Month: September 2008

Wimax Must Now Come To Petaling Jaya

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I was reading InTech from The Star today and I found a news article to my joy. Not only was I thinking now Wimax have to come to Petaling Jaya, but the news benefits all ICT companies within Petaling Jaya. Why? It’s because Bandar Utama (and Mid Valley City) have been elevated to cybercentres. What this means for my website design and development company like Simpleet Solutions is:

MSC-status companies can now house their businesses at these locations.

Although we’ve not applied for an MSC application yet, it’s awesome to now be able to have our office closer to our homes. Rather than to pay for tolls, burn more petrol to reach Cyberjaya, patiently wait for the car in front to move while some other jack*ss squeezes his car into your lane and most importantly, to reach home for dinner on time.

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MCMC Dooms The Malaysia High Speed Broadband Project

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I personally feel the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has doomed Malaysia Internet users to kingdom come for broadband. Though I’ve heard the MCMC board are really knowledgeable and respected. But their recent decision of leaving the whole High Speed Broadband Project (HSBB) to TMNet for 7 years left me in disbelief of their abilities or observation on what’s happening to our Malaysia broadband state now.

I mean seriously, haven’t they ever heard of one if not thousands (or millions) of complaints the TMNet Streamyx users have voiced all over the Internet? In fact, there is even a Facebook group condemning the ISP and worst, their customer service. Plus, TMNet doesn’t even care if they’re losing 80% of the business online.

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To Limit or Not To Limit Internet Download Capacity

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Honestly speaking, this sounds like a chicken and egg story. The one posing the question and the one answering the question wants their answers or renditions to be correct. Hence, it’s the same when someone asks; should Internet Service Providers (ISP) limit download capacity? The guy who downloads a lot would obviously feud while the lady who wants the Internet connection to be fast screams “booyah!”.

I recently found out after the whole Malaysia Wimax launch, selected ISPs implement what they term as a fair usage policy – even in Wimax. When the ISP applies this policy, it means its customers will use their provided Internet connection at a controlled rate. You might have heard the words; throttled, from your average Malaysian complaining about our Internet connection before. Think of it as not being able to fully utilize the promised speeds you were sold on. It sure pisses me off.

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The New Maybank2u Website is Finally Here

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Like a number of other Malaysia bloggers, I was invited to witness and experience the private launch of the new Maybank2u website dubbed Maybank2u 2.0. Yes, as loosely the term is used I was really surprised the effort and responsibility Maybank’s virtual banking group has taken to upgrade their current website – it’s terrible now.

If there was one thing I always banged the current Maybank2u website, it was it’s information architecture or call it; website structure. I remember without fail I’d comment on how I couldn’t find anything I wanted and resorted to using Google whenever I wanted to find what I wanted on Maybank2u. But all that’s going to change – I hope.

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Someone Is Stealing My Blog Content

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I’ve never considered myself a Malaysia prominent blogger. Heck, I’ve never even self-proclaimed it but apparently some b*stard thinks so and is now stealing my blog content – text and images. The best part is he’s stealing it and posting it up in his created Blogger account. Thank you, Blogger (and Google – since you own the company).

Obviously, the first thing I did was find a way to report it to Blogger. And what d’ya know, I found the most accurate heading; Someone is stealing my content. I really expected to find a form or something but they’ve made it a tedious process for you to report someone stealing your content. Want to know why?

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Domain Name Price Increases Again

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Today, my domain registrar informed me the domain name registration prices are increasing. If my memory serves me right, this is the second increase this year. Why am I concerned about it since I only have DannyFoo.com? Well, I’m also the co-founder of Simpleet Solutions; a registered Malaysia website design company, so like how political … Read more

Benefits of Running an Honest Business

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It’s weird ever since our parents have found email, I’d admit they could be the source of all the emails being forwarded to me. But I’m not blaming them since there was a time when we found email, we too continuously forwarded messages to our friends thinking it was fun. So I guess it’s a cycle, you know.

And this is one of the emails my Dad recently passed to me. I’d like to share it here because I can so relate to it and it really makes me feel good. Mainly because I too open up more to my clients and we (Simpleet Solutions) don’t have any hidden additional charges in our projects. Without further due, these are the benefits of running an honest business.

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YouTube as a Social Media Marketing Platform

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There was one time I asked; What is social media marketing? I’ve not found out enough to be an expert yet. But what I’ve observed so far is many use online video sharing websites like YouTube, Vimeo and others as a social media marketing platform. A place where you can expect thousand of visitors sitting in front of their monitors watching Internet videos and commenting on them.

Have you seen any Malaysia company take advantage of YouTube? Or, Vimeo? Is it because it’s not really in our Malaysia culture to stare into our monitors to watch videos online? Or, is the video we are watching isn’t as entertaining as what we view in the television?

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Using Google Chrome Internet Browser For 24 Hours

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There is a new Internet browser in the market and brought to us by the boys (and girls) of Google Inc. I found out about their new Internet browser; Chrome, yesterday via their Inside Adsense email newsletter. The way I see it, their Internet browser will be in direct competition to Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Safari. And yes, if you want me to mention it – Internet Explorer.

I’ve been using Chrome almost completely the whole day yesterday except during the time I had a meeting in the afternoon. This was because Chrome is only released for Windows at the moment. *wails* But as I type this entry on Chrome, I’m slowly noticing and appreciating the additional potential it has to offer me. So, how does Google Chrome fair against the others?

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