Did anybody see the article in the Bangkok Post about Thai tech scene winners and loser’s for 2009? Most of it wasn’t very interesting to me. But two things were.
One of them was that Blackberry is a big winner. Thanks to some slick advertising it has become the new cool phone for all the cool girls in Bangkok. The article didn’t say which model. I wonder if it is the Blackberry Storm – that is a very cool phone.
The other interesting (to me) thing was the big move from Hi5 to Facebook. The article says that all the girls discovered the fun social games on Facebook so they switched and of course all the boys followed. There have been so many Hi5 photos of young hotties circulated on the forums in the past. I guess they will all be from Facebook in the future.
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December 31st, 2009 at 2:44 am
Tech scene? this from a country who’s citizens still get electrocuted in the shower from the faulty wiring on their electric hot water heaters? and their big “Tech” break thru is “cell phones and social networks” wow… I don’t know what to say…
December 31st, 2009 at 8:52 am
Tech scene from a consumer point of view. There’s no hardware tech breakthroughs in Thailand.
December 31st, 2009 at 9:42 am
Speaking of tech scene – did you change the page style? Layout and fonts seems slightly different. A bit cleaner, more white space. Or maybe I’m just that much more senile…
Happy New Year, Ms. AS. Does Thailand celebrate only lunar New Year?
December 31st, 2009 at 12:28 pm
I haven’t changed anything recently.
Yes, we celebrate two new years, the one tomorrow and the one in April which is really big for us.
January 1st, 2010 at 9:24 am
Happy New Year, AS…
January 1st, 2010 at 10:16 am
Happy New Year to you, too!
January 2nd, 2010 at 5:08 am
William,
Happy New Year.
I guess you are talking about the unfortunate news of a couple days ago regarding a young man in the shower with hot wires.
I have a new policy of “I no take shower, you take shower first”.
SH,
Ditto on the tech thing. I want to see how the reverse engineering on things from Japan and China and with Thailand playing # 3 will work out with International law. I think there should be a fall guy. What do you think?
During this process I hope Thailand will overcome the BKK airport problem of extorting tourists upon entering a Duty Free Store in the airport.
Is this scheme in any way an embarrassment for your government?
January 2nd, 2010 at 5:31 am
Sweetheart,
I read my words and I find myself a bit callus. I have great sympathy to any family that loses a child.
Unfortunate was not a good word and I can’t find any word that can dignify the family’s lose.
I was crudely jabbing at William. I hope you both understand.
Or, you can blame William for making me do it.
January 2nd, 2010 at 8:43 am
About scamming tourists as an embarrassment to the government, I think the answer is no. They are hardly aware of it. They don’t get their news from BBC or other places where that kind of thing is frequently covered. The only time it comes to their attention is if there is a really big story that all the news outlets carry or if they start to suffer directly for some reason. Otherwise it is not even “on their radar”.