Flight engineer Soichi Noguchi, a.k.a. @Astro_Soichi have been posting some nice twitpic from the view he’s been seeing over there. He is not the first astronaut to have tweeted from space, according to Mashable, first live tweet from space come from Astronaut Mike Massimino, a.k.a. @Astro_Mike.

Check out the photos :-

Singapore. Where is Mar Lion?

Port-Au-Prince, as of Feb 3. Three weeks after the earthquake.

Next time Malaysia is sending an astronaut to space he or she better has a Twitter account, which is why I seriously think they should seriously consider me, J Shamsul a.k.a @jibone to be the next astronaut, seriously.

Of course with this there are a lot of fun to have with. Try typing “Malaysia is ” or “Streamyx is ” or “Obama is ” whatever.

There are also some interesting uses of this feature. One of it is that you could quickly look for software alternative.

Let’s say that you are looking for an alternative to Photoshop, type in “Photoshop vs. ” or an alternative to Microsoft Office, type in “Microsoft Office vs “. Look at the suggested software alternative.

Do you have found any other useful uses of Google suggest? Tell us about it.

Check out our new logo. Watch out for it. In the mean time become our fan on Facebook and get updates on what we are working on.

Most people now prefer the online web as they resource for news. The Star news publications already has a good web online presence with their main news website and some other sites like the Daily Chili.

I just found out that they are offering self-serve advertising on their websites. You could now easily advertise your product or your brand straight on their websites.

It looks like The Star Online is cutting out any middle man and deal directly with advertiser.

This is a sign that The Star, a well known news publication is currently looking seriously into new media. They wouldn’t have set this all up if they are not thinking that there is serious revenue on their online counterpart.

Well if I were an advertiser, I would want to know more about it’s traffic and the demographic of The Star reader before I sign up. There is not information on that anywhere on the website though.

Check out The Star Online Self-Serve Advertising.

We are now Nunc Ubique Media (001918542-k). You guys can refer to us as ‘NU’ for short.

We are excited about what’s coming on Nunc Ubique, until then keep in touch. You could do so by following us on Twitter, @nuncubique or fan us up on Facebook, find us in Tumblr, friend us on myspace or just keep reading this blog.

Happy NU Year!

Sure it’s easy to fall in love with a good service. You might still trust Google to stay and you still believe that Google will stick to their informal cooperate motto, “Don’t be evil.”

But what if that all change? A change in the management made Google evil. Or they just decide to pack it up and leave or sell the company to someone else? What would happen to all your data?

Which is why it is good there are initiative like Google Data Liberation Front which is a central location for information on how to move your data in and out of Google products.

The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google with a single goal to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. They work with other Google product engineers to make sure there is a why to move your data. Their mission statement:

Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google’s products. Our team goal is to make it easier to move data in and out.

Visit dataliberation.org for more information.

You could also have only Twitter updates within Google. Type in the latest Twitter trend you are interested in in the search box. On the result page right below the search box, there is a link, ‘Show options’. Click it and you’ll see on the left there are several links to search options. Click ‘Updates’ to have a live flowing Twitter updates.

My guesses is that this won’t only be for Twitter, but also Facebook status updates once Google could index them. Is this Google’s attempt for real-time search?

Next time whenever some major news breaks on Twitter, try using Google to keep track of updates, rather then Twitter’s search. Just a thought.

Plot wise there is nothing much to say, big giant robot accompanied by a squadron of spacecraft starts to appear around Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. The robots then starts firing their weapons blowing up buildings up. Panic and chaos erupts in the city among the citizens. Military planes were called in but then the robots fuses together and self-detonates engulfing the city in a fireball. No explanation was given for the attack.

Fade Alvarez didn’t wow us on the story line, simply because there is really none to begin with. However the visual effects are impressive for something that cost $300. You can easily mistaken it for a feature length Cloverfield like movie trailer.

But what impress us more is the buzz it creates. Alvarez uploaded the short film on Youtube. The film’s reputation then spread by word of mouth over the Internet. It gets widespread media coverage after then. Alvarez’s inbox was full of emails from Hollywood studios.

Best part, as a result of the popularity of this little short sci-fi flick, Sam Raimi signed him up to Ghost House Pictures with a $30 million deal to develop and direct a film, any film, doesn’t necessary has to be Panic Attack. Yes it’s the Sam Raimi, The Evil Dead Sam Raimi.

If you have the talent and passion, social media and web tools like Youtube could get you notice. If your stuff is good, nowadays it has legs and spreads fast. Of cause this is not the only story about how someone was discovered on Youtube.

Check out the embaded Youtube video: -

I remember those days when part of my daily online routine was browsing Digg.com. I use website like Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon for latest trends on the Web. Finding out what everybody is laughing at, what’s the latest online video people are watching, discovering the latest web meme.

Digg and Reddit shares the same formula. On Digg and Reddit, users submit stories and other users vote on stories they like. Item that has high votes are promoted to the front page. In a way this filters out all the crap and only the worthwhile crap are seen on the front page. The Internet is full of crap so this is good.

These days however, I find myself visiting Digg and Reddit less and less. I use to visits these sites multiple times in a day, now it’s a few times in a month, sometime almost never.

With Twitter, I don’t have to rely on Digg or Reddit for knowing what’s the trend. Most of the time I’ll be looking on my Twitter feed and clicking on links to discover interesting stories, breaking news or funny viral videos.

In Twitter, you choose the people you follow, they are either your friend you’ve known for a long time or someone you find interesting on the web. This itself acts as filters. You only read tweets from people you want to read tweets from.

I would check out links posted by someone I follow on Twitter because if that person, who I find interesting enough for me to follow on Twitter, finds that the link is interesting enough for them to post it on Twitter, therefore the link should somehow be interesting enough for me. See the logic there?

If there is a breaking news, it spreads on Twitter like a wild forest fire on a dry season. Twitter, with enough interesting followers is like having your own personal assistants that finds stuff on the web for you. At least that is how I feel.

So how does Digg and Reddit keep up then? By being on Twitter of cause. Reddit has its official Twitter feed that syndicates top links on Reddit onto Twitter for anybody who follows Reddit’s Twitter account.

Digg also does the same thing. They created Twitter account for each categories posting top links that got voted up. You can choose which categories to follow.

Twitter has become too big that these once giant social news websites like Digg and Reddit has to caved in and made themselves available on Twitter. I would love to see the actual metrics for Digg and Reddit, wonder if Twitter getting big these days does effect Digg and Reddit’s pageviews.

There is also Tweetmeme, that does what Digg does only instead of counting votes it counts re-tweets. This is something I’ll cover in an another post.

Nunc in latin translates to ‘now’ and Ubique in latin translate to ‘everywhere’. That is how we look at Nunc Unique. We are now, we are current, and we keep up with the trends, at the same time we are everywhere on the web.

We are a firm that specialize in making you and/or your organization heard throughout the web. We use social media tools in creating buzz for your brand.

No matter what your business is or what your brand represents, there is always a story behind it. We help tell your story. We think that storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

We realize that we are new in this field, then again the social media field itself is relatively new. We are learning as we go on with the help of other social media friends that we have made.

This blog is our way of contributing back by creating conversations and discussing latest trends in social media and the web culture in general. This is our official company blog.

If 37signals has their Signal vs. Noise, we have this blog. We are still working on some catchy name for the blog.

So welcome, we hope you enjoy your stay and do come again if you are someone interested and passionate about social media, new media and the new web in general.