Business Rocks Joins Social Media Week Singapore 2013!

Everything is connected

I'm super excited! Business Rocks has been selected as one of the 30+ official event partners for Social Media Week when it returns to Singapore next month and we are thrilled to be part of such a great global event: SMW is a global conference connecting people, content and conversations around emerging trends in social and mobile media. … [Read more...]

The Dark Lords of Perfectionism

Someone misplaced his helmet this morning ....

Mediocrity. It has spread through industry and society like a plague and it seems that standards are universally low. Hospitals are criticised for hygiene levels that would cause Florence Nightingale to weep, the mantra of manufacturing for the most part appears to be ‘faster, cheaper, more’. I admit to being an over thinker, borderline … [Read more...]

3 must-have iPhone apps for Twitter Geeks

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Ok first of all, I’m a girl geek. This post could terrify you if you are not an iPhone mad Twitter addict and I just want to say now that you do not have to go to these extremes in order to Tweet productively & efficiently. However, if you are as geeky as I am, love iPhone, and effective Twittering is an important (and official) part of … [Read more...]

SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM…

Imperial Spam Campaign Photo by Stéfan

… lovely SPAM, wonderful SPAM   Everyone experiences spam issues and it is the bane of those of us in the technology industry field to manage it. While there are ways of successfully controlling spam, it is typical for an influx of spam to occur periodically, when the spam senders find ways to ‘trick’ the spam filtering methods used … [Read more...]

The Secret of Twitter’s Success

Money-Whale

In a recent interview with Jonathan Fildes of the BBC, Biz Stone Co-Founder of microblogging service Twitter suggests that that we can finally expect to see an attempt by the company to earn some revenue from the currently free service. Almost entirely funded by venture capital investments, the Social Networking giant secured an additional … [Read more...]

If I ever get an iPhone (and like it) I’ll eat my hat

I Love iPhone

I got my iPhone six months ago. Finally succumbing to peer pressure I reluctantly walked into the O2 shop – feeling guilty every step of the way. Until then I declined to buy in, mainly due to my naturally rebellious streak refusing to be a sheep and follow the trends and at the same time making a one woman protest against Apple’s DRM … [Read more...]

Twitter Obituary Ritual

Internet Addict by Husin Sani

The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is reach out bleary eyed for the iPhone on my bedside. The second thing I do is hit the Twitter app icon, and click on ‘trends’. There is no better way to re-engage your brain with wakefulness than looking at random words on a list and trying to figure out if something significant has … [Read more...]

Human Cyborg Relations

C3PO teaching Huttese Translations to Starwars Bounty Hunters

There was a time in my life when I felt a bit like C3PO from Star Wars. Having spent 7 years being the non-technical partner in a technology company I evolved by a process of osmosis, from a ‘frustrated computer user’ to a fully-fledged badge wearing geek. Guilty by association, the clients expected me to be technical enough to … [Read more...]