@SGnews stats for April 2009

On 5 August 2008 I started @SGnews to automatically update news about Singapore over Twitter. Today, @SGnews has 1,535 followers. In March this year, I began tracking each news story’s link with Snipurl and since then I’ve collected a lot of data. This blog post will show you what readers of Singapore News on Twitter [...]

Gothere.sg tries for viral on the social media

Many of the companies I worked with and for in the past approached incentivised marketing (giving away prizes) for one purpose: sales leads. Gothere.sg, a Web 2.0 map startup in Singapore, is giving away an Apple iPhone 3G for… wait for it… noise. Yes marketeers, no call-to-action, no visiting the site, no registration, no send-to-a-friend [...]

BlogOut! 2009

Click this link if you haven’t already signed up: http://www.tdm.sg/events/blogout BlogOut! 2009 is here and I’m particularly excited. We have my JamiQ co-founder Kelvin Quee talk about sentiment analysis and businesses on Day 1 and my co-founder of Scoopasia, Melvin Yuan speak on social media. But since I already knnow these guys well, I shall [...]

A doctor worth waiting for

There were at least 40 people in the queue outside of the clinic. The one at the head of the queue had waited from 1pm to 7pm just to get a consultation with Dr Ong in her evening session. Located in the East (Tampines) of Singapore, the queue was made up of patients young and [...]

Google’s Singapore tends for 2008

Check out Singapore’s Google Zeitgeist page. It gives you a good sense of what we local folk are interested in. Sadly, it’s leaked sex photos of a Hong Kong celebrity. 2008 has been a year of change in Singapore and people have certainly been using Google to access information about these changes. The fastest rising [...]

Great Singapore iPhone food app

If you like HungryGoWhere or Yum.sg, you’re gonna love this.  I’ve just got myself a beta version of BuUuk, an iPhone App for finding places to eat in Singapore. I’m guessing the name is a play on the word “book” like “book a table at a restaurant”? Even as a beta version, I have to [...]

Social Media Marketing Examples in Singapore

I was inspired today to follow the lead of Peter Kim and publish a list of brands that have been using the social media for marketing. This is a great exercise that has given me a good picture of what’s been happening. Unlike Peter’s, my list isn’t as long and it’s focused on Singapore. What’s [...]

Twittering Singapore news

Today I was inspired by the use of Twitter by news agencies such as CNN, BBC, and even our local ChannelNews Asia and wanted to take this innovative usage to the next level by adding multiple sources of Singapore news in a single Twitter stream. Since there wasn’t a consolidated Twitter stream of Singapore news, [...]

Social media case study: Andrew Teo vs taxi driver

A couple of days ago, a man standing outside MediaCorp in Singapore filmed himself aggressively scolding a taxi driver and went on to post the above video on YouTube and MediaCorp Videos (both now removed, Google cache links only) under the alias andrewteo777. This immediately caused a great debate at Hardwarezone forums and STOMP and [...]

Streetdirectory.com is back, but it doesn’t work

I got this email from the PR agency for Virtual Maps telling me that Streetdirectory.com is back up again after the fiasco. Hi Benjamin, This is Melvin from 20twenty. We’re Virtual Map’s PR agency and we’ve been reading your posts regarding streetdirectory.com. Glad to see a fellow PR practitioner that appreciates the social media too! [...]