Sriram Krishnan™ Live

There are countless of Google acquisition rumors floating on the net. Sirius, XM Satellite Radio, Napster, Monster etc etc. Well not all of them makes any sense. So if you’re free and upto the “challenge”, go create a rumor yourself.

Sources close to Google said (name of day) that the company is in talks to buy (company) for $(number) billion. A deal would give the online advertising leader a strong position in (industry). Sources said discussions were still in (adjective) stages and that talks could (verb.) Although Google has made several acquisitions lately, analysts said it can still afford more since the company has $12.5 billion in cash and a market value of $177 billion. (Exclamation!)

Thanks to CNN.

[In a series of very, very unfortunate events, half my coverage of the event has been deleted. This piece only covers events upto lunch. I might have played around with Wordpress too much and inadvertently saved the incomplete article. Head on over to Bjorn’s blog for his post lunch coverage]

10.50am

Hey folks, Justin, Wilson and I just arrived at the XMediaLab 2007. We were erm, slightly, late so we kindda missed the first three lecturers. My apologies for the future grammar and spelling mistakes. I will be typing as fast as I can while capturing the essence of the content.Justin is currently all over the place taking pictures. We just walked into the presentation by Geoff Lillemon and Anita Fontain, artists and art directors specializing in new and interactive media. Their were showing a couple of cool video games they were working on.

Speaker 1: Isaac Kerlow, Dean of Art, Design and Media, NTU. Check more here
Speaker 2: Suhjung Hur, Korea’s most influential “digital media arts” power brokers. Check more here.
Speaker 3: Geoff and Anita just finished their presentation. Check more here.

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I will be attending this event from tomorrow onwards at NTU’s School of Art, Design and Media. The day will be broken down into four sessions, Media Arts, R&D, New Media, New Geographies and Creative Ideas, Business Plans.

I have arranged for Johan Stael Von Holstein, who will be in Singapore during this period, to speak on the second day of this event at the labs.

Singapore is one of the five stops of this global media event. Others are Mumbai, Melbourne, London and Beijing.

I will be bringing my laptop to cover this event live and also hoping to nail a couple of online interviews. Stay tuned for the live blogging in the next couple of days. Special thanks to Bjorn for helping me hook up with the organisers.

I am linking you to Ko Htike’s blog where he narrates the current situation in Yangdon (and Burma) as they happen. He has a network of around 10 or so (underground) friends who are supplying him with information such as pictures, videos and so on.

Let’s hope that this situation ends peacefully.

[Burma has a less than 1% internet penetration rate]
[Update: You can read more here]

Yes you heard it right. Stanford has announced that there would be a class focusing on creating facebook apps. Awesome stuff! You can check out the class facebook group here. Why don’t we have stuff like this here at NUS? To find out more, I have emailed the Dean of School of Computing regarding this and will keep you guys updated on this matter.

Amazon launched their much anticipated online music store Amazon MP3.  The name doesn’t impress but what impresses the most is the fact that the songs would be DRM-free. So does this mean that we’re allowed to download/copy/transfer the songs to multiple computers, burn, rip, cut, paste etc? Well yes to a certain extent. The good thing is that most big label players have signed up. The bad news is that only selected segments of their catalog will be up for purchase.

As for me, well I don’t care. I don’t download nor buy my music (online) anymore. I have my Spotify and it’s more than enough. A perfect world for me would be where one will have unlimited access to a wide variety of music for free, with some third party footing the bills