Saturday, 5 March 2011

Korean Art Show | Red Dot Art Fair

Korean Art Show | Red Dot Art Fair

Indeed, very nice, particularly


Lee Jeong-Woong, "Kneel Down to Wait for Judgment" 2010, Gallery Hyundai

not only in China, all social enterprises shld also embrace : The Confucian Comeback | New Emissary

The Confucian Comeback | New Emissary:

this is key to all society and economies of the world.

"‘Confucianism is more that the good life lies in social ties, and by virtue of being members of different social relations, that entails certain social responsibilities,’ he explains. ‘And so Confucianism is an obvious resource for thinking about how to promote social responsibility in an age of individualism—which really is common nowadays in most capitalist societies.’ In effect, Confucian philosophy simply seems to work well with China’s current economic growth."

The Middle East: to go or not to go? | Travel | The Guardian

The Middle East: to go or not to go? | Travel | The Guardian

a good list rundown..


Friday, 4 March 2011

How Econsultancy measures Twitter via Google Analytics

How Econsultancy measures Twitter via Google Analytics:

this is great first try of making sense of whether or not twitter works for the B2B environment..

worth a read but still a lot more work needs to be done..

"So roughly 60% of our Twitter visitors are a) Returning Visitors, and have previously been on the Econsultancy website, and b) Returning Visitors generate 90% of the transactional e-commerce revenue we allocate to the Twitter channel."

Thursday, 3 March 2011

my 1 line comment: Where Have the Good Men Gone? - WSJ.com

Where Have the Good Men Gone? - WSJ.com

Man should be man, and women should be women, period.


Social Learning

Social Learning: "

Nice deck of slides.. makes perfect sense, would it achieve its goal, i.e. convince big corporates to appoint the creator of these slides to do work?

would be good to know. RoI of investing time & effort of creation..


Social Learning
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in short, near monopoly on an essential market!? Buffett Says Pricing Power More Important Than Good Management - Bloomberg

Buffett Says Pricing Power More Important Than Good Management - Bloomberg

Wow, I think I am getting to love Warren

another reason why I should not give up and work on GamBond®, thats exactly what we are aiming for, near monopoly but provide essential services that market need/desperate for..

Really hope that I can meet Mr. Buffet when he is still around!! how do I get to him? I don't want to travel to Nebraska... without his invitation! ;-)

I would also like to add that we need to focus more on the 'long finance' ... and focus more on sustainable cash flow, rather than spot value of the stock price. Sadly the hype of the tech stocks is such that it focuses more on trends, flip value and trade sale value.. therefore, sadly only benefit on the few that played key part of those transactions..

we should maybe celebrate the good old boring businesses that churn out products and services and earn a decent margin.. whatever happened to those conglomerates??

I guess when likes of Samsung and Mitsubishi start breaking up and get bought by likes of KKR, we will know the end of nigh.


Yes it can, via trusted "b2b social media" Carlyle's Rubenstein Predicts Social Media Activism - NYTimes.com

Carlyle's Rubenstein Predicts Social Media Activism - NYTimes.com

certainly I know for sure.

problem with present social media is that of quantity over quality.

in a trusted B2B social media environment, it would be qualified trusted contacts that counts, quality over quantity.. but sadly it will be based on offline old boys rules... takes time to build up!

key is how to bridge that.. maybe in some ways my non profit transparent but targeted CXO Europe/Asia network??


Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Incredible... Permanent residence of HK get $6000 this year! vs. Macau's 4000! will we be happy??


President Barack Obama joins a toast with Technology Business Leaders at a dinner in Woodside, California, Feb. 17, 2011. who is sitting next to him??


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President Obama done a lot, especially for breaking the glass ceilings for non white in US. I wonder when we can do the same for Chinese in rest of the world?

In order to get there, he has to be the perfect smooth operator/politician and know how to tap into popular culture and erm other people's donation wallets (time or resources).. so, guess hosting dinner and placing the right person in the right place given their importance comes as second nature, probably done by his staff but he has big say about it no doubt...

therefore, it must be very telling for the insiders, especially the CXOs there at the event, see who is sitting next to him on this round table... not named, but you can see the hairline. trust it is Steve Jobs on his left and the favour of the year Mark Z. of FB on the right?

surely though, the person that has much more sustainable business would be Oracle? but sadly Larry can only sit opposite Obama.. what does it say regarding the sideline seat of Eric Schmidt?

how incredible populist.. or am I reading too much into this? ;-)