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Malaysia’s Youth Lifestyle Showcase

scamboy — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:59:19 +0000

The Malaysia’s Youth Lifestyle Showcase will take place at PWTC on the 18th January 2008 to promote and highlight the main aspects of the Malaysian youth lifestyle such as entrepreneurship, entertainment, fashion, technology, career and more.

The showcase is targeted at 50,000 youths between the ages of 18 to 30 with many activities scheduled to take place between 18-20 January 2008.

Here are the activities that will be taking place during the 3 days:

Youth Style Award 2008:
Youth Style Awards 2008 is the search for youth individuality in terms of talent, style and trends. Running in conjunction with YouthMalaysia.com’s 1st anniversary, this program will provide youths the opportunity to flaunt their personality by expressing themselves through self branding.

Traffic Jam:
Traffic Jam is a campaign aiming to bring local blog community into the public limelight with an aim to increase traffic within the local blog community. Running in conjunction with YOUTH’08, a targeted crowd of 50,000 youths will be exposed to these blogs. Traffic Jam includes the following contests:

1. ‘Spend & Fly’ contest wherein contestants will have to register a Tune Card (worth RM 50.00) and blog about the most creative way they spent the disposable credit of RM30.01
2. The Best Blog award where the winner of the 100 featured blogs will be determined via votes cast by the public.

Job Attack:
In today’s fast changing world characterized by rapid technological advancement, the issues of building youth capital capacities, knowledge skills and employee engagement are of paramount importance on the growth and development agendas for both public and private sectors to drive performance and help achieve goals. Job attack seeks leading job agencies in coming forth to lead and bring together a fun effective program for youths to be engaged – improving employment opportunities.

Battle of the Bands:
Putting a different spin on the conventional concept of Battle of the Bands, Beat the Buzzer aims at keeping true to the music while creating an interesting, interactive platform for the bands and audience. The concept allows for all genres of music and judging will be based on audience reaction.

Creative Shock:
A series of 10 booths that will tease your brain with challenges that require creative solutions.

1 vs 1 Futsal Challenge:
One of the more popular sport’s in Malaysia, the challenge is based on ‘knock out’ rounds where in the winner will be determined by the most number of challenges won.

The Voice DJ Search:
Aimed at becoming a platform to unearth young talents in broadcasting by testing their spontaneity, interaction skills, phonology, pronunciation and intonation – all fundamental requirements to becoming a DJ, this search aims to give real time exposure and experience for those interested in entering the broadcasting platform.

The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search Award:

The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search is essentially the hunt for websites, portals and even blogs with the ability to create an income and influence communities with an innovative factor. The search showcases progressive thinking, the use of cutting edge technology combined with inspirational ideas leading the way for entrepreneurship on the internet.

Graffiti Wall:
The Graffiti Wall is really an entire room dedicated to graffiti art! Workshops on graffiti art will also be held throughout the 3 days and the public at large will be invited to leave their marks and art work on the walls.

The Gaming Highway:
The Gaming Highway will serve as a means of giving youths the chance to compete in state of the art and the latest games but also create an avenue for them to learn more about a US30 billion a year industry with forums form industry insiders.

The Creative Lane:
A flea market to promote and expose creative, innovative and interesting urban youth brands by creating an alternative platform for such entities to encourage youth empowerment and possibly inspire others to take their creativity to the next level.

Celebrity Secrets:
A series of short sessions featuring various panels of celebrities where in they will share their secrets to success, experiences, hardships and anecdotes.

Extreme Dance Challenge:
A Street Dance competition for groups and individuals geared to give youths an additional avenue to express themselves through energetic dance routines. This event will also serve as a platform for dancers with urban dance backgrounds to flaunt their skills and will include exhibition performances by members of the Urban Groove Dance Network.

Charity Zone:
Aimed at encouraging social responsibility in youth culture, the Charity Zone is an area dedicated to charitable organizations to promote their programs and conduct recruitment drives or their various efforts.

Other happening include the 1st National Youth Entrepreneur Convention 2008 (which I might attend) on the 19 January 2008 and the Project EYE competition.

Don’t forget to vote for Malaysia Technology Blog for the Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search Award. If I win the cash prize, Malaysia technology Blog will have an online media team behind it, updating this blog every hour, around the clock(that’s faster than Engadget)!! I will also redesign this site(Web 2.0) and host it on a dedicated server. I am not joking on this but that is if I win the cash prize.

See you there at Malaysia’s Youth Lifestyle Showcase!!!

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Bye bye facebook, Welcome to 2008

scamboy — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:14:29 +0000

Here are some websites that is expected to boom this year.

Etsy.com

The New York-based internet retailer says it is “your place to buy and sell all things handmade”. Where Amazon revolutionised online commerce and eBay made its name allowing people to sell off their unwanted possessions, Etsy hopes to tap into the trend for hand-crafted and personalised items.

With thousands of craftspeople selling everything from clothes and ceramics to jewellery, the site has quickly become an Aladdin’s Cave of the internet.

Its innovative sales approach – such as letting shoppers browse by colour, or allowing geographical searches to support local suppliers – has drawn a legion of followers. Etsy now has more than half a million registered users and 60,000 sellers.

Founded by 27-year-old Robert Kalin from Boston, the site was launched in 2005 and now has more than 40 staff in New York and San Francisco.

Some critics find it a contradiction – a mass market dedicated to niche products – but Kalin says: “Etsy is a distribution platform for any kind of content that isn’t mass produced … not just craft-based, it might include music.”

Twitter.com

Twitter lets you text message large groups of people simultaneously, and for free. Sign up and send it a message – from a phone, internet or instant messaging service – and it will be sent to your contacts.

Updates are limited to just 140 characters, leading Twitter’s creators to call it “microblogging”. The craze caught on with the technology cognoscenti in 2007, but many pundits expect it to now reach out to the mainstream.

Some say it is a simple way of keeping a connection with friends and family, regardless of time and distance.

“Twitter is about the intimacy of details,” said author David Weinberger. “Through it I see small events in the lives of friends about whom I otherwise might only learn the big events when we catch up after long intervals.”

Crucially, it has also been picked up by businesses as an easy way to push messages out to their customers.

Co-founder Ev Williams helped popularise blogging with Blogger.com before selling it to Google in 2002.

WAYN

WAYN is aimed at those interested in travel

WAYN networking sites catering for a specialised audience – in this case travellers from around the world.

It was the brainchild of three friends – Pete Ward, Jerome Touze and Mike Lines, who came up with the idea to connect people based on their location.

Since its inception in 2002 it has grown and is now the UK’s 10th most popular social network, growing from 45,000 users in March 2005 to over 10 million today.

It has recently announced partnerships with Lastminute.com to integrate their hotel content and booking service and with Hostelworld.com to search for and book budget accommodation.

WAYN was initially launched as a paid service but in April 2007, it became free, though some functions remain available only to those willing to pay – for example, turning off advertising.

Like Capazoo it has begun offering users the chance to earn money. Members use a wizard to create wish lists of products they would like to own or recommend to others which are then displayed in their profile. When contacts or random browsers buy from their web shop the members receive commission from WAYN.

Alex Burmaster, analyst at research firm Nielsen Online believes that sites catering to specialist interests could be the future of social networking as they seek to distinguish themselves from the competition.

Seesmic.com

Since Google bought YouTube two years ago, a slew of video sites have arrived on the web. One to watch could be Seesmic. While YouTube has become dominated by spoofs, skits and professional marketing videos, Seesmic hopes to recapture the spirit of those who first made the site a success: people who want to put video diaries on the internet.

Focused on short webcam “conversations” between individuals, the site has not gone public yet, but has had positive reviews from testers and could become the home for a generation of opinionated, attention-seeking web surfers.

It is backed by Ron Conway, an early investor in Google and PayPal, and European entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, responsible for Kazaa, Skype and internet TV company Joost.

When it does go public, the site hopes to plug into other hugely popular websites – such as MySpace and Facebook – rather than replace them.

It was founded by a French entrepreneur, Loic Le Meur. The businessman and blogger is known for his brash style, but it is his role as an internet adviser to the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, that could lend most weight to the site.

PERFSPOT

Perfspot is aimed at university students and young professionals

Perfspot is a social networking site geared toward university students and young professionals, and its ethos is based on the desire to obtain a “perf” life.

It offers most of the usual features of social networking, including newsfeeds, customisable profile options and the option of linking photos to other users’ profiles plus unlimited space to upload images and videos.

It hit the headlines in the late summer, becoming the fastest growing social networking site. In the months April to August 2007 it grew a massive 756%, compared to Facebook’s 541% growth.

As the UK’s fastest growing brand this year it is a good illustration of how social networks can come out of nowhere if they hit the right note with users.

WEBJAM

Webjam chief executive believes one-stop shops are way forward

A UK site that allows users to aggregate the best of the web in one central location.

A cross between a blog and a social networking site, Webjam allows novices to create webpages for a particular interest or hobby – say a bookclub.

It also allows people to keep all their social media, from Flickr photos to newsfeeds, in one place. This blend of aggregating, blogging and social networking has led to it being described as “the Swiss Army knife of the internet user”.

It is particularly useful for those who want to create a webpage for a society, club or hobby but don’t know how to do it as it allows you to ‘copy’ an existing group and personalise it.

According to chief executive Yann Motte, one-stop shops like Webjam are the way forward.

“Going forward it won’t be possible for people to manage lots of different accounts,” he said.

Dopplr.com

With Facebook so prominent in 2007, many copycat services are expected in the next few months. But Dopplr.com is trying to find a different angle. Aimed at frequent travellers, the site lets users keep track of where their friends and colleagues are and enables them to meet up in unexpected places – or keep tabs on who is visiting their home town in the next few days.

The site had a public launch this month. During the test phase the audience was limited to international jet-setters and conference veterans, but thanks to a series of canny features – including integration into Facebook – it is ready to break out and gather many more users.

The site, founded by an international team of web technologists, is run from an office in Hoxton, in east London. This year two of its masterminds, Matt Biddulph and Matt Jones, were named among the capital’s most influential people.

Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, has said it is his favourite website. “You put in your travel schedule and link to your friends. It allows you to see where everyone is. I love it,” he told the New York Times.
Moshimonsters.com

Mike Butcher, the editor of startup news website Techcrunch UK, said Moshi Monsters is “Tamagotchi meets Facebook for 7-12 year olds, but with education thrown in”. Created by London games firm Mind Candy, Moshi Monsters takes the idea of virtual pet games such as Nintendogs, and adds the concepts of social networking and puzzles.

Players “adopt” a monster by buying a small charm which gives them an access code to the website. They then pick their monster, and look after them by solving regular puzzles. Monsters can interact with each other online, providing a socialising aspect for children with strict systems in place to keep players safe. With its cartoon graphics and addictive qualities, Moshi wants to become the next craze for UK children – and has plans to launch in Europe and the US.

The site is going through testing but the so-called “tween” market can be incredibly lucrative. Club Penguin, a children’s virtual world started two years ago, was bought by Disney this year for $350m.

CAPAZOO

Will the idea of paying users catch on?

This is a Canadian site which is interesting because of its business model.

Like other social networking sites it includes a variety of functions, including blogging and photo and video uploads but it also offers something unique – it pays users for the time spent on the site and the activities they do.

So for example members can get points for inviting friends and posting content.

Users can offer the points – known as Zoops – as gifts to other members.

The points accumulated by users can be redeemed for cash although to do this users must sign up to a membership program which costs either $24.95 or $34.95 per year.

It is a service that more social networking sites are likely to experiment with although the jury remains out on whether it will be a selling point for customers.

REALBUZZ

Realbuzz is a social networking site aimed at those interested in sports and outdoor pursuits. It is keen not to operate entirely in the online world and encourages members to meet up offline at sporting events.

“Realbuzz is not about people sitting behind their computers, it’s all about them getting out into the physical world and experiencing something new,” said a spokesman for the firm.

It has around 100,000 active users in the UK and has strong links to the London Marathon.

Chief executive Tim Rogers is himself a veteran of more than 60 marathons.

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Facebook challenged

scamboy — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:00:58 +0000

Badoo, a social networking website which offers users the chance to pay to be popular while banning all advertising, is set to launch into an increasingly crowded UK market.

At the moment, Badoo is a relatively unknown web brand. However, Google recently rated it number two on its “fastest rising” list – behind the iPhone and ahead of Facebook – in its annual report based on the most popular web searches.

The fledgling company positions itself as a “natural evolution of existing social network and blogging sites”.

Badoo’s unusual business model works against the received wisdom of the primarily advertising-led efforts of established firms such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo.

“We wanted to be advertising free in order to have a ‘clean’ site so our users weren’t subject to adverts which we know can be a turnoff,” said Neil Bryant, the managing director of Badoo.

Revenue is derived by technology named Rise Up. For $1 in the US, €1 in Europe’s eurozone and £1 in the UK, users can choose to have their profile moved to the top of a rolling list of profiles – in a blend of Digg and a Reuters ticker – that all users can see.

“With Badoo users don’t have to add friends – they have immediate access to get their profile in front of the site’s entire online community,” said Bryant.

For security, users can block any “undesirable” or annoying profiles from seeing, or appearing, on their web page as well as keep information such as birth dates secret.

Asked whether this Rise Up function can provide enough revenue, Bryant said that 20% of Badoo’s 12.5 million users access the function once a month.

Thus far, Badoo has developed a strong following in Latin American countries, as well as France, Spain and Italy.

Next year, cracking the UK is a top priority. However, until Badoo has significantly more customers than the current UK user base of around 100,000, the Rise Up function will remain free.

Badoo is also trying to carve a niche in the celebrity market, just as MySpace has in music and Bebo has with youth.

The website aims to approach celebrities and pay them to build an official profile page – bogus profiles will be deleted.

“Badoo users love sharing information about themselves, their friends and celebrity so Badoo has decided that the quickest way to get the message out about the site is to get celebrities to spread and demonstrate the word,” said Bryant.

A PR-led push, fronted by as an as-yet-unnamed celebrity, is due to launch in February.-Guardian Unlimited

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All Malaysian bloggers gathering

scamboy — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:25:42 +0000

The AllMalaysian Bloggers Project (AMBP) is about the held its gathering for the very first time.

“All Malaysian bloggers in KL on Jan 12, 2008, are invited, and the first 50 bloggers to walk into Starbucks The Gardens, MidValley on the day, gets a free drink. And by drink we mean coffee or tea, of course. ;-) “

So, head on to Starbucks The Gardens, MidValley on 12 Jan 2008, starting 10 am. See you there!!!

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Backlinking Malaysia Technology Blog

scamboy — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:18:43 +0000

Instructions:
1. ) Copy and paste the matrix of “ViralTags” below courtesy of Founders Cafe.

2.) Substitute the Host Tag and one of the “Viral Tags” in the matrix with your anchor text of choice with your blog’s URL. Please keep anchor text to a max of 3 words to keep the matrix size manageable.

3.) When you get a ping back from someone that has your link in one of their “Viral Tags”, practice good karma by copying his/her Host Tag’s anchor text (automatically the associated link will also be copied) and paste it over one of your “Viral Tags” below.

4.) Encourage and invite your readers to do the same and soon this can grow virally.

Host Tag: Malaysia technology Blog

Important: Once I get a ping back from you, I will add your anchor text and the associated link you designate as “Host Tag” here, replacing one of the “ViralTags” from the matrix above. As more and more bloggers copy and paste this matrix, the more backlinks you will have with your anchor text. If everybody who copy and paste from your blog does the same, pretty soon this will spread and go viral. So, the sooner you participate, the more links with anchor text you will receive.

====== Copy and Paste from Above this line=====

Now sit back and watch this number growing. Also, read the concept Improve your Rankings and Google PR with ViralTags.

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