65Bits Episode 153: It’s China day

Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] Google: A new approach to China, [2] Google Plans to Upgrade Old Billboards in Street View, [3] German government issues official warning. Do NOT use Internet Explorer until it is fixed, [4] Facebook Releases Their Version Of Retweets As Twitterfication Continues, [5] Lenovo Thinkpad Edge and X100e. Do click and check out their latest podcast here. You can now also listen to the Tech65 podcast here as well by coming to the blog post directly. Read more

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TWIA Episode 13: The Google Showdown with China

Gen Kanai, Director of Asia Business Development from Mozilla Corporation joins the TWIA crew as the guest to discuss the Google Showdown with the China government on unfiltered search & censorship and examine the implications of foreign companies entering into the Chinese market. The TWIA crew and Gen Kanai continue to discuss the recent Yahoo! Friendster partnership in Southeast Asia and an exciting discussion about the security of mobile banking in Korea and how that ties up with browsers, search engines and security protocols in East Asia. Read more

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This Week in Asia Episode 1: The Answer is Always 42

From the co-founders of SGEntrepreneurs (BL) and MYEntrepreneurs (Daniel Cerventus), coupling with the talents of Mike Foong and John Lim (The Edge), a new podcast (now on iTunes) focusing on web/tech in Asia is created and will continuously update you about the latest and hot news on web and tech in Asia every week. The team will review and discuss issues and also invite pundits around Asia to tell us the context behind some interesting news in the region. As a starter, if you are a Douglas Adams fan, the answer is always 42. Check out the podcast of the first episode here:
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In Conversation with Dr Gang Lu, MOBINODE and OpenWeb Asia

Recently, during the E27 Unconference 2009 event, Gang Lu, the founder of MOBINODE and OpenWeb Asia, came to Singapore and participated in a panel about “Innovation in Asia”. With an interesting background of working in an European company, Netvibes.com, he has recently moved back to Shanghai. So, we managed to catch him for an interview and have him to tell the story behind MOBINODE and OpenWeb Asia workgroup, and some of the interesting trends happening in China, and some tip for the Singaporean entrepreneurs on how to move to China. Read more

The Actionscript Conference 2008 Singapore

The Actionscript Conference (TAC) is a community conference with the focus on Flash Platform. It will be held on 19th October. 2008. Singapore in National Library, Singapore. For the attendants, they will see themselves immersed in a day of learning, knowledge exchange, and networking. TAC aims to bring topics on Actionscript 3.0, Flash development, Enterprise Flex, AIR, Integrating of Flash and other Platforms, and building Rich Internet Application to its audience. TAC is organised by the Singapore Flex Usergroup. We aim to create a conference for the developers, by the developers. For those who are interested to do a micro-sponsorship like Phlook or help out in the conference, please go to their TAC website for more information.

Press Release: SGEntrepreneurs joins OpenWeb.Asia workgroup

Editor’s Note: SG Entrepreneurs is happy and honoured to be part of this new Asia web initiative. Press Release: We are very excited to announce the OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup, the first workgroup in Asian Internet industry. OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup is a network of premium blogs focused on the Asian Web industry. These sites build efficient channels between Asia web and global industry, and also enhance the inter-communication of local Internet markets. Read more

The Geek Goddess Show Episode 3: Virtual Worlds & NetBash

The 3rd episode of the Geek Goddess show is out. Do take a look and send us your feedback on the Geek Goddess Show website. This episode centers on virtual worlds in China, with a little mention of the Singapore company, First Meta, and our friend, Bjorn Lee, co-founder of E27. We also have our friend, Daniel Cerventus, across the causeway to share with us what he thinks of the web 2.0 scene in Malaysia and the difference with Singapore. You can also check out my own production notes here. Of course, as usual, my thanks to Podfire for the support, and the hard work put in by the hosts: Estee and Peter and co-producer, Michael. Read more

Event: Vinton G Cerf “Tracking the Internet into 21st Century”

The Digital Movement, together with Google and IDA, brings to you an exclusive evening with the VP of Engineering and Chief Internet Evangelist of Google, Vinton G. Cerf. Come down on the evening of 23 May 2008 to discover Vint’s perspective of the up and coming trends of the Internet and find out what great stuff he is doing in Google! Vint will be covering on the topic of “Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century” before engaging the audience in any discussion and questions that you might have! Read more

Event: Barcamp Singapore II – Maps and Mobile Unconference

The Maps and Mobile Unconference will be happening on 21 May 2008 in NUS Extension, Park Mall (Opposite Dhoby Ghaut MRT station) from 6.30 to 10 pm. The event is organized by Barcamp, Singapore PHP User Group, Entrepreneur27 (Garag3), and it is the first developer community event sponsored by Google Singapore. In this event, our focus will be on how start-ups and big companies focus on how to create value with the use of Maps API (from Google) and also looking at applications which are delivering interesting mobile services to the customers. If you are interested to turn up, either go to the Barcamp wiki or facebook event to RSVP your name and designation. Here are more details for the event. Read more

The Entrepreneur’s Bookshelf: Silicon Dragon – How China is winning the Tech Race

If you survey the history of the rise of the internet companies in China, you will find very few books talking about them. Of course, it has mostly gotten to do with the language, and these companies are relatively unknown outside China. From the US side, many books have been written on the tech giants from the US. Even the web 2.0 founders are well documented in the book by Jessica Livingston in "Founders at Work". So, here we have a book "Silicon Dragon: How China is winning the Tech Race" written by Rebecca Fannin, a journalist who has been working in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing. In this book, she interviewed 12 top chinese entrepreneurs and their investors, and give a brief overview on how the top Chinese internet companies are now rising to the challenge against their western counterparts. By the way, the author will be speaking in a talk entitled “Silicon Dragon” organized by E27 on 18 March 2008 in NUS (check the link for more details). Read more