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Andrew Peters
As we usher in the year 2008, we see a strengthening of the media industry, with people positioning themselves to grow in New Media 2.0. Harro welcomes Andrew Peters onboard to lead sales & marketing. Andrew is a well known personality in Social Media both here in Singapore and abroad. Born in New Zealand, and [...]
The Person “Harro”
I recently met some people who thought “Harro” was a person because their collegues were talking about ‘Harro said this’, ‘Harro said that’ etc… and they laughed when they realised that Harro is a business and not a person. We prefer that Harro is perceived as a person, approachable, and hopefully user-friendly. Our intention is [...]
Harro Newsletter – June 2007
- Technorati attempts to make the crossover from a blog tracking platform into a search engine. The result is a hazy uncertainty that is causing Technorati to flounder. So why did they do it? It’s highly likely that investors pushed them towards this. Having recevied USD20-30million (or more) in venture funding, the only way that [...]
Harro Newsletter – April 2007
- It seems 46% of the online population in Singapore have created blogs of their own, according to the latest MindShare research. We did our own calculations here. – So if nearly half the online population of Singapore are creating blogs then that must make Singapore a media-focused nation. But yet, we don’t see the [...]
Googlezon vs. Viacom
Google and Viacom locks horns over copyright infringement over content from media properties like MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Spike TV, BET, CMT, Paramount and Dreamworks. Viacom also has its own video sharing site called “iFilm”. This all sounds very serious. Open content is still the future. Business strategies for content just have to adapt. Read more [...]
E27 Singapore
E27 held an Entrepreneur 2.0 session at SMU. This has been a series of events to pull the tech-entrepreneur community together out from the sidealleys of Singapore and hopefully turn them into an economic force. E27 featured presentations from lots of participants, most notably from James Seng, kindly hosted by Bernard and Gwen. Interesting comments [...]
EPIC: Googlezon vs. New York Times
EPIC is set in 2015 and it charts the history of the Internet, the evolving mediascape and the way news and newspapers were affected by the growth in online news. It coined the word “Googlezon” from a future merger of Google and Amazon to form the Google grid, and speaks of news wars with the [...]
How many blogs are there in Singapore?
As Harro lists all the blogs in Singapore, a question starts to pop up…. “Just How many blogs are there in Singapore?” Currently, we sucked up all the bloggers listed in the various blog directories, and popular blogs, and we’re now moving out to other Singaporean blogs…. Caslon discusses statistics taken in June06 with percentages [...]
Harro Newsletter – Oct 2006
- This month we saw alot of activity on the Internet. – Google buys YouTube for USD1.65b! Notice the little “b”. That makes the difference between shopping and being ludicrous. As a video distribution company, it is non-profitable, has potential copyright infringements issues. So what is Google’s gameplan? Mining Video for profit via advertising, and [...]
