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It is not everyday we can witness new social website emerged here in Malaysia, particularly from large company.   Yemmz, the new social website owned by TM is another attempt to build online social community, taking opportunity of our ‘craziness’ toward social networking. But how far can it go?

Yemmz itself is nothing new to some who follows the TM closely. It has been around since Nov last year based on some of early blog post that can be found from search engine. The news circulating on the net stating that it will be officially unveiled this March.

Over that past few years, TM has been busy rolling out it’s HSBB project, aim to upgrade broadband quality and service in Malaysia. Part of the project is also to develop and deliver contents to the end users, together with selected partners.

Yemmz could be a small part of the project that TM hopes to kick it off, along with major part of HSBB project, which is the broadband service itself. By positioning Yemmz as part of HSBB, Yemmz could gain some popularity from the publicity that HSBB earned when the project finally unveiled to the end users this year on certain areas.

Yemmz itself is just typical social networking website. If you familiar with Facebook or Friendster, you can master Yemmz in a day or shorter than that. At a glance, Yemzz seems to have all recipe it needs to success, except the sustainability . Trying to be different from established social networking websites, it does offer forum and marketplace which seems open to every members.

It is best to test it to it’s full extent to conclude if Yemmz is worthy option to established social websites.  One thing for sure, mammoth task is waiting the Yemmz team to grows this website bigger.

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Admin 10 March 2010 socialize & media , , , , , 1 Comment

The Basics Of Google Buzz You Should Know Before Starts Using It

Google Buzz release has receive outrages respond from Gmail users, particularly concerning the privacy setting. Without account owner consent, Google Buzz has  automated most of ’social’ task that should be handled by human, instead robot or process.

After numerous blog posts and tweets, Google Buzz on it’s latest update has overcome most of these concern, especially disabling the process of adding friend and update from other sites automatically.

To me, Google Buzz biggest mistake is arise from their assumption of 3 things.

  • Automating the process of adding followers/following in order to provide different experience of social website.
  • All activities in other Google services such as Google Reader, Picasaweb should be made visible to other people in Gmail contact.
  • The contact that we email or chat most is our closed friends, that should stay updated with the update or activity from us.

Like most of you, I’m too very new with Google Buzz, but here are 4 essential things you should know before starts using Google Buzz.

1. Google Buzz integration with Gmail

Gmail, with 174 millions user is the perfect place for Google Buzz. If you have never use Google Buzz before, when you’re opening Gmail, just before you see your inbox, you’ll be greet with Google Buzz message. This seems to be the screen whether you’re agree to use Google Buzz or not, but apparently, even if you’re not interested and click ‘Nah, Go to my inbox’, you still have Google Buzz at your sidebar.

buzz intro The Basics Of Google Buzz You Should Know Before Starts Using It

2. Followers and following - No More Autofollow

- Followers and Following refer to the people that follow your updates and the people you’re following to. When Google Buzz was first introduced, the contact that you chat and email the most will follow you automatically (and you follow them as well), even before you agree using Google Buzz.

The problem with this is, they’re not necessarily the people you want to follow, when they might be your co worker, business partner or etc. And since they’re following you, or you’re following them, they’ll be able to view your profile which suppose not to be seen by them.

Good thing is, Google has disabled auto follow. Instead of auto follow, Google Buzz will use auto suggest model, which suggesting people that you should follow, also based on the people that you chat and email the most.

For existing Google Buzz users, you have to unfollow the contact that you have no intention to follow you or to be followed manually. To prevent the ‘unfollowed’ contact from following you again, ‘block’ them to permanently block this contact from following you.

buzz follows followers The Basics Of Google Buzz You Should Know Before Starts Using It

3. Connected site

Connected site is other Google services that connect to your Google Buzz, so any updates or shared items will be updated into Google Buzz.

Before this, Google automatically connect Google Reader And Picasaweb into Google Buzz, which means any activity (that visible to public) happens there will be updated to Google Buzz as well. To block this update, either the connected site being removed or the sharing option at Google Reader and Picasaweb being turned off respectively.

Now, Google Buzz no longer showing any activity from Google Reader and Google Buzz automatically. However, existing Google Buzz users have to remove these sites or change shared setting from ‘Connected Sites’ menu for Picasaweb, but for Google Reader, it has to be modified from within Google Reader.

buzz connected sites The Basics Of Google Buzz You Should Know Before Starts Using It

4. Turn off, hide or disable Google Buzz

To turn Google Buzz on and off, browse to the bottom of Gmail, and you can see the option to ‘turn on buzz’ or ‘turn off buzz’

buzz off The Basics Of Google Buzz You Should Know Before Starts Using It

There are also now Google Buzz tab in setting manu that allow you to hide Google Buzz or completely disable it.

buzz settings The Basics Of Google Buzz You Should Know Before Starts Using It

Admin 15 February 2010 socialize & media , , , No Comments

Youtube Implements Safety Mode To Restrict Cencored Videos

Having growing kid is one of the best things every parents ever had. Their curiosity toward something new is sometime beyond the control and covers everything they ever see. That’s include their interest toward technology and particularly internet. The internet which suppose to be a sea of information does have many things that suppose not to be seen by them at that age.

Youtube as one of the biggest entertainment and learning source in internet, has taken a step forward in protecting this young generation.  The ‘Safety Mode’ unveiled by them is very useful to limit the videos that this kids can watch.

Turning on this function will block certain videos from being watched as well as exclude it from Youtube search function. ‘Safety Mode’ works with or without signing into your Youtube account. But signing into Youtube account give you further advantage as the Safety Mode will be locked from being turned off.

Youtube action is very much applauded, but this is just temporary solution. As the kids grows and become even clever, they will figure out how to overcome this ‘Safety Mode’.

Activating this function is very simple as demonstrated in video below.

Admin 12 February 2010 Internet , , 2 Comments

Firefly Launches Mobile Booking Application

firefly mobile booking Firefly Launches Mobile Booking Application

One development that I love to see here in Malaysia is, more online services were developed for mobile phones. Financial institutions and airlines are among the leading companies that exploring the mobile segment that grows tremendously over the years.

If MAS, Firefly’s parent company has come out with Flymas.mobi as well as iPhone app, Firefly has recently launched their own mobile booking application, which based on Java and able to run on all Java enabled phone. The same application for iPhone and Blackberry are in development. This application will allow the registered users to book flight or retrieved the flight information right from the mobile phone.

To download this application, you have to first to go through registration process which includes giving all personal and payment details. Link to download the application will be SMS to your phone to download and install the application. Head to registration page to get started.

Admin 2 February 2010 mobile app and web, socialize & media , , , , No Comments

7 Yahoo Mail Apps That You Might Be Interested In

Yahoo Mail open apps or simply called Yahoo Mail apps was introduced last year, but it never took off as expected. There are only 12 apps (including Yahoo feedback app) in Application Gallery as of today, which by standard of other app store(especially mobile), is disastrous end result.

It may not Yahoo ultimate goal to grows the number of apps, but merely to provide ‘average’ value-added service to it’s users beside the primary goal… email. Anyhow, these are some of Yahoo Mail apps that you may interested, out of 12 apps.

drop io 7 Yahoo Mail Apps That You Might Be Interested In

Drop.io is free online storage that allow you to attach large files up to 100MB in your outgoing email without require sign up. With this 2 simple steps, your email is ready to go

  • Select and upload the files
  • Once the files loaded, email composer screen will automatically displayed where you put the receipients and email content, and done

Loaded files are available for future usage. To attach larger than 100MB file, you can sign up for premium service which gives you 5GB storage for USD5.99 per month

paypal 7 Yahoo Mail Apps That You Might Be Interested In

As an app, Paypal feature in Yahoo App is quite limited to Send Money and Request Money only. For both function, you’ll fill up all information requested while you still in Yahoo screen, but you still being directed to Paypal login page for sign in and completed the transaction. Anyway, I feel more secure this way, although I still prefer to accomplish everything directly in Paypal website.

flickr 7 Yahoo Mail Apps That You Might Be Interested In

Flickr, a photo and video sharing portal allows you to share photos via email directly, even when you have no Flickr account. However, you can only share the photos made available for public.  If you have Flickr account, you need to sign-in which include steps for Flickr to authorize you to use Flickr in Yahoo Mail. Once you’re in, you’re free to share your own photos with the rest of the world.

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yahoo notepad 7 Yahoo Mail Apps That You Might Be Interested In

Yahoo Notepad is… just like notepad in your desktop, is a simple note editor, where you put a simple note inside. You can organize the notepad into the folder as well, and search the note file.

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yahoo calendar 7 Yahoo Mail Apps That You Might Be Interested In

Yahoo Calendar is another Yahoo own services, serve as .. calendar

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Automatic Organizer or actually called Other Inbox is service that automatically grouped your email based on subject. Or here is how the define their own service

Organizes low priority messages — newsletters, coupons, promotions, receipts, etc into folders, which prioritizes email from real people in your Inbox, and summarizes it all in a digest so you don’t miss anything important

If you first time run the application, is will requesting for authorization, and once you did, it will scan through out your mail box. As it progress, it will display the number of your emails, and it’s summary. By the end of the process, your emails (not all) will be grouped into folders based on topic that Other Inbox determined based on it’s own algorithms.

It’s quite useful if you have unmanageable inbox which receive recurring emails over the time.

other inbox 7 Yahoo Mail Apps That You Might Be Interested In

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zumodrive 7 Yahoo Mail Apps That You Might Be Interested In

My Zumo Drive is another free online storage with 1GB storage limit. Just like drop.io, it allows you to upload the files with maximum 100MB in size and then attached it on your outgoing email except that Zumo Drive require registration before using the service. It works the same way, where you upload the file and uploaded file will be attached to the outgoing email.

Admin 7 January 2010 internet tool , , , , , 2 Comments
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