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The Singapore Web 2.0 Bandwagon

Posted by pallid on October 7th, 2006

In the past few months when I’ve been quiet, the Web 2.0 buzz has been creeping into the Singapore psyche apparently. The signs are everywhere now.
A little bird told me that the Media Development Authority (MDA) wants to take advantage of this Web 2.0 thing to kick the media industry up a notch, I personally […]

Seth Godin and Lee Kuan Yew…

Posted by pallid on July 19th, 2006

Riddle - What does marketing guru Seth Godin and Lee Kuan Yew have in common? I can still remember it wasn’t long ago when people (in Singapore at least) were scratching their heads over MM Lee’s remarks… I guess great minds do think alike, even when it comes to quirky but strangely logical conclusions.

An aside: […]

Today hacked through RSS??!!

Posted by pallid on June 28th, 2006

Edit: Here’s the cool Today feed created by uzyn, who has penned his thoughts in the comments here. Thanks uzyn!
I’ve always liked the way Miyagi writes… entertaining, self effacing and most of all, he knows what he’s talking about. But today, he’s writing about some hacker dude ripping the content of Today and putting them […]

Mashing Maps on Your Site

Posted by pallid on June 19th, 2006

This is definitely good news: Yahoo! Maps API, now for commercial use too (by Jeremy Zawodny). On the other hand, Google provides far superior (IMHO) satellite images especially for this part of the world (i.e. Singapore), hasn’t made the distinction between commercial and non-commercial. To quote:

“The Service may be used only for services that are […]

GPART

Posted by pallid on June 15th, 2006

I’ve been looking for something like this for quite some time now… and open source partition magic. Partitioning with FDISK is such a pain… I haven’t tried it yet though, but probably will soon since I’ve always wanted to double boot into Linux.
Linux.com | A quick look at the GParted live CD