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