PHP Singapore User Group November 2007 Event

Thanks to Michael Cheng for starting the PHP Singapore User Group and putting in so much effort in organizing this November meet up.

There’ll be 3 talks during the event and I’ll be speaking for one of them, on Security in PHP.

I’ll be sharing some security measures that web developers should be looking out for when writing applications. If you have some input on this topic that you think I should share, please drop me a mail at chua@uzyn.com, or you can also attend the event and raise it up as well. I will appreciate your input. We should all share and learn from each other.

Please RSVP for the event.

See ya’ll this coming Wednesday.

Mobile Warrior

During those days when Wireless@SG decides to play a trick on me again, I’m so glad to have Broadband on Mobile. It almost never fails to deliver.

I’ve been having Broadband on Mobile 10GB plan for awhile now, but have not been able to use it on my 3G phone with my laptop as I’m using the SIM on my iPhone. Not only that iPhone doesn’t support 3G connection, it cannot, like my good old Nokia 6280, functions as a modem to my laptop too.

Now that I’ve got Multi-SIM, everything’s working fine again. One SIM in my iPhone, another in my good old Nokia 3G phone. I’m a mobile warrior again. I can even make (or lose) money playing mobile poker on my phone while on MRT.

Damn this sounds so much like payperpost.

No, it is not!

I’m typing this post in Starbucks at Suntec where there is Wireless@SG access point but a non-working DHCP.

Come to think of it, maybe this is the plan all along. Had all Wireless@SG connections are working great, who would’ve signed up for the mobile broadband services from the 3 telcos?

My New Business Cards

My new business cards for a company I co-founded, widgeo.us.

Get them from me before they run out.

Designed by Aen.

Free Burma!

International Bloggers’ Day for Burma on the 4th of October

This is the least I could do for the people of Burma.

Singapore Internet Traffic and Traditional Media

Singapore’s online traffic is still mainly influenced by traditional (offline) media and advertising. I just couldn’t believe how fast mocca.com, a site from MediaCorp that has only started less than 2 months ago, could have grown so rapidly in such a short period of time.

When it was first being launched, I thought that it was a crazy move as I believed that the auction traffic in Singapore is already dominated by Yahoo! Auctions Singapore and eBay Singapore and no amount of marketing budget could have moved any of them off the pie.

I was totally wrong. The success of mocca.com and of course, STOMP, has proved to us that traditional media is still highly overpowering online media. And I’m not only saying this in the domain of Singapore media as a whole, but offline media is so dominating that it could take on any existing local internet giants very easily. By take on of course I do not mean moving the users off the current internet giants, but by getting the not-so-net-savvy crowd, whom otherwise would not have explored the web, to visit and frequent sites.

As a summary, here’s a graphic I created to illustrate my point regarding the comparison of influence of online and offline media on local internet traffic.