PopOut! ‘07 SG: Paparazzo’s photos
PopOut! ‘07 SG must have been a great success for The Digital Movement with many bloggers posting their thoughts about it.
If you are looking for a list of these blogs, visit Uncle Sha.
NB: Paparazzo is the singular of Paparazzi.
Person in the photo rumoured to be DK. Was he offering Estee, the host, his half eaten chicken wing?
Murphy’s Law made one of the wireeless mic go “crackle” and “pop”.
Ross Veitch, of Bezurk.com, highlighted advertising for manpower in The Straits Times was “a waste of money”.
The crowd cheered and sniggerd when they heard it.
You could see the cringe on the SPH journalists’ face who were present at the event.
Left: Chris, of Quaffs.com, gettingthe audience to surrender to his pre-presentation antics.
Right: Chris promising his audience he will bend backwards for the audience
Chris’ antics got the attention of SPH Digital Life’s Tham Yuen-C (left) and Oo Gin Lee (right)
No offence, but what is ZopIM?
Ross might consider working with Recruit.net’s Maneck Mohan on getting better Web2.0 engineers?
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PopOut! Singapore: The book nerd who wowed the crowd
Out of the five presentations at PopOut! Singapore, Bookjetty.com’s Herryanto Siatono was the one that was highly recommended by Mozilla’s Gen Kenai.
Herryanto also shared his solution on how to make online sms to mobile phones affordable to other web2.0 startups looking at offering sms services.
“The presentation I enjoyed the most was Bookjetty,” said Gen.
“I felt that Herry had a niche and create this service which extract that niche.
“This service provides a significant benefit not only to the people of Singapore, but now to everybody who like books all over the world.”
Bookjetty.com is designed as “a social network for book lovers, where users can catalog, rate, and review their books, and check the books availability in the libraries seamlessly”.
Too much backdoor entrance to Singapore National Library Board
made the board let Heeryanta accessed their system from the front.
During the Q&A session, Herryanto was asked on how he could afford to provide users with the SMS service.
The SMS service on Bookjetty.com allows users to receive SMS about details of the book, especially that of the index number of the book in the Library. The previous Web1.0 way was to either print out the details or write it on a piece of paper.
“Do you all know Twitter?” replied Herryanto.
“Twitter actually offer SMS notification free of charge.
“When Twitter released its API, the first thing I saw was a free SMS gateway. I wouldn’t be able to afford the SMS service on my own, but thanks to Twitter, Bookjetty.com now offer SMS service.”
Necessity is the mother of all of invention. In Herryanto’s Bookjetty.com, it was his ability to adapt other web services to meet the needs of his users that well appreciated by the PopOut! audience.
PopOut! Singapore: Mozilla earned USD60million in 2005 from search box
Mozilla Japan director of marketing and partner relations, Gen Kanai, revealed yesterday the earnings of Mozilla from the search box alone and how the funds were also re-distributed to fellow Mozilla developers for projects.
Visitors to PopOut! Singapore, organised by The Digital Movement, was also treated to a preview of Firefox3.0.
“In 2005, we published an earnings for Mozilla about USD60million,” said Gen.
“That earnings are primary driven by the search box with our relationships from Google and Yahoo worldwide, and with local search engines, like Amazon Japan, etc.”
“We donate earnings to our community members helping us and to other open-source projects.”
Gen demonstrated new features of Firefox3.0 which grew a huge applause and “wows” from the audience.
“We will be providing off-site features for Firefox3.0, more malware protection and be adding new features around SSL,” said Gen.
Demo of SVG in Firefox3.0
“Future versions of Firefox will include have a scalable vector graphics for both images and videos which will allow users to move and resize them on the browser without a need for a plugin.”
A question was thrown to Gen about what motivates him to work for Mozilla which he answered that innovation was his biggest muse.
“The motivation is the chance to work on projects that affects over 100million users worldwide ,” said Gen.
” I really believe Firefox and other Mozilla projects are a benefit to everybody in the Internet.
“When IE was only the dominant player for 6 years, a lot of those innovation stopped for that period of time.
“But now that there is competition in the browser space, all of us are now innovating and this will benefit all of us, the Internet users.”
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