I have my Twitter account registered a few months back, but it’s only now that I started using it quite frequent. At that time, I’m not a big fan of any socializing tool, but 2008 has changed me a lot. With Web 2.0 wave growing stronger, I couldn’t afford to just let them slip through my finger anymore.

Ok, my interest on Twitter is back after reading Lorella’s post (one of my favourite bloggers) about Twitter. And my interest keeps getting stronger when I read an article about Twitter, which was the hot thing last year at SXSW, and again becomes another hot thing  this year. There must me something very special about it!! Ahh, but poor me, early comer but late user of Twitter.

Why is Twitter HAWT? There are a lot of reasons I believe. But in my humble opinion, there is no better answer rather than the ability to post, distribute and share the short message with mass audience in real time basis. Yeah, darn fast!!

Twitter for WordPress

There are bunches of Twitter related tools out there, (wtips has a long list of twitter tools for various usage), but I’d rather get used to it step by step starting with my blog. I choose Alex King plugin which appears on top of the Google SERP for keyword ‘twitter plugin’. As you can see, I put my twitter on top of my left sidebar for a better view.

My twitter indexed by Google

Apparently, Google has indexed my Twitter update that I had put on my left sidebar with the link pointed to homepage. Is this considered duplicate??

How to update twitter 

There are many ways to update Twitter. You can for sure update it from its homepage, Twitter.com. I suppose I can update my Twitter from WP-admin menu, but it seems not working. So I leave that first until I have time to figure out what’s wrong with the setting. 

Alternatively I use Google Talk. Just add twitter@twitter.com to your contact list, and shoot off an IM to it, which subsequently updates my twitter. But the new post won’t shows up on Blogjer.com’s left sidebar automatically,  I have to login into my WP-Admin to update it manually. This is 1 area that this plugin is lacking with (perhaps Alex has his own reason not to have this feature for the sake of performance). In my opinion, if it has this feature, this is simply the best Twitter plugin for WordPress

Twitter and Google talk banned in my office

Unfortunately Gmail, Google Talk and Twitter is inaccessible (filtered by firewall) in my office environment. So I couldn’t update and view Twitter frequently (the WordPress plugin unable to do so as well).

Update Twitter by email

This is how TwitterMail.com come in handly. With simple registration, you’ll get 1 unique email address. Send an e-mail to your TwitterMail address which will update your Twitter. The body of the message will be published in your Twitter Profile. Leave the subject-line empty for the normal message. TwitterMail is more than updating Twitter. Read the their cool features.

Twitter on mobile

I’ve tested few application before settled down with Cellity and Abiro Jitter, though Cellity has slight edge with more functionality. For a note, I’m using Sony Ericsson PE990i and WIFI as a method of connecting to Internet, please check your phone compatibility before installation. From the test from my mobile phone, my Twitter updated almost immediately. If I could get hold of my friend’s blackberry for testing, I hope I can provide more info what is the best Twitter client on Blackberry later

Twitter on Firefox.

It wasn’t complete guide without talking what you can do with Twitter from Firefox. I manage to test 2 add-on only which I feel best suit to beginner like me. I use Twitterbar to update Twitter from Firefox address bar. Spatielview has detail along with the screen shot how to install and use this Firefox addon.

And to view my Twitter on Firefox browser, I install Tweetbar which can be viewed an Firefox sidebar. Unfortunately, this 2 plugin doesn’t work in restricted internet environment such as my office though :~)

Follow my Twitter  

As I mentioned earlier, I started using Twitter few months back, but I abandon it up until recently. I don’t even know that I have 5 folks follows my Twitter. Having said that, feel free to follow my twitter. There is nothing special following me, but you can be the first to know if there is new post from this blog and from my other blog that I’ll integrate into my Twitter account in near future. 

Drop your Twitter link too in comment section, so I can sneak what you’re doing. You follow me, I follow you.

This is the continuity of yesterday’s post. I decided not to go to PWTC, instead, I went to Alamanda Putrajaya for shopping and viewing of the new Proton Saga. It is indeed very nice, and if I’m not committing myself on my current car’s monthly installment, perhaps I’d be getting one for myself. Btw, I’m sorry for not providing much details about the event on yesterday post, I was there for only a short period of time, not much to be covered. And there is a lot of work to be completed in office yesterday, I was only able to view the pictures and write the post at around 1.30 am, sigh…

Well, part 2 is not that interesting too ;(, I can’t gather much information about the event on the net. Even, the official website also doesn’t provide such information. Walau-eh!!

The winner
First thing that you wanna know!!

The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search Award

Name : I’m not sure. But this guy is humble and really down to earth. He deserves to win this contest. His father was accompanying him too, must be a dad’s son huh?
Website : ShoutMix.com – Free chatbox for websites
Alexa Rank : 17,008
Pagerank : 6
backlink : 26,300

Most Popular Blog Award

Name : Paul Tan
Websites : PaulTan.org – Most of you have heard about his blog, all about cars
Alexa Rank : 11,454
Pagerank : 6
backlink : 4310

How is the winner chosen?

I’ve no idea on this, and it seems to be another unanswered question that only the organizer knows. It is definitely not based on popularity or traffic, otherwise Paul Tan who won the most popular blog would have easily won this contest. In fact, according to one of the moderators in eMenang, the winner does not even installed the script to get voted!!!!

So these are my assumptions:

1. The commercial value of his site and the possible unlocked value of the website and the partipant
2. How the same product can be developed further or on the collaboration that can be made with the winner
3. The entrepreneurship spirit and the age- he started at 21 if I’m not mistaken
4. The participant’s skill set – During the media conference the winner mentioned that he started coding this program by himself since studying in MMU.
5. The organizer’s future planning and agenda which suits with the winner-to-be

The event

YouthMalaysia is a lot more than this contest alone. There’s a lot more activities which you can find on their  outdated webpage. Dotcom Youth Search award is one of them, and there are others such as TafficJam, fashion, YouthStyle, futsal, graffiti, charity and etc.

The Organizer

YM is the brainchild of Joel Neoh, the winner of The Firm, which was aired on NTV7 last year. It was co-organized by MCA, Ministry of Youth Development, Rakan Muda and co-sponsored by gov and private agencies. Just imagine, the total prize is 300K, it is not cheap, so someone must be sponsoring this, if not, it must be coming from the gov.

The Goodies

We’ve got TM nut beg freebie containing gossips and entertainment (what the heck!!) magazines, pen, event’s pamphlet and a mouse pad. Btw, since I have 2 sets of this goodies, I decided to give it away to anyone who’s staying around Seri Kembangan or is working near Cyberjaya. First come first served. Contact me if you’re interested.

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Btw, is anyone of you in this picture? FahmiShah, are you somewhere in this pic, I read somewhere (I can’t recall from where) that you were there too?

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Resources: LYN , emenang forum , youthsearch