Posts Categorized: Creative


google-chinese-new-year-doodle

Adding Fun to Chinese New Year, Google Puts Snake Game Doodle On Homepage

Today is Chinese New Year’s eve. So kids, including myself, are “forced” to do spring clea...

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  • February 9, 2013
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Viddsee Southeast Asian short films

New Startup Makes Southeast Asian Short Films More Social and Accessible

Two filmmakers have launched a new site today that aims to be a hub for Southeast Asian short films....

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  • February 6, 2013
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Pirate3DP funding

Singapore’s Pirate3DP Gets Seed Funding for its Disruptive 3D Printers

3D printing promises a world of amazing possibilities, bringing small-scale manufacturing onto your ...

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  • February 1, 2013
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Barcamp Yangon 2013

The World’s Largest Barcamp is in Myanmar

Myanmar has made some stunning changes in the past two years. And this is the backdrop to BarcampYan...

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  • January 29, 2013
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http://placehold.it/350x150

PlugFest 2013 Competition Calls For Entries

The Google Developer Group (GDG) Singapore and the IEEE Computer Society Singapore will be holding t...

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  • January 26, 2013
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Github China unblocked

Social Coding Site Github Unblocked and Accessible Again in China

It was just two days ago that my colleague reported on how the social coding site Github had become ...

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  • January 23, 2013
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Meet mRobo, the Vietnam-Made Dancing Robot That Wowed CES [VIDEO]

When you think of Vietnam, usually robots are the last thing that springs to mind. But, thanks to a ...

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  • January 11, 2013
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Keen to Learn Silicon Valley’s Best Practices? Attend Lean UX Week Singapore 2013

As a startup founder, what do you know about building a good user experience? We all know how import...

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  • January 8, 2013
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Vida PM2.5 pollution photo filter

Chinese Photo App Adds PM2.5 Image Filter, As If Air Isn’t Already Polluted Enough

This week I noticed that the Chinese photo-sharing app Vida had joined in the national discussion ab...

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  • February 8, 2013
  • at 12:59 pm
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instawave

Sri Lanka’s InstaWaves Turns Instagram Hashtags into a Pictorial Story (Sort of)

InstaWaves is an interesting website submitted to us from Sri Lanka. It’s created by Sapumal A...

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  • February 5, 2013
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World Startup Report

‘World Startup Report’ Tour Hits Australia, Still 27 More Countries to Go

American entrepreneur Bowei Gai is in Australia right now. That’s not too remarkable in itself...

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  • January 31, 2013
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Google Maps adds North Korea details

Google Maps Zoom in on North Korea

North Korea has long been a bit of a blank, unknown wasteland for Google Maps, but that changes toda...

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  • January 29, 2013
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Fab Cafe in Tokyo Preps Sweet 3D Printing Workshop in Time for Valentine’s Day

We’ve had a few fun 3D printing stories over the past few weeks. You may recall this 3D printi...

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  • January 24, 2013
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Xinci Chinese UrbanDictionary

4,000 Years of Chinese Culture Culminates in this Online Slang Dictionary

So now we’ve figured out that the internet won’t bring universal freedoms to China and got all t...

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  • January 15, 2013
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vanquish-teamlab

High Tech Hangers Make Shopping More Stimulating for Men in Japan

The folks at Japan’s TeamLab are a pretty creative bunch. I first met up with them at a Tokyo ...

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  • January 8, 2013
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Chinese startup's HeX drone which will launch in 2013

This Chinese Startup Wants to Bring You a 3D-Printed, Smartphone-Controlled Drone [VIDEO]

We don’t find hardware startups in China as often as we’d like – but we’ve stumbled acro...

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  • January 2, 2013
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