Fellow ‘hot’ blogger, Edwin of Noktahhitam had just released his latest work, Negaraku a web based news aggregator. It covers various topics such as daily local news, local political news as well as local blog sphere. (Read this first if you’ve no idea what I’m talking about). While aggregator itself is not a new service, the way he re-inventing Negaraku deserves credit from me. The comparable service in Malaysia are like Bloglah.org and Project Petaling Street but with a couple of difference that’s worth your attention.

First, he has categorized the news based on topic, and cleverly choose ever-hot topic in Malaysia, political news from both BN and PR MP’s blog as well as other independent political bloggers. This surely gives huge advantage over the others.

The way the news are presented on the front page grouped by the authors is quite interesting. It is like magazine-style wordpress theme and I have seen it on some article directories as well.

Apart from that it has web 2.0 trait, which uses lightview for ease of viewing the article. There is also random flicker photos on each category page to make the overall page looks better.

Courtesy of Edwin, he has included blogjer.com a few days ago, and I’d already enjoy a couple of traffics from there upon checking my static this morning. This is what I love about aggregator since it is free, and it supplies the traffic continuously. Contact Edwin if you think your blog deserves the attention on the Malaysian Blogosphere page.

The ‘temporary’ downside is, since this project is still in beta, it still lacks registration and contact form. And as per the author, the code yet to be fine tuned and optimized, so you’ll notice a slight slow loading. And perhaps Noktahhitam, you might want to get a semi-dedicated or dedicated server if you haven’t done so. From your amung.us visitor widget, Negaraku has consistently receiving traffics even though it is only a few days old. Well done!

Overall, Negaraku is a promising website and with the Midas touch of NoktahHitam, there is no way Negaraku can’t become the best local aggregator around.

Off topic: I have viewed the html code (in attempt to view the platform :-)) and found this hilarious comment. He seems to be ready if someone argue about this..ahaks

<!– I know, I know, I know… tables for layout, I know. If a web standards evangelist (like me) has to resort
to using tables for something, it’s because no other possible solution could be found. This issue? No way to do centered floats purely with CSS. The table box model allows for a dynamic width while centered, while the CSS box model for DIVs doesn’t allow for it. –>

Ps: I’m surprised when one of our senior in the US read chedet and admitted that he is a long fan of him and admires his principle and philosophy.. No wonder he reached 1M hit in 1 month.