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- Links of the Week - December 1stDecember 1 2008
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Everybody loves links, so here are my links of the week:
://URLFAN - Perhaps The Best Influence Index on The Web
://URLFAN is an indexing service which ranks websites by popularity, based on blog mentions.
Jason Calacanis doesn’t really blog anymore. However, that hasn’t stopped him from coming up with gems like this one. If you are not subscribed to Jason’s e-mail list, you really should.
Entrepreneurs’ Basic Etiquette with Potential Investors
Bernard Leong writes a good post on the basic etiquette an entrepreneur shoud have when dealing with potential investor. Main takeaway: Check your egos at the door.
This is so true, so true…
- Links of the Week - November 23rdNovember 24 2008
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Everybody loves links, so here are my links of the week:
The Wind Cries Cloud Computing
An interesting analogy comparing the recording industry with the cloud computing industry. A thoughtful read.
Google Lively Is Dead-ly - ReadWriteWeb
In an economic environment where a number of companies are stumbling, it’s important to remember that sometimes even Google makes bad decisions. Such would be the case with Lively, a browser-based virtual world environment - and purported Second Life killer - that Google launched this summer to great fanfare.
Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done
A team of ex-Googlers, with backing from Y Combinator, the Friendfeed founders and others, have created what might be both the ugliest and most useful group productivity app we’ve seen.
Seadragon Ajax : Microsoft Live Labs
Seadragon, implemented as the Deep Zoom feature of Silverlight, allows you to do that. But what if you’re not using the Silverlight platform? That’s what Seadragon Ajax is for.
- When did Singapore Expats Become so Egotistical?November 11 2008
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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”
- Wordless Wednesday: Atomic WaterOctober 1 2008
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More Wordless Wednesday
Source: Papel de Parede Grátis
- From One Empire to Another EmpireSeptember 16 2008
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As the old English proverb goes: All good things eventually must come to an end.
This past week was my last week working at IBM.
And since Monday, I have started a new and exciting role with Microsoft as part of their Developer and Platform Evangelism Team in Singapore.
Yes, I’m moving from one empire to another empire.
I am moving from the company commonly known as “Big Blue” to the company Wall Street investors lovingly nicknamed “Mister Softee“.
Let’s start with the old…
The two things that I will miss most about IBM:
It goes without saying - #1 is definitely the people there; the wonderful colleagues and friends which I’ve had the pleasure to work with and know at a personal level over the past three years.
#2 is perhaps surprising to some - I will greatly miss the plethora of tools that IBM made available to us which enabled each and every one of its employees to be as productive as they could be.
Now, IBM gets a lot of flack for being a dinosaur; a company that is stuck in the past making boring an
