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Singapore blogger meetup June 21st

May 23rd, 2007 | Category: Events

I’m heading to Singapore for the IX 2007 Conference on Convergence, Collaboration, and Creativity

Technology pundits love to communicate, both online and in person, I propose a casually dinner (where everyone pays their own way) on June 21st. If you’re a blogger in Singapore and want to come out and connect, please join us, you can leave a comment below saying you’re going to attend.

I hope James Seng can make it, he’s got some interesting thoughts on why Singapore is not ready for Web 2.0.

Details:

Location: Suanthai Thai Restaurant
103 Killiney Road
When: June 21st, 6pm
Who’s coming: I’m hopin Allan, Brian, and James to start with. I know Michael Arrington will be there at the conference, I hope he can attend.

If you’re going to attend, please leave a comment below!

MAJOR UPDATE: June 5th, This event has blossomed into something larger, more details coming soon. The good news? Dinner will be paid for.

18 Comments so far

  1. Benjamin Koe May 23rd, 2007 8:57 pm

    Hi Jeremiah. I’d love to meet with you and whoever else would be there. FYI, bloggers in Singapore are meeting up tonight (http://thedigitalmovement.wikispaces.com/EVENT+BLOGOUT)

  2. coleman yee May 23rd, 2007 10:19 pm

    Sounds good. I’ll be there!

    p.s. I’ve contacted James about this already.

  3. Lucian May 23rd, 2007 11:07 pm

    Hi Jeremiah, would love to meet up with you. Will be there.

  4. jeremiah_owyang May 24th, 2007 7:34 am

    This is great everyone, please help spread the word

  5. Damon Billian May 25th, 2007 9:43 pm

    Hi Jeremiah,

    As you know, I am in SE Asia. Drop me a line to see if I can make it down;-)

  6. vantan May 26th, 2007 3:52 am

    Hi Jeremiah, I met you at the SXSW web awards this year. Glad you’re coming to Singapore. See you and the others for dinner.

  7. jeremiah_owyang May 26th, 2007 5:51 am

    DAMON, please make it.

    Vantan, hope to see you again.

  8. Wayne May 30th, 2007 12:59 am

    Hi Jeremiah,

    I’m Wayne from The Digital Movement and we’re the ones who organised BlogOut.(http://www.thedigitalmovement.org/blog/2007/05/26/thanks-for-being-there-for-blogout/)

    We will be running the iX Academic Forum which you will be speaking at and I can’t wait to meet up with you! If you need any coordination from our side for your gathering, please feel free to drop me a mail.

    Will be communicating with you via email soon!

    Wayne

  9. James Seng May 30th, 2007 5:43 am

    Sorry for not leaving the notes earlier. Yes, I will be there :-)

  10. jeremiah_owyang May 30th, 2007 7:12 am

    Excellent!

    Thanks Wayne, I hope this restaurant can handle it, if not, we’ll find another.

    Oh yeah, count me down for two, my wife is attending.

  11. Estee June 2nd, 2007 2:41 am

    Hello Jeremiah… Estee from The Digital Movement. As wayne said we’re organised BlogOut on the 24th June. We would love to be there!!! :)

    See you at iX as well!

  12. Estee June 2nd, 2007 2:43 am

    Also, TDM would love to help you out with this event so holler if you need help!

  13. jeremiah_owyang June 2nd, 2007 8:46 am

    Estee thanks for this, Blogout looks interesting

    I’d be great if you could get them all to come out to the dinner.

  14. Bill Claxton June 2nd, 2007 9:01 pm

    I will be there, and will alert other iX conference speakers and local bloggers to join. Thank you Jeremiah, for organising this!

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  16. smesg June 13th, 2007 6:01 am

    Well if everyone is going then i might as well make my way there. i usually get bored very quickly at conferences!

  17. jeremiah_owyang June 13th, 2007 6:12 am

    we welcome you smesg!

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