Share 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. Podcast:

ShareAnother 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...

Share 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...

ShareIn 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? Podcast:

ShareAs 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,...

Share With two major news that rocked the Southeast Asia markets this week from the acquisition of Friendster by MOL to the emergence of the JooJoo netbook, the crew is left reeling the implications of the events. We also have David Lian, who joined us as our special guest as we run through our stories in TWIA. Podcast:

Share The whole crew is back this week with the news that dominate the tech and web landscape this week starting with one of the major news that rocked Singapore: the end of CrunchPad as declared by Mike Arrington (TechCrunch). Of course, we also discussed the launch of FourSquare and how the web app have progressed in Malaysia and Singapore and move with the news on Tyler’s BattleStations run-in with Mashable Open Web Awards, the launch of QQ International and whether it is a prelude of QQ going global. Podcast: