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LinkedIn hits 1 million members in Singapore

| 2 May 2013 | 11:30 AM | No Comment |

LinkedIn announced recently that its membership base in Singapore has surpassed 1 million, almost doubling since 2011 when it established a presence in Singapore. Globally, the site attracts more than two new members every second, and has more than 200 million members worldwide.

With this milestone, LinkedIn is now home to about 70% of the country’s professional labor force and student population. Singapore is the forth country in Southeast Asia to surpassed the 1 million member mark on LinkedIn after Malaysia, Indonesia and The Philippines.

Leading C-suite professionals, senior executives and entrepreneurs in Singapore are also leveraging LinkedIn to boost their professional brand. Check out Singapore’s Power Profile list of top-viewed LinkedIn profiles in their industry.

Besides the Power Profile, LinkedIn also revealed interesting data about its members in Singapore:

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Interesting insights. By the way, I just want to say that “Microsoft Office” is not exactly a Skill Set. Come on people, it is basic computer knowledge.

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Happy Birthday Twitter! #Twitter7

| 22 March 2013 | 4:50 AM | No Comment |

Today is Twitter’s 7th Birthday. Happy Birthday Twitter!

Jack Dorsey posted the first ever tweet on 21 March 2006, 1:50pm PDT. (22 March, 4:50am Singapore time) It was just a simple tweet saying that he is setting up his twttr. Nope, this wasn’t a typo. Twitter was initially called twttr.

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Twitter has come a long way. Today, there are more than 200 million active users posting over 400 million Tweets each day. Amazing. Can’t wait to see what you’ll tweet next.

On a unrelated note, Twitter was recently granted a patent for “device independent message distribution platform”.

A system (and method) for device-independent point to multipoint communication is disclosed. The system is configured to receive a message addressed to one or more destination users, the message type being, for example, Short Message Service (SMS), Instant Messaging (IM), E-mail, web form input, or Application Program Interface (API) function call. The system also is configured to determine information about the destination users, the information comprising preferred devices and interfaces for receiving messages, the information further comprising message receiving preferences. The system applies rules to the message based on destination user information to determine the message endpoints, the message endpoints being, for example, Short Message Service (SMS), Instant Messaging (IM), E-mail, web page output, or Application Program Interface (API) function call. The system translates the message based on the destination user information and message endpoints and transmits the message to each endpoint of the message.

In 140 characters, it means Twitter has patented itself.

But don’t worry. Twitter most likely won’t use the patent to sue other companies. Last year, Twitter announced its Innovator’s Patent Agreement (IPA) where it promises that patents will only be used for defensive purposes.

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How to turn off the new Facebook notification sound?

| 28 February 2013 | 10:47 AM | No Comment |

It seems like Facebook has started rolling out the new notification sound on the website. Don’t be shocked when you start hearing this sound.

I just got the notification sound feature turned on this morning and it is annoying. I guess most people will be annoyed by it. It is strange that Facebook still rolled out this feature despite reviewers saying that they hate it.

Luckily for everyone, turning off that annoying notification sound is easy. Just go to your Account Settings, Notifications under How You Get Notifications On Facebook section. Uncheck Play a sound when each new notification is received.

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You are welcomed.

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Facebook Page Insights Reporting Bug

| 24 February 2013 | 12:20 PM | No Comment |

Facebook recently reported that they discovered some bugs that impacted Page Insights impression and reach reporting. These issues impacted reporting only and not delivery. Ad Insights were not impacted by these bugs.

Facebook is fixing this bug and the Page analytics should be accurate by this weekend. After the fix, most Pages should see an increase in their total Reach. Facebook stressed that this is just a reporting issue, not delivery issue. For more information, check out the Facebook Studio article.

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This might explain why almost all the Facebook Page admins I know complaint to me that their Reach has been dropping for the past few months. Most of us thought that it is due to the new Facebook EdgeRank algorithm. Maybe it’s just a reporting bug. Have you seen any improvement in your Page’s Reach after the bug fix?

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Review of Singapore’s first online rally by SDA part 2

| 22 January 2013 | 9:30 AM | One Comment |

So the Singapore Democratic Alliance released their second online rally video a few hours after the first. I guess I should review it too. I shall keep this entry short. Some of the things were mentioned in my previous blog entry so I’ll try my best not to repeat.

Do check out my blog entry regarding the first video.

0:00: Same intro as the first video. Good to be consistant here.

0:11: It would be good if there is an annotation to link to the first video. Likewise, it would be good to add an annotation at the end of the first video to link people to this video.

0:15: Wait. Where are the questions coming in from? This video is pre-recorded before the release of the first video right? Then how do you managed to get the questions?

0:52: Studio? What studio?

0:55: If this is a question and answer session, it would be good if the camera can zoom out and show both the interviewer and interviewee in the same room.

1:10: You say you are excited to address us but you don’t sound excited.

2:00: What’s up with all the weird hand gestures?

2:23: Is this still part of the answer to “Why go online”? If no, then perhaps it would be good to put it into another video. Or have the interviewer ask a new question so that you can transit into the new topic smoothly.

2:32: Seriously, the video editing is very distracting. What’s up with cutting just 1 second? If the person made a mistake in the recording, just re-record the entire interview. All these editing just shows poor planning and laziness during recording.

3:41: Why is there a voice in the background? This is a pre-recorded video. Surely you can re-record that portion again if someone is talking in the background.

4:32: The hand gesture and eye level gives audiences the impression that the interviewee is seated at the lower corner of the screen. Why is he seated lower than the interviewer? This is weird.

5:05: Audio leveling please! Some people are listening to this using in-ear headphones

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There is no point bragging that you are the first if that is a poor attempt.

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