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Monday, March 25, 2013 By

Google+, minus Google Reader

Google Reader is being shut down because people are not sharing enough content on Google+, says a former Google Reader product manager. The Reader was being kept alive to drive content to Google+, but it did not do so, says Brian Shih, speaking from his own experience.

Google’s big hit in social media has been YouTube rather than Google+. In a blog post last week, YouTube announced: “YouTube now has more than a billion unique users every single month.”

Powering this growth, it said, is Gen C (C stands for content) – youngsters born between 1988 and 1993 — who, according to the Google Agency Blog, watch YouTube “on all screens, all the time”.

That brings YouTube neck and neck with Facebook which reports “more than a billion active users as of December 2012.”Continue Reading

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Sunday, September 16, 2012 By

From Nipplegate to quipping and tweeting

Google should have blocked the YouTube video insulting Prophet Muhammad which led to  the anti-US fury in the Muslim world and the death of the US ambassador to Libya. But, at the same time, we need a lively social media.

Facebook surely erred in temporarily shutting down the New Yorker Facebook page over what the magazine called Nipplegate.  What’s so objectionable about this New Yorker cartoon showing Adam and Eve?

New Yorker Adam and Eve

New Yorker Adam and Eve

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Saturday, September 8, 2012 By

Singapore Conversation

There’s so much to learn from Singapore. It is using social media to canvass public opinion. The government has launched a Facebook page (OurSGConversation) and a website (https://www.oursgconversation.sg/) encouraging Singapore to share their views on national issues. The Facebook page, for example, asks:

What kind of home do you want Singapore to be? How do we tie our hopes and our hearts to our home, no matter where we go in life? What are the things that make Singapore unique to you, or that make you proud of Singapore? How do we build the best possible future home for our children?

No longer can critics say Singapore has a paternalistic government with a “Father knows best” approach where the government decides what’s best for the nation. Even if it were true once, Singapore seems none the worse for it as one of the most prosperous, developed countries (all right, city-state) in Asia Pacific. Since the 2011 general election, however, the government has become more responsive to the people.Continue Reading

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Saturday, May 12, 2012 By

Facebook cofounder Saverin becoming Singapore citizen?

Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin

Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin

Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin has given up US citizenship. His name appears on the Federal  Register list of people who have  given up US citizenship, published by the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) on April 30. So has he become a Singapore citizen?

“Eduardo recently found it to be more practical to become a resident of Singapore since he plans to live there for an indefinite period of time,” said Saverin’s spokesman Tom Goodman, reported the Washington Post. Saverin made that move “around September” last year, according to his spokesman, reported Bloomberg.

But a Singapore permanent resident also needs a passport to travel abroad. So which country’s passport is Saverin carrying now that he is no longer a US citizen?Continue Reading

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Monday, February 6, 2012 By

Google censoring blogs just as India wanted

Google has started censoring blogs just as India wanted The news comes just a week after Twitter announced a similar move.

Just as Tweeter can block tweets from being seen in countries where they fall foul of local laws, so can Google block access to Blogger blogs in specific countries which want them removed.

Google is introducing a country-specific URL scheme for Blogger blogs. An internet user in India, for example, trying to access a blog with the URL mjakbar.blogspot.com may be redirected to mjakbar.blogspot.in

Google has already made the change in India, Australia and New Zealand.Continue Reading

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Thursday, February 2, 2012 By

Facebook’s fantastic growth: 1 out of 4 users in Asia

Facebook's growing users: Where they come from

Facebook's growing users: Where they come from

Eighty per cent of Facebook users now live outside the United States and Asia is one of the fastest growing Facebook markets.  Of Facebook’s 845 million monthly active users by the end of December last year, 212 million were in Asia, up from just 62 million at the end of 2009. So one out of four Facebook users is now in Asia.Continue Reading

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Saturday, January 14, 2012 By

India cracks down on Google, Facebook and social media

Sonia Gandhi is taking after her mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi. Not only is she the undisputed leader of the Congress party; her government is also trying to curb freedom of expression.Continue Reading

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Saturday, January 7, 2012 By

Singapore: A government attuned to social media

Singapore used to be called a nanny state. Now it has a government attuned to social media.

Singaporeans still get their news from the mainstream media, we are told. That may be so. But the mainstream can no longer ignore the social media. Not when even the leaders have Facebook accounts.

The use of social media can backfire, as Grace Fu found when she aired her views on the proposed pay cuts for ministers. The Senior Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts wrote on Facebook:Continue Reading

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Sunday, December 25, 2011 By

94% of internet users in Singapore are on social networks

Merry Christmas everyone! I see “merry Christmas” is trending both in Singapore and worldwide on Twitter. Twitter and Facebook must be deluged with Christmas greetings since almost every internet user in the world today visits social networking sites, according to the internet marketing research company, ComScore.

In Singapore, 94 per cent of the internet users are social networking, as you can see in this chart showing social network usage around the world. It is taken from a ComScore report released a few days ago. Facebook has more users in Singapore than The Straits Times has readers, as we will see later in this post. The figures in the chart show the percentage of internet users using social networks in October. Ninety-eight per cent of the internet users in America and Britain use social networks, 96 per cent in Australia and 95 per cent in India.

Social network users worldwide

Social network users worldwide

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Friday, December 23, 2011 By

Singapore among top LinkedIn markets and what you can find on Facebook

The professional network LinkedIn has one of the penetration rates in Singapore. Sixteen  per cent of the internet users in Singapore visited LinkedIn, according to a ComScore report in April.

I discovered this after reading about the latest ComScore report that social networking is the most popular online activity. No wonder. You can find stuff on Facebook you may not find on Google. A Singapore MP’s Facebook page, for example, showed him correcting his English while commenting on the “broken English” of others. Continue Reading

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