Jan in Malaysia

How a blog and search engine optimization works fo.r a Belgian in Malaysia

Yep that his is who i am : a belgian in Malayasia. When you search in google my website still pops up on the first place. I guess this must to do with the content. I started a blog about 5  years ago http://zog.typepad.com/malaysia (still got to thank Michel Vuijlsteke for that...) I was reminded of being a belgian (we still have a country do we ? :) ) after having stayed here already like 5 years in malaysia. It's a great country, when you get used to it. I got used to it.  I do miss belgian french fries and I certainly don't drink as much beer as I would drink when I was living in the Flanders, Ghent, Belgium. Oh yeah and I miss the "Gentse Fieste" also.

Malaysian digg.com.my dugged ?

I daily enjoy www.digg.com.my , a derivate from www.digg.com. And look here Yet Another Digg Clone In Malaysia!.

Earlier something got posted on http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Digg_Clone_in_Malaysia and here I read something on Malaysian Minister Hits Media for Relying on Blog Quotes.

Zecco.com To Offer Free Stock Trading

«Zecco.com, an online financial portal, today announced it will begin offering free online stock trading next week. The site is already open for user registration, though it will remain in beta until the launch of free- trading, Zecco spokeswoman Shellee Smith told internetnews.com. Smith said Zecco can afford to offer zero-commission trading because it plans to earn its revenue elsewhere, and because it won't be spending a lot of money on traditional marketing methods. Instead, Zecco wants to go viral.»

news : http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3635496

Integrate your blog with your Business. Be there or be square.

For example : this is company IP AGE in Johor Bahru. (www.ip-age.net) is selling VoIP phones and services for businesses and professionals, is now integrating a small business blog in their existing marketing and communications-strategy. They have just started using a weblog a business-tool, but are catching up very quickly.

Writing relevant content will bring you more readers. So the whole point is to continue writing interesting things, stay on top of things. Show what you have and what you know.

This weblog will be linked to a subdomain on their website, id est : http://news.ip-age.com. They even have a Skype Icon on their blog.

Note for example who they link to the website of one of their agents who is a reseller of the IP-age phones and who also has a weblog. Simple and to the point strategy to inform your customers, your network and raise topics in the industry. Very important to be present these days. No presence no business. It’s like not being there on a business fair. No communication, no business.

By using for example www.rssreader.com you can immediately suck up all the relevant news.

Company : www.ip-age.net
Newsblog : www.ip-age.typepad.com

Chinese blogger in prison, Skype(rs) next ?

I just read this on SkypeJournal : «Officials imprisoned fellow blogger Hao Wu for blogging.

Blogging is just a small step from Skyping and Skypecasting. You can read his sister Nina's blog, sign a petition, or write a letter. Skypers may be next.»

Here is my take on Skype and why some people (don’t) like it :

• you can call anyone you like anytime


• nobody can easiliy tap into your conversation


• you can send/receive files without being traced (easily), now that scares off many IT-managers


• you can phone for free from P2P and cheaply from skype to phones


• it bypasses a firewall easily


• it’s on all the time as a presence system and a chatbox


• you can program a system around it


• it pisses off telecoms and celcoms in a big way


• it scares paranoid governments


• it allows people to starting thinking and talking in a different way


• it stand for freedom


• it’s for everybody and it’s for free (it better than air and sun)


• we all like the updates


• you can send SMS with it.


• it’s linked to Ebay and you can attach it to your store or website


• it;s blue, green and red.


• it can be anonymous


• it’s unmanageable


• it keeps growing uncontrollable (it cannot be controlled, not even by Ebay or Skype)

 

A pet on your blog !

http://uranai.blogtoy.net/uranai_blog.html. Found a good one here : http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Peek_Dog_FAN/searchdiary?word=%2a%5bSkype%5d

 and a skype thought : a good thing to have would be a little tag in the menu-bar of windows that show the skype_ID when you go over it with your mouse. good for people that run multiple skype account simultaneously. a script that would start up those multiple account would even be more handy.

Chinese blogs shut down by the authorities

«The story of several outspoken Chinese blogs shut down by the authorities this Wednesday has been reported by several news sites. The two blogs, "Massage Milk" by Beijing-based Wang Xiaofeng and "Milk Pig" by Yuan Lei from Guangzhou, reportedly could not be accessed from Wednesday morning. Both blogs displayed the message "Due to unavoidable reasons with which everyone is familiar, this blog is temporarily closed". This gave rise to legitimate concerns about the future of these blogs and their authors, particularly given recent publicity about the Chinese government's tight control over the Internet. If Google and Yahoo are self-censoring their Chinese operations, what might be happening to Chinese bloggers who dare to state their opinions openly?

"Massage Milk" has been at the forefront of Chinese blog culture, and it is estimated that there are now as many as 30 million bloggers in the country. The whole industry is booming, as the Chinese have come to talk more about themselves as individuals and express their opinions publicly. Wang Xiaofeng's blog had more than 10 million hits; readers were attracted by his irony and critical attitude towards the Chinese authorities. The Chinese parliament is currently sitting in a 10-day session, and the closures were initially attributed to a crackdown on dissident bloggers. However, both blogs have now reappeared, and there are conflicting reports as to really happened. A new entry in Wang's blog reportedly

says: "I like telling jokes, but this really wasn't a joke and it wasn't meant to deceive everyone." At the same time, a post on the Danwei news blog claims that Wang told them in an interview that the disappearance was an "early April fool's joke".

What is clear, though, is that China is taking Internet censorship seriously. There are tight controls on the opening of new websites, while access to some foreign sites from China is blocked. The government also has established a strong cyberpolice unit that monitors activity in the Chinese segment of the Internet. Several political blogs and websites have already been shut down, some with the help of Western companies like Microsoft and Yahoo.» source : news@kaspersky.com

Interesting little blogthings

www.blogcharm.com  | www.blogexplosion.com | www.digg.com |

RSS Calendar.

http://www.rsscalendar.com/rss/

Great ! De max

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