Another special episode from the crew in This Week in Asia. Following the Neoteny Conference last week on 12-13 Dec in Singapore, we manage to catch Joi Ito (Founder of the Neoteny Labs, CEO of Creative Commons, Board member of Digital Garage) for a short conversation. We discussed with Joi on the origin, purpose and plan for Neoteny Labs in Singapore and around Southeast Asia, the lessons of agile development, pivoting and unstructured learning for start-ups, and his thoughts on the evolution of the web in the coming year. Joi also shared with us on what traits he look for in the entrepreneurs when reviewing a potential company for investment and mentoring. Note that you can listen to the podcast in SGE or go to the TWIA page direct. Read more
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Filed under Media, Mobile, Technology, WebTags: Agile Development, Consumer Web, Creative Commons, Hackerspace SG, James Chan, Joi Ito, Neoteny Conference, Neoteny Labs, Pivotal Labs, podcast
The TWIA crew is back without Mike Foong this week. We glanced through the recent BlackBerry Bold 9700 launch by RIM in Singapore, where BL has an “embarassing” encounter with Denise Keller, from MTV Asia. After that short and funny anecdote, the crew discussed the follow up to the Friendster acquisition by MOL Global last week to exactly how much they are being priced, with the mobile social networking platform, Mozat raising Series A Funding From JAFCO Asia and the entrance of India’s GupShup into the Southeast Asia market. Finally, the crew looks at the implications of Internet Filtering and Censorship in Australia based on the “CleanFeed” trial. Read more
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Filed under Media, Mobile, Technology, WebTags: Australia, Blackberry, Blackberry Apps World, CleanFeed, Denise Keller, Foyage, Friendster, Golden Village, Mig33, MOL, Mozat, This Week in Asia
If you have ever left home and could not stop worrying about your kids or your pets, a surveillance system is something you need. However, solutions out in the market usually consist of expensive systems that takes some technical knowhow to set up in the first place. So if you have ever wished for a simple plug-and-play system, HomeCamera may be what you have been waiting for. Read more
Fri, 25th Dec: MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Sat, 26th Dec: Happy Boxing Day!
(1) CodeAndroid Christmas Get Together Session
Image courtesy of stephend9.
CodeAndroid will be having no meetup this month in December. Instead there will be a CodeAndroid Get Together for everyone to get to know each other informally, have some drinks and chill out at Hackerspace. No agenda, no program, just free for all to come to relax and if you want, enjoy the aircon/wifi while coding away. Read more
In celebration of their one month old birthday and Christmas, there will be another party at HackerspaceSG tonight. There will be Halal food, drinks (including some wine and other forms of alcohol). Donations will be accepted. And if you wish, you can also participate in the gift exchange by bringing a gift of no more than $15, wrap it up, hide it and come up with clues to find it. So a gift-exchange-cum-treasure-hunt. Read more
In a special episode during the Neoteny Conference, Daniel and BL sat down and talk to Wong Meng Weng, one of the co-founders of Hackerspace SG. We discuss the story of Hackerspace SG and how it happened, the current state of entrepreneurship scene in Singapore, and also one of the interesting topics which Meng Weng opened the discussion in Neoteny Conference – If we are to create a Y-Combinator clone in Singapore what are the features should we adopt? Read more
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Filed under Media, Technology, WebTags: HackerSpace, Hackerspace SG, Paul Graham, Startup Incubator, Ted Christansen, This Week in Asia, TWIA, venture capital, Venture Incubator, Wong Meng Weng, Y Combinator, Y Combinator Clone
Recently, TenCube, one of our local mobile security companies have made a lot of headway in the international scene. First they won the recent Google Android Challenge 2 competition with their flagship product, WaveSecure. We have received news from Darius Cheung, the CEO of TenCube, since it is near Christmas, as a giveback to Android users support that made their ADC win possible, they are offering an unlimited free lifetime account for Android users. To do that, the users can head over to Android Market and download WaveSecure before 31st Jan 2010, the new user will be able to enjoy a free WaveSecure account for as long as you use that Android device. Read more
Filed under Mobile, News StopTags: Darius Cheung, Google Android Challenge, Mobile, NAVTEQ, Nokia, Ovi, security, SingTel, TenCube, wavesecure
ACE has teamed up with the Sandbox Network to bring to you the next BlueSky Exchange. Meet award-winning Swiss entrepreneurs Dominik Grolimund, co-founder of Wuala (recently acquired by Lacie) and Antoine Verdon, CEO of Sandbox Network, and hear about their innovative business models and success. Serial entrepreneur Guillaume Beauverd, CEO of G2 Ventures (invested in Poken and others) will give his views as an activist investor operating in the European high tech and finance hub of Geneva. Read more
The company behind popular mobile social networking platform Mozat (formerly known as Morange) has previously raised seed funding from Singapore investment funds such as BAF Spectrum, Symphony Investments, SPRING SEEDS Capital and NUS Enterprise. This time, it raises an undisclosed amount of Series A funds from JAFCO Asia. Read more
