Sales, Social and Tech

It has been quite awhile since I was invited to an event as blogger or as media. Daniel Goh for Samsung invited me to this evening announcement of the new Samsung phones via Twitter earlier in the day. The invitation via Twitter was as sign of how things have changed since having left the media scene some six years ago when I was writing for PC World Singapore and Hardwarezone.com. Armed with the Samsung Omnia and Qik.com installed, I was able to do some “live” broadcast of short clips of the launch. Unfortunately during the launch, I wasn’t able to access Twitter so I updated via my Facebook status page. Winston Goh, product manager for Samsung, introducing the new Samsung mobile models It was after the event and during the train ride home that it struck me to how the tools of content creation have changed so much since my media days. Mobile data rates have fallen by so much that it allows me to transfer data via mobile Internet without me having to worry a...

My in-laws live about about 325km north of me. 325km is the distance between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They have help taken care of my son in KL, Malaysia, while i worked in Singapore. Now that my wife and son are living in Singapore, I am not surprised they are missing the bubbly laughter or the sharp cries of my son. During their time, communications with distance relatives were by phone. If you wanted to send photos, snail mail would have been their only option and took days. Luckily for the Internet and its evolution, I am able to show their videos of their grandson in action almost real time. Many of you may have heard about Qik . For those who are not aware what it is, its a website that allows you to upload videos straight from your mobile phone. If your mobile phone supports wifi, you could even do a “live” broadcast. However, Qik only supports a few selected mobile phones. You would need to sign-up for a QIK account and install a program into your mobil...