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I am giving away 1 blue Seesmic tshirt. Its completely new and in mint condition. The reason I am giving away is because its too small for me, and too big for my wife. So I believe its better to spread the goodies rather than keep it for myself.

To participate, just reply to the video I posted below and say why you like to have it! Note that you have to collect from me in Singapore if you win though. The winner can get some Seesmic stickers from me too!

seesmic tshirt

I did a short opening of TAC last Sunday.Thanks to @bokiemon who actually record it on a hand held camcorder while the rest are still setting up the main camcorder. Its a bit shaky but at least I am on camera!

About Passion - TAC

Adobe is going to launch a CS4 Launch Event at Suntec on the 14th November. It is going to be from 8.30am to 6pm, and its free!

I will not be there as I will be heading to MAX, but I will pass some FUG goodies to those guys going (like TAC stickers) so yea, if you have not have enough goodies from the event, look for FUG people.

The Actionscript Conference (TAC), the first conference I ever organized, happens at The National Library yesterday on the 19th October 2008. The term “Making history” is a bit overrated, but I guess me , the organizers, the speakers, the sponsors and the attendees will remember this day as we all finally have a conference that is much needed in this region! I will like to especially thanks Lionel Low , Kenneth Teo, Alex Goh, Alvin Zhang, Stefano Virgilli, Arul Prasad , Arul Kumaran and Bok Thye Yeow for making all these possible! And of course, the speakers and sponsors, for giving us so much support!

It has definitely been a busy 4 months but we are finally able to pull this off. For those who are unable to get a ticket to the event, I posted video (thanks to AV8 and FusionGarage for renting us the cameras!) to share the final moments of TAC

I also went around to interview the attendees, here’s one of them

Going forward, I believe now its time to plan for TAC 2009!

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DMFest Preconfence Meetup

It is a great evening at Text100 today as I am invited to attend the DMFest Preconference Blogger Meetup, where I am able to meet up with some of the most talented entrepueroer and bloggers of the Singapore Web 2.0 circle. Among the attendents are Chris Jones from Magma Studios, Philip Morgan from Muvee, Coleman Yee, Tech65 bloggers Daniel and NTT, Walter Lim of yesterday.sg

The meetup kicked off by a series of introduction by Ivan Ho, who is running the Digital Media Festival, as well as Anthony Fu, who gives us more insight of the purpose and the schedule of the main event proper on the 30th and 31st of October. The purpose of the meetup is to allow the speakers and the blogger community of singapore to meet up and network, as well as to give us a quick showcase of some really nice user generated movie, one of which titled “Big Buck Bunny“, which is really very impressive!

The main part of the meetup evolves around the discussion of “User generated Content (UGC) , in particular in Singapore, as well as the viability of both the publisher and the platform provider to generate revenues via UGC. This spawn into very interesting discussion among the attendees. Some discussed points includes:

1. Very few publisher of UGC produce content of high quality (regarding of blogs, videos, etc). These talented publisher might then move into mainstream publisher. For the rest of the publisher, many of them might not get noticed or is of lesser value to advertisers. Thus, we get a lot content that advertisers are not interest of.
2. The floor is getting lower and the ceiling, higher. With blogs going mainstream and everyone having a camera phone and the advent of HD consumer cameras, more and more people can produce videos and content of their own. On the other hand, it is getting harder and harder to actually make oneselves notice in this “sea of content”
3. Hits != Quality Content. Some publisher of UGC will create videos / hate posting that is for the sole purpose of hits and traffic. The content however, is not of real value. Thus, having high hits is not a good measure of good UGC.
4. UGC means differently for different users. For some users, privacy is more important than getting as much exposure to it as possible. This will result in the needs for channels, groups and privacy control. In such an environment, how can platform providers monetize from the content?

Summary
In short, we have a very quality discussion of over 2 hours on these topics and I have to thanks text100 and DMFest for making this possible. I hope that we can have more discussion over the questions and issues we have risen and have a fruitful discussion during the main event itself. Oh yes, I managed to give Seesmic Stickers to all who attended too.

I am looking forward to DMFest at the end of this month!

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