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 [...]

Google just announced that 17 World Development Indicators can now be searched in Google search. Therefore you will see this in Google search result if you look for Internet users of a country: I’ve always been paying attention to World Bank as they have good amount of high quality data visualization and very useful data. [...]

I always have things to share online, so much information gets at me each and every day, but sometimes things are just too small or too personal for this blog, and too big for a tweet. Other than that, I just got an iPhone 3Gs and I just have too much data usage to spare. [...]

Time flies! To be in my home town working in a fun environment with great people (Thomas Crampton, Jean Francoise Amadei and more) for 4 months really made me feel like it was just a few weeks. It’s time for me to head back to Toronto. I decided to create a casual gathering (a Tweetup) [...]

Many people do not own a car in Hong Kong for many reasons. Firstly, Hong Kong has convenient public transportation, there’s no practical need for owning a car just to travel to places in Hong Kong. Secondly, unlike buying a house, or a good watch, the value of a car keeps dropping every mile you [...]

After the Dobblr lunch from Island Shangri-La Hotel, I had to quickly rush back home, get casual, and went back to Ogilvy office where they had buses there picking everyone up and took everyone to the venue which was at Gold Coast Hotel Hong Kong. It was a fun evening that gathered almost everyone from [...]

I’m glad to have a chance to be at the lunch with Marko Ahtisaari (CEO, Dopplr), Stephen J Marcopoto (President, Turner International Asia Pacific), Yew Ming Lau (Senior VP, Turner International Asia Pacific), and of course, Thomas Crampton, Jean-Francois Amadei, Sean Rach, Adam O’Conor from Ogilvy and other great people from Shangri-La and CNN. Took [...]

@tortue, @yardley_luk and I have been talking about a meetup for quite awhile. I asked both of them today about meeting up tomorrow and “surprisingly” both of them are available tomorrow. @Tortue tweeted about it and we got more and more feedback asking for the time and location. So I thought it would be a [...]

Cover of Distinto Diferente I’m a Cuban music addict. And on #musicmonday today, I’m going to share with you this beautiful piece by Afro Cuban All Star, vocal was Ibrahim Ferrer. If you listen to Cuban music, this song shouldn’t be new to you. If you didn’t know this song, and you want more songs [...]

I am on my way to Hong Kong from Vancouver BC. Currently 32000 feet high, on 551 mph ground speed, with -54.4 F outside air temperature, and 12 hours to go till it arrives. I just took newspapers from the flight attendant, which reminded me of the latest prediction that says that all/ most traditional [...]