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

By on December 17, 2009 in This Week in Asia

Tweet 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 [...]

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

By on December 17, 2009 in Featured, This Week in Asia

TweetIn 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 [...]

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

By on December 12, 2009 in This Week in Asia

TweetAs 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 [...]

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This Week in Asia Episode 6: The MOL & Friendster Marriage

By on December 10, 2009 in This Week in Asia

Tweet 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 [...]

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This Week in Asia Episode 5: The CrunchPad Disaster

By on December 3, 2009 in This Week in Asia

Tweet 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 [...]

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

By on November 23, 2009 in This Week in Asia

Tweet 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) [...]

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

By on November 19, 2009 in This Week in Asia

Tweet 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 [...]

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

By on November 12, 2009 in This Week in Asia

Tweet 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, [...]

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

By on November 8, 2009 in This Week in Asia

Tweet 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: [...]

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