Let’s Talk about Coffee at Geek Terminal Singapore

“Let’s Talk about Coffee – Geek Terminal Coffee Course The”coffee talk” will demystify you the art and science of making a cup of heart-warming specialty brewed coffee. There are three modules of the coffee courses which promised to enlighten, enrich and enhance coffee-lover who wants to know more about coffee and skills needed as a barista. These three modules will bring you the barista experience that teaches you how to identify all the key variables that go into making coffee, then moves on to combining all of those variables together to make excellent specialty coffee.

Course Leader
Danny Pang has been with the coffee industry since mid 2005. He started his coffee career with a US Multi-National Corporation with 100,000 accounts worldwide. He was instrumental in setting up the coffee business for US Foodservice Company in the region, with mainly 5-star hotels in Singapore, Malaysia and Bangkok. Over the tenure, Danny received his certification as a TAFE certified barista from Coffee Academy. Currently, he is also a certified Barista and an authorised trainer with the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE). He continues to share his passion and knowledge of coffee and barista skills in the above courses conducted at Geek Terminal.

For more information, please email to danny @geekterminal.com

Geek Terminal – Certified Member of Specialty Coffee Association of Europe 2008 & 2009

Geek Terminal on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=32611824413

A World Wide Rave: What the heck is that?

A World Wide Rave: What the heck is that?

A World Wide Rave is when people around the world are talking about you, your company, and your products. Whether you’re located in San Francisco, Dubai, or Singapore, it’s when global communities eagerly link to your stuff on the Web. It’s when online buzz drives buyers to your virtual doorstep. And it’s when tons of fans visit your Web site and your blog because they genuinely want to be there.

Do you have something to RAVE about ?

Head on over to facebook and join the newest Group “Breakfast Rave” and share your stories – you can also pick up David’s book for some ideas !

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=62571422110#/group.php?gid=48558437609

Metaversum and Twinity has been elected a Red Herring 100 Europe Winner 2009

With its 3D online world Twinity.com, Metaversum is one of the 100 most promising private technology companies in Europe

Singapore, April 8, 2009 – Red Herring announced that the company Metaversum has been elected a Red Herring 100 Europe Winner for its 3D online world Twinity. This award is given annually to the top 100 private technology enterprises headquartered in Europe, the Middle East, or Africa.

“We feel honored to receive the Red Herring 100 Europe award. This clearly confirms our vision of a 3D world based on real cities, allowing real people to interact and communicate with each other.” says Metaversum CEO Jochen Hummel. “Twinity is coming alive through our partners, including Cinestar, Berlin.de, Zitty, Be.Berlin, Bigpoint, Sony Pictures, the city of Singapore, Geek Terminal Singapore, The Digital Movement (TDM) and many others. Together with our users, they are filling our vision of a real 3D world with life.”

This nomination as one of the top 100 ground-breaking technology companies proves that, with its innovative concept of real 3D cities inhabited by a real 3D community, Metaversum offers a trend-setting contribution towards the three-dimensional web: Twinity’s realistic 3D replicas of international metropolises enable internet user from all over the world to communicate and interact with each other in a whole new way. It’s a place for real people to share experiences online in a familiar environment.

Red Herring’s list of top private businesses is an important guide to identifying new and innovative technology companies. In their early years, enterprises such as Google, eBay, and Skype were recognized by Red Herring editors as significant concepts, likely to alter the way we live and work. To pick the winners, Red Herring’s editorial staff evaluated several hundred enterprises according to strict standards, including thorough analysis of financial data and subjective criteria such as management quality, implementation of strategies, and effort in the area of research and development. The virtual world of Twinity is currently in the open Beta phase. At http://www.twinity.com, you can register for free and explore the 3D world.

About Red Herring:

Red Herring is a global media enterprise that provides a network for the world’s foremost developers, investors and economic decision makers through various platforms: a market-leading magazine presenting new developments, daily online news from the hi-tech sector, newsletters, and major events for executive managers from all over the world. Red Herring offers insider knowledge regarding the global innovation economy, with a unique outlook on up-and-coming technologies. For further information, please visit www.redherring.com.

About Metaversum and Twinity:

Metaversum develops and operates the 3D online world of Twinity, pursuing the vision of closely connecting the real world with the virtual one. The most exciting metropolises of our planet, starting with Berlin, are being replicated to scale and made virtually accessible. Other cities will follow soon. With their personal avatar, Twinity members get to virtually explore real cities, move into their own 3D homes, communicate, work, and get creative with friends, or simply have fun! Twinity offers enterprises innovative opportunities for market presence in virtual real cities with genuine people. Direct and emotional digital dialog with target groups will be possible through virtual shops, real 3D representation, in-world advertising campaigns, or product placement at virtual events. Twinity is currently in the open Beta phase. Metaversum, founded in July 2006, and financed by leading VCs, has offices in Berlin, Kiev, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.metaversum.com and www.twinity.com.

It’s a Who’s Who that drops by Geek Terminal this week

It is no secret that APLINK is working with the Geek Terminal on Some projects in social media and events however it amazes me each week who can be found droppin in to Singapore’s only cafe, where you dont need to fight over access for power to keep your laptop charged & that also has reliable FREE wifi access.

This week Mobile Monday started the week  with their Peer Awards and an A list of judges graced the networking event….

Nokia – Kenny Mathers, Head Forum Nokia (APAC), 

Yahoo! – Matthias Kunze, MD & GM

MMA – Rohit Dadwal, MD Asia-Pacific

MEF – Joerg Krahnert, MEF Asia/Netbiscuits

Microsoft – Chris Chandler, Head of Mobile, Online Services Division

RIM – Gregory Wade, Regional Vice-President

CocoaHeads Singapore – Eric Dunivant, Founder

Startups – who where at the event

Next Gen LBS – Human Network Labs

GenTalk – Intregen

Mobile Cloud Service – LMobility

Location Based Social Networking – myWobile

OrSiSo – Aureliant

Driving Mobile Intelligence – Smoov Technologies

Targeted Advertising – InCent Media

Celcius V5 – Mobile Distillery

Mobile GeoCast – Nano Equipment

Stickkey – Fast Innovations Asia

Mobile Commerce Solution – Venture Manufacturing

WaveSecure – tenCube

winners on the night were OrSiSo & WaveSecure – congrats !!

My mate JC from eyeka was there plus some media -also the new RICE PR agency led by Sonya made an entrance with some great looking business cards 🙂

Aaron from Brandtology and I met over coffee and our upcoming Breakfast Rave event

Yesterday, i meet up with 5 awesome IBM people 3 were from Canada and Hannah from the UK and Peng Han Singpore – a nice Virtual chat, then 2 very cool people dropped by who  i will be working with on a secret project…

Did i mention I ran into Illke who was busy with her clients…

also…the lovely estelle from the casino royale elegantly perched sipping coffee over her Sony Laptop….

Today,  Jason Puon from Significant Ranking a very cool Malaysian SEO company has just dropped by from KL to meet with me 🙂

who else will drop by – by weeks end – maybe YOU

Social Media: The Pied Piper Effect

Is Mark Zuckerberg the Pied Piper of today with facebook as his instrument and not a Pipe… but unlike the Pied Piper who eventually seeked revenge for non payment, Mark Zuckerberg will continue to offer his followers more and more rewards and experiences from his social media platform – yet one must muse how many peoples efforts would be lost without a clear and ongoing strategy to monetize facebook.

Another Pied Piper in social media is David Meerman Scott, his recently released book World Wide Rave is yet another example of David playing his instrument, in this case his knowledge of Communications to engage a global following based on respect and a desire to seek knowledge.

On a different level of desire, Singapore’s own Andrew Chow of Romancing Singapore, who operates a social network for Singles, i recently observed him in action at the Geek Terminal where his relationship skills (his instrument) were most useful to his online followers who for the first time met for real their possible life time partners.

And so, for social media to work, does it need Pied Pipers & are people like Mark Zuckerberg, David Meerman Scott & Andrew Chow all legends of social media in their own right ? Are you a Pied Piper ? Here’s your invitation to start a following, add your ideas in the comments.

The Geeks Guide to World Domination – itsReal

Ponder if you will: yesterday’s geek was defined by a dysfunctionally high IQ, a Dungeons & Dragons character of double-digit level, and a perpetual wedgie; today’s geek still kicks ass at Scrabble and designs iPhone apps in her spare time, but here’s the thing—today this stuff is cool. We all want to be the geek with 500+ Facebook friends. We all want to be/date/snog Violet Blue. Geek is the new chic, and even the most socially well-balanced citizens want to join the club.

But how, dammit, how!

The GEEKS’ GUIDE TO WORLD DOMINATION: Be Afraid, Beautiful People, that’s how. This must-have guide to empowering your inner geek is comprised of 314.15 usable secrets, allowing you to know what your condescending IT guy knows and thus achieve geek nirvana.

via Garth Sundem’s Official Website · Sorry, beautiful people. These days, from government to business to technology to Hollywood, geeks rule the world..

Singapore’s Premier Business Lounge – Geek Terminal

Geek Terminal is Singapore’s one-stop Premier Business Lounge which empowers business or working professionals to compete and succeed in the New Economy through innovative technology infrastructure and full suite of business services. Geek Terminal links and like-minded professionals to connect to new business avenues.

Built specifically for business travellers, mobile executives, corporate professionals and entrepreneurs looking for a place to meet, socialize, work on their laptops and have a great cup of coffee and food – with full access to state-of-the-art business facilities all within reach e.g. private meeting rooms, video and tele-conferencing, business centre services, with free high-speed wireless internet access and power point at every seat to charge your gadgets.

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The Second Life Hype Has Fizzled—Is Twitter Next? – Forbes.com

Twitter is the Media rage at the moment even in Singapore – so what awaits twitter the company and its users ?

So what does this have to do with Twitter?

Twitter’s hype has reached a fever pitch. Celebrities including Britney Spears and Shaquille O’Neal Tweet regularly, and with stories on CNN, in the WSJ and the NYT, among others, it’s garnering about half as much news coverage as Facebook, with barely a tenth of Facebook’s traffic (via VentureBeat).

Flush with $35 million in new funding (and still no business model yet), Twitter could be headed for an incredible backlash. As Rob Hoff, the Business Week editor who penned the Second Life cover story, told Glaser: “This kind of cycle is endemic to journalism, for better or worse: Build ‘em up, tear ‘em down.”

via The Second Life Hype Has Fizzled—Is Twitter Next? – Forbes.com.

Need Free Internet in Singapore with Power – Singapore’s Premier Business Lounge – Geek Terminal

Geek Terminal is Singapore’s one-stop Premier Business Lounge which empowers business or working professionals to compete and succeed in the New Economy through innovative technology infrastructure and full suite of business services. Geek Terminal links and like-minded professionals to connect to new business avenues.

Built specifically for business travellers, mobile executives, corporate professionals and entrepreneurs looking for a place to meet, socialize, work on their laptops and have a great cup of coffee and food – with full access to state-of-the-art business facilities all within reach e.g. private meeting rooms, video and tele-conferencing, business centre services, with free high-speed wireless internet access and power point at every seat to charge your gadgets.

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Dan Poynter Breakfast Talk @ Geek Terminal

Have you ever thought of writing just a small book on your profile, to promote and brand yourself?

Many of the great speakers and trainers have done it.

Robert Kiyosaki – Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
Anthony Robbins – Awaken the Giant Within.
Dale Carnegie – How to Win Friends and Influence People.
Napoleon Hill – Think and Grow Rich.
Adam Khoo – I’m Gifted So Are You..

A book, whether it is about fiction, or your family history or roots, or about yourself and your expertise, can be a very strong promotion communication tool for people to get to know you even, before they do any business with you.

For more info: http://tinyurl.com/d38tfu

How Many Friends Can You Really Have on Facebook? – ReadWriteWeb

I must admit – APLINK blushed on his recent birthday at the amount of  Birthday Wishes he got via Facebook friends – i did know most but some ????

According to Cameron Marlow, Facebook’s “in-house sociologist,” that number is four if you are male and six if you are female. As the Economist reports this morning, Marlow’s research indicates that the average Facebook user has a network of about 120 friends, but only has two-way conversations with a very small subset of these ‘friends.’ Interestingly, even for those users who have a far larger number of friends (500+), those numbers barely grow (ten for men and sixteen for women).

via How Many Friends Can You Really Have on Facebook? – ReadWriteWeb.

Mark Zuckerberg 24 on the cover of FORTUNE – itsReal

How would you monetize Facebook and at the same time keep membership growing and keep existing members happy about what you want to implement ?

Read on…

Pick up March’s copy of Fortune Magazine and you will see Mark Zuckerberg Founder & CEO of FACEBOOK…

Magazine’s scream at you with images of entertainers & pop stars, get away holiday’s and gourmet food in the hope that you will pick them up and head to the cash register, however Mark is neither BUT the Geek in me immediately grabbed my copy and like a seeker of true knowlegde i dashed to the 7/11 cash register to purchase.

How many other “Geek Styled” humans did the same as me?

Mark sitting pretty on 175 million facebook members,has to be one of the Internet ‘s “miracles” so many others have dreamed of creating the holy grail but is the reality different in that Internet Holy Grails come with FAME but not Fortune… the article suggest at one point that facebook pulled in an estimated $280 million in revenue but an un-named source (wink) close to the company said it didn’t break even – ouch when on paper facebook is valued at $15 billion or is it $3.7 billion.

Mark’s initial idea (after his mashface) was to create the worlds largest digital phone book, today his aspirations are that facebook will become the phone itself without the creepy avatars,  I assume he is taking a dig at Second Life and their sometimes creepy avatars 🙂 BTW Twinity avatars are real…

The article delves into monetization of facebook and no one, even its part owner Microsoft, is hasty to complain about anything it seems & after all Microsoft is implementing facebook styled features in its new operating system OS 7.

Now if you are a beginner with facebook there is a full page profile tour for you to get the hang of things and if your’re trying to encourage your granny to get into facebook – just tell her the fastest growing demographic are woman aged 55 and over – stats reveal a jump of 175% since September 2008.

I flaunted the cover of fortune magazine as I walked back into the Geek Terminal with immediate exclamations from the females of how could I get them introduced to him, whilst the male fraternity asked if Mark was my son or was that me on the front cover, comments found frequently in facebook itself, random zitty, commonplace content & immeasurable babble all of which obviously we humans whether GEEKS or not need an outlet to express ourselves no matter our age or sex.

Congrats MARK for your achievements to date – keep building.