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After ST701 Classifieds, SPH has now launched Singapore's very own search engine called Rednano in collaboration with Norwegian media group Schibsted ASA. Function-wise, it's nothing to shout about - Google provides local searches too. But from a commercial aspect, I think it's a wise move by SPH.Rednano.com.sg consists of two ...
This has just been brought to my attention by a friend. There's a guy who goes by the name of Lupperboy and is using the names of established Adwords companies in his ads on google.com.sg ...in a negative sense. So if you searched for "activa media", "bain mercer" or "purpleclick", ...
Domain squatting and domain speculation are quite common with gTLDs, e.g. you register a keyword name like "business.com" and then rent or sell it off for millions. Although SGNIC forbids such practices for .sg domain names, I've found some rather wasteful use by a local web hosting company.If you ...
I've been particularly busy these last 2 months, from work and personal stuff, which explains the lack of updates here. Not surprisingly, I was in desperate need of retail theraphy and ended up buying 2 laptops this month - we now have 6 laptops in the house!I bought another Dell ...
How much advertising budget does a specialist clinic allocate each year? A staggering S$500,000! A clinic I met last night spends S$180,000 on Google Adwords alone. If what she’s says is t …
Microsoft yesterday launched Bing, their new search engine. The initial response has been neutral at best, with some critics ridiculing the effort on their blog as "Bing Goes Live ...or is …
I'd been keenly following up on Malaysia's 12th general election, even attending 2 opposition 'ceramahs' early this week - one by DAP's Lim Kit Siang and the other by PKR's Anwar Ibrahim (also Malaysia's ex-DPM). Yesterday, the nation voted in what I felt was the first REAL general election for ...
This is a follow-up to Company A's Adwords scam that I blogged about in May. The good news is that I managed to convince the doctor to let me manage her campaign for 2 months. The even better news is that she's projected to save S$110,000 a year.Of course it's ...
In yet another ridiculous move, to control subsidized fuel this time, the Malaysian government announced last night that petrol stations within 30km from the border are not allowed to sell petrol to foreign cars from Friday. This effectively means that Singapore-registered cars cannot buy petrol from JB anymore.I'd understand if ...
Yahoo Classifieds (SG) is officially dead and there was a discussion at Sammyboy.com that suggests Mocca.com maybe in trouble too. Yup, apart from sharing juicy secrets and 'artistic' media, the boys there are business-savvy too and they certainly did not hold any reservations with their scathing remarks.The (New) Media Slut's ...
Read the papers today and there was someone having the same problem I had - cannot send emails using Streamyx. So I'm doing a good deed here explaining why and how to solve the problem since the people at Streamyx are not doing their job.This problem only started lately because ...
I was up in KL the last week to attend a forum organized by the 4As (Association of Accredited Advertising Agents Malaysia) entitled Power Of Web 2.0 - Branding, New Media, Politics. The panel speakers included blogger-turned-politican Jeff Ooi and Premesh Chandran (Malaysiakini).Predictably, they were going to talk about how ...
Someone posted a link to Ewen Chia's video download page in a webmaster forum - there are 19 videos on Internet Marketing, including audio recordings and PDFs. Not sure if it was done on …
It's been a hectic two weeks and I'm glad to be home. My freelance business is starting to get noticed by Singapore ad agencies and although it's only January, I've already met 30% of my annual sales target and turned down a number of jobs. Anyway, here's a round-up of ...
I visited some of the Malaysian forums that I used to frequent yesterday and I stumbled on some serious complaints and allegations about Advertlets. Is Advertlets in trouble?In this thread in Webmaster Malaysia (the biggest local webmaster forum), a blogger complained that he'd stopped receiving payment since August while another ...
I'm not sure how I got involved in the great battle of Nuffnang versus Advertlets, but I blame it on my habit of rooting for the underdog. Then again, I feel my personal opinions on Advertlets, and comments on Endoh's and Estee's blog does have its merits, no?For the record, ...
Negotiate, sell, receive payment, transfer! The familiar process that I'd been through with all my previous website sales. I sold my (almost) 2 year old Windows Vista website last night for $12,500 and then had a sleepless night.This has been a phenomenal year for my consultancy. As my first year ...
I wrote to SGNIC to seek their comments regarding my post on the possible abuse of .sg domain names on 15th July and they finally replied today. Well, I'm truly appalled by the content of the email ...I mean you'd expect more after two weeks. But what came back was ...
Does having only 20 uniques a day mean that you're never going to get an ad? Some quarters (yeah, that mad man) has been trying to convince bloggers this is the case, instead of acting more constructively to help them solve the puzzle.What is the solution then? Easy! Move from ...
Previously if you wanted to appear in the country search results (i.e. "pages from Singapore"), your website either had to be hosted locally or your domain name must end with a ".sg" - reasons why larrylim.net had always been excluded.Google explains in its FAQ:"...When searching for pages from a specific ...
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