Articles on Internet Related Rumblings

Don’t just tell me what is wrong, tell me what to do!

IBM/Lenovo has taken one step ahead of their competitors by installing a “message centre” application together with the IBM Thinkpad laptops. This application sits in the system tray, and occasionally, a message or two will pop up, informing me of any product or driver updates that is available. I thought it was a nifty application, [...]

Engage your customers in conversation. Or else.

Every time I make a trip to the SIM Management House at Namly Avenue for a workshop, the advert there for their professional development courses that never fails to catch my eye! So I was thinking, should we have something like that for corporate blogging? Heh. Anyway, if you are interested in what was [...]

What are the prerequisites of being a consultant?

For those who have followed this blog for a couple of months now, you must already realised that I really enjoy sharing the interesting things I have found as I have progressed, and particularly for this blog, the stuff I’ve learnt about marketing though social media, or rather more specifically, through the use of blogs. I [...]

IT Show 2007 in Singapore

Man… IT show 2007 is coming up next week. I remember the times when I used to go to these large scale IT shows… sometimes twice or three times within the same week! That was the time when I was all crazed about tweaking and what we call “modding” our personal computers, overclocking our CPUs [...]

The best way to teach HTML!

Ever been frustrated teaching people how some HTML tags work? Try this. (h/t: Presentation Zen) A picture paints a thousand words. True.

WalMart Video Download Store Blunder

Over at TechCrunch today, Michael Arrington shared his findings on the messed up WalMart Video Download Store on Firefox. Although from the comments it seems that the problem can be fixed with a hard refresh on Firefox, for my case, every single page needs to be hard refreshed! Its not going to work [...]

Google Alerts Becoming Garbage Alerts?

One of the most powerful ways in which bloggers find out (or at least, try to find out) about the latest news on the blogosphere and on the web is through the very popular Google Alerts. Using the alert tool, you can specify keywords or key phrases, so when the big G finds new content in [...]

If you had 10 minutes of Internet access left

Last Friday, I didn’t leave a message before I left for Malaysia to facilitate the seminar, because I was expecting that I would have time and Internet access over the weekend to continue to update my blog. However what happened was that the Wi-Fi access was not very good, and I had little time. In [...]

Spam 3.0: Are you using Digg to game me?

Just moments ago, I received a comment on my previous post. Wanting to upkeep my “SOB-ness” and hoping to make another friend from this blog, I hurried to see what the comment was about. I was elated because it was from someone whom I’ve never seen commenting on my blog before. I thought my [...]

Blogging for Education

Today, I realised how much I was reading online in my subscribed feeds in Newsgator. As of now, I have over a hundred and fifty feeds (that’s not a lot compared to many other bloggers, by the way) subscribed in Newsgator, and everyday, I would log in and read the updates from these blogs. Not [...]
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