Ping.sg is looking for beta testers
Ping.sg has certainly come a long way. We began from a small community 3 years ago, aggregating less than 10 blog posts a day, to what it is today, aggregating over 1000 blog posts a day.
What started as a blog aggregator, with a simple and quick system, which determines most popular posts of the day by most reads, that was working rather well when we first started, is almost irrelevant today. It’s time for a change.
We are currently working on a new beta site that we hope to open to selected interested beta testers at the start as our beta updates are still very experimental. We should be rolling out an initial beta features some time next week.
Please sign up using the form at http://ping.sg/beta-tester-program
Social Media Sharing Session at Singapore Polytechnic
Earlier today I gave a short presentation at Singapore Polytechnic for the students of the first batch of a social media module that they will be conducting.
I probably went overboard with the technological terms that I used in my slides for being overly excited about the future Ping.sg plans that I almost forgot that my audience consists of students in social media studies, and nothing related to technology/engineering.
My apologies for that. But if you’re into some technology, a little on history of Ping.sg, and how Ping.sg will be evolving to be more useful and open, enjoy the slides.
Ping.sg is going offline for maintenance
Ping.sg will be off from now for an hour or two for maintenance.
More updates soon.
Update at 7:09AM: Site is still down due as we are in the process of migrating to a new server.
Update at 12:33PM: We’re almost there. This is probably one of our longest scheduled downtime ever. Hang in there!
Update at 2:01PM:And we’re back, on full cloud computing. 
More updates soon. Speed upgrades may not be obvious yet as we are still optimizing our setups. In the mean time, resume your pinging and ponging!
My Perfect Vacation with Cebu Pacific Week 1 Winners
Ping.sg has been running an online contest for a budget airline operating in Singapore, Cebu Pacific. We have 10 pairs (total of 20) tickets to Avatar movie* to be given away!
There are 2 parts to the contest, online quiz and lucky retweets. Each week we will be announcing 2 lucky winners for lucky retweets. Each winners will be receiving a pair of movie tickets each.
We have randomly selected the winners for last week, they are:
@kiroshiivan and @jjtomi
Congratulations!
If you haven’t yet heard of the contest, there are still plenty of time for you to check it out. Contest will run until 31 Dec 2009. You might just win yourself a pair of movie tickets next week!
(*Tickets can be exchanged for other movies if you have caught Avatar)
Urgent Maintenance [Nov 22, 2009 2:00AM]
Ping.sg is going to be offline from Nov 22, 2009 2:00 AM SGT for an urgent maintenance — major upgrading of Ping.sg core.
Scheduled downtime is to be around 2 hours.
Follow @pingsg or check back on this blog for status updates.
3:57 AM: We are still encountering some difficulties in the upgrade. This might take a little longer.
5:19 AM: We are back. Most features are functional. Daily digests is currently offline. We are still working to resolve the issue. Pinging and ponging activities can resume now.
5:19 AM: Things should be all fixed and good now.
This upgrade doesn’t create any visible changes, yet. But this upgrade allows us to roll out more new updates in the near future.
In any case, do let us know if you encounter any problems. Just leave a comment here or email us at support@ping.sg.
