2009 December | This Week in Asia

This Week in Asia Episode 11: The Asia Web-Tech Odyssey 2010

Posted by admin on Dec 29, 2009 in This Week in Asia | View Comments

The whole crew takes the last podcast of 2009 to review the major events that rocked the web and tech landscape and also makes predictions for the new decade of 2010. This is probably our longest episode over an hour long and also a rare one which was done in the afternoon today.

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This Week in Asia Episode 10: A Conversation with Joi Ito, Neoteny Labs

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

Another special episode from the crew in This Week in Asia. Following the Neoteny Conference last week on 12-13 Dec in Singapore, we manage to catch Joi Ito (Founder of the Neoteny Labs, CEO of Creative Commons, Board member of Digital Garage) for a short conversation. We discussed with Joi on the origin, purpose and plan for Neoteny Labs in Singapore and around Southeast Asia, the lessons of agile development, pivoting and unstructured learning for start-ups, and his thoughts on the evolution of the web in the coming year. Joi also shared with us on what traits he look for in the entrepreneurs when reviewing a potential company for investment and mentoring.

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This Week in Asia Episode 9: So Denise (Keller) where are you from?

Posted by admin on Dec 17, 2009 in This Week in Asia | View Comments

The TWIA crew is back without Mike Foong this week. We glanced through the recent BlackBerry Bold 9700 launch by RIM in Singapore, where BL has an “embarassing” encounter with Denise Keller, from MTV Asia. After that short and funny anecdote, the crew discussed the follow up to the Friendster acquisition by MOL Global last week to exactly how much they are being priced, with the mobile social networking platform, Mozat raising Series A Funding From JAFCO Asia and the entrance of India’s GupShup into the Southeast Asia market. Finally, the crew looks at the implications of Internet Filtering and Censorship in Australia based on the “CleanFeed” trial.

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This Week in Asia Episode 8: In Hackerspace SG with Wong Meng Weng

Posted by admin on Dec 17, 2009 in Featured, This Week in Asia | View Comments

In a special episode during the Neoteny Conference, Daniel and BL sat down and talk to Wong Meng Weng, one of the co-founders of Hackerspace SG. We discuss the story of Hackerspace SG and how it happened, the current state of entrepreneurship scene in Singapore, and also one of the interesting topics which Meng Weng opened the discussion in Neoteny Conference – If we are to create a Y-Combinator clone in Singapore what are the features should we adopt?

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This Week in Asia Episode 7: Mozilla Drumbeat @ Neoteny with Mark Surman

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

As promised, we have a special episode in This Week in Asia. From the Neoteny Conference hosted by Joi Ito and his team in Neoteny Labs, we interviewed Mark Surman (@msurman), Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation. Mark is in Singapore to host the Mozilla Drumbeat event @ Neoteny Conference where we have ten contestants to pitch about their ideas in the open web initiative. We asked Mark about the Mozilla Drumbeat initiative, his trip to Singapore and India, his thoughts about the start-up scene in Singapore thru the Neoteny Conference and some interesting initiatives from Mozilla Foundation, for example, Mobile Firefox in Maemo and HTML 5. Bernard and Daniel are hosts in this special episode of TWIA.