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yemmz Do You Yemmz?

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 , , , , , No Comments

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

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

How Old Your Twitter Account Is?

howlonghaveyoubeentweeting.com comes very handy to know how old any twitter account is. Wow, I never aware that I’ve been tweeting since 2007, but I’m not heavy Twitter user, so my tweet are mostly my blog post.

how long tweeting How Old Your Twitter Account Is?

This is simpler technique that I found from Ted’s blog when I want to prove above tool is accurate. Modify the URL below by replacing my twitter username with your twitter username. You’ll get the same outcome, with text in bold is your registration date.

http://twitter.com/users/show/thorgentt.xml

6095702 Zaki thorgentt ÜT: 3.015431,101.668107 Ordinary person on the net http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/64762583/501648774_c2184e13bc_o_normal.jpghttp://www.blogjer.com false 729 9ae4e8 000000 0000ff e0ff92 87bc44 726 Thu May 17 03:10:22 +0000 2007 0 -28800 Pacific Time (US & Canada)http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/3598869/PA300039.JPG false 701 false false Mon Nov 16 01:29:33 +0000 2009 5752338780 New blog post: Amax Wimax Booth http://bit.ly/1gUvSy <a href=”http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress” rel=”nofollow”>Twitter Tools</a> false false

Admin 16 November 2009 socialize & media , 3 Comments

Catch up TV in Malaysia

Have you ever watched or followed any tv drama series? Missed any one of the episodes? Don’t be upset, now there is this thing called catch up TV (in Malaysia), whereby you can go online and watch the missed episodes of yours. However, not all drama series are put up in the catch up TV programs, another possible solution, you can go to YouTube.

The catch up TV is actually based on which TV channel the drama series is on. Btw, it’s not just drama series, there are also other program series uploaded. In Malaysia, TV channels consist of RTM which includes TV1 and TV2, plus TV3, NTV7, 8TV, and TV9 which are under Media Prima Berhad. I only watch catch up TV from Media Prima Bhd’s channel, so this article is on one of the Media Prima’s channel, TV3. I tried to check out RTM’s video, but I was not able to watch the video.

Here comes the few steps to catch up on drama episodes that you’ve missed.

1. Go to the website. For this example, we’ll go to TV3 website.

2. First, in order for us to watch any catch up TV, we need to sign up as a member. This ID will then be applicable to other TV websites under Media Prima. Sign up and log in once done.

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3. To view the catch up tv programmes available, just roll over the mouse to “CATCH UP TV”, and select your required programme.

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4. Here comes your Part 1 of the Episode 14. There is an option to view it in full screen.

catchup4 small1 Catch up TV in Malaysia

5. And to go to the next Part of the episode, roll over your mouse to the arrow near to “Next Episode/Bahagian Seterusnya” and you will see another 3 parts to come.

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And that’s how the Catch Up TV works. I remembered there was once, when I was really attached to one Korean movie on 8tv that I watched it over and over again; Yu Hee The Witch, a really nice one I must tell you. However, they have taken it out from 8TV catch up programmes.

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