Online Community
eBay Hops on Social Network Money Train
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Despite lingering woes from its troubled Skype integration, eBay is again hoping to capitalize on a hot online trend. This time, the target is social networking, with the company today unveiling a new area of its site called eBay Neighborhoods.
Like the auction giant’s earlier purchase of Skype — seen as an attempt to integrate the [...]
Facebook: One Step Closer To World Domination
Monday, October 1st, 2007So Facebook will finally allow users to group friends and control information flow based on friend type. For guys like Robert Scoble, who have 5,000 friends (the limit), this may be a way to finally sort through the real friends from the fans. It’s a much needed feature that people have been requesting for a [...]
Open Source Does REALLY matter - Joomla
Sunday, June 17th, 2007Here in Xaby, we uses Joomla a lot a lot. And of course we keep track of Joomla related news. Here’s one that those who do their web development work based on Joomla! Content Management System should really pay attention to:
Joomla! is moving to ensure the future of the project by committing to compliance with [...]
The Structures of Success: Ten Guidelines for Sustainable Program and Project Management
Monday, June 11th, 2007Across the IT industry, because of an increased emphasis on project management, the percentage of software-delivery projects that are delivered successfully within the triple constraints of time, cost and planned features continues to increase.
Despite this, close to three-quarters of software projects are still considered to have failed in some respect, and it has been said [...]
Tomorrow.sg Gets First Legal Letter
Thursday, June 7th, 2007Popular Singapore Blog Aggregator Tomorrow.sg has just gotten their first legal letter and this has set the local blogging community ablazed.
From Tomorrow.sg’s Special Feature:
“We have engaged Dr Toh See Kiat of Goodwins Law Corporation to defend us against the allegations of Grand Seasons International Pte Ltd.
As many would know, Dr Toh is an IT lawyer [...]
Concept of Online Communities
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007I got started into the Web Industry when I started an online community for Singaporeans during my Junior College days and those days, domain names cost you around USD$70 per year, web hosting costs SGD$20/month (which is miserable as you get only 20mb of web space!) compared to the competitive prices you get nowadays.
Within 6 [...]
Digg.com
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007Probably one of the most successful online community in the world today, Digg.com is ranked 93 worldwide by Alexa (as of the day this post is made).
“Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines [...]