This Week in Asia Episode 4: The One with Ladies from Google

Posted by admin on Nov 23, 2009 in This Week in Asia | View Comments

In a special podcast during Barcamp Singapore 4 in Infocomm Development Authority Singapore, we speak to two ladies from Google US, Stephanie Liu and Christine Songco who have traveled across Southeast Asia for the past few days and share with us their experiences in engaging the developer communities and Google Technology User Groups (GTUGs) here.

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This Week in Asia Episode 3: What’s so juicy & delicious about Asia this week?

Posted by admin on Nov 19, 2009 in This Week in Asia | View Comments

This week, the crew talks about the browser wars happening in China, the chinese social network trends with a report from CNNIC, the 4G network in Malaysia, and also Daniel’s encounter with Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter and Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook in YES2009. We also plugged the Barcamp Singapore event happening this weekend and also the launch of HackerSpace Singapore as well. Here are the show notes for this week’s podcast:

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This Week in Asia Episode 2: The Apps Stores, Mobile Clones and Panties

Posted by admin on Nov 12, 2009 in This Week in Asia | View Comments

Gang Lu, co-founder of Mobinode and Open Web Asia from China joins us as our special guest for This Week in Asia. He shares with us what goes on currently with the mobile apps store scene in China and how the iPhone is slugging out against other competitors in the Chinese market. With John, one of the hosts, who just landed in Malaysia after an interesting trip to Nokia HQ in Finland, we discussed a variety of topics (with so much news happening in Asia) that we are almost inclined to do an extra show over the course of the week. Here are the topics that dominate the web and tech landscape this week:

Mobile and Smart Phone Apps Store in Asia

• iPhone and Meizu M8 in China: We discussed about the iPhone Developer Association launched by Sohu and China Unicom and why the sales for authority approved iPhones did not turn out well on the first day. We also talked about the Meizu M8 and the starting 23 apps in their test run new apps store.
• Samsung Bada: Is it Samsung Bada a mobile app store? We examine the implications to the Korea mobile space.
• Pantienon, an iPhone app in Japan on woman taking off their panties: We made some drinking bets over whether iTunes Store will approve this app in Japan.
• Blackberry World in India: So, after Singapore, BlackBerry World is now moving to India. We also checked with Gang Lu the adoption of blackberry phones in China as well.
• Amazon Web Services Caters to Asia-Pacific Businesses with New Infrastructure in Singapore: A big news rocked Singapore yesterday with Amazon Web Services are now bringing their cloud computing services with infrastructure there. We discussed the implications and whether in the long run, Amazon will build another one in India and China.

Finally, the tip of the week: OrSiSo, a place to allow you arrange online friends across various social media tools from social networking (MySpace, Facebook, Friendster and Linkedin), content sharing (Flickr) to microblogging (Twitter)

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This Week in Asia Episode 1: The Answer is Always 42

Posted by admin on Nov 8, 2009 in This Week in Asia | View Comments

Our inaugural podcast aims to inform everyone from all over the world on what’s the latest and hot news about Web & Tech in Asia. We start with stories pertaining to online gaming, domain names and social networks in China. Moderated by John Lim, we embarked on an interesting discussion on three interesting topics:

1. World of Warcraft banned in China (Mobinode): The General Adminitration of Press and Publication (GAPP) of the People’s Republic of China tells Netease (the operator for World of Warcraft in China) that they rejected the application from Netease for the operation of WoW in China.
2. ICANN allows non-Roman characters for IP addresses (PC World): ICANN’s approval of non-Latin character domains has changed the Internet landscape in the world. We discussed the implications of having non-Roman character domains soon in Asia
3. Social Networking Landscape in China: We discuss the various dominant social networks in China: QQ, 51.com, RenRen (formerly Xiaonei) and Kaixin001.

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