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- Great Singapore iPhone food appNovember 6
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Screenshots of BuUuk beta
If you like HungryGoWhere or Yum.sg, you’re gonna love this. I’ve just got myself a beta version of BuUuk, an iPhone App for finding places to eat in Singapore. I’m guessing the name is a play on the word “book” like “book a table at a restaurant”?
Even as a beta version, I have to say this is a great app and a much needed localised product. While there are all the usual elements of an iPhone App: search, scroll menus, tabs for featured, top rated, and categories, BuUuk does an amazing job of connecting your geospatial data to your food.
In other words it completely solves your hunger woes because:
- You get to search for what you want to eat.
- When you find some you get to pick the highest rated.
- When you pick that highly-rated restaurant you get to read reviews if you still have time and your digestive juices haven’t killed you yet.
- But, if you’re in a race against time, it tells you the distance you are from it via your GPS data.
- If you’re on a non-GPS iPhone (like me) it tells you how fa
- Friendster still #1 in SingaporeOctober 30
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Jeff Roberto presenting some interesting stats at Naumi Hotel, Singapore
Had a lunch session with Jeff Roberto, Marketing/PR Director at Friendster today and contrary to the buzz about Facebook and MySpace, Friendter is apparenty doing pretty well in Asia and stands at #1 in Singapore “with over 1.6 million registered users and 974,000 million monthly unique visitors”. Their claim is that over 60% of Singapore’s internet population is on Friendster (or at least registered an account once upon a time).
One of the more interesting insights Jeff gave about the company was that it had a huge mobile focus. The company has the m.friendster.com mobile site and also serves up APIs for developers to create their own apps. And because Friendster seems to be thriving in Asia, they’ve already created localised versions of the mobile portal in Indonesian, Malay, and Traditional Chinese. I wonder how many of the 1.2 billion mobile phon
- Swapping Windows for Linux on Eee PC 901October 18
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I got my Eee PC 901, the 12GB version that comes with Windows XP, yesterday. Today, it runs Ubuntu 8.04. No, I’m not a Linux fanboy. In fact, I wanted Windows installed to use this netbook as my mobile office especially when I do presentations. But within 24 hours I learned that Windows XP is not fit for the Eee PC and the best alternative is a Linux one.
So what went wrong with Windows? Updates. Yes, the very code that suppose to keep you safe and running fine broke my netbook. Like any good Windows user, the first thing I did when I got my computer was to install an anti-virus (I used AVG Free). Then I connected to the Net to update the AV as well as Windows. Now, do note that this simple netbook only has a 4GB SSD for the OS. There’s another 8GB SSD as a secondary disk, and the Windows installation is on the 4GB one.
As I left the updates to download and install in the background, I decided to install Microsoft Office 2007 on the 8GB disk. That went well and I even ran Word, which wasn’t as sluggish as I thought it would be.
While there was smooth sailing on the 8GB disk, little did I know that a shi
- Plurk isn’t a game changer… yetOctober 12
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Today I went back to visit Plurk and updated it since I last left it in favour of Twitter back in June. While I was trying to re-familiarise myself with Plurk, I had a sneaking suspicion that there were many like me who tried it when it first came out but now exist with 0.0 karma and have not been back since.
After a bit of poking around, I found that friends like Kevin and Adrianna were karma-less like me. I guess it was comforting to know that I wasn’t the only one who can’t manage two microblogging platforms.
But then in an attempt to restore my Plurk reputation and give this platform another chance, I stumbled upon the very helpful “Find Your Twitter Friends” button. I clicked it, put in my username and got a bigger surprise! All the top social media and Web 2.0 experts I follow on Twitter including Steve Rubel, Jeremiah Owyang, Mitch Joel, and Nat Torkington have picked abandonment in favour of Twitter.
- Social Media Marketing Examples in SingaporeOctober 6
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I was inspired today to follow the lead of Peter Kim and publish a list of brands that have been using the social media for marketing. This is a great exercise that has given me a good picture of what’s been happening. Unlike Peter’s, my list isn’t as long and it’s focused on Singapore.
What’s interesting is that in Singapore, there’s such a lot of blogger relations/events going on. Also, the oldest use of social media for marketing is NHB’s Yesterday.sg back in 2005! Well done Walter!
My list definitely isn’t exhaustive, so if you’ve got other examples to share, do send them my way or add them to the comments. I also plan to incorporate this into Ming Yeow’s Wiki soon. Hope you find it useful too.
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