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Easiest Way to Embed Google Maps on Your Blog

Since the beginning of time, embedding Googlemaps or Yahoo! Maps has always been a royal pain the behind. Since Yahoo! doesn’t offer any maps of Singapore, we’ll only cover how to embed a Googlemap on to your website or blog....continue reading »

Building websites with baseline grid...

...is now a breeze thanks to [Syncotype](http://robgoodlatte.com/2007/07/31/syncotype-your-baselines/). Works on Opera 8+, IE 7, Ffox 1.5+, Safari 2-3. continue reading »

Yslow

Yahoo Developer Network has been going great guns giving us YUI and what not. Now they have unveiled a new tool for measuring and fixing your site's performance called [Yslow](http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/).continue reading »

Top Web 2.0 Efforts Outside the United States

Business 2.0 lists the Top web 2.0 sites developed outside of the United States. It is interesting to note that 19 out of the 31 listed have some element of social media in them. Question is, how hard is it...continue reading »

Video: The Next Frontier

While talking with Choon Kiat, Edmund Leng and Coleman yesterday, we came to the realisation that the web was expanding so quickly that it is impossible to have a good grasp on its many facets. We weren’t even talking about...continue reading »

Build on the Cheap

Guy Kawasaki on how he built a web 2.0 app for $12,107.09. I recall a Forbes or Fortune article interviewing 10 CEOs on which they thought was more important: the idea or its execution. It was a fairly even split,...continue reading »

Interviews with Singapore's Next Gen Hackers: U-Zyn

Today we meet Chua U-Zyn who is now very well known for developing Ping.sg, a Singapore community portal (and blog aggregator) that everybody loves. Ping.sg has been growing in prominence ever since its launch and it is even more surprising...continue reading »

The Number of Rebellion

09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0. When the era of self-publishing took flight in the early 2000s with the advent of blogging tools that made it relatively easy for anyone...continue reading »

Interviews with Singapore's Next Gen Hackers: Choonkeat

Starting this week, I plan to host an email interview with the developers of cool software from Singapore. This week, I had a conversation with Choonkeat. Choonkeat is an action oriented geek who has developed two useful and popular “web...continue reading »

Web 2.0 jargon

I came across details of a presentation in a recent Singapore Conference called “Website & Content Management Strategies”, organised by Asia Business Forum: Case Study Presentation on Proven Content Management Strategies that can be used to effectively build and operate...continue reading »

Hot Web App(s)

During the panel “Hot Web Apps” at SXSWi 06, three web applications were presented, namely Yackpack, Meebo and Zimbra. I wanted to spend some real time with these applications before writing about them....continue reading »

Going Bezurk

As Chu Yeow pointed out, Singapore does have Ajaxified products. Now I’m knocking myself hard on the head for not having found Bezurk earlier. Planning for my trip to Austin has been a terrible user experience on Zuji. There...continue reading »