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Previously I have done several reviews on websites that offer free and useful services. If you still remember, I did introduce websites such as BlinkWeb.com, Enveluv.com, BecomeABlogger.com and DIYminisite.com. Yes, I like to do reviews on all these websites because I am fascinated by the power of Web 2.0 and how it can change our lives to a better one. Today, I am going to introduce another website, or a blog, to be more precise. It’s called Youths Online and you can find it at http://infoyouthdotcom.blogspot.com/.

Maybe you have stumbled upon this blog before. Youths Online is actually a blog created by a blogger friend of mine called Teddy. Teddy is very enthusiastic in blogging and he also wishes to bring benefits to his blog visitors. Besides writing on his own personal blog, he would like to share all the information that is useful and applicable on Youths Online.

Youths Online is focusing on all the youth’s information, including current issues, education, scholarship, study tips and so fourth. Recently I just became his joint-venture partner and will be assisting him in developing Youths Online. Since we both are Malaysians, we basically focus more on the issues and education in Malaysia. Teddy is really a disciplined blogger and he updates Youths Online regularly. Therefore, if you are still young, or if you still consider yourself as a young man, feel free to visit Youths Online.

Teddy created this blog by using Blogger.com. If you have been following my blog, you should know that I always advocate people to purchase a domain name and web server and use the Wordpress.org blogging platform. However, Teddy would prefer to stick to Blogger.com before he has enough money to migrate to a self-hosted blog.

So please visit Youths Online now and subscribe to its RSS feed where you can find it on the sidebar!

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This post is just a short update of my life. Today I had my driving test and I passed it! At the beginning I was quite nervous and I had to wait for few hours there as my examiner came pretty late. Luckily, everything went quite well and eventually I passed the test. I am just exhausted now and I will go back to Kuala Lumpur tomorrow.

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Bill Gates was once the richest man in the world. Currently, he is ranked the third richest man and he is well-known for his company, Microsoft. Yesterday, Bill Gates bid a teary farewell to Microsoft, by leaving his full time executive role. He will focus on his philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest charity, funded in part by his vast fortune.

Microsoft has always been the biggest computer software manufacturer, focusing on producing operating system. “Microsoft Windows” and many applications such as “Microsoft Office”, “Windows Media Player” and so fourth have become the household names. However, Microsoft always tries to expand its business to other fields. For instance, Microsoft Xbox is challenging Sony PlayStation. Besides, Microsoft also has to face competition from other strong and established companies such as Google and Apple.

Nevertheless, Bill Gates is still the director as he is the biggest shareholder of Microsoft. If he were to sell all his shares, he would probably earn another billions of dollars in his bank.

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Chedet is a blog owned by our former Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and you can find it at chedet.com. This blog has been very famous and popular ever since Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad started publishing on it. When I first visited his website, I found two things. The first thing was Chedet really received a lot of responses from the Malaysians and almost every blog posts there got more than 500 comments. The second thing I found was Chedet at that time was hosted on Blogger.com. Although Chedet had it’s own domain name, it was still using the blogging platform and server of Blogger.com, which is owned by Google.

If you have been following my blog, you should know that I have been recommending Wordpress.org over Blogger.com and even Wordpress.com. You can find out more about this aspect on my previous post named “Why I Host My Blog On Paid Domain And Server“. I strongly advise people to have their blogs on paid domain and hosting. This is because the free hosted blog service like Blogger.com or Wordpress.com can easily shut down your blog without giving you any prior warning if the administrators suspect that your blog infringes their terms and conditions even if your blog doesn’t!

When I first knew that Chedet was hosted on Blogger.com, I was very sure that Chedet would move to another blogging platform soon. Today morning, I just found a newspaper report regarding Chedet was banned by Blogger.com. So I just logged on to the Internet and visited the blog. Then I found the following article posted on his blog and I took the except and pasted it here.

On Friday June 19th, chedet.com was locked by the administration of Bloggers.com for what was termed as “suspected spam blog”. Following that chedet.com has not been able to publish any new posting pending approval by Bloggers.com.

Despite repeated appeals Bloggers.com have yet to “unlock” chedet.com to allow for posting of new comments. Due to this measures have been taken to migrate chedet.com from Bloggers.com in an effort to avoid further disruption, hence the new page set up.

Chedet.com apologises to all readers and commentators for the inconvenience caused. Chedet.com would like to notify readers that comments for previous postings have not been attached currently while the technical team resolves certain matters. As for new postings commentators are only required to follow the simple registration steps accordingly before submitting comments.

(Taken From http://test.chedet.com/che_det/2008/06/special-note.html)

Apparently, Chedet has moved out from Blogger.com. I thought Chedet was moving to Wordpress.org as it is a very popular blogging platform and many politicians are actually using it. Then I found that Chedet is now using the Movable Type blogging software. Movable Type is also a good blogging software but it is not as popular as Wordpress.org.

I can see the difficulty of migrating Chedet from Blogger.com to the Movable Type blogging platform. That’s why I started my blog straight on Wordpress.org with my own domain name and web host. This can save me a lot of hassles in the future.

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Last month, I wrote a blog post on how to create a mini site in 30 minutes by learning on a website called DIYMinisite. That website is good for people who are interested in building mini sites. Lately, I discovered a newly established website called “BlinkWeb” which you can find it at blinkweb.com.

Why did I know about this website? Well, I was actually informed by a famous Internet marketer and Search Engine Optimization master, Brad Callon as I am one of his newsletter subscribers. At that time, the website was still not open yet so I could only watch the introduction video. The video showed me all the functions available on this website and I just found it very cool! After waiting for about 1 or 2 weeks, BlinkWeb finally allows people to sign up and start using the service.

Brad Callen always brings powerful products to the Internet marketing scene. BlinkWeb is definitely another marvellous website done by him. I just registered for an account and tried using the tools and services on the website. Everything is so easy to use and it is 100% what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG). With BlinkWeb, you can easily create any professional websites, whether it’s blog, sales copy, community site and so fourth. It is perfect for those who have no idea of how html, php, server and database work. On top of that, it is FREE of charge! Yes, I always introduce free services to my blog readers. The service on BlinkWeb is free and every website created is given a free subdomain, for instance myweb.blinkweb.com. Of course you have got to pay some money if you plan to buy yourself a domain name and hosting.

In my opinion, BlinkWeb can definitely beat other website creators such as Microsoft Frontpage or Dreamweaver in the Internet marketing newbie niche. But the only drawback of using this website is you have to do everything on the Internet. Some people would profer to do things offline as the Internet connection in Malaysia can be very bad sometimes.

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Sending greeting cards is probably one of the best ways of expressing your gratitude or keeping in touch with your friends or relatives. With the advancement of technology, people tend to use electronic version of greeting cards instead of the conventional physical one. Well, it is of course more environmental-friendly to use the digital products such as SMS, MMS, email, e-greeting cards and so fourth. However, many people would like to receive physical greeting cards. They perceive the physical greeting cards carrying more sincerity than the electronic cards in which you can’t really touch.

I believe all Malaysians are aware that the inflation rate in Malaysia has increased dramatically due to the sudden fuel price increase. Everything in Malaysia has increased in terms of price, not efficiency ironically. So it could be very expensive for you to purchase many physical greeting cards to send to your dear friends and relatives.Therefore, I am going to introduce a website here, called Enveluv.com.

Enveluv.com is a new website founded by a team of Malaysians. This website allows you to send physical greeting cards to whoever by doing only four steps online.

You just have to choose a card design, write your message, fill in your recipient’s address and then send your card by clicking on the “Send” button. It is as easy as learning ABC. What important is that enveluv.com does not charge money for any greeting cards you send. So how does it make money from? Well, enveluv.com earns money from advertising. For each greeting cards sent, there will be advertisements shown on the back of the envelopes.

I tried using it before to send a card to my father. So I am going to give some comments here about the website. The website is pretty cool with its what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) mode of selecting greeting cards and it is dead simple. So it is definitely another Web 2.0 style of website. However, the website is still new and thus there are too little templates available for selection. Besides, you do not really have control over the date in which the greeting cards reach the recipient’s address. The good news is that one of the founders did announce that they will be adding new functions whereby we can design the cards on our own, whether we want to add in our pictures or more customized graphics. Besides, you can also contact the customer support by mailing them about the date you wish the greeting cards to reach at the recipient’s house.

The idea of sending physical greeting cards without paying money is really awesome. Hopefully the management team can manage to upgrade the website as soon as possible so that we can enjoy more advanced functions. There are more and more Malaysians starting their Internet businesses like what the founders of enveluv.com do. Maybe you can treat this website as a case study for you to venture into the Internet business world.

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10,549,642
How much money will you be worth?

Ladies and gentlemen, I am going to be rich in the next 10 years with $10,549,642! I just found this interesting website, www.howrichwillibe.com from a very popular blog. It requires you to answer a set of questions. At the end, your future wealth will be assessed based upon the answers you give. Isn’t it cool? Hopefully I can achieve this amazing figure in the future.

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Before I start writing anything relevant to the topic, I just want to wish very fathers in the world happy Father’s Day.

Okay, let’s get to the topic. If you have read about my previous posts, you should know that I do not have my own Internet connection in Kuala Lumpur. That is why I have to always visit cafes that provide wireless Internet connection. Sometimes, I have to blog in the computer centre at my college with very slow connection. It is so difficult for me to blog and do research on Internet business. You should know how annoying it is when the Internet speed goes very slow or even worse, gets disconnected.

One of my housemate decided to install the Streamyx at my house in Kuala Lumpur. I was so excited as I thought I would not have to pay money to the cafes anymore. Besides, that housemate of mine actually had done all the necessary set up and the Internet could be accessed once the TMnet activated it. After one day, a staff of TMnet called my housemate and told him that there was(is) no more port available for new Streamyx set up. I was so disappointed and irritated. Sometimes I just wonder why the Tmnet has to do so much promotion at my place while we cannot even install the Streamyx!

Finally I have returned to my hometown, in Johor Bahru. I brought my laptop back, thinking that I could fully utilize the streamyx at my home to surf the Internet. However, the connection speed is pathetically slow. On top of that, it even got disconnected for about 5 hours today. I am going to call the TMnet tomorrow and hopefully the technicians can really solve my problem.

Both Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru are the two biggest cities in Malaysia. TMnet should really make sure that these two cities have proper and stable Internet coverage. The Internet is getting more important among the people especially those who are doing Internet business. I don’t know how good the Internet connection is in Penang, but I think the Internet should be slow as well in other states.

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Finally I finished my last exam papers yesterday. I am so happy to be able to blog again. Now I am blogging at my home in Johor Bahru. It’s great to come back home after few months staying in Kuala Lumpur. Hopefully I can meet my friends very soon.

Recently, quite a lot of things have happened. The most popular topic nowadays is definitely the issue of increased fuel price. I am not going to write about it in this post. I will just show you a picture that I took at a LRT station instead.

I know. The government is encouraging the people to take public transport nowadays. But the government should also be aware that the public transport is not efficient. Even worse, as you can see in the picture, the LRT was not able to occupy all the passengers. Many of them had to wait for long time in order to get into the LRT. Even I myself had to squeeze in the crowd with my girlfriend (So pathetic!). When I say “squeeze”, I really mean that. Ironically, I did not have to worry about falling down as there was not even any space in the LRT for you to do so. Everyone was as if sticking with each other in the LRT.

Anyway, I am just happy that I am free now. I can finally begin my journey in Internet business without having to worry about my studies and academic performance. After all, I have to wait for the exam result to be released in August.

Hopefully I will manage to set up my Internet business soon. I am still doing research into every different business model and see which one does suit me. It is better to find a business that is not only profitable, but also less hassle.

Here I come, my dream!

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If you have been following my blog, you should know that I am a big fan of Yaro Starak, an Australian problogger. Today, I will be sharing his free ebook here. This ebook is called “How To Start An Internet Business”. I actually obtained this book by subscribing to his RSS feed at entrepreneurs-journey.com. You may find out more about Yaro Starak by reading my previous post.

Yaro is not only a problogger, but also a successful online and offline entrepreneur. What he amazes me is he has never taken any full time job before, despite having some casual part-time jobs during his University life. I think it is cool as he really knows how to leverage on the Internet to start his own business.

This ebook is a very good guide for those who have zero knowledge about online business and those who have just started their business on the Internet. Yaro has been emphasizing on the importance of distinguishing between strategies and tactics. This ebooks is written more on the strategies part instead of the tactics. After all, you can easily find any step-by-step tactics on the Internet.

You may download the ebook here and please write your review on this ebook by leaving a comment here. Thank you!

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