Category: Web Design

I was real nice to attend ATRIA Bloggers Unconference today. Its the first time i’ve seen like minded Christians coming together to discuss about technology, new media, etc.

I arrived and was surprised that a personalised tag was provided. It even had a tag cloud on it which was generated by… i’m guessing www.tagcloud-generator.com. A very nice touch.

Paul Khoo introduced what ATRIA is and what it hopes to achieve and gave everyone an overview of the evening.

The evening then started off with 3 speakers sharing their views and knowledge of the New Media Scene. Nicholas Aaron Khoo shared about what the New Media space is all about, highlighted several impressive stats on what has happened over the past few years and highlighted how everyone should be relevant. Shing then continued and reassessed the whole fundamentals of New Media all together. I missed the last speaker as i had to go out to take a call.

The session then broke into discussion groups and naturally i joined the Technology Frontier as the other 2 were on Faith and Collaboration. We all introduced ourselves and the discussion then kicked off immediately with ideas, fundamental questions, views, concerns, etc. I enjoyed every moment of it.

I think there will be a video that will be put online soon by Atria… If it does come on, i’ll add to this post.

I have to say, overall, i’m quite impressed on the level of maturity and professionalism in the discussions and do look forward for the next one.

What do you think of the new MOE website?

Personally i think is very clean and very professionally done.

Not to mentioned it validates XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS level 2.1. All these thanks to Lucian.

If you increased the font size via your browser, the main highlight image also scales up, how cool is that.

I hope to see more goverment websites being revamped… for the better of cause.

Was at Start-Up@Singapore’s Emerging Industry Series about Web 2.0. The 3 speakers there were Stuart Tan, Vanessa Tan and Kelvin Lim virtually.

It was interesting to hear people talk about Web 2.0, cuz we all hear it all the time and its one of those terms that we don’t really know for sure if we have the correct definition but use all the time.

Web 2.0 is a trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users.
~ Wikipedia

Web 2.0 is the term given to describe a second generation of the World Wide Web that is focused on the ability for people to collaborate and share information online. Web 2.0 basically refers to the transition from static HTML Web pages to a more dynamic Web that is more organized and is based on serving Web applications to users.
~ Webopedia

Clearly “Web 2.0? means different things to different journalists on different days. Mostly it means nothing—except a bigger paycheck.
~ Zeldman

Netvibes is the best start page tool now and come to think of it, its my most used web2.0 app. I think i use netvibes at least 5 – 10 times more than Facebook. I know its not a fair comparison as both have different usage.

Introducing Ginger: the new Netvibes. Its got loads of tools and its universal. It aims to put everything you have online all in one place and I think they may just succeed. I’ve set up my Universe, so if you do use Netvibes, set yours up too and if i know you, add me as your contact. Visit me at http://www.netvibes.com/nickpan. Have fun.

Many read RSS feeds and I believe there are some you can’t do without. What are the top 5 RSS Feeds that you can’t do without?

Mine are:

1. Max Design’s Light Reading
2. Smashing Magazine
3. Ads of the World
4. Banner Blog
5. Ted Talks

What about you? Post it on your blog too. Link back to this post if you can.