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This Week in Asia Episode 71: Startup Organizer Summit with Marc Nager and Chris McCann

Daniel CerVentus — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:22:57 +0000

Our host Daniel CerVentus is over in Kansas City, Missouri in America for Startup Organizer Summit where he is joined by Marc Nager of Startup Weekend and Chris McCann of Startup Digest talks about their plans for coming to do more stuff in Asia and what is the whole startup organizers community is all about.

Startupweekend is where people come together to start companies over the weekend and StartupDigest is a curated email based on countries on what cool events you should attend.

This Week in Asia Episode 69: Mitchell Baker Mozilla

Daniel CerVentus — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:07:07 +0000

With so many conferences and so many of our host are all around the world. This Week in Asia is on a slight hiatus. However Dr. Bernard and Cerventus caught up with Mitchell Baker, the chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation in Singapore for the Singtel : Accelerate Conference last week to talk about Mozilla role in Mobile and in Asia.

According to wikipedia, in 2005, Time magazine included her in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

This Week in Asia Episode 12: From Cracking Firewalls to Nexus One

Daniel CerVentus — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:04:56 +0000

The TWIA crew starts off the new year with the story of the Great Firewall of China breaking down for a few hours and talk about the new legalized video service from Baidu starting up soon there. While Google’s new phone “Nexus One” has taken the whole world by storm, the crew examines how the Asian market views this new phone and the adoption of Android operating system. Finally, the crew ends with a discussion on the seven technology incubators selected by National Research Foundation Singapore and how it will change the landscape in Southeast Asia as a whole.

Great Firewall of China crashed: We hear that China enjoyed total Internet freedom early morning last Monday and its implications to censorship.
Baidu Confirms New Ad-Supported Online Video Venture: Baidu is launching a new ad-supported online video service similar to Hulu in China. The crew discussed whether the service will take off given the heavy competition by the other video sharing sites in China: Tudou, YouKu, 56.com and ku6.
The Launch of Google Nexus One and the Android Market in Asia: With the launch of Google Nexus One, the crew discuss whether the phone can surpass the popularity of the iPhone and also the adoption of Android in Asia.
7 Incubators Selected for Singapore National Research Foundation Technology Incubation Scheme: We talked about how the choice of this seven incubators: Clearbridge Accelerator, I2G Tech Accelerator, Neoteny Labs, Plug and Play, Social Slingshot, Small World Group and Stream Global.