This weekend onwards. The temperature starting to dip.

Seniors blogger. This was a ‘Wow’ moment for me. Some of them are 90 years old and they are power blogger. Their blog average 1,000 page view a day. Put me to shame….

Sharing their blogging journeys and what have change since they started blogging. One common denominator after they started blogging were bringing their families closer together. That was touching…

Handicap blogger – sharing their thought and blogging journey.

Another session on the third floor, I just stop by and took a pix. Did not stay long enough to listen.

Education sectors and parents talk about social network and blogging.

I left around noon. Maybe the afternoon session was more exciting. I don’t know.

Overall, I was disappointed.

First, The attendance – This is supposed to be Asia events but the audience was less than one hundred on both days. Second, overseas blogger – I did not see name tag prominently display. Example, name, blog, countries their are from. Third, speakers – most of the speakers sat on their chair to give their talks. To me, it’s so damn not professional. Public speaking is about standing in front of the audience, have hand motion, walking around and shares your thought. A boss sit and dictate. That was what I felt. The speakers were dictating his/her intent to me. NOT Sharing.

Well, enough of my rambling. Maybe I am the only one that was disappointed. Everyone seems to have a good time. I don’t know.

Some slides below for your enjoyment.

I went to check out the blogfest asia day 1. Is there a ‘WOW’ excitement? Well… not for me. Maybe for others.

Global Voices Online talk about their stuff.

This one. The most talked about Pc. Cheapest or something. I got a look up close.

Not crowded at all. Maybe its was too early.

Godaddy.com t-shirt. They are one of the sponsor.

Tweeting…

Blogfest t-shirt.

Dr. Winnie Tang(left) and Edmon Chung, CEO, DotAsia(right). I don’t know the girl in the middle. If someone know her name, I will tag her name.

Charles Mok introducing the second speaker Charlesc.

Charlesc on MA19 — Case study of Ma Ying Jeou 2008 Online Campaign.

I left after the introduction of the second speaker. The talk is not for me. Most of the speakers are from NGO or social political blogger. Out of my league.

Moreover, the talk lasted for almost an hour on the first talk and the second talk probably will last about that time. Half an hour is ok. Anything more than that is too much for me.

At this moment, my benchmark is Punch Party talk. 7 minutes on the talk. You can score a touch down, have sex, complete a 1 mile run, 3 1/2 round of heavy weight boxing and etc. A lot can be done in 7 minutes.

Blogfest. What the word mean? Is it blogger festival in full? What does festival mean? Do I feel that it’s a blogger festival?

Let see what day 2 brings.

Check out the sponsors. As Punch Party progresses, I can see the sponsors are getting better and better. Some brand name are getting into the action. Air New Zealand sponsored 2 HKG-NZ tickets. It was a ‘WOW’ for me. Hat off to the organizer.

Waiting in line to get in.

The crowd. Huge Venue. At first look, the venue doesn’t look that impressive. But…There is a ‘But’.

The MC for the night.

Now…this is the ‘But’. Once they rolled up the garage door. You can see the stunning background of Star Ferry terminal and the Hong Kong Island. Just awesome.

Took a shot from where we were.

Greenpeace talking about their cause.

Talked about being an air steward for a major airline.

Cupcakes from Skype. Simply beautiful.

Can’t help it. Have to take another pix.

Talk about volunteer works in Mongolia.

Sponsored by Starbucks. If you read my post on PPHK2, the sandwich was Salmon. I made a request for meat and it was answered. Thanks you.

Below are some slide for your enjoyment. Overall, I enjoyed Punch Party 3. Good food and coffee, good speakers and power sponsors. Looking forward for the next Punch Party.

Tonight…I am going to check out Punch Party 3.

The sign…PASM

I liked this one. Beers in an aquarium.

Teen models…

The setup…

I like the Tee.

Ed with the model.

The deck…or can I called it the balcony.

Another model…

They start off with some stats which they gathered. Need to give Kudos to mobileradio.hk team. Doing survey is not an easy task.

This is about how much will an iPhone user spend on Apps Store.

What type of stuff they usually buy at apps store.

The next talk was about how to set up foreign apps store account. I did not know apps store is countries centric. Now, I know.

This talk about an apps that exchange biz card that mobileradio.hk recommend.

Next, comes the break, before the break, they talk about google latitude but I did not take any pix because there was extensive media coverage on what google latitude is all about.

Everyone clamoring to take the picture of the cake.

This the second anniversary of mobileradio.hk. Happy Birthday… Not an easy task to maintain an internet radio at these trying times.

Want to make you iPhone look like this? Made by the DaSillyThink.

I like this one, too..

Took a shot at the atrium of Innocentre.

From the outside, Innocentre at Kowloon Tong.

Lam Suet (林雪). An interview on the song he liked. Check it out.

Report: Android will leapfrog the iPhone by 2012

Thu Oct 8, 2009 10:02AM EDT

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Watch out, iPhone—Android’s nipping at your heels.
Researchers at Gartner (via AppleInsider) are predicting that the global market share for Google’s Android mobile OS could overtake the iPhone’s in a little over two years, with Android poised to leapfrog Apple into the No. 2 spot.

That would leave the iPhone in the No. 3 position—right where it is now, behind BlackBerry and Nokia’s Symbian OS, according to Gartner. The industry researchers believe that by 2012, Research in Motion (the company behind the BlackBerry) will have lost 7 percent of its market share, causing it to slip into fifth place (behind even Windows Mobile). Android, meanwhile, will get a 12.9-percent boost to become the No. 2 smartphone platform in the world, with Symbian still safe in the No. 1 spot (with a dominating, although dwindling, 39 percent of the global market).

Those are just analyst predictions, of course, and two years is an eternity in the wireless world; after all, two years ago today, we were still getting used to the first iPhone.

I don’t know man…the people at Gartner must have know something that we don’t know or maybe there was pressure to churn out some reports to the public to bitch about.

I am not a Iphone or Android user. I am Window Mobile user. To say Android leapfrog Window Mobile would be a more sensible thing to say.

For me, I don’t see Android will leapfrog anyone for now.

Here is Why?

First, two kind of Iphone users. The apple geek (fiercely loyal to apple product) and the trend setter (it’s an IN thing to have an Iphone). These two group of users will carry Iphone a long way.

Second, China has not rolled the Iphone series, yet. Who knows, when it launch, everyone might clamor for Iphone. Places like malaysia, it’s a one month waiting list to subscribe Iphone and these people want to wait for it. I don’t see this happen to Android.

Third, I don’t see any ‘WOW’ factor about Android (maybe I said this to early). Further, I am not getting the developers vibes on wanting to develop apps for Android. Nowadays, everyone want to put their apps on Iphone store.

Would I be even wondering toward the Android world, probably not, I need my Metatrader(forex trading software) to work on Window Mobile. It’s more important than any other stuff.

At this moment, I equates Android to Qtopia. I know….

Anyway…Dream on Android…

You can check out the full article HERE.

I am thinking aloud.

These boxes are for rent. They charge a monthly rental between $450 hkd to $1200 hkd per box depending on the location. If you want it in the store front, the box price is higher.

If you don’t mind positioning you product way inside the store, the rental is much cheaper.

They told me the concept is not new. It’s very popular in Japan and they are adapting in Hong Kong. Well, I guess it does make sense in Hong Kong because the cost of rental is very high here.

If you have some self-design stuff, rather than put it in Yahoo auction, this might be another good avenue to do it.

I took a shot at their banner. You can check their site out at www.mybox.com.hk or another site(competitor) www.megaboxhk.com. There were 2 or 3 stores that doing the same concept. It so happen I came to this one and ask them about the prices.