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Giving away your content free doesn’t mean you can’t make a living as a writer, musician or artist.
Just ask Nine Inch Nails. Their Ghosts I-IV album, which was released free under the Creative Commons license, was rated the bestselling Amazon mp3 Album of 2008.
Take a moment to think about the significance: NIN’s [...]

A throng of Santas running down the usually sleepy streets of costal Paignton in Devon, England.
Overcompensating Christmas trees, snow in the the heart of the desert and theme park living in Dubai.
All these and more at fortylove.tv, a travelogue of roads less trodden by two friends criss-crossing continents. At fortylove.tv, two globe-trotting babes [...]

by Kevin Lim (theory.isthereason.com), for creativecommonssingapore.wordpress.com
We’ve moved Techgoondu’s content to the Creative Commons 3.0 License (Singapore).
This basically means that as long as you attribute to the source (i.e.Techgoondu), feel free to copy and mash-up any of the content here as you see fit. You can see this license on our front page on the right-hand [...]

It is no surprise really, for those of us not asleep at the wheel, that newspapers are under major threat.
According to this insightful December 9th 2008 press release by market research firm ZenithOptimedia, ad spend on the Internet is scheduled to rise from 10.3% in 2008 to 15.6% in 2011.
Now, if there is an [...]

If you live in Singapore and you haven’t heard of or tried Gothere, do yourself a favour and take a look. It’s such a useful resource that I have the URL bookmarked in my brain.
I’ll flat out admit it: I’m a huge fan and user.
Of all the various map, location and road routing sites for [...]

“The finish line
is just around the bend
I’ll pause this game
so our love will never end…”

An “emo” love song about the red plumber, his perpetually kidnapped princess, and go-karts, this destined-to-be-classic YouTube video has racked up more than 1.5 million views since it’s release last month. I got this through viral word-of-mouth — a friend who [...]

The idea: you spot a pair of pink hello kitty slippers in a boutique mall in Japan’s trendy Shinjuku shopping district to die for, and you want to let all your friends know. You whip out your phone, snap it, and upload it where all your friends can goggle over your latest purchase.
Except that [...]

Yebber is a Singapore-based website that aggregates reviews by end users and provides a mechanism for users to search for them.
So far, pretty standard. The catch? It pays you to have an opinion.
How does it work? You create an account, hammer out a review, and it pays you Yebber dollars, which can be exchanged for [...]

I often hear laments from my friends about the dead tech innovation scene in Singapore.
“There is nothing new in tech coming out of Singapore”, they cry. Singaporeans in IT are nothing but glorified tech sales and marketeers for big name MNCs who have set up shop in this little dot that we call home. Or, [...]

Social media platforms have disruptively changed the environment in which big media works. It is now possible for anybody to reach out to millions, at very low-cost, on the web. We here at Techgoondu, are doing just that in this tech blog.
But the process of gathering information – arguably the core of journalism – is [...]