Archive for November, 2006

Will friendster up up and fly?

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Friendster, the once leading social networking website is losing its ground to myspace and facebook. Couple of years ago, when friendster was the number one social networking platform, google offered to buy friendster for less than $1 bn; Friendster’s owner believed that his internet property was worth more than $1 bn. Could you imagine if Friendster nowadays if it were owned by google?

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China: Be arrogant when you’re strong

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Nowadays, China is a very BIG, humongous, giant country. I really mean it. Not only because of its size, but also it’s economic growth. Here is the summary of some stories I found in the Economist.

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The first item in my wishlist for Indonesia

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

I have a friend from India doing an internship in Indonesia, Jakarta to be exact. He’s been in Jakarta for 5-7 months already. He came to Singapore to extend his visa. I had an honour to be involved in a very good discussion with him. It went like this:

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Halloween

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

A friend of mine, Yousuf, coming from Indonesia. He’s originally from India and currently doing a traineeship in a marketing company in Jakarta. A very cool guy with plenty of experience. His plane landed at 8pm and I suggested him to join me directly to a Halloween party. Hopefully he didn’t get a cultural shock because of too much fun.

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