Bernard Leong
Pragmatic Idealist on Tech, Media and Entrepreneurship

BigData.SG is happy to announce our first meetup!

Where: Amazon Web Services offices, 23 Church Street, Singapore

When: Thursday January 19th, 6-9pm

6-7pm, A chance to meet fellow Big Data Nerds; beer, snacks provided by AWS.

7-9pm, 2-3 short talks on Big Data topics; topics TBA.

Tentative topics:

Simone Brunozzi, Evangelist for AWS APAC:...

An informal, free event where beer meets iOS. There will be a few talks from people in the iOS developer community and hopefully, lots of chat. The content will include technical, design and business/marketing issues.

Anyone can attend, but we'll have to limit the number of attendees to around 40.

biOS - the "b" is for beer
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What better excuse for a party! Hope you can come round for a few drinks, meet some people, and generally have a good time on NYE - 'cos if the Mayans are right about 2012, we might as well have fun while we can. Oh and if people are up for it we can move the party on later to somewhere with better lighting (but maybe worse music;)).

We are excited to be hosting Mobile Monday Singapore! Come listen and learn to what HTCdev can offer you. We will also be giving away an HTC device to a lucky winner, so bring your business cards!

HTC is a global leader in mobile innovation and design. Its developer program, HTCdev , is designed to support developers worldwide by providing them...

Come to the 1st WordCamp Singapore 2011.

Participate in a BarCamp like environment and get to meet WordPress Users from Singapore and everywhere around the world, listening and giving presentations, talks and seminars about the platform they love.

Find out more and buy your tickets here: http://2011.singapore.wordcamp.org

7th WP Wednesdays...

ANNOUNCEMENT
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Check out the updated line-up of talks/workshops. REGISTER now for talks and workshops @ http://softwarefreedomday.sg/talks
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Software Freedom Day (Singapore) is a public event held at the National Library Building and is open to all members of the public!...

Friends, Romans, Singaporeans, it's time for our long overdue housewarming, lah!

When: Saturday 20 August
Where: 7 Westbourne Road, Wessex, Singapore, 138945 (easiest by taxi - ask for Portsdown Road)
Time: 4pm to 9pm - we'll probably hit Colbar for dinner for those that are keen to stay later

We'll serve some cool cocktails and...

Ok so this isn't going to be political at all - but, any excuse is a good excuse (and yes we can have the television on for results if anyone wants)! Come by for a drink or twelve, bring a little of what (or who) you fancy, and we'll make a night of it.

There are also plans afoot for an afterparty at the Midnight Shift do at Ku de Ta...

What is it?
A hands-on half-day introduction to Social Enterprise (SE) that will walk participants through "starting an SE". And writing a good business plan for one.

And will be LOADED with engaging personal stories from line-up of speakers, including Bernard Leong, James Norris, Bernise Ang, and more!

Please RSVP you attendance here...

Hi everyone!

The next CodeAndroid meetup will be happening on 30th July 2011. For the next meetup, we have Sean and Jerry who will be presenting on

Android development using jQTouch (http://jqtouch.com/) by Sean Lin (https://www.facebook.com/seanlin.me)

Best Android development practises and tips by Jerry Lim (https://www.facebook.com/jerrylim)
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In the next Developer Garage Meet Up, we like to present a series introducing the features and opportunities Windows Phone 7 update Mango brings:

Chris Ismael, Developer Evangelist at Microsoft, will be giving a talk on “What’s Cool About Windows Phone 7 next major update codenamed Mango”. He will cover new features and capabilities, app...

As the seats are limited in the event, we will prefer that you can confirm with us that you are attending the event. Please come and join both Chalkboard and HTC in launching our new project, Pina Colada on 29 June 2011, 2-4 pm in HTC Cubics Platform Sunway Giza Mall. We look forward to see you there.

We'd like to thank R/GA for sponsoring the event and helping to make it free for everybody to attend. R/GA is a digital ad agency with a new office in Singapore. R/GA has a company ethos committed to creativity, technology, and design - a natural synergy to SHDH.

The Pigeonhole (52 & 53 Duxton Road) will host Singapore’s first ever...

Find out more at http://thenewmedia.asia/
If you're a social media professional, or wanting to learn more about social media and new media and how you can take your business to the next level (i.e. make more sales via impactive engagement), this event is for you.

Register now, for a chance to win an iPad 2! Visit...

Talk : Using Python and Screen-Scraping To Grab Data From An Online Learning System

Speaker : Thomas O’Dell

Thomas will share his experiences of using Python to supplement an online learning system for work that he does with grading and evaluating students



Talk : What’s Coming Up in Python 3.2

Speaker : Senthil Kumaran

Senthil has moved...

Clifford Chua is organizing SJI Reunion Drinks @ Attica on 28 Jan, Friday, 9pm onwards including VIP guest list, sponsored finger food, 50 first drinks more if response exceeds the number. Too good to be true!. So pls RSVP early.

Bill Scott, VP of Business Development from GetJar, will be presenting at Mobile Monday on 27-September at Harry's Bar, Boat Quay.

GetJar is the world's second largest mobile app store with more than 1 billion downloads since its launch and was recently selected as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011.

The Social Media World Asia is 'the' event for Social media in Asia. Attendance anticipated at over 1500 for the 2010 September event, bringing together complimentary conference streams. This will allow the social media industry to connect, collaborate, and share views on from leading social networks, to social TV, and mobile social...

ad:tech Singapore 2010 – The 3rd Interactive Advertising and Digital Marketing Exhibition and Conference, Asia www.ad-tech.com/singapore ad:tech Singapore 2010 is a regional event for the interactive marketing community. ad:tech brings together brand advertisers, traditional & interactive agencies, portals, on-line publishers and technology...

echelon 2010 (formerly known as unConference Singapore) aims to be at the frontier of the Internet and web technology landscape, where the main focus will be in bringing together the top brass of the web technology industry from various parts of the startup eco-system to facilitate discussion on the hot topics in the web startup scene.

Event...

Come and join us for our FIRST live recording in Kuala Lumpur

Order tickets via Eventbrite:
http://barcampkl-efbevent.eventbrite.com

Barcamp is back in KL on the 3rd time and join us in Segi College in USJ Subang.

Come to present, listen and participate in the most rojak event ever.

From casual stuff like cooking for dummies, to geeking out withhaskell to socializing with new media, there are plenty of...

We're making a weekend trip up to KL (from Singapore) to attend BarCampKL!

Planes are no fun (and there's this other random group calling themselves Geeks On A Plane anyway =P), so we're gonna take the old Malaysian KTM Rail up north!

* NOTE PLS Sign up at the signup page so we wont miss ya!*

Prepare for a weekend of outright...