History of Marketing

Are you marketeer?

Its more of the same.

In the end, we are still writing on virtual wall (Facebook or Twitter).


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Saturday Weekly Reports : Week #32 Updates — Net Neutrality

Week #32 updates: Updates on new changes on this blog, technical setups and what I think are significant events that happen on the week. On this Blog: Improvements to Follow Us. Focusing on directions for blogs. Increase in readership. Offers of joining advertisement affiliates. Internet updates: Net Neutrality. GPL resolved? Facebook, I'm checking in. Blog updates: 1. Improvements on "Follow Us". Last week, I implemented the RSS Button... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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I like Mike

Introducing Senator Mike Gravel.

He’s also working to produce a new TV show, I Like Mike, with him as the President of the United States.



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Dumbing down the Internet - Twitter

The Tweet Network. Everybody is a blogger.

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In remembrance - Al-Fadil Ustaz Ahmad Sonhadji Mohamad

Ustaz Ahmad Sonhadji (Mohamad) was a renowned and respected Muslim scholar from Singapore. He was born in 18th August 1922 (24 Zulhijjah 1340H) in Surakarta (Solo), Central Java, Indonesia. In 1927, at the age of five, he travelled with his parents to Singapore and lived with the Solo community at the Jalan Sultan area known as Pasir Gembur. Later, his family moved to Rengat (Sumatra). He returned to Singapore and became a citizen. ... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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PR disaster

Heard about Steven Slater? The flight steward that when ballistic over a customer "assault" on him. That just shows you that the cliché: "the customer is always right" is wrong. It should be changed to: "The customer doesn't know anything."... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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The real reason

Why actually iPhone users have more sex.

Apple iPhone 4 Antenna FAIL

by Guhmshoo

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Why school is important.

Nobody's perfect. Even native speakers.
Workers have misspelled the word school on a road approaching a high school in North Carolina in the US.

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Being remarkable

This video by Seth Godin was filmed on Feb 2003. What is remarkable is that 7 years later, the message is still relevant now. The video is from TED: Ideas worth Spreading. I love TED and their Ted Blog have migrated to WordPress.com. It means their videos can be embedded into WordPress.com blogs. Which is even more fantastic.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Inception

Inception. Once awhile comes a film that makes your mind do mental gymnastics.

I always see a movie once. 

Then I wait for the DVD. Its cheap and it will probably come out in 3 to 6 months. The time frame from movie to DVD is now shorter.

• Why movies? -- To see the special effects. I'm not going to buy a $20,000 or $6m home theater entertainment set.

• Why DVDs? -- I can have the subtitle, pause and replay a scene to get the deeper meaning of the movie.

I definitely won't be stupid enough to see it more than once in a movie.

Granted, the DVD will come out later. So what if you can't be gratified instantly.

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Map of Social Media networks

2010 Social Media networks when mapped.

Inspired by XKCD via Flowtown

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Duplicated Content

I remembered about duplicated content. It goes something like this: Google will penalizes if I submit the same article to different directories.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Clever Name Card

 Loved it! Minimalist design.

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Ego. All about me.

Are you egoistic?

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Of acronyms and how it can fail

Acronyms. You must be careful in using it. It could mean something else.

When SARS struck, the original was ARS or Acute Respiratory Syndrome. The acronym spelled out as ARS. It presented a problem, for newspaper editors and everyone as well.

Imagine the headline:

"Asia struck by ARS.",

"How do you know if you have ARS?"

It was subsequently decided to rename it as SARS. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.

Now what has all this got to do with MUIS?

They decided to use ARS.

Malay Muslims attempt at English language that falls short. 

Makes me wonder. Forgive me Allah SWT.

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Social Media Impact

How social media impacts us in our daily lives.

In fact its already done in real life. This guy, Matt Van Horn uses Twitter, Foursquare and Qik for his marriage proposal. 

Matt's blog.

Later it will be like this:

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Blogetery Shutdown - Stupidity or just plain business rivalry

Blogetery.com is up again. It was shut down recently. The reason for the shut down from its host BurstNet: It was revealed that a link to terrorist material, including bomb-making instructions and an al-Qaeda 'hit list', had been posted to the site...... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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HDMI cable. Don't get suckered to buy the high end.

How many believe that paying more means better quality?

For HDMI cable, its not true.

You are getting rip off if you buy the quality premium ones.

 

And that applies to the gold plated analog A/V cable too.

Here's why?

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Twitter Parade

Do you want to have a cool Twitter Parade?

Everybody is a blogger

Yes, that includes you. Yes, you! The point is, if you are on any social sites, like Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, MySpace, than you are already a blogger blogging away.. Does that comes to you as a surprise? ... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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The iPad killer

via From Cyberbofh's blog

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Finally, flash on iPad and iPhone

Held and poke the new iPad at the local Apple Store.

Nothing impressive. Just a dumb-downed netbook.

Surfed. Can't load Flash

Yes I know about HTML5. Its not here yet. Flash is here.

My son, 8 years old, surfed to his usual Flash games website.

Daddy, its broken. Its not working

That sums up the iPad.

Finally a hack to install Flash on iPad and iPhone.

Then again, I'll never buy any hyped-up, dumbed-down, walled-garden products from Apple.

Android yes.

If you don't understand that, you deserve an Apple.

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Happy 45th National Day Singapore

I live in Singapore. I love the country. That does not mean I love the ruling party, People's Action Party (PAP) The government is not PAP. PAP is the ruling party. Unfortunately, the ruling party have their members in it. How widespread? Even in the National Trade Union Congress. With the ruling party, every year Singapore have become less of a home. An article from the past. Original link is gone. Fortunately I kept it in the cloud. The persistance of information.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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Blind Faith and 786

The other day someone (a Muslim) told me that 786 represents the numerical value of "In the name......" 

Where did he get that? So I asked him. 

His reply was that if you have faith you'd believe. 

I just rolled my eyes at the ridiculousness of the statement. And I'm a Muslim.

"Knowledgeable" Muslims falls for blind faith. 

As a Muslim it is not only about faith. It is faith with understanding. Then again understanding doesn't have to be profound. 

A simple reality check is all that needed. 

For Muslims just ask yourself when you do anything do you say "" or do you say 786?

Fairly obvious isn't it? 

Thus the absurdity and ignorance becomes clear.

If 786 was written on a piece of paper, I'd just step on it.

Only for Muslims who want to understand: The Myth of 786

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The Power of Compounding

Do you know what is compounding interest?

I'll explain with a simple story.

Ages ago, there was a King who loved to play games. He has lots of games brought to him from all over his domain.

Even though he had a lot of games, he was bored and wanted something that was much more challenging.

In his kingdom, there lived a poor inventor. The King commissioned him to come up with a new game.

Months passed and finally the inventor came up with a game, that is now known as chess.

The King loved the game so much that he offered the poor inventor anything he wished for.

At that time, the kingdom riches was in rice. It produces the most rice and it is exported well beyond the kingdom borders.

"I'm a simple man."

"I would like one grain of rice for the first square of the board, two grains for the second, four grains for the third and so on doubled for each of the 64 squares of the game board”

The King laughed heartily, "Everybody that brings games to pay would just want gold or silver. Are you sure, that's all you want?"

"Yes, your majesty, I'm a simple man" repeated the inventor.

The king ordered his staff to lay down the grains of rice. By the time they reach the 40th square, the whole kingdoms supply of rice was exhausted.

The King learned that all the wealth in his kingdom would not be enough to buy the amount of rice needed on the 64th square.

The rice he asked will be around 18 billion billion. So if a bag of rice contained a billion grains, you would need 18 billion such bags.

“You have provided me with such a great game and yet I cannot fulfill your simple wish. You are indeed a genius.” said the King and offered to make the inventor as his top most advisor instead.

Compounding interest only works for the banks to enslave you.

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Apples vs Oranges

Image by Peter Čuhalev via Flickr

Posterous vs Wordpress vs Blogger

How do you compare blogging platforms?

What about Typepad, Blogger, Tumblr, Ning to name a few. 

Is one better that the other?

I have a self hosted Wordpress, where I can do this: A bar on top of any link.

I have Wordpress.com account. It's another blog.

Its there because of Akismet and I have to have the API key.

I have another blog in Blogger.

1. Posterous for quick updates via email.
2. Journeyman Journeys for expanded content.
3. Articles posted in Journeyman Journeys get autoposted to Posterous.
4. Posterous autopost to other social networks including the two other blogs.
5. Posterous does not autopost to Journeyman Journeys.
6. Blogger does not autopost to Posterous.

Get it?

To me Posterous is like a scooter, it gets me around fast and my self-hosted Wordpress is like a car, carries more and far more convenient.

Both still get me to my destination: Which is to reach out to more readers.

There, can you tell which platform is the best or better?

What about Squidoo? where does it fit?

It's all up to you. Hosted or Self-hosted.

Or just use Facebook as your blog or even Twitter.

Blogging boundaries have just been blurred.

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Related articles on the net

• Posterous vs Blogger vs Wordpress (journeymanjourneys.com)
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• Waging war on Wordpress (guardian.co.uk)
• Review Of The Top Three Blogging Platforms - WordPress, TypePad and Blogger (thoughtmechanics.com)
• Tumblr Topples Typepad (blogherald.com)
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Saturday Weekly Reports : Week #31 Updates - The begining

I'm starting a weekly updates on what happened during the week. I'll try to have it as a regular post. Hey, I'm a one-man-show. Basically I'll update on new changes on this blog, technical setups and significant events that happen on the week. On this Blog: Inclusion of RSS feeds. Using of NuCaptcha. Autopost by this blog using plugin. Email is up. Internet updates: Posterous DDos Attack. Wave Google Wave bye bye. Free Drupal hosted.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys

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