Youth Malaysia Exposes Bloggers Emails

Being one of the bloggers who participated in the Youth08 Malaysia Dotcom Youth Search, all bloggers recently received a mass email from the organization. The sad predicament Youth Malaysia have themselves in now is they exposed 396 bloggers. I got the figure from HongKiat as I was just too lazy to start counting the number of email addresses residing in the CC line.

Once Hong Kiat pointed it out through the email, the bloggers (or website owners) have started a social group meeting. Come to think of it, bloggers (or website owners) who are using Gmail can be considered very fortunate. Why? It’s because Gmail lists emails as conversations. If you were running the normal Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail or your own personal email, you’ll be expecting a lot of repetitive email replies – one by one. Gosh!

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December 2007 Online Consumer Trends

One of the things I find intriguing is the online consumer trends. Though the statistics may not reflect the consumer trends of Malaysia, it’s the overall picture online. My fascination with this trend proves the behavioral activities of an Internet user. For example; How do online consumers spend their time?

87%: Read email
70%: Search for information
64%: Do search
60%: Shop
37%: Use instant messaging

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AllMalaysian Bloggers Project (AMBP) Starbucks Gathering

Updated: January 18, 2008

The event coverage is finally up. If you’d like to view the full list of attendants (though it looks less), visit the AllMalaysian Bloggers Project (AMBP) Starbucks Gathering events page. Thanks, Michael.

TheStar and the AllMalaysian Bloggers Project (AMBP) group recently organized a small bloggers gathering for the bloggers of Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. It was hosted by Starbucks in the brand new; The Gardens, Midvalley. A quick note though is this isn’t the Starbucks in Borders. This outlet is the one next to the walkover from the old Midvalley to The Gardens.

There wasn’t any real agenda to the gathering unlike the Malaysia Bloggers Buff 2007 forum I attended. This was really a gathering of the great minds to let free their pressures and catch up with other bloggers. Okay, that was exaggerated.

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QuickOrder and QuickPay Your Starbucks Coffee Using The Apple iPhone

Why do a lot of people love using Apple products? What is so different about the Apple iPhone compared to other mobile phones? Well, obviously one of them is its great looking interface but Apple stands out because it continues to create products and applications customer will use…and keep on using.

It’s been rumored and reported from Forbes, Apple has been researching integrating future devices with the ability to place on-the-go orders at local stores. In fewer words, walk into your nearby Starbucks outlet and order via your Apple iPhone then pay at the counter.

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The Different Types of Blog Posts

Blogging has become a commodity and it has helped open up new areas for blogging especially in Malaysia. Instead of jotting down our daily lives, some of us are depending on our blogs to put food on the table. This is thanks to the different types of blog posts.

I’ve observed a number of blogs and generalized the types of posts are: common, tattle tale, summarized, write-up, review, paid or sponsored, and charity. Obviously, not all of them generates revenue like the most popular topics in a blog and they are also not blog niches.

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