Facebook on an Excel sheet while in the office

Always worried that your boss will see you spending an excessive amount of time on Facebook while you’re supposed to be working? Well now you can keep up with your friends, update your status, comments on friends’ pictures, all on an Excel spreadsheet – no one will know you’re not really working!

Check out the screenshots below – all you have to do is to go to the Diesel campaign site to download an app, key in your Facebook account details and you’re all set.

All of this is carried out by Diesel in a bid to make work more fun. It’s a cool little app that will get people talking and some people might use it but it’s more about making a bit of noise around the launch of the campaign and for the relatively small cost of developing a simple app it is something that will get massive coverage because of it’s connections to Facebook. Hats off to Diesel on this one.

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Don’t know Jack Schitt? Now you do

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Are tablets and iPads the future of in-flight entertainment?

It seems in-flight entertainment is being revolutionised. Several airlines are rolling out tablets and iPads on their flights – is this a signal of things to come?

• Reports say that some first class American Airlines passengers are getting Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1s to play with during the flight. The tablets replace American’s current entertainment system and can access Wi-Fi.
• Qantas unit Jetstar has employed the iPad as part of an in-flight entertainment system.
• Alaska Airlines last month also began replacing its 25-pound paper flight manuals with iPads.

What does this mean for marketers and brands? Lots more opportunities to engage with customers in-flight of course! Exciting times ahead.

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Why I love and hate having a smartphone

Hilarious comic strip I came across by The Oatmeal

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‘Likes’, ‘follows’ and status updates – what they’d look like in real life

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Intel: The Museum of Me

http://www.intel.com/museumofme/r/index.htm

Great use of social and technology – view your social profile in a virtual museum

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60% of votes, 91% of seats. What next?

So the elections are over and we’re all back to life as per normal. Well, almost. Aside from the public uproar as a result of Tin Pei Ling making it to the parliament.

It’s appalling how PAP only got 60% of public votes, yet got 91% of seats in parliament. Its hardly reflective of what Singaporeans really want. But I guess that was the plan all along – implement the constituency system so that PAP always remain in power. Great forward thinking on their part, I must admit.

Anyway, what happened, happened. Now the question is, what does this mean for Singaporeans for the next five years and beyond? At the end of the day, it really doesn’t matter who won. The point is that the people in power wake up and listen to what is happening around them and do something about it. Together.

No more talking down, telling us what to do and expecting us to follow like sheep. No more scare tactics. All these only work up to a certain point, and my dear PAP, we have already crossed that threshold. We’re not unhappy about what is being done and the content of what we’re being told – all we want is that we’re told about it in a different tone. Involve us in the matters of our own country, and watch how we work with you to bring Singapore to even greater heights.

Tomorrow or within the next few weeks, the entire buzz is going to die down as everyone goes back to living their lives as they did pre-elections. But don’t forget, these elections have awakened a whole new generation of Singaporeans into caring about what happens to their nation. And if they’re not engaged, if their views are not heard, they’re going to have no qualms making a stand when the next general elections come around in five years.

All the best Singapore!

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