News Flash: Beta Launch of Phlook

From the founders of Phlook, and they say, “Yes, almost 4 months into Private Beta, the time has now come to unleash Phlook upon the world! Signing up no longer requires fiddling about with invitations.” By the way, Phlook aims to create a web 2.0 interactive photo-sharing website that creates better ways to organize and manage photos, increases the desirability of each photo and increases the publicity of members and their photos. Our editor (BL – who is ready to frankly declare any possibility conflict of interest) is currently mentoring this interesting start-up with a venture capitalist from Thymos Capital LLP, and btw, he managed to convince his fellow partners and advisory board that Phlook is no clone of Flickr and iStockPhoto, but something more interesting. So, if you are game for something different, check their service out. You can also check out an independent review from a Malaysian tech blogger here in GreyReview.com who walked to BL during a Barcamp and discussed his review about this start-up.

65Bits Episode 81: A Boomy Science Centre

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1]iPhone 3G Preview from Blog2u, [2]Creative Introduces the Sound Blaster Play! [3]Creative announces Zen Mosaic, [4]mioTV gets more channels that people actually care about, [5]Sony Ericsson unveils 3 new phones, [6]Sony Reader goes open, will be able to work with other booksellers, [7]Voodoo products get a place in HP catalogs and the Byte of the Week : AVG Free Anti-virus. Do click and check out their podcast.

Barcamp Malaysia 2008 – Aftermath and Thoughts about Malaysia Web Tech Scene

After going through the two days in Barcamp Malaysia, I am now back in Singapore. To be honest, the Barcamp Malaysia has been an eye-opener for other fellow Singaporeans and myself who took the trip up to check out the interesting web/tech scene in Malaysia. Developers, entrepreneurs and investors from all walks of life are all gathered in this event, and the best part is that the event still go on with lighting talks (5 minutes given to each presenter and one of the speakers talk about Google Gears) even the official schedule is over. Read more

Barcamp Malaysia 2008 – First Glimpses

Reporting from the shores across our causeway, BL (our editor) has travelled to Kuala Lumpur this morning to attend Barcamp Malaysia 2008. He is not the only one, as this event has attracted many Singaporeans to turn up there: the entire team from Widgeous (Ridzuan and U-Zyn), Mohan from E27, Ben Koe, Kelvin Quee, Preetam and Wong Meng Weng (a Singaporean entrepreneur who came back from Silicon Valley). Here are some of the highlights for the event with a short review and pictures from the event. Read more

Event: You have a date with the First Singaporean hired by Google

From our friends in The Digital Movement: Now, you must be thinking, who in the world is the Jolly Good Fellow? Here’s a hint: What do Gwyneth Paltrow, Bill Clinton, SR Nathan and His Holiness the Dalai Lama have in common? Find the answer in New York Times’ article: Hey, Who’s He? With Gwyneth? The Google Guy! Want to know what it’s like to work and PLAY in Google? Want to find out more about how Google promotes innovation? Then you must come and meet Google’s Jolly Good Fellow. Read more

Barcamp Malaysia this weekend!

Across our causeway in the coming weekend (26-27 July 2008), our Malaysian friends have organized Barcamp Malaysia at Jalan Ampang (near KLCC), Kuala Lumpur. Other than showcasing the up and coming technology discussions among the developers, entrepreneurs and investors over there, they have also invited us over, for example, Widgeous will be presenting their platform in the Barcamp, and some of us from both SGE and E27 will be attending the event as well, with our editor Bernard Leong also presenting on a panel with his Malaysian counterpart on the state of investment, valuation and funding between both countries & Preetam Rai, who will present his overview on the development of interesting web companies across Asia with his travels. Do check out their blog for the most exciting developments and the schedule of the event. If you happen to be in town, you should check out the event.

Event: i.Jam Networking Session, announcing the launch of i.Match

We are honoured to have RADM (NS) Lui Tuck Yew, Senior Minister Of State For Education And Information, Communications And The Arts as our guest of honour to announce the launch of i.MATCH, a matching program to bridge companies ready for investments and potential investors. Read more

65Bits : Episode 80 – YYYYYYYYAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!

From SGE team, we congratulate (1) the Tech65 team for winning the best podcast/videocast award from the 2nd anniversary Ping.SG awards. Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: (2) Shoutout to Singapore GarageBand Meetup, (3) E3 Round up – (a) (i) New Dashboard for xBox360, (ii) Portal : Still Alive on XBLA, (iii) Play Without your Disk, (iv) Access Live Marketplace remotely from your Browser (v) Finally Final Fantasy XIII comes to xBox360 and (vi) Microsoft Lips, (b) Wii – (i) Wii Speak, (ii) WiiMote Motion Plus, (iii) GTA for Nintendo DS, (iv) Guitar Hero : On Tour Sequel for Nintendo DS (v) Wii music, (c) PS2 Bundle – The 256-player MAG, (4) Starwars : The Force Unleashed for the iPhone, (5) The Intel Centrino 2.0 launched in Singapore, (6) Apple says turn-by-turn GPS coming to iPhone, copy / paste not a high priority, (7) Apple files suit against Psystar for copyright infringement, mellow-harshing, (8) MIT opens new ‘window’ on solar energy, (9) Hands-On With the Voodoo Envy’s Instant-On OS, and finally, Byte of the Week : Google Gears.

The Third State of Our Blog

A few days back, Gwen and Weichang notified me that our blog is finally reaching our third birthday and our official birthday is 18 July (the day which we registered the domain). Hence it is that time of the year to have the third state of our blog. Believe it or not, our blog has already made it to the third year and we are still growing. Instead of really talking about things which we did this year or not, I like to use this third state of the blog to open up how SGE has maintained its position over the years with her partners, and the many more things which we hope to do within the two years or more. Read more

The Geek Goddess Show Episode 7: AdTech & eBay.Dev.Shack.

In the latest episode, we move back to the web 2.0 universe back in China and Singapore. First of all, Estee and Peter talk about the demise of one of the video sharing sites, 65.com in China. Following on, Peter interviews Ming Shen, co-founder of Nuffnang where he shares his recent experience in the Ad-Tech event, a conference focusing on digimarketing and online advertising. Finally, one of our producers did the uncanny job of interviewing Kevin Lau, Project Manager of eBay SEA about the eBay developer program and eBay developer challenge and also his thoughts about eBay.Dev.Shack event organized by E27 in the Arts House. Of course, do check out the other shows in Podfire.sg. Read more

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