Pinterest: the answer to the social gap I’ve always been a big fan of Tumblr. I don’t see it as a photo-blogging or sharing platform like the majority of the people on it but I see it as a really simple blogging platform that does the job so well for most casual bloggers. A lot of people may prefer Wordpress or Blogger to it but if you ask them whether or not they’ve ever used all the functions that Wordpress and Blogger offer, I doubt they do. The amount of time spent on fine-tuning them is enough for me to say, fuck that, Tumblr it is, for you. They are just overkill’s. Now if you talk about Twitter, it’s just information overload. I follow most of the people because I want to hear everything they say but for some I just want see what they have to share, not all their thoughts, opinions and rants. You are seeing where this is going right? Introducing Pinterest, a new social platform dedicated to sharing your interests. It resembles a pin board where you can pin links using photo or video as reference. I am always a bit concerned before I am going to “reblog” things I like on Tumblr because I want to keep my blog tidy and full of useful stuff to me and my readers. Not every single thing I want to share without having time to write descriptions or the reasons why. On the other hand, my Twitter account is beyond readable. I tweet in both Thai and English. It’s pretty hard already just to understand half of my tweets yet I tweet so much everything I’d like to share then disappear within hours. Even I myself can’t dig my own Twitter timeline to see what I’ve shared. This is why I find Pinterest a perfect platform that fills the “social sharing” gap here. If you are already a Pinterest user, why don’t you just follow me! I am new to Pinterest too and could use a few friends. If not, have a look at my Pinboard, you may be you’ll learn to like it. The learning curve is a bit steep though. This is not an advertorial, in case you’re wondering.

Pinterest: the answer to the social gap

I’ve always been a big fan of Tumblr. I don’t see it as a photo-blogging or sharing platform like the majority of the people on it but I see it as a really simple blogging platform that does the job so well for most casual bloggers. A lot of people may prefer Wordpress or Blogger to it but if you ask them whether or not they’ve ever used all the functions that Wordpress and Blogger offer, I doubt they do. The amount of time spent on fine-tuning them is enough for me to say, fuck that, Tumblr it is, for you. They are just overkill’s.

Now if you talk about Twitter, it’s just information overload. I follow most of the people because I want to hear everything they say but for some I just want see what they have to share, not all their thoughts, opinions and rants. You are seeing where this is going right?

Introducing Pinterest, a new social platform dedicated to sharing your interests. It resembles a pin board where you can pin links using photo or video as reference. I am always a bit concerned before I am going to “reblog” things I like on Tumblr because I want to keep my blog tidy and full of useful stuff to me and my readers. Not every single thing I want to share without having time to write descriptions or the reasons why.

On the other hand, my Twitter account is beyond readable. I tweet in both Thai and English. It’s pretty hard already just to understand half of my tweets yet I tweet so much everything I’d like to share then disappear within hours. Even I myself can’t dig my own Twitter timeline to see what I’ve shared. This is why I find Pinterest a perfect platform that fills the “social sharing” gap here.

If you are already a Pinterest user, why don’t you just follow me! I am new to Pinterest too and could use a few friends. If not, have a look at my Pinboard, you may be you’ll learn to like it. The learning curve is a bit steep though.

This is not an advertorial, in case you’re wondering.

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2011

Summary of events in 2011 in a very well presented three minute video from Google Zeitgeist. The soundtrack playing in the clip “Sooner or Later” by Mat Kearney.

Zeitgeist is a Google yearly publication summarising its search terms over the year. And this year tops the list are Rebecca Black (*facepalm*), Google+, iPhone 5, Battlefield 3 and not surprisingly Steve Jobs.

2011 will be remembered as a remarkable year for liberation, and for me it has been a year of personal reflection and discovery. Life decisions have been made and postponed:

I’m going back to school in 2012. Fuck yeah :D

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Photo taken from the BMW Xpo’11 at Siam Paragon. First I thought this was supposed to be the new BMW i8 but nay, it really is a concept car, with glass doors and everything. My friend happened to be one of the BMW salesmen there at the expo and he revealed that on a tiny five-day expo like this, they can actually make heaps of money. They sold around 300 cars this year, which isn’t bad given the condition of the economy. It shouldn’t be surprising either given that Bangkok is a city with 10-million plus people living in it. Interestingly, the best selling car this time was the BMW X1. The X1 was designed to target those who are usually attracted by Japanese cars. The pricing is quite clever as well at only 100,000 baht more than a Camry. When I asked about the possibility of them importing BMW i8 to Thailand, you guess it. It’s not going to happen as Thailand isn’t EV friendly at all. Rich Thais, you can go back to your Porsche. The cool looking BMW is never going to come.

Photo taken from the BMW Xpo’11 at Siam Paragon. First I thought this was supposed to be the new BMW i8 but nay, it really is a concept car, with glass doors and everything.

My friend happened to be one of the BMW salesmen there at the expo and he revealed that on a tiny five-day expo like this, they can actually make heaps of money. They sold around 300 cars this year, which isn’t bad given the condition of the economy. It shouldn’t be surprising either given that Bangkok is a city with 10-million plus people living in it.

Interestingly, the best selling car this time was the BMW X1. The X1 was designed to target those who are usually attracted by Japanese cars. The pricing is quite clever as well at only 100,000 baht more than a Camry.

When I asked about the possibility of them importing BMW i8 to Thailand, you guess it. It’s not going to happen as Thailand isn’t EV friendly at all. Rich Thais, you can go back to your Porsche. The cool looking BMW is never going to come.

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