Scott Yang's Playground

Nichol Alexander on deleting Facebook account and making a goodbye, after watched The Social Netwokr and read this article by Zadie Smith. Now ask myself whether I am just one of “500 million sentient people entrapped in the recent careless thoughts of a Harvard sophomore”. That’s the phenomenon of this generation — it’s Facebook today, [...]

From Leo Laport: Buzz Kill. It makes me feel like everything I’ve posted over the past four years on Twitter, Jaiku, Friendfeed, Plurk, Pownce, and, yes, Google Buzz, has been an immense waste of time. I was shouting into a vast echo chamber where no one could hear me because they were too busy shouting [...]

It’s going to be the week of catching up. Last Friday I went and picked up my primary school friend from air port, and brought him around Sydney Eastern suburbs on Saturday and Sunday. I have not seen him since migrating to Australia back in 1990 — which makes that 18 years. Neither have we [...]

Thanks to Andrew from Niphal who posted these $250 worth free advertising coupons for Facebook on OzBargain, I went and got some free credits, spent 3 minutes in Gimp doing up a 110×80 logo, created a campaign on Facebook Ads Manager and sat back to see the flood of traffic coming in. Actually the last [...]

I need more money… This is what I have posted on my Twitter status: Yes. Facebook app Friends for Sale can be addictive, where you make virtual money online by buying/selling your friends as “pets”. No I don’t aim to become a millionaire but I do have a collector’s goal — collecting all my FOCUS [...]

As Facebook has just been predicted as the largest social network on Internet, I think it would be a good time dusting off my Facebook account and check out what the hype is all about. Looks like it is still appealing to those who are in their 20′s, just like MySpace is appealing to the [...]