I thought it would be useful to have a collection of links for anyone visiting Singapore. This is by no means, a comprehensive, complete or even the best of links, just the ones I found to be useful.

Uniquely Singapore is an all around site for business visitors and tourists visiting Singapore, the site featurs places to stay and visit, tourist attractions, getting around and a business guide.

Streetdirectory.com is another all around site about living and spending time in Singapore. It features information about public transportation, driving directions, business finder, places to eat and more.

soshiok.com is the main directory for restaurants and food around Singapore. Find the newest, hottest or any other restaurant by cuisine, location etc.

International enterprise Singapore is a governmental site that is aimed to connect you with business resources in Singapore and abroad, with a business advisory, market spotlight and more.

Singapore Expats – though not intended for people only visiting for a short time, it does include restaurant directory, places of interests and lists good places to hang out at night.

If you have any additional resources you would like to share please let me know.

Wallop, A Microsoft-spinoff social network and photo sharing project is launching a semi-public beta. It’s invitation only at the moment, though you can e-mail their team to request an invitation, and it should be fairly easy to get. Invited users will be given five invitations to call in their friends into the service. More invitations will be given to users based on how active they are. The service should leave beta and open to the general public in early 2007.

Their big distinction from the other million and one social networks and experience/resource sharing services is that you can spend money to buy Flash “mods” for your page from their Wallop Modders Network of “Flash Profressionals”. Great, give the same old services, only charge your users to buy GUI improvemnt, who came up with that idea? Don’t they know the social network crowd is not going to pay for a slightly improved (if at all) similar things it gets for free on other social networks. If they think teens are going to spend money on Flash “mods” the same why they do on ringtons and other mobile phone apps, they are gravely mistaken. It’s a fairly safe bet that this is going to sink like a rock.

After much talk, discussions and rumors the Edgeio website/service is launched. To people who are not in the know, Edgeio is a service which dynamically collects and organizes listings published from RSS enabled websites and lists them on the edgeio website. The main goal is to give publishers of all sizes the means to control how their content is published, discovered, and consumed.

The way I see it, the big problem is the overwhelming amount of spam floating around the blogosphere. More than anything this system should be able to deal with splogs effectively.

PixPulse is a new service allowing people to share “live” in-the-moment photos and videos to send directly to their friends who can instantly view and comment. PixPulse works across all mobile carriers and does not require any downloads (no J2ME or flash) . The key goal of PixPulse is to be clean and simple since mobile carriers have made it very hard to share media freely.

With PixPlus you can:

* Send your media to PixPulse and instantly get comments from your friends.
* Connect people taking photos and videos to events and locations.
* Meet new friends with similar interests!

Connect Via Books is a new social network that is meant to connect people through the books they like. Though it sounds like a good idea, it seems like the age of social networks is about to run out. Too many networks with less and less active users make most of them unuseful. The real problem it seems that there is nothing to do there even when they were seemingly active.

In any case, Connect Via Books want to cater the mild to heavy book readers who like to talk about books. So if you would like to discuss the books you read, find people locally who like the same books as you, find people who share your interests, your hobbies or just read the same books, go for it.

Other posts about Social Networks:
* Google acquired Dodgeball social-network
* FriendCircles – Another social network
* Where Yahoo is going? Y! 360 Vs. My Yahoo

digg has a new version 1.5.

Dont know what digg is? This is from the sites FAQ: ” Digg is a technology news website that gives editorial control back to the community…. With digg, users also submit links for review. But rather than allowing an editor to decide which links go on the homepage, the users do…. “

theyrule.net is a website devoted to explore and expose the people who really drive the U.S and most of the world economy and politics. The site’s main feature is a graphical flash representation of the interconnections between board members of fortune 500 companies, the same people who site in government committees.

Conspiracy theory lover or not, you must see it.

Brad Jasper, the founder of Blog Catalog, has launched a new website about weblogs, Blogosphere News. The concept is really simple, Blogosphere News is a website which covers all the latest happenings in the Blogosphere.

Clusty is a meta-search engine which presents clustering as it’s main feature. The Clustering Engine organizes search results into folders grouping similar items together. The search term ‘pearl’ will be organizes the top 250-500 results into subject folders such as Jewelry, Pearl Harbor, Pearl Jam, Steinbeck Novel and Daniel Pearl. Clusty allows users to focus on the area of interest without all the chaff.

Clusty was developed and is owned and operated by Vivísimo.

I’ve reached the Remote User Authentication in Libraries resource page when I was researching for some answers regarding Squid configuration (details forthcoming). This page, however, have much more than that. The page is divided to sections such as: Database Vendor Authentication Info, University Authentication Projects , Proxy Servers and Authentication, Microsoft Internet Information Server and Authentication, Apache and Authentication , Perl, CGI and Authentication , SSL and Cookies, LDAP and Kerberos, Linux/Unix and Authentication and more. Each section have liknks to articles, script or other resources.