This Week in Asia Episode 26 Part II: Interviews for Barcamp KL
From the live show in Barcamp KL, our crew continues with our special guest Michael Smith from Yahoo! for the last segment of the event where we interview several interesting people across the technology and media space across Southeast Asia in an array of issues: (1) Colin Charles (@bytebot) from MariaDB on his recent trip on the MYSQL conference in Silicon Valley and the latest developments in IT databases, (2) Kugan (@scamboy) Malaysia Wireless blog – trends on smart phone users in across Southeast Asia and his thoughts on the upcoming 4G and Wimax networks into Asian markets, (3) Preetam Rai (@preetamrai), our Mr Barcamp Asia on all the barcamps happening across the region (Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and soon, Philippines & Indonesia), (4) Nazrul from Hackerspace KL & Code Android Malaysia and discussions on Flash vs HTML5 and how developers are caught in between. We thank Yahoo! for sponsoring the ice creams and Barcamp KL which made this live show happen.
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Read MoreThis Week in Asia Episode 23: Don’t Play with the JooJoo
Just 3 hours before the launch of the iPhone OS 4 from Apple, the TWIA crew are back without Mike Foong and John Lim. Instead, we have two special guests tonight: Michael Smith from Yahoo Southeast Asia and Ben Scherrey from Proteus Technologies (Thailand) who come on and share with us their thoughts on the Apple iPad and the bandit iPad clone from China, the recent news about attempted suicides of workers coming from FoxConn, the company which manufacture all these devices, the Phone OS wars in Asia and the survival of JooJoo within the near future. While on these topics, we also talk about our coming live show in Barcamp KL, the Geeks on the Train, and most importantly, the Echelon 2010 happening on 1st and 2nd June.
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Read MoreThis Week in Asia Episode 10: A Conversation with Joi Ito, Neoteny Labs
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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Read MoreThis Week in Asia Episode 8: In Hackerspace SG with Wong Meng Weng
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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