65Bits Episode 112: The Quietest Cafe in Singapore

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] New Fujitsu service centre, [2] HP’s new Pavilion DV2 budget ultra portable, [3] Games Developers’ Conference 2009 – OnLive – Cloud gaming console, [4] Singapore 4th most networked country… Yawn…, [5] Windows Vista – Now no longer a technical failure but a PR failure? – Microsoft’s latest “I’m a PC” ad, [6] Samsung TouchWiz UI (P.s. When I said “confirmed”, I really meant “convinced”), and the Byte of the week! Wait, let’s talk about Facebook first and finally, Byte of the Week: Gmail Labs: Undo send!. Do click and check out their podcast.

Barcamp KL – April 2009

Our friends across the causeway will be holding Barcamp KL on 4th & 5th of April 2009 in Level 4, Inti College Subang Jaya. You can check out more information about the sessions and venue via their wiki page. If you are keen on web development, social networks and new ideas from Travel 2.0 to Fashion, this is definitely the event to go. BarCamp is basically a very open, participant-driven workshop event where people share knowledge and ideas and expand their social and business network. There is usually no particular theme. Those people who want to share ideas and knowledge – of any subject, in any field – could register for time and room to host their session. Then, the rest of the people could come to event for free and join any session that they are interested in. If they find that the session uninteresting, they could just leave and go to the next one. Note that Barcamp Singapore III is just over and we are looking forward to the KL and Bangkok one in the coming months.

Fickle Kids Should Just Rent-That-Toy

Kids are fickle, we all know that. They pester you to buy a $100 toy every other fortnight only to chuck it aside after playing with it for a few days. But what most of us are unaware of is that Rent That Toy! can come to the rescue. Read more

Mini-Preneurs – Rent A Box To Sell Merchandise

Are you a budding entrepreneur looking for a place to display your merchandise and test the market? Do you have any old toys and collectibles which you want to sell? Are you trying to sell that cosplay prop or costume which you painstakingly made? Read more

Event: Subroto Bagchi – SMU IIE Distinguished Speaker 8 Apr 09

Much has been written about entrepreneurship and of successful entrepreneurs. Is there a DIY manual to success? Subroto believes much of success can be designed. Subroto talks through his personal experience of starting up MindTree and leading it from the front with 9 others to a very successful IPO in 2007. He talks about the many designs that lead to success and many pitfalls to avoid.

Subroto weaves his talk with anecdotes, quotes interesting people, celebrates the wins and learns from the challenges while carving out lessons for the audience to take home.

It’s a ‘must hear’ for entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs and people who celebrate and propagate the spirit of entrepreneurship.

Distinguished Speaker: Mr. Subroto Bagchi, Co-Founder & Gardener of MindTree

Event details:
Date: Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Time: 5 pm to 7 pm
Venue: Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, Level 2, (Schools of Accountancy & Law), SMU

Register here.

About the Speaker
Subroto Bagchi is best known for co-founding MindTree in 1999 where he started as the Chief Operating Officer. MindTree is among India’s most admired companies across industries.

In 2008, Bagchi took on the role of Gardener at MindTree. In this new role, Bagchi spends one-on-one time with the Top-100 leaders at MindTree on their ‘personal-professional’ issues to expand leadership capacity and build readiness for taking MindTree into the billion-dollar league. In addition, Bagchi works at the grassroots by making himself available to its 45 Communities of Practice that foster organizational learning, innovation and volunteerism within the organization.

Bagchi has written extensively in leading newspapers and magazines, and spoken at industry platforms and educational institutions the world over. His Businessworld column – Arbor Mentis – and Times of India column – Times of Mind – were widely read and discussed. Many of these are archived at www.mindtree.com/subrotobagchi.

His first book, The High Performance Entrepreneur was released in 2006 as a Penguin Portfolio publication to great critical acclaim. His second book, Go Kiss the World was released in 2008 as a Penguin Portfolio. Mark Tully hailed it as “a remarkable story of courage, integrity and enterprise”.

65Bits Episode 111: !!!!111oneOneONE

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] The Microsoft discussion, a discussion after a visit to Microsoft’s HQ – (a) Windows 7 – their new Gear65 episode, (b) What’s “Windows Cloud”, not to be confused with Windows Live (Officially known as Windows Azure) or Microsoft Online, (c) What’s going on with Windows Live, (d) Cool trick in Live Messenger: Video Avatars, (e) MS Singapore working on specific frameworks in next Windows Mobile – Location Based platform. Will it ever happen?, (f) Microsoft as a platform company – are they compromising the wrong things?, [2] The Dell Adamo – the slimmest notebook in the world today. Even we think so, [3] The iPhone 3.0 – What Apple should have done in the first place (a) iPhone 3.0, what Apple is doing (post by Daniel and Jerrick), (b) Implications on the Palm Pre, (c) Apple’s iPhone, the phone that developers hate to love and love to hate, (d) HTML5 – what used to be Palm Pre’s strength is now Android’s, iPhones and Windows Mobile’s extra feature, [4] Social Media… uhh… Breakfast ( in New York time…) 6 and the Byte of the Week: TwitterFall. Do click and check out their podcast.

Android Dev/User Group Meet Up – March 2009

The Singapore Android Dev/User Group is organizing the 1st Android Dev/User Group Meeting (need access to FB events). The meeting will be held on Saturday, March 28, 2009, from 10:00am – 12:00pm in NUS School of Computing COM1/204 SR2 (See Map). It will be a meet up for the current or would be Android developers in Singapore. This initial event is to get to know everyone in the group, and brainstorm how we can build this community in Singapore. Here is the agenda: (1) App Showcase, (2) PhoneGap demo by Daniel Dao Quang Minh and (3) Discussion on boot camp as suggested by Yek Chong. Do check out this event.

Win Xbox 360 And Guitar Hero World Tour!

Love strumming along to Oasis but don’t wish to buy the full Guitar Hero set? Here’s your chance to win it. Our partner, Microsoft has a new contest, Spark-A-Friend, that allows you to do just that. Microsoft® BizSpark™ is a global program designed to accelerate the success of early stage startups and provides access to software, support and visibility. SGE is one of their network partners.

Just fill in the form with 20 startups who are yet to be enrolled in BizSpark! These startups must qualify for BizSpark. If someone else submitted that startup in their list, it cancels out. The remaining startups will be the number of “unique” startups in your list. The person with the highest number of unique startups in their list by the end of contest wins!

Contest ends on April 15, 2009 at 11:59 PM.

Interview With Min, Little Red Heels

Dealing virtually with clients does not mean that Min does not try to add a personal touch to the interaction. Always typing and responding to emails from clients with a smile on her face, Min believes that these smiles can be subtly communicated through text. We listen to Min as she speaks about Little Red Heels, an online blogshop that she started with her friend. Read more

3rd Singapore Python User Group Meeting

The Singapore Python Group is organizing the 3rd Singapore Python User Group Meeting (need access to FB events). The meeting will be held on Thursday, April 16, 2009, from 7:00pm – 9:00pm in SMU, SIS (School of Information System) NSR 2.2. The programme includes (i) iPython – Andrew Hadinyoto, (ii) PyCon Chicago 2009 – Sharing – Liew Beng Keat, Morgan Heijdemann, (iii) An Ajax Django App with Revision Control Features using Myer’s Algorithm – Calvin Cheng and (iv) Lightning talks – Open Invitation. Look forward to see you there.

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