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The Scoop Blog : Media
SPH takes on Yahoo! Just this week Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) announced two JVs worth $2 million each with Norwegian media company, Schibsted, to take Singapore's agenda-setting media giant beyond the island and deeper into cyberspace. Although SPH's strength comes from its newspapers, the JVs will develop "online classifieds, search and directories and other Internet opportunities", according to a self-promoting news article. It's great to see SPH getting more involved in the online space, but doesn't this move bring the tiny country's incumbent media in direct competition with the global portal giant Yahoo! Inc. which already has all that the JVs are planning and more? Not to mention eBay, Google, BaiDu, and many other toes the JVs may be stepping on. It would be interesting to see … Read More... By Benjamin Koe on Saturday, 16 September 2006 at 12:04 AM | Category: Media | (1) Comments First connection: Wireless@SG  Today I was at the Scoopasia office in Raffles City (a.k.a Starbucks) testing out our new wireless infrastructure (a.k.a Wireless@SG). Since IDA was nice enough to provide tax-supported WiFi for those working and playing in the area, why not get on and get some work done?Up till now, it's been 3 hours and no drop out. Not bad despite not having a full bar on this sofa in the corner. This is what it's made of:
But there's one thing I didn't like about it. The network appears to only allow Web (HTTP) and email traffic. Which could mean that many ports are blocked. Skype worked, but MSN didn't by default. I had to route my MSN traffic through … Read More... By Benjamin Koe on Sunday, 3 September 2006 at 4:27 PM | Category: Media | (1) Comments Online media gets to stand with magazines Today we were invited to the second gathering of the Magazine Publisher's Association (MPA) at the ARIA Bistro at the Esplanade. Actually, the association has not been formed yet and they were there deciding whether or not coming together was a good idea. It was Scoopasia's first time among the magazine publishers and what was really interesting was how the committee (many of them old-timers in the print publishing industry) embraced the online only media, like us! It was a great time, despite a small commotion about whether or not to admit publishers who we not audited. All are still allowed to join. So my question now in reflection is what then makes an online publication worthy of joining a publisher's association? Would an individual's blog with a business model be part of the MPA? What if a community of like-minded people … Read More... By Benjamin Koe on Monday, 21 August 2006 at 11:16 PM | Category: Media | (0) Comments The future belongs to the amateurs Seriously, we can't ignore them blogs no more. According to David Sifry from Technorati in his State of the Blogosphere report...
The power … Read More... By Benjamin Koe on Monday, 7 August 2006 at 11:06 PM | Category: Media | (673) Comments Channel NewsAsia's new do  Well done Channel NewsAsia on your new site. I haven't been following your development, but this morning's breakfast table reading (yes, I do mine online) was a pleasant treat. I love the way its clean, and most of all fast!Although they haven't yet gone full steam into Web 2.0, I must commend them on their good use of a CMS that renders static .html pages which contributes to improved speed and probably performance for their servers. The banners are a bit in-your-face, but heck, its a living ya? I love the way every section is a channelnewsasia.com/section. No more dynamic queries in the URL. I also like the flash-based videos pegged to the story idea, but why is the screen still blank after almost a minute's wait? But seriously, can you please get rid of the evil refresh-my-page-before-I-finish-reading … Read More... By Benjamin Koe on Monday, 17 July 2006 at 10:06 AM | Category: Media | (0) Comments |
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