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 

Malaysia Conman Targets Malaysia Designers

Earlier today, some guy calling himself ‘Andrew’ called me posing as a client. He requested for the mobile number of graphic designers I knew; specifically freelance designers. The alibi he shared with me was he is working with an international company and his colleague (Madam Tan) passed him my number. Then, he told me the company wants to design catalogs and brochures. Even had the cheek to tell me they had a RM10,000 budget.

His reason of not being able to tell me the company name is in the past, someone from a large agency leaked their product idea out and it was copied. Carelessly believing his story, I passed him 3 mobile numbers of people I knew. Out of the 3 people, two run small graphic design companies. And he met with one of them.

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Posted by Danny Foo on April 17, 2008 | Filed Under News | 6 Comments | View blog reactions 

Unreleased Wordpress 2.5 Sneak Peek

wordpress logoOnly twelve days ago, Wordpress released their version 2.3.3 update to fix an exploitation with the XMLRPC configuration. And now, I find out you can actually take Wordpress version 2.5 for a spin. However, you directly install it since the files haven’t been released yet. Which is why, this is only a Wordpress 2.5 sneak peek.

Thanks to Autommattic’s Chris Johnston, he’s setup a Wordpress 2.5 demo…preview…sneak peek…whatever you want to call a test site for Wordpress followers to crash test. Do note, I didn’t mean literally trying to crash the Wordpress 2.5 test server. Login details to the Wordpress 2.5 test server are after the jump.

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Posted by Danny Foo on February 17, 2008 | Filed Under News | 9 Comments | View blog reactions 

MCMC Malaysia Have To Arrest Email Mailing List Suppliers

pen and letterMCMC stands for Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Communications and they are the government body responsible for the deployment of spam laws including SMS and email in Malaysia. I know about them because I literally took an hour plus trying to find more information about the spam laws in Malaysia.

And as you may have guessed, we don’t exactly have a CAN-SPAM act in Malaysia. Without this plus the legal guidelines of mailing lists, there are local companies openly selling email mailing lists. I know this for a fact because some Malaysia company spammed me with their…

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Posted by Danny Foo on February 12, 2008 | Filed Under News | 4 Comments | View blog reactions 

Youth Malaysia Exposes Bloggers Emails

Youth08 Malaysia Dotcom Youth SearchBeing 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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Posted by Danny Foo on January 16, 2008 | Filed Under News | 22 Comments | View blog reactions 

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    author's photoHello and welcome to Websites Made Simple. I'm Danny Foo and this is my Malaysia web design blog. I manage and co-founded a small Malaysia web design and development team; Simpleet Solutions.