Underground 89 @ Rock School – 28 November 2009

Image from Underground

Underground is on 28 November 2009 at Rock School, doors open at 9:30pm.  Head on down and catch some vibes.  For more info on the artists, head over to http://www.undergroundhk.com.

Source – Underground

Web Wednesday v.30 @ Roxie – 6 November 2009 – “Ma Yin Jeo 2.0 – Secrets of Running a Successful Online Presidential Campaign” with Charles Chuang

FRIDAY 6th November at a NEW VENUE, Roxie (formerly, the saucy strip club “Goodfellas”), Ground Floor, No 24-30 Ice House Street, Central (just down the street from The Fringe Club and the F.C.C.).

The topic is “Ma Yin Jeo 2.0 – Secrets of Running a Successful Online Presidential Campaign” with Charles Chuang, Taiwanese Internet entrepreneur and open source social enterprise activist.

The night kicks off at 6:30pm and ends around 9:30pm, there will be an entrance fee of HK$100, unless you’re a bona-fide student, in which case it’s HK$50. This includes one complimentary drink. All other drinks are at Happy Hour prices. 10% of entrance fees to Habitat for Humanity’s work in China: http://www.habitatchina.org/e/default_home.asp

Source : Web Wednesday Hong Kong

Web Wednesday v.29 @ Volar – 7 October 2009 – LUMINA

This month’s feature – an interview with Hong Kong’s very own Jennifer Thym, the director and writer of the most talked-about web series, Lumina.

LUMINA is free to view on their website (http://www.luminaseries.com) and their YouTube Channel (http://www.youtube.com/luminaseries) and is now being distributed on KoldCast.tv (http://www.koldcast.tv/).

The night kicks off at 6:30pm and ends around 9:30pm, there will be an entrance fee of HK$100, unless you’re a bona-fide student, in which case it’s HK$50. This includes one complimentary drink. All other drinks are at Happy Hour prices. 10% of the receipt will go to Oxfam’s relief work in Philipines and Vietnam in the wake of Typhoon Ketsana: http://is.gd/3OBCG.

Venue: Volar, Basement, 38-44 D’Aguilar Street, Lan Kwai Fong, Central.

Source : Web Wednesday Hong Kong

BarCamp Hong Kong 2009 Videos are Up

Videos on the talks at BarCamp Hong Kong is up, go to this blip TV link to check it out.

Canon Photo Marathon – 18 October 2009 – Register Now

Click pic for more information, registration start at noon tomorrow, hurry up, only 300 slots.

BarCamp HK and Twestival HK both on September 12, 2009

Extracted from my CNET Community Blog under the same title, link here.

Mark your calendar, BarCamp Hong Kong and Testival Hong Kong 2009 is back.

For this year’s BarCamp, the date is set for September 12, 2009, at Turner International Asia Pacific, 30/F, Oxford House, Taikoo Place, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong, from 9.30am to 5pm. Better yet, there will be a after-event drink function at East End Brewery, 23-27 Tong Chong Street, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong.

According to the organizers, it is expecting over 300 people at the full-day event, hosted at Oxford House in Taikoo Place, on the conference floor of Turner International Asia Pacific, owner of Cartoon Networks and CNN News. The venue features five large conference rooms, two lounge areas, a coffee room and a bar. Food, drinks and free Wi-Fi will be provided.

Presentations can be on any topic you like as long as it is about the Internet and people are willing to listen. You are free to speak in Cantonese, Putonghua or English. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.

For more information, check out the BarCamp Hong Kong 2009’s homepage at http://barcamp.hk/ or join its FaceBook group at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=6146785447&ref=ts.

On the same night, the No. 1 Twitterer In Hong Kong, Jay Oatway, will be organizing the second Twestival.

On September 12, the Twitter community worldwide is again going to work for charities, this time focusing on their own home towns.

In February, Hong Kong participated with 180+ cities worldwide for the first-ever Global Twitter Fundraiser. They had 67 people turn up that night, and they raised enough money worldwide to give clean water to more than 16,000 desperate people. It is bigger the second time around!

Tweet your friends and family now @twestivalHK.

http://hongkong.twestival.com

For ticketing information, go to http://www.amiando.com/TwestivalHK.html

Source: BarCamp Hong Kong, Twestival

Web Wednesday v.28 @ Volar – 2 September 2009

This month’s feature – an interview with Hong Kong’s leading Twitter Star, Jay Oatway, the face behind @jayoatway, @portension, @chargedmobi, and lead organiser of Twestival Hong Kong (@twestivalhk) and meet some unusual local proponents of Twitter, the microblogging phenomenon that in the past 12 months has grown from 2 million to 40 million users!

The night kicks off at 6:30pm and ends around 9:30pm, there will be an entrance fee of HK$100, unless you’re a bona-fide student, in which case it’s HK$50. This includes one complimentary drink. All other drinks are at Happy Hour prices. 10% of the receipt will go to a children’s charity.

Venue: Volar, Basement, 38-44 D’Aguilar Street, Lan Kwai Fong, Central.

You can sign up here: http://is.gd/yBxr

Source : Web Wednesday Hong Kong

First 2 Forward Round 3 is Tonight – 19 August 2009

First 2 Forward is…

Two top creative directors. Five rounds of competition. One event that reveals the freshest, funniest, and freakin’ coolest stuff from around the Web.

Join us the third Wednesday of every month to find out who’s got the hottest links in Hong Kong. Round 3 is tonight.

Venue: Privé, 60 Wyndham Street, Central
Doors open: 8:00pm, Show starts 9:00pm.
FREE entry with your name card.

Endy Fung
ECD, Razorfish
vs.
Alan Kan
Creative Partner, Kitchen DigitalFirst 2

Forward is a spin-off event of Web Wednesday, the No. 1 community for Asian Digerati. (http://www.webwednesday.asia)

First 2 Forward就是由城中兩位出色的創意總監，進行五個回合的激戰，誓要以最快速度，將網上最千奇百怪、搞鬼惹笑、怪誕瘋狂的網上資料公諸同好！

比賽將於每個月的第三個星期三舉行，想知道哪一位參加者能夠找到最多網上人氣連結？立即參加就可以！

First 2 Forward是由亞洲首屈一指的數碼媒體組織Web Wednesday策動，想知更多關於這個組織的資料，請即登入http://www.webwednesday.asia

BarCamp Hong Kong 2009

Mark your calendar, BarCamp Hong Kong is back.

For this year’s BarCamp, the date is set on 12 September 2009 at Turner International Asia Pacific Ltd, 30/F, Oxford House, Taikoo Place, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong from 9:30am to 5:00pm.  Better yet, there will be a after event drink function at East End Brewery, 23-27 Tong Chong Street,  Quarry Bay, Hong Kong.

According to the organizers, they are expecting over 300 people at the full-day event, hosted at Oxford House in Taikoo Place, on the conference floor of Turner International Asia Pacific, owner of Cartoon Networks and CNN News. The venue features five large conference rooms, two lounge areas, a coffee room and a bar. Food, drinks and free wifi will be provided.

Presentations can be on any topic you like as long as it is about the Internet and people are willing to listen. You are free to speak in Cantonese, Putonghua or English. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.

For more info, check out the BarCamp Hong Kong 2009’s homepage at http://barcamp.hk/ or join their FaceBook group at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=6146785447&ref=ts.

Source – BarCamp Hong Kong

Rumored Apple Keynote Event on 9 September 2009 – Possible New iPods?

Multiple sources indicated that there might be a new release of the new generation of iPods with the possible inclusion of a camera and microphone.  Speculations indicated that the three possible versions are of 16, 32 and 64GB were a price tag of US$199, US$299 and US$399 respectively. Possible upgrade to iTunes 9 is said to be included as well.

As for the Apple Tablet, according to Gizmodo, “They went on to say that although the project (Apple Tablet) has been going on under various names between four and six years, the first prototype was built around the end of 2008. Adding, “The time to market from first prototype is generally 6-9 months.” That would place the device’s release date in this holiday season. (Think not) They then said, “There was a question of what OS the device would run, too.” So the chances of it being announced at the upcoming keynote event is highly unlikely.

Stay tuned for more.

Source – Gizmodo

Web Wednesday v.26 @ Volar – 2 July 2009

Topic: “Ben 10: creating a new multimedia cartoon empire“, interview with Benjamin Grubbs, Regional Head of Interactive Media for Turner Entertainment Networks Asia (owners of Cartoon Network Asia).

The night kicks off at 6:30pm and ends around 9:30pm, there will be an entrance fee of HK$100, unless you’re a bona-fide student, in which case it’s HK$50. This includes one complimentary drink. All other drinks are at Happy Hour prices. 10% of the receipt will go to a children’s charity.

Venue: Volar, Basement, 38-44 D’Aguilar Street, Lan Kwai Fong, Central.

You can sign up here: http://is.gd/yBxr

Source : Web Wednesday Hong Kong

HK71Green Manifesto

There has never been a time like now, when we free people had so much freedom of speech. There has never been a time like now, when freedom of speech are suppressed and crushed under totalitarian regimes, from Iran to China.

Luckily, technology helps, like Iran: Twitter had maintain a lifeline to protesters on their Green Revolution, while video streaming allow the world to witness the conflict. Good citizens in China had make use of technology and develop techniques to penetrate the so called “Great Fire Wall of China”, allowing communication and information flow to continue. However, with the increasing pressure for control from totalitarian regimes everywhere, freedom of speech online is at greater peril than ever before.

And, don’t think this is far away from you. What is happening to Iranians and Mainland Chinese can happen to you and me. The cutoff of most internet services to and from Iran now, can happen here. The introduction of Green Dam on computers in China can happen here, if our lousy government decide to give in to conservative pressure and licence the software, all in the name of “protect our children from filthy online content”. Even the filtering on the “Great Fire Wall of China” can happen here, if we are not vigilant.

In 1946, Martin Niemöller said:
===
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
===

It rings true to this day. Why speak out for online freedom of speech? Because we still can, and we have moral obligation to speak out while we can. Because helping Iranians and Mainland Chinese are just like helping yourself. Walk with us on July 1st in protest against oppression of Freedom of Speech, wear green garment to show our support to Chinese and Iranians, who sacrifice their freedom and lives for the greater good.

Defend Information Freedom, Promote Democracy and Human Rights. The fight starts from your computer. Be the change you wish to see in the world! We will see you at the Victoria Park, on July 1st, 3 p.m.!

Official Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/pages/-HK71Green/97967773855
Official Twitter handle: http://twitter.com/hk71green
Website: http://hk71green.com

Extracted from HK71Green, come support them.

TEXT100 Global Blogger Survey

TEXT100 is launching their global blogger survey results tonight and I am happy to be sitting on their panel discussion for the related findings.  If you happened to be in the neighborhood, come on over and check it out.

Date: 25 June 2009

Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm

Venuw: Lenovo Hong Kong Ltd., Function Room 1&2, 23/F Lincoln House, Taikoo Place, 979 King’s Road, Hong Kong

For more info, check out TEXT100’s site.

First 2 Forward – 17 June 2009

First 2 Forward is…

Two top creative directors. Five rounds of competition. One event that reveals the freshest, funniest, and freakin’ coolest stuff from around the Web.

Join us the third Wednesday of every month to find out who’s got the hottest links in Hong Kong.

First 2 Forward is a spin-off event of Web Wednesday, the No. 1 community for Asian Digerati. (http://www.webwednesday.asia)

First 2 Forward就是由城中兩位出色的創意總監，進行五個回合的激戰，誓要以

最快速度，將網上最千奇百怪、搞鬼惹笑、怪誕瘋狂的網上資料公諸同好！

比賽將於每個月的第三個星期三舉行，想知道哪一位參加者能夠找到最多網上人氣連結？立即參加就可以！

First 2 Forward是由亞洲首屈一指的數碼媒體組織Web Wednesday策動，想知更多關於這個組織的資料，請即登入http://www.webwednesday.asia

First 2 Forward – Match#1
Wednesday, June 17

Thierry Halbroth, Sr CD, McCann Erickson
Vs.
Mark Ringer, ECD, TBWA\Tequila

It’s like a TV game show. It’s like a creative team show n’ tell. It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen.

Don’t miss this fun new event that reveals the freshest, funniest, and freakin’ coolest stuff from around the Web.

Come and cheer for your favorite contestant and help decide who wins!

Prizes from Adobe!
The winner takes home Adobe Creative Suite 4 Premium. The runner-up gets Photoshop Lightroom 2.

Free admission. Discounted drinks!

First 2 Forward – Match #1
2009年6月17日

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