http://blog.socialtalkr.com whackythinking Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:02:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Me (kengyew) and Mike Tee presented in Barcamp JB over the last weekend about how to obtain government grant funding from MDEC worth RM150K! We talked about some of the common ideas that MDEC has heard before. We talked about some ideas that MDEC would LIKE to hear. We talked about ... http://blog.socialtalkr.com/10-tips-to-get-mdec-preseed-grant-worth-rm150k/?&owa_from=feed&owa_sid= 2009 Year of the Ox - It’s going to be an exciting year ahead for startups in the tech scene. Historically speaking, economic uncertainty has been regarded as fertile soil for game changing startups. Most of the internet powerhouses (Google, Facebook, Digg) that emerged in this decade were conceived and ... http://blog.socialtalkr.com/startups-in-the-year-of-the-ox-economic-outlook-for-2009/?&owa_from=feed&owa_sid= As online ads revenues continue to weaken, impression based models are taking a beating. Businesses continue to cut costs and the last thing they need is to advertise without any tangible returns. Thinking fast on their feet, AdBrite is converting to a pay per click model. This is really where internet ... http://blog.socialtalkr.com/adbrite-online-ads-demand-dro/?&owa_from=feed&owa_sid= Online ad revenue for the top US players in online advertising; Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL has stopped in its tracks for Q3 of 2008. Less money for them means less money to be dispersed to bloggers and other ad-revenue based websites. Numbers wise, online ad growth from Q3/Q4 2007 was recorded ... http://blog.socialtalkr.com/adsense-online-ad-earnings-stopped-no-growth-in-q3-2008/?&owa_from=feed&owa_sid= I'm a big fan of the google empire of products. Docs/Sites/Forms/Gmail/Gtalk etc. I'm sure alot of you who use gmail know that you can embed Gtalk on the sidebar. Well now you can embed other cool apps too. Google recently opened up APIs to developers and these are one of the ... http://blog.socialtalkr.com/add-widgets-to-your-gmail-googledocs-todolists-etc/?&owa_from=feed&owa_sid=   The FBFund started receiving applications August 2008 and receive 600 applications. 25 of these received $25K from Facebook. The real excitement is that the FBFund is divided into 2 stages, and Stage 2 is only open for developers who have won Stage 1.  Price money for Stage 2? a cool $250K. I ... http://blog.socialtalkr.com/facebook-gives-out-25k-to-25-apps/?&owa_from=feed&owa_sid=   Pay you to learn from Google's best. What are you waiting for? sign up!  When: Tuesday October 28th, 2008 1:00PM-10PM Where: Singapore Management University What: Google will be holding a DevFest Singapore. Join us for a day of coding and fun, where we’ll cover topics ranging from OpenSocial & App Engine to YouTube & the ... http://blog.socialtalkr.com/google-devfest-50-selected-to-meet-with-google/?&owa_from=feed&owa_sid= A bungled con-job by CEO Paul Thomas Johnson, 40, and CFO Parrish Jones, 39. Both tried to make up numbers to attract venture capital. In dark times like these i suppose a shitty company needs all the made up numbers they could possibly get. Here is what they "faked" 2006, true ... http://blog.socialtalkr.com/sas-startup-entellium-execs-arrested-by-fbi-for-fraud/?&owa_from=feed&owa_sid= GEW or Global Entrepreneurship Week is a week long celebration of entrepreneurship with events. visit www.gewmalaysia.com for more details. YOU can participate in the activities as a Partner or an Attendee, so check it out. It is also the reason why i've not been blogging recently because ive been busy as hell helping ... http://blog.socialtalkr.com/global-entrepreneurship-week/?&owa_from=feed&owa_sid= (creepy photo from Linda Gavin's photostream on Flickr, its a little out of date, but im sure the sentiments above are echoed by the ones who got laid off)  This is the latest in a series of revamping measures taken on by ebay. Some of you might have heard or are ... http://blog.socialtalkr.com/ebay-cuts-1600-jobs/?&owa_from=feed&owa_sid=