While preparing the interview and doing research on Singapore theatre luminaries like Goh Boon Teck, I remembered a play that struck a very deep emotional chord within me when I first saw it – Lao Jiu by Kuo Pao Kun.

Will he let his family down? Are their aspirations his own? Torn between reality and dreams, modernity and tradition, Lao Jiu is determined to find his destiny.

It is funny how things tend to come full circle …

A Blank Canvas

Just in case the settings need to be changed so that the camera can be accessed:

Notes:

Never did any Flash ActionScript coding before this little project.

It was a good chance to learn a little about:

1. Papervision3D
2. FLARToolkit

She shared that the project was described as being a tool to ‘Set goals, track success, make sense of your social media campaigns’. Immediately, my mind started racing. How would anyone implement such a tool? More importantly, what would yongfook do ( i.e. WWYD ) to create such a tool?

Incidentally, Yongfook also goes by the name ‘Jon’, so it really is ‘WWJD’. He was born for this.

Anyway, I digress. I looked into the name ‘Rippl3′ and wondered whether Yongfook was alluding to the phenomenon of waves radiating outwards from the point where a pebble drops into a body of water. I described the phenomenon and Pat said something like, ‘that’s like the logo’ ( not exactly sure what were the exact words used ).

The logo in question:

The phenomenon in question:

So how could such a phenomenon be used to explain the concept of tracking influence in social media?

Simple. You drop a message into a social system and track its effects across time and people further away ( in terms of network connections ) from the original recipient. I’m of course simplifying. The above is the ‘what do you do’. Not how. Not why.

The more detailed thoughts will occur after Blogout 2009. I need to digest this a little more.