ShoZu's one-stop social networking platform bags gold award

StarHub revenue partner ShoZu has bagged the top prize in a technology consultancy's Future Mobile Awards for a programme that enables mobile phone users to connect to multiple social networking websites at one go.

Users of the programme, also named ShoZu, are able to access more than 50 social networking sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Flickr with a single platform and can use it to upload pictures, videos and comments. The programme comes embedded in Motorola and Samsung handsets.

According to Juniper Research, the consultancy that gave out the awards, ShoZu had taken top spot in its mobile web 2.0 category because of its innovative concept, ease of use, pricing, customer growth, commmercial deployment and revenue generation.

"The average user is said to generate 20 network 'events' (ie content uploads or downloads) a month, with heavy users generating in excess of 100 events per month," said Juniper Research's panel judge and analyst Ian Chard. "This success demonstrates what can be achieved if users have the right tools available."

Formula One boss Max Moseley's court win against the News of the World, which broke the story of his so-called "Nazi orgy" - in which he was a whip-wielding, German-speaking participant - is not so much a stinging blow struck against the excesses of the gutter press, but also a small stroke for personal freedom.

The News of the World's defence of its indictment of Moseley was "public interest": that the public deserved to know and pass judgement on the bedroom antics of one of motor sport's leading lights. This the public obligingly did, calling for Moseley's resignation despite that fact that his penchant for simulated lice-checks and controversial armbands had nothing to do with his job and only circumstantial links to his family curse, it's sometime flirtation with the Third Reich.

Middle England may have paid somewhat less attention to the spanking's sheer civility. After the festivities of flagellation, Moseley and the five women who played a part in the whole camp escapade sat down to cups of tea warmed by the 25,000pound price tag on their services. It would all have remained a capitalist transaction between consenting adults if one of the women, spy-thrillingly named Woman E, had not recorded the session under dubious terms. Most tellingly, this same woman failed to testify in Moseley's lawsuit against the paper.

The failure of the News of the World's public interest defence, thus, puts paid to the idea that the public was served in this expose of Moseley's bedroom proclivities. It delinks the motorsports boss' career from his personal sexual inclinations, however exotic; it makes it clear that ill-founded ad hominem allegations of Nazism have nothing to do with how he ran F1. By distinguishing between Moseley's consensual sado-masochism and his public face, the courts have made at least one thing clear: What happens in the bedroom stays in the bedroom. One man's consensual sex act cannot poison the entirely separate sphere of his public life.

Guys,

I'm usng this blog for an Internet media class assignment. I'll probably be messing around with it for a bit.

Do bear with me.

Rachel

Hello everyone; my first visit here for two years!

Looks like Aik, Nyen and I are all going to become Political Science majors in NUS. I got turned off Econs by boring lectures, insufferable tutorials and the prospect of more mathematics creeping up on me.

Hey guys!

Disturbia is Elizabeth's alter ego, who is currently very bored because school's just started and there isn't much to do, or rather there's too much energy involved in overcoming the initial inertia and getting down to reading textbooks on abnormal behaviour. It takes enough energy just waking up and going to school and seeing all the charitable faces in Social Work who are unbelievably generous with their notes and have so many cute questions about how come the world can't be saved.

Good to know that everyone's still around...Elisa's flying to New Zealand tomorrow for a holiday I think. Brave soul, laying her books down during the semester and seeking company in the pastures of sheep.

actually, i'm only here because i noticed that the blog was updated yesterday. wondered who it was.



that's me in philly last november when i visited debbie. i used that for my upenn application when they asked for a picture because i was so pissed off with their questions (tell us which upenn professor you wish to work with and why etc); talk about application suicide.

is everyone clearing leave already? i know lim aik can't be because he enlisted in april but everyone else? i'm not =( i used it all last year. i'm so sad.

Dear Class,

It really took me a grotesquely long time to upload a photo of any sort onto this blog. So we shall have to be content with this one for now. I'm in the midst of clearing leave before I leave the deplorable child-grabbing institution I'm in for good, so I shall have more time to update you all on the goings-on in my life. For now I'm giving tuition to keep myself occupied; it's quite bizarre, really. My student (or is there such a word as tutee) is a J1 student at ACS Int'l and he opted to take Geography and History (Papers 1 and 3, mind you) for his As. Within 2 weeks he has encountered difficulties and needs a tutor. (A word of thanks here to CPL Justin Kwek for his recommendation.) So off I go to his house armed with my French Revolution notes, intent on hammering some Liberty, Equality and Brotherhood into his skull.

So I open my file to page 1 and lo and behold, he goes "Actually I'm thinking of switching from History to Lit... do you think you can teach Lit?" (At which point I raise an eyebrow at him) After a lengthy conversation with him regarding the pros and cons of History and Literature, I actually sat down with our friend and went through a good 2 hours of Julius Caesar, which, to those uninformed, I have not actually studied in my life.

That has to be the most amazing $60 I've ever made in my life.

I shall update more over the festive season.

Cheerios,
Jerry

"You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!"

That's not me, but yes, I'm still alive. Incidentally our renewed activity has revived the archives, so if you have the time go get all nostalgic over Dzhyerry's hilarious posts.

From the Rue Catinat (man, it's been a long time since I've typed that),
Rachel
"This potato has a name."

Oh my gosh! People actually replied and soooo quickly wow!