This is a very simple game on Twitter. You just need to start tweeting “A is for [something]” with the Hashtag #AisFor then your friends can continue with “B is for [something] #AisFor”.
Just started it randomly and it ended with 3 other friends participating at the end. The hashtag only started at J.
@nickpan: A is for Angst
@jackiegay: @nickpan B is for boliao n C is for Cookie!!!
@nickpan: @jackiegay D is for Deadline
@jackiegay: @nickpan E is for Erdinger!
@nickpan: @jackiegay F is for FRIDAYYYYYYY
@chaos_pk: @nickpan G is for gg
@nickpan: @chaos_pk @jackiegay H is for HTTP://NICKPAN.COM
@chaos_pk: @nickpan @jackiegay i is for ipad
@nickpan: @chaos_pk @jackiegay J is for Javascript #AisFor
@chaos_pk: #AisFor K is for Kinokuniya!
@nickpan: @chaos_pk #AisFor L is for LPPL
@chaos_pk: @nickpan #AisFor M is for Me which is also for N which is NICE :D
@nickpan: @chaos_pk #AisFor O is for OMG, P is for PK!
@chaos_pk: @nickpan #AisFor Q is for Quickly! just a little bit more to go ;)
@nickpan: @jackiegay @chaos_pk #AisFor S is for Sleep
@jackiegay: @chaos_pk @nickpan why no J??! J is for no Jam haha! #Aisfor
@chufang: @nickpan #AisFor T is for Tweet @jackiegay @chaos_pk
@jackiegay: @chufang @nickpan @chaos_pk U is for Umbrella cos there’s so much rain!!
@jackiegay: @chufang @nickpan @chaos_pk V is for Vampire n W is for Wikipedia
@nickpan: @jackiegay @chufang @chaos_pk #AisFor X is for XHTML & XML & XXX
@nickpan: @jackiegay @chufang @chaos_pk #AisFor Y is for Y the hell are we doing this?
@chufang: @nickpan #AisFor Z is for what we should be doing @jackiegay @chaos_pk
Its super random, I think it needs to fall into a theme.
Other then it being a casually fun MMOG (massive multiplayer online game) on micro blogging site twitter, there are of cause many other reasons why this game is a good game. ;)
I do web projects all the time and meet clients and colleagues of all sorts. I’ve come to realise back in 2007 that individuals need to have some superpowers in order to get across everyday. Here are top 6 I got inspired from Heroes.
Telepathy & Clairvoyance – An ability to see into a clients mind and understand what he means by “ I want it easy to useâ€, and others such vaguerisms. Need to be able to get into a client’s mind and find out what they want to do.
Persuasion – An ability to convince a client that he does not need a flash splash screen or pages of content that reads “Under Constructionâ€. More importantly to educate clients to know that the rates are very fair.
Precognition – An ability to see into the future and anticipate new trends. The ability to design what the client will eventually accept so as to skip the countless time wasting revisions.
Invulnerability – Even when the style police start picking on the website, this ability stops looking at the negative criticisms and focus on the possible next steps.
Technopathy – Control, configure & commission technological solutions with superb knowledge across all platforms.
Intuitive Aptitude – Ability to analyse complex systems and intuitively understand how they work without special education or training.
It was a sleepy afternoon weekend in Johor Bahru on the 28th and 29th August 2010, but thanks to Daniel Cerventus, MC Teng and Alvin Ng, Sunway College Johor Bahru was turned into a gathering of passionate people who got together for BarcampJB2 2010.
Baracamp JB2 Poster
As per the traditional way Barcamp is organised, its quite impromptu. The organising committee have not actually met up in person prior to the event. The very first committee meeting I heard was just done 2 hours before the event started.
Setting up and getting ready
The limited T-Shirts were given out, the Wifi was setup, Stickies started filling up the slots and off we go.
BarcampJB 2010 Tee
The Tee was black, very cool, it sort of had a certain class too it. At the back was a list of the sponsors who made this event possible.
Werewolf game
The day started with the Werewolf game in one of the rooms and I heard it was lots of fun. I did not join as I was in another room listening to other presentations.
Leong Hean Hong | @hongster
Hongster presented on In-App Payment on mobile applications on Android and it gave me good insights into the steps required and also the general structure of how such transactions take place and also the available payment modes. The main ones would still be Paypal and Google Checkout.
The Audience
It was kinda hard to pin point how many people actually attended all the talks, but with 3 rooms in total, people were moving around. I think one of the popular activities was also playing Robert Kiyosaki’sCashflow game.
KK presenting Making Banking a Breeze
KK from Standard Chartered presented Breeze. As he was from the implementation team, he had intimate knowledge of what it took to build this next generation online banking platform. I love it when he said he could not survive with less then 5 cups of coffee a day and that how his team was like Black Ops within the bank.
SCB is my client in Singapore, so I wanted to come over to JB to support them.
Walter Heck | @walterheck
Walter shared on quite a few things, but the 3 years of his travelling life stood out for me as he shared honestly from his heart the adventures he had, the not so clever decisions and how everyone should travel the world at some point in life.
Leong Hean Hong | @hongster
Hongster presented again in the lightning talks segment and shared on a few methods one could use to solve a Rubik Cube.
Powerpoint Karaoke by MC Teng | @mcavenue
To end of the day’s session, MC Teng did a Powerpoint Karaoke. IT WAS HILARIOUS!! I’ve never heard of this before and I think its brilliant. Basically the presenter (the person doing the karaoke) need to make a presentation, but the presenter does not know what are on the slides so have to make an impromptu presentation. The slides used was a few slides from Love Relationships.
Then we all went downstairs to Buka Puasa (break fast as it was the month of Ramadan / fasting month). The catered food was really nice. In fact it was so nice that i forgot to take pictures totally!
Hotel Vistaria
I stayed at Hotel Vistaria for the night and i’m glad they had free internet in the room as I did my slides until 4am that night.
Sleepy JB
On Sunday morning, I got up to sleepy JB and headed to have prata for breakfast. The whole place was quiet and peaceful. Really nice and relaxed. I forgot when was the last time I had breakfast alone outside of Singapore.
Digital Heroes
I started the day with the first 2 presentations as I had to head back to Singapore at noon. The first was about “Digital Heroes”. I’ve shared these slides with some of my colleagues last time during a company trip as the aim of the slides was really to motivate people to level up their skills but with a Heroes twist to it. ;) I don’t think I can put the slides up to share as I simply disregarded the concept of copyrights when making the slides as it was purely for internal consumption.
Social Media is not a Breeze
My second presentation was on “Social Media is not a Breeze” and it was about my experience with social media and how its not as easy as it seems to be.
The last 20 years of Social Media
I shared on the last 20 years which lead up to what we know of as Social Media today. From BBS and Fidonet to the very first few Social Media websites like SixDegrees.com and eCircles.com which both burned up after the dotcom crash in early 2000s.
My very first PDA was in 2002. Its the Sony Clié PEG-SJ20. Its a 320 x 320 monochrome stylus based PDA running on Palm OS4.1 and it had a whopping 16MB memory. After using it for about a year or two, I lost it. I believe I dropped it in a cab and had to replace it.
Sony Clié SJ22
Then came the Sony Clié PEG-SJ22 (which i still have now & am charging it as i’m typing this). Its very much like the SJ20 but with colour. Yes, a whopping 16MB ram as well.
Then came the era where phones were PDA too a few years later.
Dopod 818 Pro
I bought the Dopod 818 Pro. That was one buggy phone with Windows Mobile and all, but I still managed to use it for 2 years.
HTC Touch
My contract was up and I got the HTC Touch. I liked the smart phone a lot and used it heavily. 20 months went past and I upgraded again.
iPhone 3GS
I got the iPhone 3Gs. I’m using it for about 1 year+ now and it changed the way i accessed information. From Twitter to Facebook and Foursquare.
The concept of the PDA was out side of the phone, it moved into the phone, now its moving out of the phone again.
I haz iPad
Now I haz iPad. And this post was typed partially on my iPad with the WordPress App. ;)
Seeing that mrbrown have setup his own custom URL shortener “mrbrwn.co”, I also wanna use my “pan.sg” to for URL shortening. Now time to go experiment.
