As the senior vice-precident of Rovio Asia, Henri Holm lives and breathes Angry Birds. Turns out he wears it too.
Decked out in a bright red Angry Birds hoodie, Henri was in Singapore on Friday, 1st June, with his son to launch the first-ever Angry Bird themed cable cars in the world, connecting Singapore Southern seaboard with Sentosa, the country’s famous island resort.
During the media interview, he sketched out for me (quite literally) Rovio’s business model, and how generating revenue is the natural consequence of fan engagement and brand-building. It’s pretty cool.
Here’s what it looks like when I recreated it on Photoshop: Read more
BarcampSG7 will be happening on this Saturday, September 10. The event is a collaborative effort of Singapore’s technology, startup and education community. There will be presentations, discussion and demos on technology, mobile and social web, design, UX, startups, travel, science and many more. Read more
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. You can go directly to TWIA website or listen the podcast here in SGEntrepreneurs. Read more
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Barcamp Singapore 5 is open to all developers/hardware hackers/designers/social media ppl/educators/startups/non-profits/social entrepreneurs/musicians/writers/painters/sculptors. Barcamp is a festival of doing, learning, sharing of doing and sharing of learning. Barcamp is also the place where many ideas are shared, discussed and brought into reality. The event will happen on 27 March 2010 (Saturday) in Singapore Polytechnic. Of course, it is now open for registration for those who want to contribute and those who want to come, share and interact with people who are working on really interesting stuff. Note that the twitter hashtag for the event is #barcampsg5 and you can register through this link here.
I set off to Subang Jaya for Barcamp Kuala Lumpur (KL) on Friday morning. I reached a day earlier to meet up with some internet specialists and organizers of Barcamp KL. The last Barcamp KL was held in the KLCC area (where the Petronas Towers are). This event was held over the weekend (4 and 5 April 2009) in Inti College, Subang Jaya. The trip turned out to be a good one because it grew to become Barcamp Southeast Asia, with other organizers from Bangkok, Singapore, Tokyo & Cambodia. This time round, we have wi-fi available, and the other thing I liked about the location is that the Inti College is located besides the Asia Cafe and also a Starbucks Cafe where I can grab a cup of grande vanilla latte. Read more
Since the last barcamp gathering in Kuala Lumpur, July 2008, both the Singapore and Malaysia teams have decided to bring together people across both causeways together. The result is Barcamp Johor 2008, where it is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. The event will be held on 6-7 Dec 2008 over a weekend. The event will be held in Menara MSC Cyberport, Level 29, Menara MSC Cyberport, No. 5, Jalan Bukit Meldrum, 80300 Johor Bahr. This is a good time between the developers, investors and entrepreneurs to share their ideas in such challenging times of the financial crisis. For those who are interested to turn up or sign up as a speaker to this event, please register here and also check out the sessions. If you are interested to follow this event, check out their blog and also their twitter feed for the latest news.
Singapore, 22nd May 2008 – After much anticipation, local startup, Widgeous finally launched during yesterday’s Barcamp Singapore unconference session. Widgeous is a web-based startup focusing on creating a universal cross-medium communications platform. Read more
The Maps and Mobile Unconference will be happening on 21 May 2008 in NUS Extension, Park Mall (Opposite Dhoby Ghaut MRT station) from 6.30 to 10 pm. The event is organized by Barcamp, Singapore PHP User Group, Entrepreneur27 (Garag3), and it is the first developer community event sponsored by Google Singapore. In this event, our focus will be on how start-ups and big companies focus on how to create value with the use of Maps API (from Google) and also looking at applications which are delivering interesting mobile services to the customers. If you are interested to turn up, either go to the Barcamp wiki or facebook event to RSVP your name and designation. Here are more details for the event. Read more