So you’ve got the education that you needed, the knowledge that you wanted, and the position that you are interested in. Time to send out your well-structured and perfect written cover letters and CVs. Wait, have you Googled yourself yet?
According to a recent survey done by CareerBuilder.co.uk, most of the employers these days screen candidates [...]

I’m not a good listener in conversations, but I’m pretty sure I’m the best listener on others’ conversations in public places. I was at a dinner tonight in a local restaurant, just one of those casual Hong Kong restaurant and I got inspired by some random influencers.
So people from the table behind me were talking [...]

A new site was just launched with this funny campaign called “Certified Virgins” where people can get a “certificate of virginity” with US$1.00 each, they claimed that “part of” it will be donated to the Aids cure research.
This site has a very clean and official-looking design, but until it is linked to or by an [...]

It’s not surprising that social networking sites are becoming more and more important for most Internet users. Most of the teens these days own a Facebook profile, for both networking and playing online games.
Teens are extremely active on Social Media
From a recent research conducted by Pew Internet, 63% of teens in America go online every day, [...]

More people are using Social Media as a major channel to do self-branding because reputation is all about word-of-mouth, and social media can generate the positive “word of mouse” if it’s done right. If you’ve ever considered managing your own online reputation through social media, here’s 15 advantages compiled by my colleague Ashleigh Flower (@mercuryplanet) [...]

Lately, I’ve been hearing more and more people considering blogging, especially the ones who are on Twitter. The truth is, if you’ve ever thought about starting one and haven’t yet, why not? It doesn’t cost you anything to start and you can get a feel of what blogging is all about. Below are 5 reasons [...]

On 1st January, actor and writer Stephen Fry wrote the farewell tweet and said he will temporary “switch off most of my connections with the outside world”.
Stephen Fry was the UK second most influential twitterer who tweets everywhere he goes with his one million followers, he stopped tweeting because he has to work on his novel, and he thinks Twitter distracts him from achieving it.

As I see more and more “social media agencies” out there, I started to look into what they are offering their clients with their so-called “social media marketing” campaigns and I realized what they do are basically the same as prostitution.

It’s wrong, but many agencies do it
Many of these agencies do only tactical plans in [...]

I love advertising. I not a fan of American football but I watch Super Bowl only for the ads. I enjoy watching TV ads purely because of it’s form of art and creativity. So I would believe that I’m not a person who get easily influenced by an ad.

A recent research conducted by Synovate shows [...]

Apple iPhone was designed in the US, started in the US, and most of the great features and apps are based around the US. But apparently people in Asia love iPhone more than any other countries.

Source: Google Trends Insight
For a digital product like iPhone, it makes sense to approximately calculate popularity of the product by [...]