Share RSS Awareness Day

I want to say one thing before I start this post. The new Maxis commercial you see on the television; animated drawn on paper type objects, concept was from Common Craft. I wanted to say this out loud so everyone (hopefully) won’t be misled to believe it is an original concept. So back to RSS Awareness day…it actually falls on May 1, coincidentally is Labors Day.

This online started campaign is about informing the many other Internet users about RSS and how they can benefit from using it in their daily web activities. Before I started using an RSS reader, I always bookmarked blogs I read daily. Today, I still do bookmark blogs but I subscribe to my favorite blogs RSS feed for easier tracking of new posts. Not to mention, I get a sneak peek of each post title without having to load the blog.

So share the love of RSS readers and let more Malaysia Internet users know about RSS awareness day. And here’s a video by Common Craft.

There’s a more polished RSS in plain english version with clearer audio and video quality over on their blog. If you’d like to view other stuff they’ve done, you could view them on their Blip TV channel.

Posted by Danny Foo on May 5, 2008 | Filed Under News | 5 Comments | View blog reactions 


Do You Make These Malaysia Government Website Mistakes?

Disclaimer: Remarks or comments made by me (Danny Foo) from here onwards is my personal feelings and experiences using selected website mentioned or not mentioned in this article. The published content here has no intention to degrade the Malaysia government or related parties mentioned or not mentioned inside it. I; Danny Foo, can not and will not be held responsible or liable for the comments left posted by third-party authors if it were to happen.

Now, most Malaysia web designers know some of the worst websites in Malaysia are the government related ones. And if you visit them often enough (if you can stand it), they repeat the mistakes over and over again. Thus, it’s easy to know if you make any of these Malaysia government website type mistakes.

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Posted by Danny Foo on May 1, 2008 | Filed Under Website Design, Website Development | 12 Comments | View blog reactions 

Wordpress 2.5 Fatal Error wp_register_sidebar_widget

This might be a bug for the new Wordpress 2.5 or a bug in the themes of Wordpress 2.5. So if you’re a Malaysia Wordpress theme designer, take special note of this Wordpress fatal error. I experienced this error only after activating a new Wordpress theme. And it wasn’t right after activation. It was when I wanted to access the Dashboard from the blog.

When I clicked back to the Dashboard, I was greeted by this scary fatal error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_register_sidebar_widget() in /path-to-blog/wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php on line 31

Thankfully, there was already a solution online at the Wordpress support. But the solution posted there came from another person; Tom Raftery. His research pointed him to another article relating to how the new K2 theme breaks Wordpress 2.5.

And, apparently the cause of this Wordpress fatal error:

…is because K2 turns off WordPress widgets in favour of its own widget manager and as 2.5 has started to widgetize the Dashboard, you get this error.

Which is why I would advise all Malaysia Wordpress theme designers to take this down. Just in case you’re designing based on K2, or having face this Wordpress 2.5 fatal error; call to undefined function wp_register_sidebar_widget().

Posted by Danny Foo on April 29, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Design | 5 Comments | View blog reactions 

How to Win Deal or No Deal in Malaysia?

Technically, this is suppose to be a secret. So I’m only going to share limited information about this. It’s great publicity for NTV7 and the show that I’m writing this but in case there are any corporate policies which hauls my *ss to court, I’m keeping mums on certain secrets. Obviously, I want to win Deal or No Deal in Malaysia too.

Alright. The secret is…I’m going to be one of the nervous, cold sweating, innocent looking, spaced out, smiling contestants in the Q & A part of the show. You know the ones where 6 contestants are like competing to stand on the main podium, stare at the Revlon models, ask a bag and freak out knowing it’s the RM100,000 bag? Yeah, I was selected to be one of the contestants.

So if you know how to win deal or no deal in Malaysia, let me know in the comments.

Posted by Danny Foo on April 25, 2008 | Filed Under My Life | 10 Comments | View blog reactions 

What is Social Media Marketing?

You tell me. Seriously, I’ve heard of it murmured all over the place now. However, I don’t really know what is social media marketing (SMM) in detail, how it works and what are the results from it. As far as I know, social media marketing is about utilizing social networks or online applications (and communities) for marketing. That made sense, right?

For example; using social media networks like Facebook, MySpace and etc to spread word of your marketing campaign on a product or launch. From the online application view, it could be using tools like Digg or StumbleUpon and etc. The whole gist of it is using online channels to do Internet marketing. Even creating a self-promotional video and publishing it on YouTube is part of social media marketing.

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Posted by Danny Foo on April 20, 2008 | Filed Under Business & Marketing | 1 Comment | View blog reactions 

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