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Microblogging that makes money!

14 Aug

Facebook nailed it! Twitter has just nailed it too!

With more than 250 000 new users registrations a day at Facebook, social media has grown at tremendous rate over the recent years. The trend has shifted from blogging to what we call now as micro-blogging.

Social media is like teen sex.
Everyone wants to do it. Nobody knows how.
When it’s finally done there is surprise it’s not better

Avinash Kaushik, Analytics Evanelist, Google

Micro blogging

It is easier to share a thought, or a picture, a video clip through social networking site that almost guarantee you readerships of virtually unlimited through it these days rather than the pain that we need to go through during the old days.

Blogging is so outdated now but something seems to be missing

We are now spared of the need to exert those extra effort of creating a new blog post in the old days (Are you still blogging? Some of my friends even gave up blogging already!), thinking for so long on even what title to use for that damn post, then only posting up the thoughts, photos or any other medias that we want to, into one. Micro blogging is definitely the way to go now for everybody but we are missing a important factor now.

Revenue?

In the old days, by running your own domain, you will get the cut of the cake of what Facebook is enjoying right now! It uses your content to generate traffic and to sell advertisements. Are you getting a cut of the cake?

ToDoAlive

What if I tell you that there is a micro blogging site that let you manages things that you want to do in the form of micro blogging and let you run your own Google Adsense advertisements?

ToDoAlive may just fit in as the missing cut! It let’s you create things that you want to do, your friends can comment on them to keep you going. And best thing is, you get to keep all the revenue generated from the advertisements displayed on your ToDoAlive page.

It is designed to complement to your Facebook or Twitter, not replacing them.

What are you waiting for? Even though it’s still in beta, you can now grab one account before the trial accounts run out. Register one at todoalive.com now!

The good thing is that It’s always  under constant development so do expect to see new features coming in.

What’s the trick to it? None.

PS: This is not a paid post or a advertorial post!

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A’Famosa Animal Safari World cruelty

20 May

This is a video clip that I obtained from Satkuru‘s facebook page. Why? This particular video made its way here in order to spread a simple message and you know what it is.

Just look at the ill-treatment by the workers of A’Famosa Resort. The worker there did not bother to do anything or feeling any sense of guilt despite being complained by the owner who took this video.

Experts from the lobby group Save the Tiger Fund estimate that only 3,200 tigers survive in the wild, down from 100,000 a century ago, mainly due to poaching and loss of habitat in south and southeast Asia.

With so little left in the wild, tigers are going into extinction soon.Needless for me to say that how much that we need to do our part to conserve theses big cats. Please spread the video around and do not visit A’Famosa resort Melaka.

Malaysia may have the first world country’s facility but with this worse-than-third-world-country’s management, we can’t go far.

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F1 2010 broadcast in Malaysia

13 Mar

Despite having our own 1Malaysia Lotus F1 team on the grid this year and having Petronas keep throwing money on F1 sponsorship, NTV7 has failed again on bringing live telecast for most of the races.

Last year, it only managed to broadcast 5 races live. This year, it will broadcast only 7 races live out of 19 races in total.

Ntv7 was announced yesterday as the official host broadcaster of the Petronas Malaysian F1 Grand Prix at the Sepang Circuit from April 2-4.

It will air seven races ‘live’ this year – the GPs in Australia, Malaysia, Brazil, China, Canada, Japan and South Korea.

Twelve other races – in Bahrain, Singapore, Spain, Monaco, Turkey, Europe, Britain, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Italy and Abu Dhabi – will be delayed telecasts.

Link: Berita Harian News

When the broadcast rights is given to 8TV in2006, all the races are aired live.

NTV7 F1 2010 show schedule:

Credit: The schedule above is obtained from NTV7 blog.

With so much of involvement in F1 over these years, with millions of ringgit wasted on F1, we will be catching the first qualifying for the 2010 season in Abu Dhabi tonight at 11pm on NTV7 with a delay 4 hours of original schedule time of 7pm.

Way to go Malaysia! Go go 1Malaysia!

Alternatives

What you can do to stay ‘live’?

You may use the F1′s live timing application online to view the official live timing sheet.

Visually, you may try to use online streaming services like TVUPlayer, PPStream, or other direct streaming links. (This requires a bit of digging in search engine though)

If you are hooked on satellite service like Astro, you may tune in to Star Sports if you don’t mind the very bad commentary.

Join the discussion of the F1 2010 season in Lowyat.net forum

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Job vacancy at Motorola: Senior System Engineer

07 Mar

Responsibilities:

* Maintain and administer NPI CIM Applications
* Develop and coordinate with local and global team on system enhancement project
* Able to provide off-office hour support and attend night conference call

Requirements:

* Degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering or Computer Science
* Minimum 2 years working with hands-on experience on ASP and .NET web application development.
* Good knowledge in MS SQL and Oracle PL/SQL development
* Knowledge on Shop Floor Control & Oracle ERP modules (OM, WIP and BOM) will be added advantage.
* Applicants must be willing to work in Bayan Lepas, Penang.

Jobstreet’s link

I’m helping on behalf of the company to scout for new blood. If you are interested with the position above, you may email me or leave your contact here, I will provide you with more details. Cheers~

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PTPTN Interest Rate Reduction: Have you started paying?

28 Jan

Have you started paying back your loan? As a matter of fact I have paid all of mine but…. that’s certainly almost not the main point of this post.

The main point is to provide a quick chronicled run through on PTPTN’s interest rate (aka Kos pentadbiran).

On the interest rates

Quoted from PTPTN FAQ

Kos pentadbiran 4% setahun dikenakan bagi tarikh bayaran balik pembiayaan sehingga 31 Disember 2003. Mulai 1 Januari 2004 kos pentadbiran diturunkan kepada 3% setahun atas baki berkurangan.

From 1st January 2004 onwards, the rate has been then revised to 3%. It was 4%.

The Star 14 August 2008 - PTPTN rate 1% (Click to view entire article)

On 14 August 2008, the government announced the reduction of interest rate from the current 3% to just 1% (see news article above). And the effective date was backdated to June 1 2008. But, the loan holders would need to sign a new contract to enjoy the new rate. Also to note that, all interest charged would not be revised.

On Feb 2009. I called to PTPTN to clear the air a bit on why we are still not getting the new agreement.

We are supposed to receive a new agreement on the rate reduction on Jan 2009 (which has already passed few months). And, failing to return the agreement in it’s specified time frame given would result in keeping the 3% rate on the loan instead of the new 1%. No one receives any agreement so far as far as I concern.

However, the lady told me that the delivery of agreement has been postponed to March 2009 and agreements will be sent out in batches.

Here’s a article from Malaysiakini.com (Dated 13 August 2008) saying that we must sign the new contract to enjoy the new rate.

“Peminjam perlu menjawab surat tawaran itu sama ada setuju atau tidak, ini perlu kerana ia melibatkan perjanjian, mereka (peminjam) tidak boleh anggap bila kita umum ia akan berubah kerana ini ada perjanjian.

Source: Malaysia Kini

It’s very confusing but let me try to get it explained in plain English.

The effective date is back dated on 1st June 2008 would sound real good to all the loan holders but here’s the catch. It is only good for the new comers who sign up after 1 June 2008. For the existing loan holders? You gotta wait to sign the new agreement on agreeing to the new rate.

Please tell me that you would possibly not like to get your interest rate reduced from 3% to 1%? You simply won’t. How on earth you like to pay more interest? Can’t they just send out a notification or such? Due to the inefficiency of their department, our new agreements have not been sent out on time.

Until today (It’s Feb 2010 already), I have NOT receive any letter from PTPTN regarding the new rate or whatsoever. I gave up calling them. For this, I may conclude that.

My loan on PTPTN did NOT enjoy the immediate 1% interest rate effective on 1st June 2008 though. I’m continuing being charged at 3%  for god-don’t-know-how long.

I’m not sure if you are enjoying the new rate, cause, apparently, I’m not.

It’s not as straight forward as you think on how to calculate the interest rate. Read this article and you will know how.

And, just in case you are curious about how my statement look like, here are they. You may help me to calculate and tell me if I’m actually getting 1% rate.

ptptn_detail2

Have you started your payment yet?

I shall conclude this blog post with “Make sure you keep track of your loan well!”

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