A heart warming video-advertorial by Google Chrome - of an Asian father who uses the web to share memories with his daughter as she grows up... Music by Ingrid Michaelson, a New York based indie-pop singer-songwriter. … [Read more...] about Google Chrome – Dear Sophie
Tom Cruise joins Chinese microblogging
American actor Tom Cruise has opened an account at Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging site similar to Twitter. Many international social networking sites, e.g. Facebook and Twitter, are banned in China. But their local microblogging sites, obviously under scrutiny of the Chinese … [Read more...] about Tom Cruise joins Chinese microblogging
Girl Walks Into a Bar
Girl Walks Into a Bar is said to be the first major Hollywood motion picture made for the internet. It tells the story of a group of apparent strangers over one night across ten bars throughout Los Angeles. Check out the trailer (a bit NSFW) below... Not great, but not bad … [Read more...] about Girl Walks Into a Bar
Google Chrome Japanese commercial
Japanese commercial (2011) by Google Japan to promote its Chrome web browser which emphasizes on speed and simplicity... Hundreds of pictures are painted, scanned in sequence, opened on Chrome, and it turned into a mini-animation when the tabs are closed rapidly. Not sure if … [Read more...] about Google Chrome Japanese commercial
Malaysians have most online friends
Malaysians have the most friends on social networks while Japanese the fewest, according to a recent study by research firm TNS which interviewed 50,000 consumers in 46 countries. In Malaysia the average number of friends is 233, closely followed by 231 in Brazil and 217 in Norway. … [Read more...] about Malaysians have most online friends
Asia Pacific social media stats
A video by Asiadigitalmap about Asia Pacific's social media (Facebook and local equivalents etc.) trend and diversity... … [Read more...] about Asia Pacific social media stats
Average age of social network users
Pingdom has published an interesting study regarding the ages of internet social network (i.e. Facebook, Twitter etc.) users in the United States. The average age is a lot higher than I thought. I would have guessed that most users are teenagers or college kids, but the … [Read more...] about Average age of social network users
If you printed the internet…
[more illustrations on Creative Cloud, via Neatorama] … [Read more...] about If you printed the internet…
Internet’s 40th anniversary, a brief history
"On September 2nd 1969, in a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, two computers passed test data through a 15-foot gray cable." [more on NatGeo] It's a disputable date of birth, depending on how we interpret the term internet. One thing for sure, the internet has … [Read more...] about Internet’s 40th anniversary, a brief history
Golden Klog Awards 2008
Folks at Koreasparkle is running a Korean blog awards in which our pop channel is nominated as Best Blog about Korean Pop Culture. To be frank, I'm not keen in websites' awards... so I'm not going to bore you with the poll, especially if you are not familiar with the … [Read more...] about Golden Klog Awards 2008