About the external pitching session

I must be late already. Sorry about that, I haven been screwed a little bit these days.

The pitching session benefits me a lot, especially the speech by Bjorn Lee from 6Waves.

The following are my opinions about each speech:

1. World City Summit: The speaker is not concentrating on what we might be able to do but spent too much time introducing the event itself. So the result is the speech gave a feeling that the topic is irrelevant. Maybe the speaker himself was not sure what this session was about.

2. Project Nimbus: This is very interesting. It provides us with huge amount of information and enables us to use this information in our web applications conveniently through its API. One possible application making use of this convenience that I could think of is a shopping plan maker which can make shopping plans for a whole day by arranging for path and shopping place based on the database. The database itself is still in development and as it perfects itself, it will enable many fascinating ideas.

3. RedSports: This site is very well-known among young sport lovers in Singapore. It is actually surprising that it has no any integration with Facebook. Even if just feed a piece of news to Facsbook could help the site to grow. Some things, despite their trivialness, are effective. It seems very likely that the site will get more well-known it has some integration with facebook such as setting up a page that feeds sport news to its fans.

4. iSyndica: After the speech, I was still quite blurred about the concept of this site. But the cloud computing concept is catching. It really fits to build a site that distributes images based on a cloud architecture. It restates that cloud computing is the future.

5. Module-review.com: The speech is very impressive. I have been to the site several times and the information it provides is very useful for a student in NUS. The problem with this site is that the number of active users will vary very sharply throughout the year. If the site could be developed into a more general form that could accepts review of modules for other Universities and Colleges, it will be very successful. The fact that he speaker, Jace Liew, is soloing the site and that shocked me a lot. I am having great respect to his persistence and courage. If he could find some good partners to do it together, it could grow much faster. The key point is still to extend the range of modules to other colleges.

7. 6Waves call for ideas: This is the most beneficial among all the speeches. It explained how we should build and manage our games to make profit. We need to consider in detail what role each game should play in the whole business, whether it is effectively an ad or real profit-producer, based on the intrinsic characteristics of the game itself. It helps a lot to fix the design target of a game.