TWIA Episode 19: The Thai-Malaysia-Singapore Nexus

Benjamin Scherrey, the Chief Architect from Proteus Technologies from Thailand joined us with the TWIA crew without our host John Lim. With Daniel Cerventus taking over the helm of the moderator, our discussion started with recent tech events such as the Google Android Developer Conference and the preview of Nokia N900 event. We continued with the growing numbers of Facebook users in Asia and chatted about Baidu’s new Hulu clone – Qiyi and also Plug and Play center’s entrance into Malaysia. Of course, we have Ben Scherrey sharing the story behind the Nexus Project, his thoughts on the Thai tech scene and how the entire Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore) are now going to swept by a new wave of foreign investments and mentors from all over the world. You can listen to the podcast in SGEntrepreneurs here by going to the post directly. Read more

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TWIA Episode 18: Everyone’s a Scraper

The TWIA crew gathers after Chinese New Year without Daniel Cerventus to run thru a couple of stories that rumbles across the Asia landscape this week. Starting with Zynga’s global expansion into India, the crew ponders whether the foreign companies are shifting their focus away from China. Once again, censorship takes the headline in China and Indonesia. Of course, we devise the new googleometer where we ask if Google is really moving out of China with their gestures on canceling the Android event in Beijing. Finally, the biggest story that rocked Southeast Asia with Facebook acquiring Octazen, a Malaysian based company and finally the crew looks at the rise of the Global QQ and ending with a short commentary on Siok Siok’s new film, Twittamentary.
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HackerSpace Promotional Video

You have read about the HackerSpace initiative set up by local technologists and entrepreneurs. They have also included a promotional video so that you can now exactly what the whole idea of hackerspace is about. So, enjoy the video and see if you would be part of the new technological & innovation landscape in Singapore. Read more

Co-Workers of the World, Unite at Hackerspace.SG

Are you passionate about technology? Do you want to turn your idea into a prototype? Are you interested in meeting people with similar interests and curiosity to test new ideas? Chua Ruiwen, Wong Meng Weng, Luther Goh, and Justin Lee talks about a new initiative Hackerspace SG that they have put together that involved all technologists, entrepreneurs, innovators and developers. Read more

3 Interesting TED Demo Videos for Innovators Part 1

We all hear about the inspiring and brilliant TED videos where inventors, thought leaders and social activists give a scintillating 18-20 minutes speech about their own topic of interest. While the talks about social media, politics, economics, language, design, architecture and many more gave us much food for thought, there are interesting TED demo videos which give us a glimpse of future technologies and what is going to come. We start with a series of interesting demos from how one can synthesize a three dimensional structure using a set of images (coming out of Microsoft Research), a new type of GUI desktop interface for operating system and lastly, wireless electricity and how we can get our phones charge without wires. Read more

21 TECS Winners, Total Of 38

In this second batch of award announcement, 21 new winners brings the new total of TECS awardess to 38. From over 220 submissions, these 21 were selected based on their commercial potential, scientific and technical strengths, cost-effectiveness and impact of their projects. Read more

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.

In Conversation with Shannon Low, co-founder of Mobrick

Mobrick is a web technology company that creates new ways of socialising in online networks and communities. They have produced two interesting products: (1) Zinerepublic, an easy way to create and distribute your own crowdsourced zine, where anyone can be a reader, writer and editor, create your own zine out of your own and other users’ articles, and submit articles that other editors might like to use in their zines; and (2) Shoplette, a collective shopping intelligence service you can use to tell your friends what you bought and where you bought it, and find out what your friends have bought and where they’ve been shopping. We have managed to catch Shannon Low, one of the co-founders of Mobrick to tell us the story behind their latest launch of Zinerepublic. Read more

Developers’ Communities in Singapore

For those who are involved with IT entrepreneurship in Singapore, depending on what platform you are working on, you might want to check out the different communities of developers in Singapore. From iPhone development to PHP User Group, these communities have organized their own activities every month to attract and gather enthusiasts in Singapore to communicate with each other. We have also included the champions who are involved with these developer groups in this article. If you are keen to develop yourself further in the development platform you are working on, perhaps, these groups might be of help to you. Read more

After Barcamp Singapore (Asia) 3

Our very own Bernard was one of the first presenters of the full-day event while his two counterparts, Gwen and Ian Timothy were in the audience skipping around from room to room. Here, we hear from both Gwen and Ian Timothy on their thoughts on various presentations. Read more

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