I LEARNT a Swahili word recently: “Ushahidi.” It means “testimony”. It’s also the name of a crowdsourcing platform for people to post crisis information. People on the ground witnessing a crisis can send information about it through text messages on the mobile phone, e-mail or other web forms. Screenshot of Ushahidi Developed by Kenyan bloggers […]
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Ruumz for more?
By Cindy ThamScreenshot of The Nut Graph‘s status update option in Facebook FOR many internet users, there’s a daily ritual that has to be attended to. Every morning, if these internet users are in Malaysia, they probably log on to Friendster, MySpace or Facebook. They update their status, basically whinging or declaring aloud a profound or whimsical […]
Geeking up greeting cards
By Cindy ThamIN an age when there are good reasons to ditch the idea of paper greeting cards and opt for e-cards, Chak Onn Lau has chosen to buck the trend. In 2008, he teamed up with two partners to set up Foldees. It is a portal linking designers with funky greeting card designs and a market […]
Gerakan to use Net in by-election
KUALA TERENGGANU, 29 Dec 2008: Gerakan will use the internet and telephones to reach out to voters in the 17 Jan 2009 Kuala Terengganu parliamentary by-election. The party’s secretary-general, Teng Chang Yeow, said although Gerakan did not have any seats in the state’s legislative assembly, the party wanted to help the Barisan Nasional (BN) win […]
Monetising music
By Ooi Ying Nee(© Sherri Camp/Dreamstime) NOTHING worries independent recording artist Jerome Kugan more than the fact that there is a generation of music lovers who have never paid for music. “Lots of these kids love music and they download a lot of stuff. One day I casually asked one of them, ‘What was the last CD you […]
