http://www.nokpis.com Your one stop shop for startups in southeast asia! Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:48:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Checked out the new Clooney flick last night. Great movie - worth seeing for sure. Clooney at the top of his game and lots of cameos from some great people. It brought back so many memories for me during my 4 years of pretty much non-stop domestic travel - back before ... http://www.nokpis.com/2010/03/06/reminiscing-over-up-in-the-air/ I love reading Daring Fireball, except for his love of Google, and always find that he leads me to some of the more interesting non-tech posts out there. So I guess, apart from the tech, John Gruber has some very  interesting tastes and opinions. One day  I was scanning his ... http://www.nokpis.com/2010/03/03/roger-ebert-is-my-hero/ It all started simply enough when I asked Pontus, Yahoo's! head of Indonesia, if he had any judges he would like to suggest for Yahoo's! first Open Hack Day in Southeast Asia which would take place in Jakarta. Pontus mentioned Johar Alam - founder of IDC Indonesia. To get a ... http://www.nokpis.com/2010/03/02/johar-and-the-idcs-freedom-of-expression/ Before I start I will just continue with my plea to the guys over at This Week in Asia - please - have me back on. I think I will keep this up until they relent. :) Moving on... I had a week in Philippines and now another one in Indonesia - ... http://www.nokpis.com/2010/03/02/whats-up-with-america/ I usually don't put much work stuff on my blog but since this is a video and I was a part of the event I thought I would make an exception. Enjoy: http://www.nokpis.com/2010/03/01/yahoo-southeast-asia-open-hack-day/ The news does not seem to have anything yet but twitter does: http://twitter.com/#search?q=bangkok%20bomb I am sure this is related to Thaksin and the verdict but it just shows that democracy is the least of the problems in Thailand. Bummer... http://www.nokpis.com/2010/02/27/fresh-bomb-in-bangkok-bangkok-bank-on-silom-road/ The battle lines are clearly drawn - Google is scared to death of Facebook. It makes sense - as more and more people spend time on it they need Google less and less, but as Google tries to strong arm everyone into submission FB is running around realizing that being ... http://www.nokpis.com/2010/02/20/buzzz/ I am in Manila this week cranking away and wondering how I might get invited back on TWIA. Might have to grovel soon... Anyway. Lots going on. First off is a developer event with Globe Labs tomorrow night. Looking forward to meeting people and seeing how I can help. While I was ... http://www.nokpis.com/2010/02/09/thrilla-in-manila/ One of the things I notice is many people in this world seem to be lacking any sort of conviction. See dictionary: 3 a : a strong persuasion or belief Let me give you some examples. I was in Manila sometime back and ran into one of the guys who is supposedly ... http://www.nokpis.com/2010/02/06/conviction/ Usually when people write about products or product companies they are bitching. I have done it many times myself but for this post I will be offering up my gratitude for a job well done. About 4 months back I picked up some Dr. Dre Beats Headphones. They rock. Amazing ... http://www.nokpis.com/2010/02/06/kudos-to-monster-and-dynamic-monster-thailand/