Thanks to Typhoon Kammuri raising the Number 8 Signal and forcing us all to stay at home, tonight's Web Wednesday gathering has been postponed to next week.
So please reset your diaries for Wednesday 13th August, same place, same time.
It looks like our two speakers, Michael Logan of the SCMP.com and Sam Hui of AtNext Media, will also be able to come. You can sign up for the event here.
Enjoy the storm, however wimpy you think it may be!
If you missed the last Web Wednesday event in July. I can't replicate the networking, but here is the interview with Chris Justice, MD of Quamnet Group.
Boomtown Beijing - what do the real people of Beijing （老百姓） think about the upcoming Olympics? Here's a trailer of Siok Siok Tan's documentary that may help answer your curiosity.
Calling All Hong Kong Digerati!
Come join our 15th social networking event. Meet, mix, learn and share your experiences in a casual and friendly atmosphere. To help us know, expected numbers please sign up for the event on Facebook.
This month, we will have a panel interview with two media experts who are helping their newspaper organisations move into the digital realm:
Michael Logan, Multimedia Editor for the South China Morning Post (SCMP.com) who has pioneered the print newspaper's venture into audio podcasting and vidcasting. In fact, today they have launched the revamped multimedia channel, using BrightCove to serve and share videos. They've also started to list the audio podcasts in blog format along with the show notes (easier to find on search engines), which contain valuable links to their music selection - these guys have great taste in music so well worth dropping by! Like their Olympic website, all the multimedia content is free!
Sam Hui, Business Director for Next Media Interactive, who manages AtNext.com and has started an interactive, audience participation video channel, called Apple Action News. Sam is the man behind many of the Apple Daily's ventures into the internet space and is actively involved in their new Olympic website.
As the event is 2 days before the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony, we will naturally also discuss how online news organisations are using the internet to cover such as large scale event.
As I continue to discover the mobile web with my trusty iPhone (still the 2.5G version), it dawns on me that this gadget will be the one missionary that successfully converts the non-believers to the ways of the mobile web.
As the Olympics is around the corner, I thought I'd test out some leading news websites to see which looked best on my iphone, or in this case the web-based iphone emulator, iphonetester.com.
These screenshots speak for themselves:
Charles Mok is putting his grass roots support network to the test and asking the local IT community to vote for him as "President of the United States of America!". He's even been covered in the US press!
OK, I'll be honest with you. That was a joke! In fact, Charles has his sights focused on a slightly less ambitious goal, namely to run for a seat in the Legislative Council representing the IT Functional Constituency.
His first election gathering will be on Thursday 31st July. More details here.
Apart from being truly plugged in to the local internet community, Charles has illustrated his deep belief in technology by launching a Web 2.0 election website.
