Digital Story Tellers

McDonald’s is one of the major sponsors for the Olympics. It launched a game called The Lost Ring in March 2008 to coincide with the launch of the Olympics. This game weaves together players from 7 different languages, to participate in finding clues with the help of the audience.

Next 50 Influential Women Bloggers

Don’t we want to know?
Check this out

Virtual World Investments

Andrew Peters spoke at ad:tech recently about virtual worlds. Here are some figures on how much money is going into Virtual World, figures as recently as Q1, 2008. Is the world moving on from Facebook?
First Quarter 2008

9You (Virtual World/Casual Games) - $100 million by Temasek Holdings
Dizzywood (Youth World) - $1 million  by Shelby Bonnie, Charles […]

Andrew Peters @ Ad:tech

A Harro principal, Mr. Andrew Peters recently spoke at Ad:tech. The subject was about virtual worlds and in particular, the  Twinity virtual world. Even after the slight setback at SecondLife, investments into virtual worlds continue to climb, and the eventuality of Virtual World becoming mainstream media is becoming a reality.
So what should you be looking […]

It’s going to get Noisy

Recent rulings at ICANN in Paris is opening up a host of 1st level domain names like never before. .blog .web .love .hate .sex .xxx and more. If you thought it’s noisy out there on the internet, its going to get noisier soon.

Alpha joins the Harro team

Alpha starts interning at Harro today. What are we putting her through? Some of the things she’ll be involved in are wiki editing, blog editing, widgets experimentation, media analysis, and the occasional report writing.
Not enough?  Social Network immersion, Virtual Worlds, Twitter, Bebo, YouTube, and what have you….
Still Not enough?  New Media Innovation and Future Trends.
So […]

SIA “bans” Blogging

SIA has unveiled a portion of its employee guidelines with regards to blogging and internet usage. It’s statement is that it will “take action” against employees who violate this.
A spokesman for SIA said “Singapore Airlines requires its employees to not post comments about work related issues on their personal blogs.”
“The posting of images of the […]

The State of Singapore Blogosphere

We conducted a recent review of blogs in Singapore. Our sample was a list of 1397 that our crawler matched against our database. So how has Singapore fared?We’re still very active bloggers with the 83% of bloggers posting at least one every six months. 206 bloggers quit. 32 bloggers moved.So we have a 14% drop […]

Xiaxue has a point!

Social Media continues to be on a upward trend with people making their opinions and demands known. The recent XiaXue expose of the iPhone is an example of how a bloggers’ opinion gets noticed. No doubt, Xiaxue is a loud Singapore personality, but by making her opinions known in a recent videocast, she has gotten […]

M’sia PM says ‘big mistake’ to ignore cyber-campaign

Although there maybe deeper under-lying factors resulting in Barisan Nasional worst-ever results in the March 8 polls, Malaysia’s premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said his ‘biggest mistake’ in the disastrous 2008 elections was to ignore cyber-campaigning resulting in five states and a third of parliamentary seats in opposition hands.
The opposition waged an enormously successful online campaign […]