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Twitter documentary by Singaporean filmmaker brings new angle to social media

Dubbed Twittamentary, a new documentary about Twitter by Singapore filmmaker Tan Siok Siok, is setting up to take the term “social media” to a whole new level.

August 19, 2009

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Chinese block darn near everything ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary

I intentionally try to keep things apolitical here on The Tech Dynasty. This is a tech blog, and politics have little to do with the wonderfully utopian world of technology. However, I’d be remiss if I failed to mention what an absolute pain in the butt living in China can be when anything remotely controversial …

June 2, 2009

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Twitter is a tool, and so is Maureen Dowd

I was cruising the blogs here at CNET Asia when I came across Isabella Chen’s recent post “Twitter? Why not?“. Isabella, a fantastic blogger out of Singapore, opens her post by explaining: “To be honest, I don’t really get Twitter.” A lot of people seem to share this lack of understanding about the world’s current …

April 30, 2009

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It’s time to confess – Web 2.0 style

The other day an idea for a new site hit me, and as I was waiting for some deliverables from a client to arrive and didn’t have much to do, I figured – what the hell. The site is called Twitfessions, and essentially it tracks and displays any Twitter tweets that are tagged with #confession. …

August 24, 2008

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#080808 – Everybody Ba Ba Ba

So the day is upon us. 08/08/08 is here – the Olympics have arrived. And in good Web meme fashion, the China Twitterati have come up with the #080808 campaign. I first read about it from David Feng over at CNReviews after having seen everyone on my Twitter list 080808’ing their avatars. It was started …

August 8, 2008

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