CONGRATULATIONS to all the winners in the 2007 MediaConnect Asia Technology Journalist Awards sponsored by Vignette.

We’ll post the video clips of the awards night as soon as they’re uploaded to iVDO We had a lot of fun during the awards night and throughout the Kickstart Asia 2007 conference itself.

Here’s the list of winners:

Best Business Technology Title — MIS Asia
Best Technology Industry Title — CommsDay ASEAN
Best Personal Technology Title — Straits Times’ Digital Life
Best Technology Website — CNET Asia
Best Technology Blog — The Loose Wire Blog by Jeremy Wagstaff
Best Technology Reviewer — Philip Wong (CNET Asia)
Best Technology Industry Journalist — Erna Mahyuni (PC.com)
Best Business Technology Journalist — Stefan Hammond (Computerworld Hong Kong)
Best Consumer Journalist — John Tanner (Charged)
Best Gaming Journalist — Leung Wai-Leng (Straits Times’ Digital Life)

INQUIRER.net was a finalist in four categories but unfortunately we didn’t bring home any award. But that’s OK — it was an honor to make it to the finals, and we’ll just hope for the best next year

HERE’S a video I took of Gun Suk Ling, VP of Asia Pacific of eEye Digital Security, as she talks about the company’s plans for the region.

It was great to meet Suk Ling, who’s scheduled to visit the Philippines soon. She was one of the speakers at the Kickstart Asia 2007 information technology forum held on July 26 to 27 at the Nirwana Gardens resort in Bintan, Indonesia.

More updates on eEye soon

BINTAN, Indonesia–Here’s a video I took of Mark Trudinger, CEO of Kindernet Pte Ltd, talking about the dangers posed to children by the pervasiveness of social networks and other Web 2.0 applications.

And here’s an excerpt from my story that came out in INQUIRER.net Infotech:

BINTAN, Indonesia–Social networking and other Web 2.0 applications may have made the Internet more exciting and interactive to people, but they pose new dangers to children.

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BINTAN, Indonesia–Here’s a video I took of Robert Stroud, CA senior vice president of strategic alliances, talking about the changing role of the chief information officer and the importance of enterprise IT management at the Kickstart Asia 2007 IT forum on July 26.

BINTAN, Indonesia–”LIVECASTING is to TV what blogging was to journalism.”

This was declared by Steve Ng, founder of The Digital Movement, in his presentation for the Web 2.0 session of Kickstart Asia 2007.

Ng pointed out that livecasting is revolutionizing broadcasting by allowing ordinary people to become their own TV networks. In particular, Ng cited Ustream.tv.

“Ustream.tv allows people to livecast events using just a webcam,” Ng said. [Read the rest of this entry »]