This week, the Lollers rant about Facebook’s recent moves to pull back features like Facebook Deals, Places and the Ticker, and rave about Steve Jobs’s legacy with Apple. (And we drink the Kool-Aid later.)
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This week’s show talks about the riots in England, Big Brother monitoring on Social Networks, readers paying for the New York Times, and Groupon’s precarious position.
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John Lim, Niki Cheong and David Wang get together to talk more on Google Plus, The Malaysian government censoring The Economist, and more.
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This week’s discussion has John Lim, David Wang and David Lian discuss:
1) MySpace being sold for USD35 million to Specific Media
2) Google + and what it means to the Facebook Generation.
3) The social media coverage during the Kuala Lumpur Bersih rally.
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On this week’s show, the full crew is back online with several topics to discuss, including:
1) LulzSec, the hacktivist group that brought down corporations like Sony, aol, and others, announced that they’re taking a break from their hacking activities.
2) The recent attacks on Malaysian government websites by Anonymous, another group of hacktivists, following the country’s decision to block access to certain file-hosting sites.
3) Olympians would be allowed to use social media in 2012
4) Facebook Credits being available to Malaysians via UMobile top ups.
5) Social Media campaigns that use contests to gain more followers — what’s the point?
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This week, the regular and full cast of the Life Online Show is joined by Gareth Davies (aka Shaolin Tiger), a Malaysian-based blogger and Ethical Hacker to talk about the implications and methods of the MCMC directive to block 10 file-hosting sites.
We discuss:
1) The reason why these 10 sites were blocked, how they’re being blocked, and how to skirt your way around them.
2) The New York Times Paywall is working — in a bizarre way: by increasing the number of print subscriptions.
3) YouTube adopting and promoting Creative Commons content.
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This week’s show features John Lim, Niki Cheong and David Wang who discuss:
1) How social activist Fahmi Fadzil was forced to Tweet 100 times to apologise for a defamatory statement against Blu Inc Media, a publisher.
2) Should you feel good about Groupon’s IPO?
3) U.N. Report Declares Internet Access a Human Right
4) Forbidden in France news networks: the words ‘Twitter’ and ‘Facebook’
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Get in your weekly dose of the hottest news in Social Media and the Web with host John Lim, together with The Click Starter’s David Wang and Text 100′s social media lead for the Asia Pacific region David Lian. This week, we discuss:
1) The super-injunction filed by Ryan Giggs’s lawyers after a tweet allegeing that the footballer had an affair spread on Twitter. Could Twitter be facing another legal morass?
2) Amazon sells more Kindle books than physical books on its store — No surprise really. We discuss the ways in which those outside the US can obtain Kindle books.
3) Should under-13 year olds be allowed to join Facebook? Our panelists say yes, and so does Mark Zuckerberg.
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Get in your weekly dose of the hottest news in Social Media and the Web with host John Lim, together with The Click Starter’s David Wang and Star R.Age Editor Niki Cheong. This week, we discuss:
1) The Facebook debacle in which they admit hiring PR firm Burson Marstellar to plant stories that paint Google in a poor light when it comes to managing user privacy.
2) Facebook partners with Web of Trust to prevent users clicking on malicious sites and phishing scams.
3) Google I/O announcements, including Chromebooks and Google Music.
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Join in the weekly show that discusses the latest news around social media and the web in Malaysia and the Asian region. This week, John Lim is joined with the full complement of the LoLShow crew, including Niki Cheong, David Wang and David Lian who together discuss:
1) Apple’s week-long late response to the Location-Gate debacle: Clever disaster management, or is it just plain disastrous?
2) The fascinating tale of how one teenager, Aaron Lee, became the most followed Malaysian on Twitter. Was his position justified though?
3) The social media disconnect witnessed in the latest Singapore Elections, where the results of the election did not match the pro-opposition enthusiasm shown on social media networks like Twitter and Facebook.
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