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1. You care more about the number of followers you have compared to your Technorati Authority ranking. (You just wish that you’d make it to the Twitterholic Top 100 by the end of the year.)
2. When writing an email, you mistakenly type @(Your Twitter-buddy’s screen name) instead of @gmail.com.
3. Twitter becomes your main mode of replying to your girlfriend’s SMS. (After you beg her to sign up for an account)
4. You play Wordy Birdie and Tweet140 instead of going over to Jack’s place for Friday Night Poker.
5. You start to feel like you’ve known people like Robert Scoble, Guy Kawasaki and Chris Brogan for years.
6. Your whole life is broadcast on Twitter - from what you eat, your proposal and your dirty little secrets. Private life no more.
7. You prefer to read Twitter updates from events like MacWorld rather than watch Steve Jobs do his magic on stage.
8. The planning for this summer’s backpacking trip is done through Twittervision and Twitter Atlas. Goodbye TripAdvisor.
9. Every sentence that comes out of your mouth contains less than 140 characters.
10. After reading this blog entry, you copy and paste the url to TinyUrl or Snurl and share it via your preferred Twitter desktop app.

When Marie Digby or David Choi sing covers from other artists, both do a great job at it. When an random guy from the U.S. sings a tagalog song from a band in the Philippines what should you expect? Play the video below to find out.

The original was done by Parokya Ni Edgar and the title of the song is “Buloy“.

Daryl Tay from Unique-Frequency has been busy organizing Social Media Breakfast: Singapore for the past few weeks. Participants will finally be able to realize all of the effort that has been put into this event tomorrow. In Daryl’s words, SMB is “mainly for networking and meeting like-minded people who are into the social media space“. Here’s a video trailer that Daryl and Sheylara worked on:

The SMB: Singapore idea was initiated by Derrick Kwa, and both Daryl and himself setup two basic rules for the event:

1. Everyone’s equal. When it comes to Social Media Breakfast, there’s no difference if you’re a CEO or a student. Everyone has something of value to contribute and everyone should be treated that way
2. Law of Two Feet applies. If a particular conversation or discussion is not getting you what you want, feel free to move on.

I’m not really sure what will happen during the breakfast. I had a chat with one of the organizers, Nabilah, earlier and we both agreed that we’ll have to wait and see until tomorrow morning to see what comes out of this event.

Kudos to Daryl and the gang for organizing SMB: Singapore! See you all tomorrow!

After reading this very insightful post by Daryl on the power of Twitter, I was inspired to write something about how I’ve been using Twitter recently and how I should change the way I use the tool.

For the past week or so, I feel like I’ve turned Twitter into a MSN Messenger because of the number of replies I’ve been tweeting out and receiving. Replies are fine if used in moderation but our Twitter archives can’t be just be full of @ symbols because the rest of our followers might consider our replies as Twitter noise. I say might because receiving replies between other people can be powerful in a way if it leads to spin-off replies/tweets that can further build the conversation.

Jyri Engestrom, co-founder of Jaiku, hit the mark when he said that the success of all these web 2.0 applications and services depend on the social object(s) which they are built upon. These objects are the reasons why we connect or follow people on Twitter. It’s this whole ‘People Like Me’ concept again. For instance, I follow @chrisbrogan because I find the social media links (the social objects) that he shares both useful and interesting. In my opinion, Twitter is a better way to share links compared to LinkRiver or Del.icio.us because of it’s real time feature - you can share a link and get a quick response from your followers.

After much thought, I decided to come up with Twitter-themed days to share links that I find online.

• Productive Mondays - It’s the start of the week so I’d like share GTD or productivity links to help everyone start the week on the right note.
• Social Media Wednesdays - I’m going to miss the discussions and presentations during social media class every Wednesday but it doesn’t mean that the sharing should stop.
• Flickr Fridays - I have no time to take photos anymore so I just browse Flickr almost everyday. Photos inspire me and I’m sure it can inspire others too in some way or another.
• Del.icio.us Sundays - When @skaplan asked me to use del.icio.us about 3 years ago, I didn’t really expect it to be any use to me. As I used it more and more, del.icio.us evolved to become my permanent bookmark keeper and I can’t thank Steve enough.

I won’t stop using the @ symbol in Twitter but I won’t let it replace instant messengers. (Though I second Daryl that Twitter is way better than MSN). I will just continue to experiment with my tweets to hopefully unleash to full power of Twitter.

Sadly, the answer is No but Jolly V is.

When I was in Hong Kong a few weeks ago, one of the best meals I had was eating Jollibee again after leaving the Philippines 7 years ago. Don’t get me wrong - I also enjoyed eating local Hong Kong food very much but Jollibee just brought back childhood memories. According to Inquirer.net, the Philippines is the only country where McDonald’s isn’t in first place with regards to market share. Jollibee slowly but surely overtook The Golden Arches in the local market.

When I found out that there’s a spoof of Jollibee here in Singapore called Jolly V, my friend and I knew that we had to give it a shot. It’s located at Lau Pa Sat near Raffles Place MRT. Another Filipino from Singapore tried Jolly V last year and gave their verdict here. I have to agree with them - Jolly V is 90% close to the taste of the original Jollibee except for the gravy of the chicken but it was still good. I ordered the spaghetti with the chicken and it was a good lunch to start my week.

It ain’t Jollibee but it’s more than good enough. I’m definitely going back.

Steve Rubel from Micro Persuasion just wrote a blog entry titled “Three Internet Careers That Soon Won’t Exist“. One of the three professions he mentioned is Social Media Consultant/Manager. Steve refers to this graph to depict the decline in jobs where ’social networking’, ‘web 2.0′ and ‘blogs’ is/are mentioned. (Even ‘ajax’ is on its way down.) He writes that all these jobs will soon be merged into ‘broader roles’ and that everyone is expected to be comfortable with using new media to stay employed.

Here I am studying IT and marketing hoping to find a job that’s a good mix of both. I’m even taking a course called Social Media and Corporate Communication Across Asia. Is this good or bad news for undergraduates like me? Steve’s point is that a PR role will be the one ‘managing’ the social media aspect of a corporation. At first I thought that we were going to have an advantage because of our background and interests in IT (which makes social media part of our everyday lives) plus the fact that we take courses like Social Media and Corporate Communication Across Asia.

I’m not sure how these trends are reflected in the Asian region compared to The US, but I sure do hope for a more positive prospect here in Asia with regards to social media jobs because I think companies are just starting to utilize such tools.

Steve also includes internet advertising jobs on his list. There goes another of my options. Oh well…

In the meantime, I’ll wait for his next post on emerging digital careers.

It was on the news last night on TV and TODAYonline posted the same info on their site today. Basically, it says that the iPhone ‘may finally launch’ here in September this year and it will be Singtel carrying one of the most anticipated mobile phones.

I doubt how accurate the sources are - “industry sources” and “a local vendor who works closely with Apple associates in the United State”. If @wanidakok, an Apple employee here in Singapore, even does not know any details, how can outside sources find out? Apple is known to be secretive with its product launches and this may just be one of those ‘leaks’ that usually happens online.

For it to be on the news, there must have been a credible source but they don’t sound as convincing as most people would’ve liked. I can safely say that the iPhone should be coming in the near future given that their currently looking for a local iPhone Buyer and Planner plus the announcement on the news. The details on the service provider and the pricing are still shaky.

Meanwhile, follow the conversation here in HardwareZone as the locals discuss the news announcement last night.

After my presentation the other day on microblogging, I was inspired to conduct a social media experiment using Twitter. SMU is proud to be a technology-enabled university and I’m going to try to add microblogging to the current technologies being used in school. I’m sure there are already a group of students using Twitter but I’m just not sure how small or how big the group is.

So if you’re a student or an alumni of The Singapore Management University and you are on Twitter, please do follow @SMUtweets on Twitter. (If you don’t have an account but want to be part of this experiment, please do sign up and join the fun!)

Other than sending alerts to SMU students, SMUtweets aims to help students develop “a sense of each other as people beyond the classroom space” as suggested by academHacK. It can also be an Emergency Notification System like what the University of Michigan is doing with Twitter. I doubt that we’ll have emergencies like what happened in Virginia Tech but an example of an SMU emergency announcement would be: “All group study room’s in business block are fully booked for the week. Try again next week.”

About a month ago, Andrew Careaga posed this question on his blog, “Should universities tweet?” My answer to that is there is no harm in trying. The corp comm office in SMU will not start Twittering anytime soon, so I’ll try to initiate something before I end university schooling in a month.

I’m not sure how this experiment will turnout or evolve.. We’ll just have to tweet and see..

I’m proud to be Filipino but this is something that needs to be erased from the record books forever. Ms. South Carolina did it in Miss Teen USA 2007 and this time around Janina San Miguel does it for Miss Philippines. Expect this video to stay viral at least for the next couple of weeks.

All the best to her when she represents the Philippines in Miss World 2008.

Last Saturday was probably one of the last times in school that I am able to present slides wherein the design fits perfectly with the content and the course (Social Media). Our group presented on microblogging, the tools and its business application for communication professionals.

I designed the slides to look like one of the microblogging platforms, Pownce, for two reasons.

1. Pownce’s UI looks the best out of all microblogging services online mainly due to its designer, Daniel Burka, who I think is also responsible for Digg.com’s user interface/experience. He’s the man!
2. Also, the brevity of microblogging is inline with the way I usually design my slides - very clean and simple with minimal words as possible.

I’m glad that my group mates were able to pull it off and present really well, even though they were new to this style of presenting. In a way, it helped them understand the content better for them to present without using any script. One of my group mates was even singled-out by our professor saying how each SMU student should be presenting like her. Well done, Adelyn!

Anyway, here are the slides without the video interview by Robert Scoble with the co-founders of Jaiku:

One thing that I’ve learned this time is to rehearse as much as I can before presentation day. I went in there last Saturday with minimal rehearsal and once again fumbled through my parts.

’till next time…