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Jerry Yang, please loosen your grip on Yahoo

Before most part in Asean knows who McCain or Obama are, Jerry Yang has made his name all over the world, particularly because he is the co-founder of Yahoo, the world’s largest search engine… before Google made their debut in early 90′s. Back then, Yahoo is like Google today. At that time, where I access Internet is only through internet cafe, all was Yahoo,  the browser’s home was set to ‘Yahoo’, my email client was Yahoo, and of course my favourite chat tool was Yahoo Messenger (YM).

But the ‘honeymoon’ time is over. Since Google arose from nowhere, everything started to go wrong. The profit is declining, share market is shrinking, and even the employees are leaving, voluntarily or non-voluntarily. And yet, he is still reluctant to let go of the company he founded for a ‘very’ good price 6 months ago. Not blaming Google though, it’s just that Yahoo is lacking a ‘midas touch’ and creativity to turn the table back to its competitor.

Jerry Yang, the comeback CEO, succeeding Terry Semel, strongly oppose the Yahoo acquisition plan by Microsoft early this year. Unsurprisingly, the game changed recently after Google scrapped down advertising agreement with Yahoo. Adding the financial woes,  Yahoo shares plummeted 25% from its value 6 months back.

Realising the bad fate ahead, on web 2.0 event, he had openly invited Microsoft to buy Yahoo

“To this day, I have to say that the best thing for Microsoft to do is to buy Yahoo. I don’t think that is a bad idea at all…at the right price, whatever the price is, we are willing to sell the company,”

Like malay saying ‘ibarat menjilat air ludah sendiri‘ (eat back your own words), Jerry has openly ‘invited’ Microsoft to buy Yahoo. But, the there is no ‘love’ on Yahoo anymore for Microsoft. Steve Ballmer immediately shut the speculation down, saying no to Yahoo, even though still mentioned the cooperation on other matters are still possible.

Well Jerry, if I were you, I’d leave Yahoo to a better hand. I know that you’re a fighter, but stepping down won’t make you a looser. I’d rather be a fighter who lets the bunker stretch to another angle.

Personally, I’m still in love with Yahoo, who happened to be my very first email account I ever had and I’m still keeping it till this day. Nonetheless, I’m hoping that Yahoo can survive and march forward.

Admin 11 November 2008 Corp , , 6 Comments

Identifying spams no longer a big deal

stopforumspam Identifying spams no longer a big deal

I came across stopforumspam from WP-NoSpamUser. No, I’m not using another anti-spam wordpress plugin, since I still have faith on Akismet and Typed Antispam in protecting this blog from spams.

Stopforumspam is like a directory or maybe a yellow page, which ‘lucky’ spammer listing is based on the IP, email, nickname and where it is originated.

I’m using it quite differently though. Recently i got quite a number of emails from my website’s contact form. Some looks legitimate and real. In order not to be fooled again, I’ll compare sender’s information with the one available on stopforumspam. At least I’m not replying to someone that is not in existence.

Admin 10 November 2008 spam , , , 3 Comments

Use CrunchBase widget to better refer the companies

If you’re frequent Techcrunch reader, you must be very familiar with this widget. The CrunchBase widget works to provide a detail of any product, company or even person that you mention on the post. The widget can be embedded on any post.

CrunchBase itself is a ‘free directory of technology companies, people, and investors’ on the net as it claim on about page , so in case you wanna know about tech related companies or person, this is the right place for you.

Apart from just using the widget, you can become a contributor to CrunchBase itself too.

I think I’m gonna started using this widget soon, it it does not effecting the loading time significantly

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Admin 9 November 2008 blogging , , , 10 Comments

Don’t be fooled by malware exploiting Barack Obama

Feeling excited to watch Barack Obama’s historic win video received on email from unknown sender?? You better not!!

Sophos had just recently announced about such malware, that trying to fool you to install fake Adobe Flash update when you click the link on that spam email. According to Sophos again, the infected system could possibly risking some information being compromised. Quite severe the impact though.., so better watch out

Watch the video below to get more detail, or head your browser to Sophos

On local scene, do you think there will be fake chedet or anwar ibrahim exploited malware??

Admin 8 November 2008 spam , , , 2 Comments

Register Google App and set your email client on Gmail

I initially documented these steps for a friend of mine, but I decided to put on a more detailed, together with the screen shot and to post on Blogjer.

If you’re already a Google App user, you should be very familiar with these steps. Anyway, for those who are new to Google App, it is a platform for building and hosting web applications on Google Web Servers
(definition from Wikipedia). Among the applications offered are Gmail, Good Doc, Google Sites and etc.

In Google App, I’m interested most with Gmail, whereby I can use Gmail as my blog’s email client, meaning that all emails sent to my blog’s email address are accessible from there. Or in other words, I’m able to  manage all my @blogjer.com email address in Gmail.

This is far more convenient, as compared to using default email client in CPanel, such as SquireMail. Furthermore, these emails are stored on Google Web Server, which is more reliable than our own web hosting server. I have now registered Google App account for my main websites. Here is how you can get started.

1. Head to Google App

2. Click sign up button such as below
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3. By default, it will only show the trial version for Premier edition (not free). So click on ‘Standard Edition’ link (Free) to get free edition. But keep in mind that standard edition as it name says, has limited features as compared to Premier Edition.
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4. Once you’ve decided to go for Standard Edition (after comparing the features), click on ‘Get Started’.
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5. Key in your domain name

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6. Fill in all required fields, and press ‘Next’ button

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7. The next screen will will create the admin account. Fill up all fields and press Next button
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8. Now you have completed the registration process. You’re required to verify the domain Ownership. Click on the ‘Verify domain ownership’ link.
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9. You have 2 options here, either by uploading file or changing CNAME. I chose the uploading file method which is easier, and once done, click ‘Verify’ button. It will take approximately 24 hours before your domain is verified.

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10. The registration process has completed. Now it is time to activate your email. From your dashboard (see step # 8), click on ‘Activate Email’. Depending on your hosting, choose the instruction accordingly.
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11. Login to your cPanel account and follow the instructions on how to update your MX in cPanel. (Sometimes you may need to wait until your domain is verified by Google before you can proceed with this step)

Once done, your email should be accessible via this link.

http://gmail.google.com/a/yourwebsite.com

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12. Changing your email URL

The default email’s URL is not a beauty, you can customize it to be like ‘http://mail.yourwesbite.com’ . To achieve this, access the menu from service setting – email services. Click on ‘change URL’ and follow the instructions. Keep in mind that you must be able to modify your DNS setting. By default, this option is not available when you buy the domain, you have to register this add-on in which costs you USD1 annually (NetKL rate). That’s all, you’re done.

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Admin 7 November 2008 Technology , , , 6 Comments
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