Seeing a demonstration in Tahrir



Right now we are seeing very elevated tweeting coming from Tahrir, and using twitter and social networks we can confirm that a demonstration is happening there now, though not of the scale of the Spring. Last check Tahrir was at 51 out of 100 on our Clima.Me scale. Comparing this to Paris which was at 62 we can see the intensity of tweeting in Tahrir





Off twitter we got some photos of the protest which you can see here
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الشيخ حازم صلاح ابو اسماعيل أسد المرشحين. علي المنصة #tahrir... on Twitpic

Guinness Arthur's Day.

Current Music : Hangover by Taio Cruz ft Flo Rida


To ARTHUR, people!

Defining the Internet of Things

"The internet of things is a phrase you are going to hear a lot over the next few years, and the clue is in the name as to what it is. It is about connecting objects rather than people.

"According to one estimate, there will be 50 billion things online by 2020, another estimate suggests it will be a trillion - nobody really knows. But lots of people have vested interests in wiring all these things up and charging for the bandwidth to do it."


Managing the Internet of things will require a technology of no thinking agents moving about in space and time. This is very much like the challenge facing physical sciences and the Web 3.0 Lab believes this new kind of web will require a physics of information sciences where time and space are used to calculate relations, interactions and various other outcomes in the new web everywhere.

Using twitter to track Eurogamer Expo 2011 London

Notice the heavy concentration of red dots over the map. These were coming off Earl's Court in London during the Eurogamers 2011 Expo in London.


Drilling down using our Clima.Me framework we were able to see precisely what many people were saying about the conference, from raves about certain games to complaints about long lines.

This kind of technology allows people to not only count attendence of twitter users at certain events, but also to guage in real time what people at specific places or events think the activity. It opens up new ways of doing rapid, agile research that is ground in place and time without having to send field workers to the site.

By the way we could not see any games really going viral among twitter users at the expo. So we might assume that we will be entering a Christmas season without the presence of a much have game. Lets see how it goes.
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Spinderella ft P.I.C@ The Mist, Bangsar.

Current Music : DESIRE VOL.3 by DJ Eva T


SPINDERELLA feat. P.I.C (Partners.In.Crime)

P.I.C aka Partners In Crime are two sirens: Faith and Darling Sabrina whom are dance music lovers and they surely know how to play havoc with your heart not only with their appearances, but also with jaw-dropping combinations of electro-house and dancefloor anthems from their style of music making. They are a lethal combination of fun, fabulous, playfulness and they will make certain you have a friggin’ good time. Take note that P.I.C are here to takeover this holiday eve, for ONE night only (or more to come) and they're on a mission to give you a good workout on the dance floor or (not).


Finally, the long awaited Holiday Eve Special event at The Mist club, Bangsar. Have a wonderful night with Min Yuan, tho 2 of us went together.

Here's a little advise from me:
- ACT cool and IGNORE/REJECT the shit of the dudes who wants to offer you drinks, or whatever fuck when you are alone. DON'T accept it unless you have high tolerance or you "think" they are nice people.
- When you are at the dance floor, don't try to make eye contact with any dudes beside you or do anything that attracts the opposite. You know why? Cause once you did that, they will come and start to talk to you, ask for your phone number, names and wanted to offer you drinks. Annoying like fuck.
- When people trying to hit on you or already had an eye on you, don't fucking look at them if you don't like them, just dance the shit out of you. Cause once you look or them, they think that you are interested on them. DON'T ever do that unless you want to get laid that night or desperate for men.
- LADIES/GIRLS, please don't fucking drink so much when you know you have a low tolerance, don't puke like a bitch inside the club, no one stands the smell of your puke. It's not water ya'know, it's JW that you were drinking, BITCH! Fucking smells when you puke JW.

Lastly, BE SMART whenever you are at the night clubs. BE CAREFUL of your drinks and bags. You know you don't want to ruin your future.

I know some people out there might think I'm a weirdo/freak cause I don't accept drinks from "gentlemen" or trying to be an arrogant bitch who ignore the fuck out of the dudes that wants to talk to me or wanted to dance with me. Well, that's me, am not trying to be an arrogant bitch or weirdo, but to be a SMART bitch. I don't want myself end up in the motel room crying or end up in the police station due to some drugs I took. I PLAY my game when I'm in the club. 

Clubbing plan changed in a very fucking last minute, and was a bummer to us. Supposed 7 of us are going, but end up 2 of us went. smh. Guys, very sorry about the last minute cancel, I sincerely apologize to everyone who wanted to join. And also, I'm sorry that I made up stories to cancel the clubbing plan instead of telling the truth. Due to this incidence, some of them are quite unhappy at me. From now onwards, I will not have clubbing plans anyfuckingmore, this will be the first and the last time of me planing it. No one knows how fucked up I was the whole day when the clubbing plan changed.Sienzz.
Don't ask me what was the reason, cause I also do not know whether that was the real reason.

Anyway, met 2 fucking annoying TARC bastards in the club and another gentleman who looks like TaeYang when he smile 8) OMG! Not only he looks like TaeYang, he graduated from LimKokWing in Lifestyle design, as a Hairstylist and Make-up artist. He can even dance! 8) *will blog more about him on the next post*
These 2 bastards dancing at the dance floor trying to hit on my girl friend. Seriously, I'm not trying to judge them nor I'm good at dancing, but they really suck at dancing. Please improve your dancing skills if you are trying to impress us, fucktards.They asked a lot of stupid questions which made us damn piss off, and then asking for my girl friend's phone number. Annoying much,GTFO la!=.=
Had a really great night with her, at least she get the chance to experience KL's nightlife before going back to Sarawak. Pictures will be up when I see her again.

PEACE OUT.

John Mayer

 "You got this room, for TWO." - John Mayer.

I'm engaged!

I'm engaged!

Okay, now I got your attention! LOL! Well, I'm not really engaged now (but somehow I will 10 years later), nor I'm getting marry next month. It reminds me of the wedding expo@MidValley Exhibition Hall that I just went this evening, with Brian. As you know, I get very happy and excited when I see wedding gowns, I even told my mum that I want to be a wedding gown designer one day, who knows that was 13 years ago. 
At first, Brian doesn't want to go in, but I still dragged him with me. At least, Brian knows how much and how happy am I when it comes to wedding gown, and how I want my wedding ceremony looks like as he's one of my closest friends among the guys (tho sometimes he can be very annoying =.=). And so, the moment when I stepped into the hall, the first thing they asked was:" Hello, getting married? Come and have a look. We'll provide you the best wedding plan, wedding photographers, etc." / "Hello Miss, wow! You look so young, engaged?" / "Hello Miss, looking for wedding photographers?" / "Wow Miss, you look so young, are you getting marry?" Seriously, do I look like I'm getting marry when I carry a NIKE bag instead of PRADA ; Holding my school files which full of college assignments instead of an iPad 2 ; Wearing SPORT SHOES instead of Jimmy Choo heels ; dress up like a ROCKER instead of working suit. (Well, many people asked me why I wear black top and black skinny jeans like a rocker all the time =/ )
Anyway, there was this lady came up to me when I was standing at their booth, looking at those gorgeous, amazingly captured wedding photographs

A    : Hello Miss, wanna have a look at our photographs? We have casual, couple, wedding and  personal   photo albums.
Me : Owh, I see, well, I would like to have a look at the casual and couple photo albums.
A    : Okay, here they are. Are you getting marry next month? You look so young and pretty.
Me : What?! 0.0 NO!! I'm 19, and I'm still studying in a college.
A    : Oh I see, haha. Your boyfriend? *she's pointing at Brian* How long have you two been dating together?
Me : What?! NO! Hahaha, he's my close friends. He's not my boyfriend.
Then that Brian joined the conversation,
Brian : Yea, she is my girlfriend, we are going to get marry next month. My "Lao po" xP
Me : *faint* *Speechless* 
And that lady laughed. x)

Anyhow, managed to get some information from the lady about the package that they are offering. Don't be stupid, it's not wedding package, it's a personal photo shoot package. Still in consideration, cause I'm a broke ass  now. Need to pay-off my exam fees and other fees. I must say that their photographer did a very nice job, manage to capture amazing photos from a different angle. Not many photographers can do that, ya'know.


The SMURFS.

Watched the SMURFS with the bunch right after my Business paper was over. I have to thank them cause they are willing to wait for me tho they finished their exams at 12 noon, and I have my Business test at 1.30 to 3pm. Guys ma, what to do? Must be a gentleman. Rated 7/10 for this movie, it's a stress relieve movie despite the stupid song that my brother kept on singing "Lalalalalala, sing a happy song". FUCK,it's super annoying! Never expect Neil Patrick Harris ( aka the womanizer Barney Stinson in HIMYM) act as the family guy, having a steady relationship and have a soon to be born baby. This is so not him, I still prefer him as BARNEY STINSON. 8) Ever since I watched HIMYM, I'm so into Neil Patrick Harris, because of his nice looking features. 

Neil Patrick Harris.

PEACE OUT.

Venice Japan

Tweets by a Japanese tourist posted while in Venice, and a map of the tweets inthe area of Venice Italy over a friday evening.
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Tweeps in London for a work day


Follow this regular images taken of London over a work day in 2011. Red lights indicate locations of recent tweets.

Mexico City Tweets

Friday Mexico City, tweets with geo-tags for late afternoon time region, created with Clima.Me framework


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London Tweeting


Friday Evening tweeting London 2011
The Web 3.0 Lab is developing methods for tracking mobile internet posts from sites like Twitter, Foursquare and Wikipedia. Here are some visualizations of our work.



Soho miday weekday, London 2011



O2 Center London, tweet locations during Dolly Parton concert 2011
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Twitter's 100,000,000 users

"He said active users, who log on at least once a month, rose 82% this year.

Half of these 100 million log on at least once a day.

Twitter raised $400m (£250m) in venture capital funding this summer."
BBC News - Twitter says it has 100 million active users

The 100 million users, half of which use it on a daily basis combined with the ease of use on mobile phones and smart phones, provides an amazing sample population for social activity.

Our work at the Web 3.0 lab uses geo-tagged twitter data. We try to use twitter densities in space to determine events on the ground. We have used twitter to track Chicago Cub games and Dolly Parton concerts in London to protest in Madrid, Cairo and Bahrain to finding a good place to eat in Istanbul or Amsterdam.

The more people using twitter, the more people with smartphones and the more people willing to post geo-located data means a larger public supply of real time time is emerging for everyone to use.

Privacy issues are a major concern, but we use public information all the time. Fashion is a very key form of public information exchange. You can tell so much about a community from what people are wearing.

Finding Fun: 3 Case Studies in Web 3.0

The Web 3.0 Lab has carried out research in three locations in Europe trying to find ways to use Twitter geo-tagging to find fun places: Istanbul, Amsterdam and London. The challenge was to find the following:
  • Places that were fun,
  • Places that the tour guides often did cover,
  • Places that tourist were looking for and could not find.

In Amsterdam and Istanbul we have identified regions where locals go to eat and have fun. We have found that looking at our heat map of tweets on the cities that these locations become obvious.

In the case of Istanbul it was rather striking, the fun areas outside of the major tourist areas are light up very clearly.

Our research confirms that tourists can use the density of twitter locations to find interesting places to have fun. So go out there and explore.

Tweeting from O2 Dolly Parton concert


Seeing tweeting coming from O2 stadium Dolly Parton concert. Geo-tagged Web 3.0 has amazing potential to track major events. It is possible to drop in at almost any major event and to listen to the open public discourse happening on the ground.
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Predicting continue Bahrain protests


From our analysis of tweeting in Bahrain we anticipate continued protests.



We base this upon a set of observations:
  • Consistently high tweeting in Bahrain, indicating a great deal of chatter during the time of protests.
  • Drill down of these tweets show a great deal of 'discourse' with people mentioning each other and RT each other.
  • Many political avatars and posts active in Bahrain.
  • Willingness of people to post with geo-locations turned on.
  • The content on twitter with hashtags popular with Bahrain protest members like Feb14 and Lulu


 Alfaisal 

 ZoOzii 

 شبكة أوال الإعلامية 

 Bahrain 

 Alla 

 FtoOmi 

 نصر من الله 

 fatima 

 بِـنتْ طـريِفْ 

 شبكة أوال الإعلامية 

 Alfaisal 

 Jassim Mahmood 

 شبكة أوال الإعلامية 

 Salman Shaeboh 

 Bahrain's Fighters ✔ 

 Khamiss 

 Khamiss 

 Khamiss 

 Alfaisal 

 شبكة أوال الإعلامية 

 شبكه منرفزهم 

 Sayed.Hashim.i12 

 FreedomTaste 

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