Tag: John Lim

Life Online Show 16: Naughty things

I was invited as a guest to speak at the Life Online Show podcast #16 (also known LOLShow a Malaysian podcast on social media and all things on the web) specifically on the amendment to the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984 (PPPA). If you recall, the Government recently announced that it has plans to expand the ambit of the PPPA to cover online newspaper. This means anyone running an online news portal would need to register themselves under the PPPA failing which they will run foul of the PPPA. This would also mean that the life or death of the online news portal would depend on the Government. The online news portals’ impartiality may be affected by this.

Other than PPPA, the following topics were discussed with host John Lim, David Wang from theclickstarter.com, David Lian from Text100, journalist Niki Cheong:

1) Groupon coming into Malaysia by acquiring GroupsMore.com

2) Google establishing a bigger foothold in Malaysia with an office in KLCC.

3) The Malaysian Prime Minister has sent citizens Chinese New Year greetings, but how did he get their e-mail addresses in the first place?

The Digital Edge 25: The #yorais mob

I was invited as one of the panelists for the Edge’s the Digital Edge podcast episode 25. Many thanks to ShaolinTiger for the referral. You can check out the podcast page at http://www.theedgemalaysia.com/highlights/158535-the-digital-edge-25-the-yorais-mob.html.

The podcast recording was done in a small meeting room of Text100 at Northpoint Mid Valley. The recording was done through John’s (of the Edge) microphone plugged to his laptop. The podcast recording session lasted around an hour – although it felt quite long.

John Lim, Grace Chin, David Lian and Foong Cheng Leong discuss:

1. Mark Zuckerberg says that the age of privacy is over – so can Malaysians expect our status updates and Twitter feeds to be private?

2. Minister for Information, Communications, Culture and Arts Datuk Seri Rais Yatim says that Malaysians should not be too immersed in social networking sites, leading the Twitterverse to respond with #yorais

3. An upcoming proposed amendment to Malaysia’s copyright act looks to seek more control over digital content. Can we expect a day when new business models like this to come up in our countr

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