December 2007
75 posts
The Worlds Billionaires - itsReal →
forbes missed my name, o i guess i make the list in 2008 - Happy New Year - Everyone who reads Aplink… Keep Dreaming - itsReal
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The World’s Billionaires
The World’s Richest People Edited by Luisa Kroll and Allison Fass
It’s been a busy year in the fortune-hunting business.
Paella Party Matthew Swibel and Christina von Zeppelin
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Virtual World Marketing Gets Reality Check in 2007... →
It was a year of ups and downs for virtual worlds, as well as the companies that jumped on the bandwagon of creating virtual advertising and branded worlds. As 2007 began, the virtual world environment Second Life was riding high on a wave of interest from users and advertisers, but as time went on, many marketers and agencies began to question the return on investment of their virtual...
2.5 days left - Now or Never Chance to win the... →
ATTENTION SINGAPORE BLOGGERS… DO YOU WANT THIS…Start 2008 in style, WHO now has what it takes to WIN the iPhone - 2.5 days left - Now or Never Chance to win the iPhone from recruit.net…
Recruit.net - Creative Feedback Challenge (RCFC)
Recruit.net - a vertical search engine for jobs and recent winner of the Red Herring 100 Award for top tech companies is launching in Singapore!
The team...
one laptop per child to empower children in... →
The mission of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every school-age child. In order to accomplish our goal, we need people who believe in what they are doing and want to help make education for the world’s children a priority, not a privilege.
clipped from www.laptopgiving.org
The...
Future Phishing… be careful with your online... →
Forget the Nigerian prince. Phishing scams are moving beyond the misspelled, far-fetched ruses that clog your in-box and beg for your bank codes. In the year to come, security professionals are warning of bank code-stealing exploits that are much slicker and more convincing–hidden in guises as harmless as a banner ad on a reputable Web site or a message from a friend on a social network.
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The social revolution that conquered the internet... →
DELUGED BY billboards, television advertisements and an apparently limitless arsenal of marketing hype, you might imagine that the launch of Apple’s iPhone, pictured, stands head and shoulders above the rest as the most significant technology event of 2007, but you’d be wrong. The iconic mobile handset may well have been a runaway consumer success, but the undoubted heavyweight champion of the...
Musicovery : interactive webRadio →
This is COOL…APLINK loves it
Kylie Minogue gets an OBE and has her own Social... →
KYLIE Minogue, whose battle with cancer has inspired millions, gets an OBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List published today.Click Kylie: to join her social Network:
Come, come into Kylie’s world! Kylie Konnect is a social network for Kylie fans around the world and gives you the chance to make friends, upload pictures, send messages and more! So register now, it’s free to sign up and...
Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2007 - itsReal →
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Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2007
Welcome to the first annual Wired News rundown of the year’s 10 most important scientific breakthroughs. 2007 was an amazing year for science. Unlike recent years, there were no high-profile cases of scientific fraud — none that went uncovered, anyway. Journal publishers took extra care, requiring scientists to...
Time Lapse Photo very Cool →
How clever are internet people getting ?
Top 10 Most underreported Humanitarian stories -... →
Every country in the world has people in poverty, people homeless and destitute, subjected to violence and deprivations that don’t end. None of it will stop until someone makes a difference. Who can that someone possibly be? ME or YOU.
clipped from doctorswithoutborders.org
Displaced Fleeing War in Somalia Face Humanitarian Crisis
Mogadishu
a 16-year conflict has resulted in some of...
Million Dollar Shot - Singapore Slingers Contest →
Slingers NEWS makes it to tomorrow.sg - wow
a moment in History : Pakistan’s Bhutto... →
The first SMS arrived announcing of the suicide bomber, fifteen minutes later the mobile sent out its familiar message tone, without even looking I knew she was dead..
clipped from www.forbes.com
Pakistan’s Bhutto Assassinated
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was shot dead Thursday at a political rally by an attacker who then set off a blast that left 20 others dead.
In...
Americans more wired, new-media survey finds -... →
38 percent of U.S. consumers are watching TV shows online, 36 percent use their cell phones as entertainment devices and 45 percent are creating online content like Web sites, music, videos and blogs for others, according to a new-media survey
Apple’s Piping Hot Innovation for the iPhone &... →
Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Chief Executive Steve Jobs wants to patent a process that will save customers the hassle of waiting to order a cup of coffee at a local Starbucks (nasdaq: SBUX - news - people ) or a fresh burger at the nearest fast food restaurant. Even better: The technology would let you jump the line of those ordering in person
and…
The patent puts Apple’s...
5 days left - Now or Never Chance to win the... →
ATTENTION SINGAPORE BLOGGERS… DO YOU WANT THIS…WHO did not get one in their Christmas stocking, WHO now has what it takes to WIN the iPhone
5 days left - Now or Never Chance to win the iPhone from recruit.net…
Recruit.net - Creative Feedback Challenge (RCFC)
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6 days left - Now or Never Chance to win the... →
ATTENTION SINGAPORE BLOGGERS… DO YOU WANT THIS…WHO did not get one in their Christmas stocking, WHO now has what it takes to WIN the iPhone
6 days left - Now or Never Chance to win the iPhone from recruit.net…
Recruit.net - Creative Feedback Challenge (RCFC)
Recruit.net - a vertical search engine for jobs and recent winner of the Red Herring 100 Award for top tech companies is launching in...
6 days left - Now or Never Chance to win the... →
Can Archive.org achieve world peace or just be a... →
Yesterday’s Digital Life…whilst cheering our Game producers in Singapore, managed to shock APLINK with its FEATURE story “Screening the Screen”… DL with its massive distribution in SG provided a full page AD/Editorial for Archive.org with all its blood thirsty archives of violence…placed under the label of History….
I guess with this post I too am spreading the word of this historical video...
7 days left - Now or Never Chance to win the... →
ATTENTION SINGAPORE BLOGGERS… DO YOU WANT THIS…WHO did not get one in their Christmas stocking, WHO now has what it takes to WIN the iPhone
7 days left - Now or Never Chance to win the iPhone from recruit.net…
Recruit.net - Creative Feedback Challenge (RCFC)
Recruit.net - a vertical search engine for jobs and recent winner of the Red Herring 100 Award for top tech companies is launching in...
Second Life | Showcase →
Arts & Culture, Fashion, Hot Spots, Music, Photos & Machinima, Tuturials - it’s a showcase
BBC NEWS | Business | Logging on for Christmas... →
ike many retailers, Chapeau Tres Mignon started preparing for the Christmas shopping frenzy in mid-November. There is just one tiny difference. The accessories shop - renowned for its owner’s signature hats - is located in Dreamworld East 183, 194, 21 on the information super highway, rather than on any real life High Street. But just because the framework of the store and everything...
Million Dollar Shot ! - WOW - itsReal →
Singapore Slingers Million Dollar Shot… WOW a million dollars prize money in Singapore ? - itsReal
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RoundUp: Second Life - Supermodel, real estate... →
Google News Alert for: “Second Life”
Second Life finds new customers Malaysia Sun - Malaysia
The Second Life virtual computer world, in which users can create characters representing themselves, has had a dramatic shift. … (more…)
1 Million L$ from OSRAM →
Contest open till Jan 7
See details HERE
Internet Addictions - Shock Treatment for Addicts →
it is almost 2008, and the use of Electric Shock Treatment is still in use…what are we thinking, surely some stress free time In New Zealand, walking the sheep trails, might be less invasive than placing electrodes into a young persons brain - APLINK
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Treating Internet junkies 2:10
CNN’s John Vause visits a boot camp run by the Chinese military to...
Top 50 Website Rankings Issued for Nov., Toy &... →
The beginning of the holiday shopping season resulted in retail sites dominating the top-gaining site and category rankings in November, while Yahoo Sites maintained its rank as the top web property, according to a monthly analysis by comScore’s Media Metrix service.
Yahoo Sites had 136 million visitors in Nov., while Microsoft Sites inched past the Time Warner Network to capture the third...
Marketing Executives Identify Top Marketing... →
The first annual survey of Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG), a nearly 1,700-member organization of marketers at a VP-level or higher, sought to identify the top marketing trends in 2008. The survey focused on top marketing concepts, buzzwords, global areas of opportunity, targeted customer demographics, as well as the books that marketers look to for inspiration and growth opportunity....
Love the plastic like screen - itsReal →
was Princessa looking for one of these for Christmas
clipped from www.arnnet.com.au
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Year in review: Future Tech
Want to know what technology you’ll ne using next year? Take a look at our review of 2007’s prototype technology highlights.
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Year in review: Gadgets
What were the best gadgets of 2007? We showcase the...
Ageing Population of Singapore has JOBS today…but... →
It’s 50/50 if you live past 85, better odds than the integrated resorts will offer you.
“If it is the tight labour market that’s pushing the participation up, then when the tight labour market goes, will companies then push out older workers? And the older workers will again be in the same situation as in a couple of years ago,” questioned Stephen Lee, president of the Singapore National...
What is a Digital Native? Are you one? « APLINK -... →
What is a Mashup ? →
David is obviously excited about MASHUPS
clipped from news.zdnet.com
What is a mashup?
Developers are getting creative, taking APIs from multiple Websites and merging them to form new, innovative applications. Frozenbear.com merges Google maps and Singles to let you know where the single people are in your neighborhood. Parkingcarma.com helps you track down parking spaces in the Bay...
Holiday Layoffs →
Trouble in the new promised Land
What is a Digital Native? Are you a Digital... →
16 days left to enter the recruit.net contest -... →
another great entry has been received ARE YOU UP FOR THE CHALLENGE……
see the latest entry from VORNY -Is it a fictional entry or NON fiction ?
legal adoption? post unborn baby for adoption on... →
Further to my last post legal adoption? post unborn baby for adoption on inkiti.com Singapore
the classified site owner wrote this in the comments, which is no great help at all….
Yes, I think she needs help. Can you do something for her ?
Louis-guillaume
However, for those seeking advice or help in placing a child with a loving family or couples looking to adopt in Singapore you can...
HypoCol, taken for Cholesterol Management,... →
Fitness TIPS for Holiday Festivities | Your Heart... →
What is a Digital Native? Are you one? →
Nope, I’m not a Digital Native. A Digital Native, by our definition, is someone who is both born after about 1980 and who uses digital technologies in certain advanced ways. I think I might qualify as a Digital Settler, someone who has used these technologies in extensive ways from the start, but who knew a world before so many things went digital. I think that many, though not all, of our...
Virtual Conferences not YET but the Reality is... →
‘Avatars’ offer virtual alternative at climate summit
More than 10,000 people are in Bali thrashing out action on global warming, but those who couldn’t make it in person are here virtually — some in the form of dragons and action heroes.
Hoping to widen the debate and cut down on carbon emissions from air travel, Oneworld.net, a left-leaning website, has taken the UN conference here on...
UN talks set goal of 2009 for new pact on climate... →
The “Bali Roadmap” was approved by consensus among the 190 members of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) after gruelling negotiations that ran for 13 days, one more than scheduled.
Get Naked with John Palfrey →
In our last Get Naked post, we interviewed PR guru Larry Weber and talked about his new book, “Marketing to the Social Web.” Larry is one of the most social people we know, so when he introduced us to John Palfrey from the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, we knew we had another great Get Naked story on our hands.
Surprise agreement ends Bali climate talks | US... →
RoundUp: Big Week in SecondLife, Cory Jumps,... →
Ondrejka forced out of Second Life’s parent company?
From Wired
On Tuesday, Cory Ondrejka, CTO of Second Life developer Linden Lab, gave the company notice that he would be leaving the firm at the end of the year.
According to CEO Philip Rosedale, Ondrejka, who was the company’s fourth employee, has decided to leave to “pursue new professional challenges.”
“Cory and I are in agreement...
legal adoption? post unborn baby for adoption on... →