Facebook officially released its new widgets web site! This is superb for those who have their own blog’s/websites and even companies to highlight their social network presence with ease.
Whats available right now? (more…)
Google Images or Bing Images
Saturday, September 12th, 2009Since Microsoft launched its new search engine Bing, i used it a few times but not till a few days ago did i actually started cheking it out proper. I was chatting with my brother about a car and he told me to Bing it instead of google it. Bing it?! He said that you i should check out Bing Images which is wayy cooler than Google Images so i did.
So i thought of a random car, Jaguar MK 10 and the results :
Google Images
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Lowyatt.net – Vijandren Ramadass
Sunday, July 12th, 2009
Ever wondered who started lowyatt.net ? The founder is Mr. 
Vijandren Ramadass! He started the website simply to show Malaysians of price of IT products available in KL. It was started in the early 2000’s when he was studying in JB and realized that price of IT products were significantly more expensive as compared to KL.
Today the site kicks in more than 2mil hits a month and rakes in the bucks via only advertising! The founder was on BFM to share how it started and what it is all about!
Listen to the rest of the podcast! (more…)
How to Build a High Traffic Blog
Saturday, July 11th, 2009Needs some tips on how to run a high traffic blog? Tim Ferriss shares covers a wide range of topics, from posting frequency to blogging tools and community building. The cool thing is that most of the stuff is coming from the tests that Tim run over the years.
After watching the video i realised that you need to get back to basics and look at why you post certain things where they are. Simple things like emails that you receive can be content! Label it as blog content and get back to it when you need too!
Good watch! 
Deepak Chopra
Friday, July 10th, 2009Deepak Chopra (born October 22, 1946) is an Indian-American medical doctor and writer. Did you know that he blogs? Well if he has been a writer all these years inspiring from all over the world, he gotta blog!
Photo Credits : Deepak Chopra
He has been a close friend of Michael Jackson and i watched him over E and found his blog and subscribed to it. And its a very very interested blog! I don’t know much about the man’s work but it feels like I’m getting to know him now
Adsense : Retaining Your Visitors
Saturday, July 4th, 2009Adsense launched their 5 week educational series of how to speed up your business in a slowdown. The last edition featured Avinash Kaushik and this edition features Ricardo Prada who covers Retaining your visitors with greater user experience :
Some key take away points (more…)
Malaysian Mirror Launched
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
And then there is the Malaysian Mirror! Former Prime Minister ,Tun Mahathir launched the latest online news site!
About the Malaysian Mirror
Malaysian Mirror dotcom is founded by a group of veteran journalists from Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak. Our investors comprise entrepreneurs, professionals from various disciplines, including journalists and politicians from both sides of the political divide. We are an independent entity and shall endeavour to report without fear or favour because the citizenry deserves to know the truth
I sure hope that this site gives something extra to look forward to instead of being another redundant site which is trying to slice a piece of the crowded cake! Good Luck and all the best to the Malaysian Mirror and im sure going to be checking out as often as i can!
Find Out About You With IPVEE.com
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
My friend WingLoon is celebrating his 2nd year anniversary since he made his way to the blogging fraternity on the July 6 2009! Congrats to him, i got to know him via my pal Danny from TheDaneshProjects some time ago and have been a regular on his blog since.
To celebrate this landmark date, he is giving away some web real-estate free!! All you need to do is blog about ipvee.com and its services and you are in the running to win your self some space to run your own blog maybe?
Well what is ipvee? Its a pretty neat service that shows you the little information about your browsing habits.
How does it work?
Easy! All you need to do is log on to ipvee.com and it automatically shows you :
Ever wondered what your ip address is? This niffy system show ip address that you are on.So since you now know your ip it be interesting to also show hostname . While your busy browsing the net it be interesting to know what your hostname is isn’t it? ipvee.com also shows you other details like the web browser you are on,the operating system you are using and your screen resolution.
So go check out this awesome site and find your real ip address now and while your at, spread the love!!
BTW- Congrats WingLoon!
Facebook & Markets
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Facebook has launched their Global Monitoring Newsletter which tells you all you need to know about Facebook and its growth in various markets. This could be very important data which can determine your strategies and go to market.
Facebook’s international growth in 2008. While Facebook’s international audience totaled 34 million people at the beginning of 2008, on the first day of 2009 that number had increased to 95 million – nearly 70% of the total Facebook audience
An example of the kind of stats you will get :
Italy up 2900%, Spain up 600%, France up 400%, Switzerland up 400%, Argentina up 2000%, and Indonesia up by 600%.
This report is being sold at Buy PDF: $99 USD or Buy 6 Month Subscription: $395 USD
Source : InsideFacebook
Ping List
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
What is a PING?
Ping is a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP network; it is also used to self test the network interface card of the computer, or as a speed test. It works by sending ICMP “echo request” packets to the target host and listening for ICMP “echo response” replies.
Source : Wiki
Since you know what a ping is now,In English that means :
Ping services allow you to automatically notify blog directories and search engines that your blog has been updated.
Yes, your next question is how on earth do you notify all those sites that you have a update on your blog? Seems a bit of a drag isn’t it? Well, its actually pretty easy. Wordpress has allows you to state a list of websites that you want to ping automatically when there is a update on your blog. How do you do this? (more…)
