiple channels like widgets, SMS and Instant Messaging. Co-founded by two young and passionate entrepreneurs, Ridzuan Ashim and Chua U-Zyn, the team recently launched their platform at the Barcamp Singapore II – Maps and Mobile Unconference. So, we took the opportunity to speak to Ridzuan and got him to do an interview with us here in SGE, to tell us more about the story and features of Widgeous together with his thoughts on the trends of building platforms in the Internet. Read more

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Connect The Dots@Singapore blog by Professor Wong Poh Kam

June 21, 2008 by SGEntrepreneurs  

Professor Wong Poh Kam, the director of NUS Entrepreneurship Centre and also an associate professor in the NUS Business School & Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy has just started a blog – Connect The Dots@Singapore to share his thoughts and opinions on different aspects of entrepreneurship, from social innovation to public policy. He started this blog from the inspiration of Steve Job’s famous commencement speech in 2005. Other than his strong academic credentials, Professor Wong is also a known angel investor with the BAF Spectrum in the community.

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Event: eBay.dev.shack by E27

June 20, 2008 by SGEntrepreneurs  

Our partners, E27 is organizing an event for eBay called eBay.dev.shack. It’s a conference for developers interested in pursuing the development of eBay and PayPal API’s. At the end of the event, the eBay developers’ competition would be officially launched, and in the course of the event, there’ll be an auction going on as well. For more details, you can directly register at this wiki page or in their facebook event. Read more

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CrunchNetwork Singapore Meet-up with Greg Kumparak

June 19, 2008 by Bernard Leong  

With a last minute arrangement, a group of us from the local community met up with Greg Kumparak, the MobileCrunch Editor from TechCrunch. He was here to visit and report about the CommunicAsia event. Of all places, he has picked Zouk, one of the famous places in Singapore (like the number 11 out of the top 50 clubs in the world – I may be wrong about this). Here is a short account on what transpired in this gathering. Read more

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CrunchNetwork Singapore Meet-up Tonight at Zouk!

June 18, 2008 by SGEntrepreneurs  

Yes, this is not an April Fool’s day joke. As you all heard that Greg Kumparak is in Singapore for the CommunicAsia event. He has requested for a CrunchNetwork Singapore Meetup. So through our editor Bernard Leong, we have arranged a last minute gathering at 8pm tonight in Zouk to catch up with him. This is going to be an informal gathering. So, see you all there tonight. Update: More details follow: Read more

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