Decay On Net

Just came back from blogout. It was a cool event. I'm so glad that I left my office at 6pm sharp and hoot cab down to geek terminal.

And being the first blogout, I guess it was a lesson for many of us. For the geek terminal staff, it is their first time holding such a big event at their place. I guess they will have more of such events in the future. Ping.sg is planning to have its 1st Anniversary party there. Although we don't have such a big crowd, the experience we had today is useful for our planning.

TDM is great. They organised one great event after another. I'm going to look out for more events organised by TDM. When you see the brand name TDM, you can be sure its going to be a great event.

But one thing to note, the panel for Nexus was very successful, but the discussion wasn't so good. But for this blogout, the discussion was quite well done, but the panel wasn't as good. Perhaps its the venue. Too friendly for small group discussion, to a point where people are having their own discussion during the panel.



Too bad Genie couldn't perform live as she is sick. But she managed to come and and have a short talk. CCDA also went up to talk a bit about her being nominated as the hottest mommy. Hey, she's in the top 10 ok! Uzyn was one of the panelist for the only panel of the day. But the crowd is too noisy. Argh.

Ping.sg's present can be felt at the entire event. We are forming a very strong and united community. Hope it will continue to grow.



Great event. Nice chance for networking. I still need to work on my networking skill.

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Posted by DK at 12:42 AM | Comments

I'm at blogout now.



Check out the live webcast by Kevin.

I'm going to grab more wine. See ya.

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Posted by DK at 8:16 PM | Comments

Its going to be a busy week ahead.

Monday - Exam
Tuesday - Exam
Wednesday - ping.sg anniversary celebration discussion
Thursday - Blogout
Friday - Village Talk

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Posted by DK at 1:30 AM | Comments

The Digital Movement (The same guys who brought us Nexus 07) is organising a BlogOut somewhere end May. Its going to be a small gathering of various communities and pockets of bloggers to get to know each other better.

Sounds cool, and I'm invited. Thx Estee.

Well, at least something to look forward to after my exams.

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Posted by DK at 1:13 AM | Comments

I've lost count the number times that someone ask me about the company I'm working with during Nexus.

Seriously speaking, I'm not very comfortable revealing my company name. Firstly, I'm attending Nexus as an individual. I do not represent my company nor do my company know that I'm attending. I paid the $15 registration fee myself.

And I'm beginning to more and more dislike my company, its policies and its staff each day. Somehow, I don't want to be anyway linked to my company at the event.

While browsing thru the attendee list, I found a number of people from my company. I don't know them. But I check the outlook addressbook and found that they are mostly director or manager level.

I feel quite uneasy when people ask me about where I'm working at. As much as possible, I tried to move away from such topics. Lets hope that next year I'll be in a company where I feel comfortable revealing its name to everyone.

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Posted by DK at 2:05 AM | Comments

Everyone was given a copy of the event booklet called "the LITTLE red book (Future Edition)" at Nexus.



There is nothing wrong with my camera. That is really the colour of the LITTLE 'red' book. For a moment, I thought I had colour blind. Until I confirmed with the rest of the gang that it isn't red in colour. More of maroon colour.

Another thing..... do you know that the little red book is actually rather communist. The quotations from Chairman Mao is also refered as the little red book.

Imagine a gathering of 500 people, with a big banner saying "Leading in times of disruptive change". And everyone has the little red book with them.

I'm surprised that the ISD didn't arrest all of us yesterday.

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Posted by DK at 2:56 PM | Comments

It was a great event. It's hard to believe that Singapore could held such an event and attract so many excellent guest speakers. Salute to The Digital Movement for organising such wonderful event.



I went to Nexus with the wonderful guys and gal from ping.sg. I so glad that I could tag along with them as I would never attend this great event if I'm alone. We reach the place rather late as everyone was late for the pre-event breakfast session. Luckily the event haven't started.

The first speaker is Nathan Torkington from O'Reily Radar. Great speaker. Really enjoyed listening to his speech.

Next was a short interview with the organisers of Nexus.



The first panel was about emerging opportunities in the flat world. The Microsoft guy clearly has an agenda of his own. Open Source not good? How could that be possible?

It was teabreak after the first panel. The teabreak provided a good environment for networking. As for me, I just stick with the guys from ping.sg and see how they network. Me just a nobody in the IT industries.....

After the teabreak, there was a dual track panel. One was on mobile web explosion at the auditorium while the other was about crowdsourcing at one of the smaller room. Being a blogger, it is obvious that I attend the panel on crowdsourcing.



The panelist for the crowdsourcing panel includes guest from Cnet, Stomp and tomorrow.sg. Its the most interesting panel for the event. The room was overcrowded. We should have taken the auditorium for this event instead. Didn't really buy everything that panelist from stomp said. She claims that stomp will post all submission by readers as long as it is not racist or anything to do with religon. How about political? Hmmmm....

Uzyn stole the stage for 5 minutes halfway thru the panel. It started with Clapping tree talking about tomorrow.sg's way of selecting article and how difficult it was for bloggers to gain readership. She mentioned about ping.sg which suddenly drew lots of attention among the audience. Uzyn took over the mike and talk about ping.sg briefly. Looks like we are going to get a hike in membership this few days. Haha.

It was lunch after the crowdsourcing panel. Uzyn was surrounded by lots of people asking him questions. The rest of the ping.sg gang just stood one side and watch his 10 minutes of fame. haha.

Rather surprised that lunch was also provided. I thought we have to go out and hunt for our own food. Wow, the sponsors must be good. :D

The panel after lunch was slow. I guess they put drug in our food, making everyone feeling sleepy. I went to the Future of the web panel, skipping rinaz's talk on second life. Sorry, but second life is a small subset of the future of the web. :D

We had another teabreak and chance for networking after the future of the web panel. The problem with all these event is that all you do is eat, sit, talk and listen. Don't get fat also very hard.



The last panel was on riding on change, which I totally catch nothing. Maybe I should wait for the podcast and re-listen to the discussion.

At the end of the event, there is a chill out plus networking session at one of the room. Free food and beer provided. Wah. The sponsors are really good. Had a great chat with some of the industries players. It was inspiring listening to their views and looking at some sample of the things they were doing.

Overall, it was a great event. Wish they could do it every year.

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Posted by DK at 1:44 PM | Comments

Was at Nexus today where ping.sg stole the show, thanks to clapping tree. Will blog the details later.

Anyway, all I want to say is, we saw this really chio lady with a equally chio macbook going to ping.sg and she pong chillicrap's blog. And she actually stayed at his website for quite some time.

WAH CIAO. Lady, why waste your time on craps? Come my blog better.
If you prefer crap, I can crap with you too.

(See, this post is crappy enough)

Maybe crappy blog attracts more chio bu readers. I should crap more.

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Posted by DK at 4:33 PM | Comments

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Posted by DK at 9:41 AM | Comments

I'll be attending Nexus 2007 that is happening on 24 March at NTUC Centre.

Read their blog here.

Good thing is some of the folks at ping.sg are going too. Can join them. At least got some company. :D

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Posted by DK at 12:13 AM | Comments