Earlier at CommunicAsia, IDA launched its own self-managed Infocomm Experience Centre, called iExperience, located at the newly opened Esplanade Xchange. As usual, VIPs go first, and the public will be able to tour the place starting 1 July 2010.
The idea is to excite the public and the visitors about how residents of Singapore will be [...]

eChelon 2010 – Asia’s Leading Web Technology Event in Singapore
Well, this is not a post about the event itself. That would be redundant, since you can learn more about it yourself and buy tickets directly by heading to http://www.echelon2010.com, so why don’t you click on that (opens a new window) while you continue to read.
This [...]

If you’re reading this you are probably, like me, 20s to 30s, perhaps 40s, but not top management in your company, very well read online, aware of all these cool apps, some of them free, others at prices cheaper than having lunch, and sincerely wanted your organization to ride the wave by utilizing some of [...]

BarCamp is back!
Date: Saturday March 27 2010
Venue: Singapore Polytechnic (next to Dover MRT). Exact location in the school TBD (just follow signs)
Main page: www.barcamp.org/BarCampSingapore5
Registration form here

If you have no idea what barcamp is, Preetam made a cool visual guide on flickr or if you’re a wikipenerd, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp. I like to tell people, [...]

You know when a social media technology hits the tipping point when some boring mainstream newspaper in some boring island bother to report about it. Come join the latest in thing in town, foursquare. Sign up and add me as a friend and you’ll get to see some of the interesting places that I go [...]

In all frankness I should have been asleep. So I have to bluff myself on bed that it’s a working day, and I have to crawl into a conference by 8am. Both today and yesterday. By the time I reach the main auditorium, fortunately, the weariness vanished, and it felt like attending some lecture in [...]

(warning: I’m quite badly read in biblical text not being a Christian myself, so please forgive me for the misquotes if any. On the other hand, I like stories, old stories.)

Welcome, to the new Gardens of Eden-net (yes, plural). Much like the original Garden of Eden in ancient times, it’s location is unknown, perhaps floating [...]

The Cloud Has Landed!
http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2009/11/12/aws-asia/
This courting must be at least 5 years long. 5 years ago when I was working there I was already trying to hook up the infrastructure guys with some of the data center operators in Singapore. The conversation was long, and that time it was overshadowed by the positivity of the acquisition [...]

Officially supposed to launch later today, it seems like the site is already up and running.
Check out www.singtel.com/appzone.
At a glance, I couldn’t find an equivalent of the BBoM usage thing that was pulled from Apple AppStore earlier though.

Everyone look here. This is important. If you’re building something that remotely looks like something that would be useful in the NBN era, quickly submit a proposal to this Call For Proposal. The deadline is next week.

Questions ask IDA
NGSIP is the icing on the NBN cake. May the best icing wins