Choosing A Business Partner

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Before I went to Melbourne and while I was there, I’ve heard stories from many advising be careful of who you work with. In this case, it’s more serious because you might want to set up a company with a partner. Everyone definetely would like to own their own company some time. It’s grand to go around telling friends, “I run this company..” or “Oh, that work is by MY company..”

Well, before we even think about that. The article; The Partner Track from Entrepreneur.com would be very handy. It’s suppose to act as a benchmark and brief you on going about choosing a partner or stay solo.

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Need Help With Property?

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Other than having agents around, another place I visit once in awhile to find out the local happening around the Malaysian blogosphere is Malaysia Bloggers Forum.

Remember how I blogged about Niche Market and I was saying what if your niche dies? Well, here’s a niche that won’t really die because it’s a routine type of business. I’ve been quite interested in knowing more about the buy and sell property agenda ever since one of my friends spoke to me about it. It’s not exactly like the stock market per se but I feel it follows something like the same concept.

Imagine seeing how important that company or property might be worth so you plan on investing on it. However, not many know how to tackle the property business. Well, look no further because here is Property Malaysia.

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WebSighting #4

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Agent CSSBeauty brings in the latest report that an Irish based designer is storming the Internet now. Having chosen a memorable domain for the lasses to remember, it’s called Irishstu.com Just make sure if you’re telling someone else about it that stew is spelled ‘stu’. :)

This website is on my list of becoming what I want mine to be. See why it’s so hard to get the website out of the workshop! With all these new designs and new faces on the Internet, it’s difficult to just keep working on the website.

So what is to love about this website?

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Motoblog Gone Wrong

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DISCLAIMER: This post is my personal thought and not aiming any personal attacks to any party involved in it.

This post is a sequel to corporate blogging and I’d like to share one of my personal projects I was involved in. This was one of the first projects trying to incorporate blogging into the commercial arena. This project dated back to somewhere in March this year and took less than a month to be finished.

I was hired to help conceptualize, design and set up a corporate blog using MovableType. I still feel weird thinking back that we paid so much to just download a license copy so we could have more than a single blogger participating. But I guess that’s the business world when a piece of software becomes too good for its own maintenance.

The project however didn’t go as according to plan.

So what went wrong?

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Corporate Blogging

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The blogging milestone is soon to be upon the corporate world in Malaysia. With such a huge feature covered in the InTech section of The Star, that should probably bang some ideas into heads. It was a pretty good article written with early mention of the recent Singapore bloggers conference. So when is PPS or Malaysian blogosphere going to organize a conference? I’d like to be one of the speakers later. ROFL!

Anyway, the corporate blogging article mentioned huge players from Oracle to IBM and to supposedly small company, XiM Malaysia. If you noticed, out of all the bloggers mentioned I think the only blogger who isn’t related too much to geektopia is Wiley Chin. He runs the blog labeled, The Lab from XiMs own website. His entries derive from his latest readings to humorous bumper stickers and very little regard of his own work.

So how believing is corporate blogging?

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Support Edrei

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Blogger of Footsteps in The Mirror by pledging and donating to the National Cancer Society of Malaysia from the Blogathon website.

And if you’re questioning why you should be doing so? I didn’t want to take your time by presenting all the types of researched cancerous stuff or show you haunting photos but just quote what Edrei told me in MSN. I mentioned about AIDS being worst than cancer and his answer was so clear that compared to his post on his blog, this just sums it up.

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So how do you pledge and donate?

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PanduCermat Website

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In view of the road safety system, I applaud them for finally taking the effort of coming up with something like this. However, many are questioning the steps involved to help aid them. Its promoting of catching reckless drivers with camera phones or digital cameras doesn’t encourage safety with many locals. Well, that’s another agenda for the system to curb.

I was actually quite impressed with their launched website. It had that new age look to it and am very proud that they might’ve put a little more effort into a government website. Here’s a screenshot of it and click it to view larger version.

I want you readers to try and identify what do you think still can be improved?

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Online Malaysian Politics

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As much as we have offline politics ongoing about ‘AP Kings’, we have our very own blogger politics taking place. Though not as serious that it might change the car import system, it’s right now at a stage where it’s hurting others. Topping that, the political debate are involving favored bloggers with their annonymous number of followers. Unlike during elections you can see supporters with bandanas or buttons, online its more of how each bloggers post let readers know who they are siding.

In case not many have been following the few pings on Project Petaling Street (PPS), many have written about the involvement of Kenny Sia and the elusive Sarong Party Girl at the recent Singapore blog conference. Yes, the same Sarong Party Girl (SPG) blogger that allegedly came out in the newspapers being branded as threat to our young readers.

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E-Commerce Malaysia

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I browsed todays InTech and Business Times (I think that’s what it’s called). Both were speaking on the same topic of e-commerce and its booming numbers. Much to my dismay, the article that spoke of the boom referenced to only the success of e-commerce in US. Now, when I read that article, it made me think. How do you convince the local public that e-commerce in Malaysia works and is safe?

Sure the numbers in US are booming and it shows that e-commerce does work but it doesn’t reach the local market well. I’m sure you’ll all say that if your revenue covers the local market loss than it’s alright. Well, it isn’t entirely alright because you aren’t doing any good to the local market in the first place but only for selfish gain. Malaysia might not be the safest place to trade online but there are methods to ensure safe online transactions. The online banking payments made on bank websites is one of them.

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PPS Blog

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Project Petaling Street (PPS) was but a blogtal (blog-ping-portal) when it first started and recently with huge media coverage along with appearances of blogger faces and the recent PPS bash, it’s now about to take a step further into the local blogosphere. One of the PPS pioneers, Aizuddin who runs Volume of Interactions just proposed a blog for PPS itself.

The blog will contain local flavors such as:

  • Politics/Economics
  • Social/Arts/Party
  • What’s In Your Inbox?
  • Makan-Makan
  • Blog about Blogging
  • A Malaysian’s World Perspective

Other than a huge traffic gain, official PPS bloggers..

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