New Toy: Codeorgan – Generate music with your website

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This a a creative online app I discovered that generates music from any URL. All you have to do is to type in a URL, the program will then analyze the html script in the <body> content and generate a unique piece of music for this URL. User can share this piece of music through [...]


Data Visualization Tool: Mondrian

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I just found this amazing free tool that can do some smart data visualization with the simplest sets of data comparing to other visualization tools. You can just import basic excel files or even txt files with huge chunk of data and it will categorize and visualize them. Graphics and interface might not be as sexy [...]


Domino’s: The Pizza Turnaround

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Around Christmas time 2009, Domino’s pizza launched this smart social campaign called The Pizza Turnaround. The main idea of the campaign is to gather feedback of the taste of their pizza through social media, and they would create new pizza recipe with the comments. Commenting on public network like Twitter would create word of mouse [...]


Looking for a job? Don’t send out CVs before you read this!

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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 [...]


Young Teens love social networking, hate Twitter

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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 [...]


If Steve Jobs is coming for lunch, what would you make?

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This is a viral piece was posted on the same day as the iPad released. Jakob Hammarback and Jon Wingard created the iSandwhitch 4G as an experiment to see if it can go viral. It is a video showing how they use different ingredients all put together on a piece of bread to create the same shape [...]


Viral Campaign: A movie about YOU

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There have been many viral websites lately that requires users to upload images of themselves, most of these websites have face detection script on it which allows them to add funny and special effect to the faces. This one is a little bit different, instead of adding effects to images, this creates a movie about [...]


New email spamming Tool: Facebook Apps

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On January 21, Facebook announced a new function on Facebook Page, this function allows Facebook Page or Facebook application creators to collect emails of their fans. I don’t know about you but I think it’s not safe at all to give out emails to companies these days, even through Facebook. Will email marketing be the [...]


Rambler: The Sneakers that Tweet

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Rambler is the only pair of shoes in the world that owns a Twitter account, designed and created by artist and technology savvy Ricardo Nascimento. These’s a sensor inside the sneakers that tracks movements, then updates it’s Twitter. However, it can only tweet two words, “tap” and “.”, depending on the pressure you exert. It’s [...]


Event: Lepak with Brian Giesen and Tim Ho

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As many of you might already know that I’m currently in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia till this Saturday night. We are also lucky enough to have Brian Giesen, Regional Director of Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence APAC, coming up to KL at the same time. We would love to meet up with all the social media lovers [...]

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A Little Something About Tim:

Tim Ho

I'm a Regional Digital Strategist at Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence APAC. I love web designing, data visualization, latin music, cooking, painting, inventing new drinks, and monkeys. Here is my main blog where I share social media news, ideas and insights. I also have a more personal blog called Tim Ho's Monkey!

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