Social Media and Social Good

Mark Zuckerberg on Creating the Facebook Home, Not Phone The following Q&A between Steven Levy, senior staff writer for Wired.com and Mark Zuckerberg gives us a better understanding of what the Facebook Phone Home is. First, what it’s not: Home isn’t the long-rumored Facebook Phone. That was always a red herring. Instead, Home turns your phone into a Facebook device. Even with the lock screen on, a photo stream of…

22 Little Things You Can Do to Make This World a Better Place How do you make a difference in someone else’s life? The following video by a young filmmaker in Islamabad, Pakistan shows the 22 things he did to help make this world a better place. Syed Muzamil Hasan Zaidi celebrated his 22nd birthday with 22 little acts such as planting a tree, cleaning a random person’s car in the…

What Are the Elements That Make a Startup Successful? We all know Twitter as one of today’s most successful tech companies with over 500 million total users with more than 200 million active users (source). However, we know very little about how did it all started and what challenges did the founders have to face in order to get to where the company currently is. To be a successful startup,…

We all know Friends with Benefits, the movie starring real-life sweethearts Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis but if you look closely, it’s more than just a romantic comedy film. We could actually dig a few marketing gold nuggets from it. First things first, I lied about the number though. There aren’t really 69 gold nuggets in here, maybe just about half of them. Without further ado, below are just some of the…

Singapore Startup Weekend November 2012 Participants The Singapore Women Startup Weekend was amazing. Vanessa Tan of Tech in Asia summarised it so well, “There were a total of 60 participants, and 60 percent of those were women. In total, there were 54 gruelling hours of brainstorming, developing, and pitching over the course of the event.” (Photo via Athena Network Singapore) There were several really great writeups about the event which…