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Register Now for OpenWebAsia SEA - Web Innovation in Asia

What is Open Web Asia - SEA?

OpenWebAsia - SEA is a regional technology and web technology business conference that brings together top minds in the web technology space. In 2008, Open Web Asia was hosted in Seoul, South Korea at the Sheraton Grande Walkerhill.

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Join our friends at Echelon 2010!!

Join our friends from E27 in the countdown for echelon 2010! They have confirmed the list of startups, brought great speakers on board, programmed action-packed agenda, showcasing 50 startups and launching 10 awesome products – and are all set and roaring to go. Read more...

Local Startup Communities Launch Jobs Listing
2009 has been an incredible year for the startup scene in Singapore. Despite the challenges of the painful global economic downturn, we’ve witnessed many of you grow from strength to strength and bringing much needed cheer and excitement to our community.

Over the past few years, SGEntrepreneurs, E27, The Digital Movement, MY Entrepreneurs, Hackerspace and Young Upstarts have been actively supporting local and regional startups to grow your exposure and awareness, and even markets for your products and services. We’ve also been supporting your growth, putting up job listings for free to help you find suitable talents for your startups.

Today, we are excited to share with you a part of our plan to take this support to another level. We are glad to announce the introduction of Triple Point Job Board, a job listings service that will be rolled out across all partner sites to help startups find suitable human resource talent.

This application was developed to help facilitate and deal with the increasing demand for job listings across partner sites. In addition, we hope that through this arrangement, we can offer greater value to startups, advertisers and other partners through access to all our sites at the same time.

We would like to state upfront that Triple Point Job Board will not be a free service (click here to see the rates). We recognize that some of you will not be happy to be charged for a service that you previously have gotten free from partner sites. However, we believe that the fees offered for the service are nominal and extremely fair. Any proceeds – which, as you can imagine, is likely to be a pittance anyway – go towards the development and maintenance of the service. Any left over will inherently be ploughed back into supporting the local startup communities. For a start, any existing job listings within the past two months that are currently on the partner sites have been converted for free for a month. You should be able to check out your respective job listings on the site now.

We’re hopeful that you share our vision for a more cooperative, close-knit startup community. We’d love to hear your feedback on Triple Point Job Board. Feel free to contact us for any clarification.

Wishing you greetings for the festive season,

SGEntrepreneurs
E27
The Digital Movement
MY Entrepreneurs,
Hackerspace and
Young Upstarts
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"Out Hackin" Culture and Innovation in the research lab
by Zhiquan Yeo

What do a chisel, a speaker, tons of wire and many, many magnets have in common? Any guesses? No? Well, they all contribute to cutting edge and innovative interaction research. And how do those random pieces of equipment and material contribute to research? Well, read on and you’ll find out.

Now, research may sound dry and boring and completely nerdy, and I used to think that all PhDs were stuffy old gents in labcoats and bowties hunched over a table and muttering to themselves. Then, without warning, I stumbled headfirst into the research culture, and what did I find? These were some of the coolest folk in the world, doing what to me seemed like the best job in the world.

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The Tang Dynasty: An Age of Innovation
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The Tang Dynasty era (618-907 AD) was a period of unprecedented peace and stability in China. Chinese arts and culture flourished, and the Tang era is generally considered the greatest age for Chinese poetry.

It was also a period of notable Chinese technological progress and innovation. The development of woodblock printing facilitated the rapid spread of written works and, hence, spreading knowledge and improving literacy rates. Advancements were made in cartography, timekeeping and astronomy, such as the invention of the world's first clockwork escapement mechanism by an innovative Tang engineer, monk and astronomer named Yi Xing (surely a curious career combination!). Porcelain was invented, and the study of medicine was advanced.

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Clash of the Titans
by Jonathan Wong
Microsoft. Google. Apple.Whenever someone starts a conversation about Silicon Valley, computers or even technology in general, you likely won’t get very deep in the conversation until someone mentions one of these three companies.
And that’s expected. Just like Exxon Mobil is the flag bearer for the energy industry (remember, I said energy, not clean energy) when one thinks about the poster child of the technology industry, most people will think no further than one of this triumvirate of companies.(Perhaps a certain bookseller will join the three in the near future, but for now, it’s only these three.)
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Photos from BeerOut!

BeerOut! is TDM's monthly casual digital/tech conversation over beers.
Our next BeerOut! will be on the 26 November, so stay tuned!

Flickr photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedigitalmovement/




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Chinese Digital & Social Media Space
by Adam J. Schokora

There are a wealth of other respectable online sources focused on social media, online marketing, and digital trends in China. The selection below represents English language content of such sources, ranging from websites put out by ad / marketing / communications agencies and consultancies, to personal blogs by individuals and groups captivated by China’s Internet culture. Read more...


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Post Digital Marketing 2009

An absolute must-read for anyone with an interest in the future (and now) of human behavior or anything digital, particularly marketing, communications, and media.

This last year has seen logarithmic changes in marketing, fueled by different concepts like Utilities, AR, The Collective Exchange of Ideas, Transmedia, Digital becoming ubiquitous, Mobility and more. Summarizing all the major thoughts finding its way to my “ideas”-folder this last year. - Helge Tennø

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Tech in Africa
by Preetam Rai


Last couple of years I am trying to learn more about the tech-scene in Africa.  Asian press tends to ignore the development in this vast and fast changing continent and we see very few events that facilitate Asia-Africa information exchange.

I feel we need to pay more attention to the stuff happening in Africa as there are ample learning opportunities and scope for collaboration.  For example, mobile payment is a reality in Kenya while most of South East Asia we are still struggling to find a good mobile payment mechanism.

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Latest Blog Posts Clash of the Titans Chinese Digital & Social Media Space Post Digital Marketing 2009 Tech in Africa by Preetam Rai Wrapping Up Blogout! 2009 Live with Dan on Seven Keys to Being a Successful Serial Entrepreneur Interview with Singapore’s Silicon Valley success story - Ong Peng Tsin (Part I)

Upcoming Events Infocomm Industry Forum 2009 Suntec Singapore - Level 2 Ballroom, 30 November 2009 Infocomm Live! featuring Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO of Red Hat Inc. Ngee Ann Auditorium, Asian Civilisations Museum, 31 July 2009 Social Networking World Forum - Asia Grand Hyatt Singapore, Singapore, 22nd and 23rd Sept 2009 Nexus Conference 2010 More updates to follow!

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