facebook anyone? (Version Bahasa Malaysia)

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Even though facebook expose our profile without limitation, believe it or not, that other social media sites such as Myspace, Friendster and so on have already been beaten by Facebook.com. There are people who starve themselves or just waste their whole day sitting in front of the computer just to use the applications available in facebook.

It is very clear that Facebook has much more users now compare to the others. The main attraction is probably then new lay out, the new design, the varieties of applications, more user friendly, and the one i like the most is, they have a very good interactivity with the user.

As you can see in the sites, showing that Malaysia is one of the top 10 for the fastest growing over pass weeks. Me, myself is a facebook user. I enjoy using it because i can make new friends easily, sharing my photos to update myself with my school friends, college mate, new friends and even my family members. As a teenager, i enjoy playing the games from all the applications provided.

My friend wanted to host a party next weekend but he didn't know how to invite all his friends without going through all the hassle, i suggested him to Facebook. He now have almost all his friends clicking on the "attend" button on the invitation application. :)

Social Media, more than just media! (Bahasa Malaysia Version)

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Minggu ini saya hendak berkongsi infromasi tentang media social.

Tangapan orang ramai terhadap media social amatlah berbeza kalau dibandingkan apa yang dapat dilihat dari gambaran yang sebenarnya. Katakanlah kalau seseorang dikalangan komuniti kita kalau disoal apakah itu media social, mereka hanya akan keluar dengan jawapan yang sama iaitu “YOUTUBE”. Jawaban ini diperkuatkan lagi dengan survey yang telah dijalankan tidak lama dahulu.

Blog ini akan memperkukuhkan lagi pengetahuan anda terhadap laman web media social. Blog untuk minggu ini akan mempersembahkan anda dengan Berita Media Sosial. Ini mesti megejutkan kerana berita juga dikategorikan sebagai media social.

Muda-mudi zaman sekarang amat tidak berminat membaca suratkhabar atau pun hanya mengimbas sepintas lalu jadi untuk megatasi masalah generasi muda sekarang yang amat terpengaruh dengan kemudahan IT, cara yang amat mudah ialah membawa berita keriba mereka. Setiap orang akan setuju dengan penyelesaian yang telah dikemukakan.

Kita semua sedar dengan kemudahan dan kecanggihan IT di era sekarang, setiap orang dari setiap pelusuk dunia dapat berhubungan satu sama lain dengan memberi dan bertukar pendapat. Ini bukan sahaja sebagai hiburan tetapi memberi peluang untuk mengembangkan pengetahuan masing-masing.

Salah satu sebab mengapa agensi media membuat kemudahan sebegini supaya mereka tidak akan kehilangan pelangan – pelangan mereka dan juga supaya pelangan mereka akan dapat berita yang tekini pada setiap waktu. Kalau dikutkan perubahan dunia sekarang , tidak lama lagi suratkhabar tidak akan wujud lagi. Orang ramai akan terima perubahan ini kerana ini merupakan harapan orang ramai untuk menerima berita dalam waktu yang amat singkat. Berita Media Sosial akan dan telah membuat perubahan yang amat besar dalam perubahan dunia sekarang.

Week 4 Poll Results!

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Last week we asked the readers if sharing images online should be encouraged, and this was the results..



20% of the readers said yes with the given answer it allows you to connect with people, 20% said NO, with the given answer it was dangerous and the majority with 60% said just plainly yes.

Different users have different opinions, but I guess image sharing is alright when used in the right way. It can definitely turn into something bad when it is misused. Therefore users have to be smart and decide what is appropriate to share online and whats not to avoid problems!

Photos, photos and more photos! ( Bahasa Malaysia Version)

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Topik untuk minggu ini ialah laman media sosial untuk perkongsian gambar!

Dan saya akan bercakap tentang, Photobucket!

Apa anda buat apabila anda mempunyai banyak gambar-gambar dan anda mahu menunjukkannya kepada kawan-kawan dan ahli keluarga?? Adakah anda perlu bantuan menyokong gambar-gambar berharga anda?? Kalau begitu, cubalah Photobucket!

Photobucket adalah satu pengacaraan imej, perkongsian foto bebas, perkongsian video dan dan laman web penciptaan slideshow. Ia dicipta pada 2003, dan paling digunakan untuk menkongsi album-album peribadi seseorang pengguna . Photobucket juga banyak digunakan dengan meluas dalam blog, dan juga laman sosial seperti Myspace dan Facebook.

Photobucket menawarkan 500MB ruang simpanan untuk gambar dan juga berjam-jam perkongsian video. Ia dahulunya 1GB, tetapi sama seperti laman-laman lain, mereka mula mengenakan bayaran. Pengguna-pengguna yang memerlukan lebih banyak ruang terpaksa membayar.

Dalam soal privasi, pengguna boleh membuat akaun awam, iaitu membenarkan sesiapa untuk melihat akaun pengguna, atau membuat akaun terlindung yang hanya membenarkan pengguna lain yang terpilih sahaja melihat akuan pengguna.

Photobucket bukan hanya satu-satunya laman media social sebegini dalam pasaran, ia berkongsi pasarannya dengan lebih daripada 30 jenis perkongsian gambar yang lain seperti Flickr, Imej Shack dan Picasa. Pada pendapat saya, Photobucketlah yang paling mersa untuk diguna dan adalah pilihan yang paling popular di kalangan pengguna.

social media news!

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Many people would always like something new. New phones, mp3, computer hardware and social news. There is a site that people can go to, its called mashable.com. It has so many interesting things about news, guide and so much more.

In this site, there is also carts, comparison and many things as well. The most common one will be facebook, twitter, myspace and so much more. It has so many category such as entertainment, news, video and other things to explore. Under those categories, there also many choice to choose from. For example, under entertainment, there is film, sports, celebrities and so many things to learn and explore together with your friends. Check out the site if you have the chance to!

check out this website to learn more new things!!

Social Media, more than just media!

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Well, what I meant by that is, social media sites are alot more than what people assume it to be. For example, if you were to ask a person what social media site do you use most as the previous poll result we got answers of Youtube.

Well this blog is going to expand your knowledge of Social Media sites. This weeks blog is going to be speakng about Social media News. Don't be alarmed! News also falls under the category of social media. Younger generation these days are not very interested in picking up the newspaper and flipping pages. Since they are the I.T generation why not bring the news to them. I'm sure you would all agree to that decision. Since news is online, as every other social site, people all around the world get to exhange their views on the commenting options and it then not only expands your knowledge it also connects people.

The main reason why news was mad available online is so that the newspaper companies would be able to keep up and not lose its customers. As the world is changing, one day actual newspapers would no longer exist. People would get used to having things at an instant. Social Media News has made a huge difference around the world.



I hope this post has thought you a bit more about Social Media Sites!

Wishing everyone a Happy Chinese New Year!.

Community Q and A's

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Wondering what is community Q & A (Question & Answer) ??

It is actually a type of social media site as well. What type you may ask? One that provides you with answers like Yahoo!Answers.



Yahoo! Answers like most other community Q and A's work this way - Users can submit questions to be answered and answer questions put up by other, thus it's name, community Q and A's. According to comScore, Yahoo! Answers is the second most popular Q&A site on the Internet. The number one spot belongs to Answers.com.

All users need is a Yahoo! ID and members are encouraged to participate in order to earn points. This points are needed to ask questions on Yahoo! Answer. The reason for this point system is to get users to answer other users questions and to avoid spam questions.

I'm not too sure about this whole point system, but I think Yahoo! Answers can be very useful. If you want to know more sites like this and compare them with Yahoo! Answers then you have to come back and check out the next two post this week!

Till then cheers to a prosperous chinese new year!

Week Three Poll Results!

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This week's poll is about using social media sites to listen to music. The poll says that 50% of the community uses the sites and the other half doesn't. In my opinion, why some people does not listen to their music through website is because they like to download it and listen to their own downloaded with the media player or other player. There are so many downloading software that can be used by everyone to make it easier. Me, myself does not like to listen to music through the website, i preferred listening it through the Mp3. :P

Postive outlook of Sharing Images

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Well guys my post this week is about a positive issue. As we all know sharing images through image hosting website has always been seen to a certain extend as a negative aspect. Why? Well this is due to some people who use this kinda services to promote themselves in a wrong manner. If you know what i mean.

Well I came across the positive aspect of this on an article. It was an article written by a parent telling other parents out there not to only look at the bad aspects of online services. This parent spoke about how her daughter had put up pictures that was taken during christmas and using the tagging option was able to show it to other family members. The parent was very happy that her daughter found a new mode of keeping in touch with family and friends.

This article clearly shows that there is a bigger plus point to sharing images online. "Sharing is Caring" is something that is fondly used by teenagers these days, I strongly believe that it should be followed. Share information, moments and memories that benefit others not bring harm.



Thats all for this weeks post guys. Till next week.Take Care =)

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MORE PHOTOS?

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Today’s topic will be about PHOTOS. People like to share photo with their friends, family and the whole world. Flickr.com is the place where u can share your photos with people who care for you.

There are many ways to upload your photos. From you desktop, sent by emails and so much more. Don’t have a computer near you? Use a mobile phone and email the photos and it will be uploaded right away.

Photos can be edited to remove red eye, crop the pictures and put in effect. Photos can be crop to smaller pieces and a specific size according to the user.

Photos in flickers can be organized easily; use collection, set and the photos can be tagged and put in categories of your choice. There is also a tool called map. This tool will share where your photos and videos are taken. Users can also view photos and videos that were taken near them!

Users can use Flickr to make stuff. Examples such as sexy cards, photo books, framed photos, DVDs and so much more. Users can get updates from their friends and family whenever and wherever they go! Start exploring Flickr! Its worth it

reference:www.flickr.com/tour

Photos, photos and more photos!

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Hello and welcome back! Topic for this week social media sites for photo sharing!

And I'm going to talk about, Photobucket!



What do you do when you have tons of pictures and you want to show them to your circle of friends and family?? Need back up for your precious pictures?? Then Photobucket is for you!

Photobucket is an image hosting, free photo sharing, video sharing and and slideshow creation website. It was created in 2003, and its most famously used for personal albums of pictures. Photobucket is also used widely in blogs, e-bay and also social networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook.

Photobucket offers 500MB of storage space and hours of video sharing. It was previously 1GB, but as all media sites, they started charging. Users who needed more space had to upgrade of course.

In terms of privacy, users could make it a public account allowing anyone to view it, or make it private and only allowing selected people to use it.

Photobucket is not one of a kind in the market, it shares it with more than 30 different types of photo sharing sites. To name a few - Flicker, Image Shack & Picasa. But to me, it feels like the most user friendly and popular choice to use amongst users.

Week 2 Poll Results!

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This weeks poll was about Facebook asking us to pay for their services.We asked you what would your rather do, and the answer was as expected. As you can see above, majority has said that they would switch to friendster and the rest stop using social networking sites at all. Now as you can see, Friendster and Facebook has made such a huge effect on their user that people would either swithc between the both or quit using sites like this at all.

There are many different types of social networking sites, such as Myspace, Bebo,Hi5 and so much more, but when discussed in a crowd the only two names and pop-up are Facebook and Friendster. This poll also clearly shows, that Facebook should not make their users pay for the services, they would loose out big time.

Anyways guys thanks for sharing you input in this quick poll. We will be coming up with more interesting stuff for you'll in our next poll.

Social Music Sites an issue?

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As you can read from the earlier post, you can see that Imeem is out. My post today is today is to speak about the issues users come acrooss when using social music sites. The top 3 issues are as follows.

Firstly: Tracks Played Counter, this is when the play counter on your profile suddenly drops a lot of plays, although all the scrobbled tracks are still in your charts. This is a display glitch which will correct itself within 24 hours, you haven't actually lost any scrobbles! So dont worry.


Next :Radio Page, the video advertisement that flashes before the radio starts can cause some browsers to crash for example, Internet Explorer 6, Firefox 2, and Safari 3/4. This is a major problem for most internet users use these 3 browsers.

Third :Adding Tracks to Playlists, when trying to add a track to your playlist using the "Add a track" option on your playlist's page, it may not find any tracks at all. This causes alot of irritance with the users. For those who are planning to switch to Last.fm please think again. The issues that pop-up with social music sites.

Take care Guys! catch you'll in my next post. =)

Radioblogclub!

Radio.blog is the first stand-alone player that lets you stream sound on your website.
Using this website, users can easily just listen to their choice of music by just clicking the play list given by the sties. This site support streaming and users have to wait for it to load before the music is being played.


This site have less users now since the existing of Youtube.com. The reason why people switch to Youtube.com is mainly because radioblogclub does not have visual to be viewed by the users and also it loads very slowly. Every new songs of choice that has been clicked need to wait a long time to just listen to one song. This site also allows user to buy in the store. Users need to pay a certain amount of cash to download a certain content of songs. Users that sign up for it can have a "favorite page" where the users can put their frequent listen songs. It's old but it definitely works! check it out!

Imeem No More!

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Hello hello I'm back for my weekly post and this week we're going to be talking about music sites!

Topic for today : No more Imeem!!



Before heading to the topic, here's a little history on Imeem -

Imeem was founded in 2003 with the concept of free, advertising supported music model for online music which allowed users to legally upload, stream and share music. Imeem was the first ever online music site to secure licenses from all four major music labels in the United States. It claimed to have had 16 million users worldwide!

What happened??? -

It shut down! My condolences for all Imeem user's - no one was notified therefore there goes all the play list down the drain!

The reason -

Apparently Imeem's full-track-playback licenses expired as a result of its inability to keep up with licensing payments and there was also a lawsuit in the process with a huge sum that Imeem was not able to pay!



What happened to the company?? -

MySpace Music - a joint venture between MySpace and music labels acquired a deal to buy "certain assets" from the pioneers of online music site. The entire Imeem service has been removed from the web and their Iphone Apps no longer works. The imeem.com domain now redirects to MySpace music and embedded songs on your blogs and social network sites no longer load.

All hope is not gone!

GOOD NEWS for Imeem users! A few Imeem high ranking employee's have signed on to Myspace Music and is in the working to maybe transfer Imeem's play list over to MySpace music! =D

I just checked out MySpace music and it's looking not too bad, pretty interesting i would say. Here's the link for you to check it out! http://music.myspace.com/



Now that there is no more Imeem but only MySpace music, if Facebook dies off, I think MySpace is a pretty good option as it has both a social network site and also a music site. What do you think? Should we start a MySpace phenomenon here in Malaysia?

(Reference : www.wired.com)