Fight A Robot From Halfway Round The World

While fantasies of kicking Terminator’s butt may never come true, with MakeAffinity‘s new revolutionary live robot sharing platform, you can not only play with your own robot, but also get the chance to control another halfway across the world. Or if you are up for some competition, pit your robot against an opponent in short death matches of 1 to 5 minutes. If you’ve been one of those boys or girls who loved playing with the Lego Mindstorms sets, this is your chance to take it one step further. Read more

Zopim Is Hiring Developers

Zopim has a few positions open for developers. Read more

Mozilla Drumbeat Challenge @ Neoteny Camp Singapore

The Neoteny Singapore Camp (NSC) is an event in Singapore, taking place on 12-13 Dec 2009 for two full days in SMU, Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Singapore. One of the highlights of the events will be the Mozilla Drumbeat Challenge initiated by Mark Surman, Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation, a session during the camp on 12 Dec 2009 from 5-6 pm. The Mozilla Drumbeat Challenge now seeks entrepreneurs to deliver a presentation in 5 minutes of pure passion where you can (1) outline a concrete project idea that will make the web better or simply (2) explain the open web and why it matters. More details are included here: Read more

In Conversation with Wong Joon Ian, co-founder of Bloomerang

Bloomerang is a start-up founded by two founders, Zhiwen and Joon Ian. Their first product, BloomerHang® transforms clothes hangers into a novel, eco-friendly advertising platform. What’s more interesting, it is a product made of recycled cardboard and completely biodegradable and recyclable. The product even goes as far as ending the team as a finalist to the President’s Design Award Singapore 2009: Design of the Year. What’s the story behind this eco-conscious and ideas-driven startup? We caught Wong Joon Ian, one of the co-founders and sat down to interview him about the story behind Bloomerang, the process of getting the trademark and the challenges in position BloomerHang as an advertising platform.
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This Week in Asia Episode 4: The One with Ladies from Google

In a special podcast during Barcamp Singapore 4 in Infocomm Development Authority Singapore, we speak to two ladies from Google US, Stephanie Liu and Christine Songco who have traveled across Southeast Asia for the past few days and share with us their experiences in engaging the developer communities and Google Technology User Groups (GTUGs) here. You can check out the podcast directly from here.

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65Bits Episode 145: Preview is the new Beta

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week with Mike Foong (theITChannel and TWIA) as the special guest in Barcamp Singapore 4 sponsored by IDA Singapore: [1] Google Maps finally fully featured in Singapore Correction: Transit information like MRT and Bus routes are also available in Singapore Google Map, [2] Google’s Chrome OS revealed and [3] Windows Mobile loses nearly a third of market share. Do click and check out their latest podcast here.

Hold Your PC In The Palm Of Your Hand

“To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.” ~ William Blake. While most of us would have much trouble grasping infinity, we can quite literally hold our PC in the palm of our hands. Read more

This Week in Asia Episode 3: What’s so juicy & delicious about Asia this week?

This week, the crew talks about the browser wars happening in China, the chinese social network trends with a report from CNNIC, the 4G network in Malaysia, and also Daniel’s encounter with Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter and Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook in YES2009. We also plugged the Barcamp Singapore event happening this weekend and also the launch of HackerSpace Singapore as well. You can listen to the podcast here. Read more

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Building Online Communities for Non Profit Organizations

Barcamp Singapore 4 was just over. During the event, I made a presentation on “Building Online Communities for Non-Profit Organizations”, which focus on how non-profit organizations can either leveraging on existing large social networks (for e.g. Facebook Pages for Oxfam GB/US or Causes) or built their own to fulfil their strategic objectives (Kiva.org which focus on micro-lending for entrepreneurs in developing nations), for example, fundraising, creating awareness and canvassing community volunteers. Finally, I end with a local example, Give.SG, where one of the co-founders declared during my talk that their platform will be up soon within a month. One of the most important lessons which is not evident from the slides is that I focus on is that building online communities should be a means that can transition your cause into the offline and it is important to find a way to move offline to gather and canvass for your non-profit social cause. Here are the slides where you can check out the talk: Read more

A Foreign Entrepreneur Finds It Hard To Scale A Team In Singapore

French entrepreneur Hugo Angelmar has been based in Singapore working on a startup he co-founded with a few others. Here, he shares his experiences on trying to find computer scientists in Singapore. Read more