My Life

Attended Ureka Weekend Without a Physical Presence

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UrekaWeekend was a 3-day event organized by the folks from Entrepreneurs.MY who also brings you BarCampKL. It’s an event of intense brainstorming and business idea churning – not to mention, networking. People from geeks to entrepreneurs attend it to find collaboration and connection in forming new companies or producing new products over 3-days. And yes, … Read more

Inspired Judgemental IE6 Splash Page

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If you practice website standards either as a website designer or website developer, you’d know the countless frustration working with Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). But here comes something you can put all your anger into and let out expressively – especially, if you write a blog. The judgemental IE6 splash page was inspired by Joe … Read more

TMNet Should Be Fined 500-Million and NOT 50-Million

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If you would’ve noticed our Internet connection here was greatly affected once again. Never was there a time when the Internet was so great and commendable from every user of this Internet Service Provider (ISP). So much so, I decided to write to the Editor at The Star. From a common; Malaysian Internet user of … Read more

Social Bookmarks Win Browser Bookmarks Hands Down

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google-chrome-starThere was a phrase I heard watching Discovery Science this Chinese New Year. It goes something like, “technology is the key to the future but what is the key to technology”. It’s an inspiring start to what we could term as innovation. Therefore, browser bookmarks aren’t the exceptional tools left out of innovating our Internet experience.

So, what does social bookmarking mean?

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.

Source: Wikipeida

Some quick examples of social bookmark services; Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, BlinkList, Reddit, Fark and more. But why will social bookmarking soon replace browser bookmarks?

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What's Hot in 2009 Dialogue

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whats-hot-in-2009The last dialogue I attended was the Malaysia Bloggers Buff 2007. It was a workshop come forum for fresh and veteran bloggers to speak about the importance of responsible blogging in Malaysia. The passed Monday, I attended the What’s Hot in 2009 dialogue organized by the Cradle Investment Programme (CIP) in collaboration with Malaysia Entrepreneurs (MYE). I actually only heard about this event from a friend of mine who heard from a friend of his either via Twitter or elsewhere. Hail, social media! :D

Anyway, I actually didn’t see the additional word; dialogue, when I was reading about the event. My expectations was an event where the speakers would share their insight on what’s to be hot in 2009. For example; due to the increase in oil the retail industry will be hit and consumers will look towards online as an alternative. But when I was there, it wasn’t like that.

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Intel Offers Cheaper Intel Core i7 Computers at Tumpang.com

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tumpang jom jimatPreviously, I was invited to the media event at All IT Hypermarket organized by Tumpang.com. It was to announce the collaboration of Intel and Tumpang.com to bring much more affordable computers to Malaysia consumers. Tumpang has been around since 2007 (or earlier) plus I once did a website review on them (Tumpang).

The buzz in the CPU or processor industry is Intel’s Core i7 model. Anyway, there’s going to be less typing (if I can help it) and more photos. ;)

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