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  • Chewy Chong 10:03 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink | Reply  

    About to go to Korea… 

    I am heading off to Korea tomorrow for a long overdue vacation.  I actually lost vacation time last year and I promised myself not to let it happen again this year.  I can’t complain though, my work is too interesting so even if I was on leave… I would probably be working anyhow. 

    Hence the post, I’m testing Windows Live Writer (a blog editor client by Microsoft) as I hope to compose a few post while I’m on my flight.  The tool allows for offline composition.  Very useful when you’re stuck in transit while still keen to be productive.  When I click send, I should know if everything ishooked up correctly.

    Here is a crappy photo I took of Melissa when we visited the Singapore Marina Barrage.  Not sure what a Barrage is but there are lots of pipes and a great view of the city.

    IMG_0049

     

  • Chewy Chong 9:09 am on February 28, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Two years… 11 blog posts? 

    Yup, it has been two years and I have only blogged about 11 times. :( Many of you have sent me emails wondering if I was ok… or maybe joined the army. Happy to report I am ok and no, have not joined the army. The new role post my evangelism days has been crazy busy and crazy competitive. So mush so, most of my efforts – I won’t be able to talk about for a few years.

    Rest assured though, my team and I have been hard at work behind the scenes to provide more choices to our beloved local audience and drive much-needed investments into Southeast Asia.

    One thing I have been looking at during my free time throughout my past five years in Asia – the crazy boom in mobile. Everything from the iPhone craze thru to Blackberry weirdness in Indonesia. I made a commitment in 2010 to write more about my experiences in mobile (payment, social, location and devices) so look forward to raw brain-dumps to the blog.

     

  • Chewy Chong 5:46 pm on February 27, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Trials being fully mobile 

    I have been trying to find time to try out the heaps of mobile tech I have in our Innovation Center. I use Windows Mobile daily but finding it harder and harder to find useful apps for it. Going to try the iPhone for the next while to better understand the buzz (or possibly hype).

    So far I am rather impressed. Word Press has a mobile blogging and management app for the iPhone from which I am making this post from.

     

  • Chewy Chong 10:04 am on March 22, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

    Learn more about SEO and news related to web technologies 

    Want to learn more about SEO and news related to search and web technologies as a whole? Check out the technical blog of one of my guys on the team (Yizhe Shen): http://www.cloudfex.com .  Yizhe is writing on all kinds of cool technical goodies plus learnings from the SEO work he has been doing. 

     

  • Chewy Chong 9:44 am on February 23, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

    Location Aware Apps (cool but is it really?) 

    Location aware applications are great!  But then… there is a scary side.  One of our interns in the Singapore MIC sent me a great article in Wired.

    http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/17-02/lp_guineapig?currentPage=1

    We are working on a number of local innovation projects on LBS (the enabler of location enabled apps)… it will be interesting if we these concerns in the article will ever show up here in Southeast Asia.

     

  • Chewy Chong 12:57 am on February 18, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

    When reaching out to an audience… don’t forget word of mouth! 

    The folks from BzzAgent (an agency focused on word of mouth marketing) released a really interesting e-book about word of mouth.  This book gives some great examples of it but does not go much into the “how to” except maybe to hire them.  None the less, a very interesting read.

    http://s3.amazonaws.com/bzzagent/The_Word_of_Mouth_Manual_Volume_II.pdf

     

  • Chewy Chong 7:59 am on February 4, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

    ISO Recorder now for Windows 7 

    We get a lot of ISOs (typically through MSDN) and getting them on DVD/CD is a painful process given all the reinstalls I do on my machine.  Recently found a great (and FREE) tool to burn ISO images.  AND IT WORKS WITH WINDOWS 7.  Yeah!

    http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

    We love you Alex Feinman. 

     

    • http:// 9:28 am on February 4, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Uh, Win7 has a built in ISO burner program, doesn’t it?

  • Chewy Chong 3:51 am on January 30, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

    Understanding Power Management with Windows Mobile 

    I’ve been working with the interns in our Microsoft Innovation Center (Singapore) on some cool Windows Mobile demos.  One of the biggies we encounter is how aggressive Windows Mobile manages power.  Not a bad thing for end users wanting to use their phone for days w/o charging… bad for proof of concept demos.

    Well, turns out writing power efficient code is not hard.  You need to first understand how WM PM works.

    http://brianpeek.com/blog/archive/2008/07/03/windows-mobile-devices-and-power-states.aspx

    A guy named Joel Ivory Johnson even wrote up a few low level tools (exposed as managed code / .NET) to help normal people like us write power efficient code.  Check out his articles below:

    http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mobile/WiMoPower1.aspx

    In the end, the approach we took to best handle power concerns is to schedule our app to do something at certain intervals.  When the work is done, the app will shut down completely until the next run.  Joel also have something for this via a low level CeRunAppAtTime call.  Yes, he even provided a nice .NET managed wrapper.

    http://www.codeproject.com/KB/mobile/WiMoAutostart.aspx

    I love Windows Mobile as it took us no time what-so-ever to go from concept to proof.  Also, the amount of resources (and smart people like Joel) on the web makes proofing concepts super easy.

     

  • Chewy Chong 5:05 am on October 12, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

    The difference between [-] dash and [_] underscore in asset naming 

    Over the weekend, I receive a few questions about naming convention that will help improve SEO. Although correct naming doesn’t have too much of an impact in SEO, it does help in certain situation when the crawler needs to infer the content of your page.

    Some tips and tricks:

    - If you are using space, delimit it by using a – instead of a _; to a crawler,
      this_is_a_page means “thisisapage” while this-is-a-page means “this is a page”
      so whenever a crawler wants to match a keyword, you will want to have zune-music-player instead of zune_music_player

    It is also advisable to give meaningful names to your pages or pictures, 12312inwf23.jpg doesn’t help tell what the picture is to a crawler but zune.jpg does help a lot.

    That same advice applies to all other files that you want the crawler to crawl to (e.g. .mp3, .jpg,. html, etc)

     

  • Chewy Chong 5:24 am on October 7, 2008 Permalink | Reply  

    Where the “Live” Magic Happens 

    Have you seen Photosynth from Microsoft Live Labs?  Super cool.  Honey made a quick “synth” of the Online Services Group – Southeast Asia office area.

    Check out other cool photosynths (and even create YOUR OWN) here… http://photosynth.net/default.aspx

     

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