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Armchair Theorist

All conjecture, minimal substance


Links of the Week - November 16thNovember 16

Everybody loves links, so here are my links of the week:

James Governor’s Monkchips 15 Ways I Am Wrong About Enterprise Cloud Computing

… whatever else the cloud is, it should not just be an excuse to try and rewarm technology that has already failed in the marketplace. It should not be an excuse to sell a new complexity.

Adobe’s CEO Underestimating Microsoft’s Ability To Compete With Flash | The Business Of Online Video

Comments from a meeting last week with journalists at Adobe’s headquarters indicate that Adobe’s CEO, Shantanu Narayen, thinks Adobe has already won the online video platform battle and that Flash can survive any threat from Microsoft. That’s a dangerous assumption to make and underestimating Microsoft’s ability to challenge any company, in the long run, is never a good idea.

Will There Ever Be a Google OS?

Let Andrew Morton, lead developer of the Linux kernel and a Google employee since 2006, answer the question for us.

When did Singapore Expats Become so Egotistical?November 11

I came across this gem tonight on the ExpatSingapore forums (via Salary.sg):

What are you upset about? This is an expat site for the Singapore expat community to discuss matters of common interest. It is not for “journalists” to try find people to do their research for them, especially for stories that will increase local heart-landers’ negative feelings and disdain for the foreign talents who actually drive this economy. (emphasis mine)

This was posted by a dude named Kubes.SG in a series of responses to a journalist’s request to comment on how the current economy is making life difficult for expats.

Wow. Is this guy for real?

I work with expats everyday for the past four years, and pretty much all of the expats that I’ve encountered so far in Singapore have been nice, humble and pleasant people.

So although I’m inclined to think that Mr. Kubes’ opinion is of the minority, it’s still disturbing to think that there may be a segment of the expat community here who are egotistical enough to think that they are indispensable to the Singaporean economy, and local “heart-landers” somehow need to be protected and fed propaganda from our “nation-building press” so we can feel much better about ourselves being inferior to the “rich Ang-Mohs”


Links of the Week - November 9thNovember 9

Everybody loves links, so here are my links of the week:

The 22 Step Social Media Marketing Plan

As corporate adoption of social media emerges, there’s nothing wrong with learning lessons from others and making them your own. Here’s a 22 step social media plan.

Yahoo faces the long, slow goodbye - Jerry Yang, perhaps a shorter one | Technology | guardian.co.uk

Yahoo’s failure to tie up an ad deal with Google may be the last straw. Prepare for a slow drift into insignificance.

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Why Google Forked OpenID and Other Stories

Recently I’ve seen OpenID geeks berating large vendors like Microsoft, Yahoo and Google for the way they’ve incorrectly implemented OpenID. Looking at these situations it has become clear that the problem OpenID solves is actually different from the problem these companies are trying to solve.

Brad Abrams : .NET Framework 4 Poster

We created a very cool poster that shows off the new stuff in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and .NET Framework 4.

Wordless Wednesday: Mac Icon PillowsNovember 5

More Wordless Wednesday

Source: Usingmac.com

Takeaways from Singapore Digital Media Festival 2008November 2

The Singapore Digital Media Festival 2008 was held this past Friday at The Legends at Fort Canning Park. Unlike past “2.0″ events where I would attend as an interested individual, this time I attended DMFest as a representative from Microsoft, participating in one of the Web 2.0 panel discussions.

In this blog entry, I won’t be giving a play-by-play of what happened throughout the day, because of three reasons:

  1. I arrived at around noon, thus missing out on the sessions in the morning.
  2. The event has already been covered wonderfully by our tireless and dedicated livebloggers Claudia and DK. (Bravo!)
  3. It’s 4:00 am in the morning and I really need to get some sleep soon…

Instead, I’m just going to share some key takeaways and observations I had from attending the event.

On the Use of Social Media

DMFest was organized by the Digital Media Chapter of the Singapore