[Video] Asia’s Internet Kingdoms

Enamoured by Facebook, YouTube, Amazon? Find out how East Asians do it differently.

This is a great video by Futures Group. Asia mobile and internet strategy consultancy firm, plus8star also contributed to the video.

Image credit: Vincent van der Pas

65Bits Episode 154: The one with failed segue

Our friends at Tech65 starts off this week with their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape: [1] Free turn by turn navigation from Nokia, [2] Motorola DEXT, [3] YouTube HTML5 Supported Videos, [4] Join us as we watch Apple’s announcement live!, [5] DisplayPort 1.2 receives final VESA blessing. 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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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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6 Essential Social Media Tools for Start-Ups

If you are starting up a new company that primarily goes from business to consumer, without a big budget in marketing or PR, your best chance for getting your message across will be via social media. Most start-ups or major corporations which adopt social media tools to market and engage their customers in Southeast Asia, are essentially in the IT, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG – for example, mobile phones, computers and gadgets) or online media space. Specifically in this article, we want to focus essentially on the start-ups space and offer 6 essential social media tools that a start-up will need. Read more

65Bits Episode 122 : Month of SmartPhones 1 – Series60, N97, Pre

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: [1] E3 Coverage – (i) Microsoft’s Project Natal, (ii) Sony’s Playstation Motion Tracking Controller, (iii) DJ Hero, (iv) Tony Hawk: Ride, (v) Nintendo’s Wii Fit Plus, (vi) Super Mario Galaxy 2, Super Mario World, etc., (vii) Sony Playstation Go, [2] Acer to sell Android phones, Netbooks, [3] Sony Ericsson’s PlayNow™ arena, [4] Google Wave, [5] Microsoft Bing, [6] Month of SmartPhones – Nokia’s N97 (See BL’s coverage of the N97 event as well), and the Byte of The Week: Youtube XL. Do click and check out their podcast.

65Bits Episode 76 : The one with open secrets

Our friends at Tech65 start their weekly podcast on the following issues that dominated the tech landscape last week: (1) Apple’s open secret: SproutCore is Cocoa for the Web, (2) Youtube tries long form content, (3) Communicasia and multitude cellphone announcements, (4)iPhone wannabes and why they don’t cut it or why they DO!?:, (5) ASUS gets official with Atom-powered Eee Box, (6) Nvidia and AMD launch TONNES of new graphics cards and Snow Leopard, (7) Solar energy concentration by 1000 at a low cost and SMALL sized?!, (8) Opera 9.5 vs Firefox 3, (9) SIA A380 Super-Jumbo made from Lego and finally, Byte of the Week: Spore Creature Creator. Do click and check out their podcast.