Pretty.com.my - Are You a Hamsap (PERVERT)?

In case you don’t know, “Ham~Sap” is a Cantonese term for pervert.Few days ago I got an unsolicited email from Lelong.com.my. I have never subscribed to the site (using my main gmail account), somehow they got to me. Ok, this is spam. One line that captured me, “Pretty Girl Contest!“. (Yes, admittedly I am hamsap). So I clicked the link. It redirected me to Pretty.com.my. (more…)

Saya Budak Baru Belajar, Kalau Salah Tolong Jolokkan

Anda mungkin salah seorang dari mangsa kekejaman StumbleUpon.

Pada malam semalam, sedang aku meng-stumble-upon untuk mencari idea bagi project baru, aku ter-click “Login to Your Mail Accounts”. Ok, apa salahnya login account Gmail, Yahoo!, Laman7 dan CTEL. Kot-kot system ini akan memberitahu sekiranya email baru masuk. (more…)

ManggaTV.com : Malaysian YouTube With Local Flavour

You have probably read about it at MohdIsmail about ManggaTV (I did too). But what I find intriguing is the comments left by his visitors and one of them sounded like this,

really? but untuk ape? like manggatv ni.. sori tapi aku rase takperlu pon..dah wujud bende yg fully established like flickr n youtube..no need clones la kan? ape beza pon nanti, versi malaysia/international? pls make/invent sumthing new.. am i right or am i right?

Let’s make this simple, if you don’t like it, don’t use it, why is there Malaysian Idol when American Idol is good enough? Same thing applies. It’s called, localization. To put this in other terms, why did Google build Gmail when Hotmail and Yahoo!Mail is good enough to serve us? Literally all share the same concept, online email system. You think about features and usage, they think about market share & profit and some just couldn’t be bothered.

I was trying to get an interview with the developer, but their page doesn’t seem to be much of a help. So let’s just leave it there. The server resides in Malaysia at Jaring TPM, which is good, we can download stream the videos much faster, (at least that’s what I first thought). I played one of the video, hoping that it’ll be much faster than YouTube. I was wrong, it was more or less the same. This is probably due to server load and/or capped bandwidth.

While others are branding ManggaTV as a YouTube clone, many aspects of it isn’t. I see ManggaTV will attract more middle-class Malaysians with great ‘bargaining’ power. That’s good, big advertisers like Maxis, Celcom, Digi & TM needs this kind of exposure.

ManggaTV is using a solution from ClipShare. I had a go at the script once, but found out that it needs to run on a dedicated server. This script make use of script.aculo.us (javascript library), prototype (javascript framework) and PHP. It runs on CentOS.

My advise;

• remove the long trail url. It is not SEO friendly. You can start by looking at your .htaccess.
• load balancing. Get another server to save the other, in other words, redundancy.
• change the theme. It’s too girly.
• fill in the blanks. Start with a contact page, it’s very, very important.
• remove the branding (if ClipShare allows it).

I wish ManggaTV all the best in the future and hope that you will monitor the site for explicit contents. Keep up the good work. Below are some screenshots of ManggaTV.

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Update

ManggaTV belongs to Majalah Mangga itself.

90% Completion : Beta Mode

A combination of these 3 colors (black, red and silver) make my day

Do you think this theme is a bit extreme?

I must straighten up the theme before I start blogging.

senyumlah, senyumlah ahai cek mek molek - damn neighbour karoke plak

First Post Is Always Mine

Been fiddling around with Wordpress and MovableType. The latter is the clear winner. However lack in themes, I have decided to go ahead with WordPress.

I will be kicking ass(es) on every single topic I find stupid.

If you think criticizing is exciting, then it is. So enjoy your stay

I always like dark colors black.

I went through the whole WordPress theme last night, it was about 2000+ templates. I spent close to 7 hours testing the ones I like.

I have concluded, to make a great design, I have to build myself. It isn’t that hard actually. Some CSS, XHTML… I’m sure I can find my way. Designs me like, thecicak.com, copyblogger.com, mashable.com, clazh.com and techcrunch.com

I do not think outside the box, nor inside the box. I just THINK. - jason lee