Archive for February, 2008

To all of you, it’s the end of the line for me, since I won’t get anything out of my blogging from this pages.Mainly , it’s not my doing other than Paid blogging on PAY PER POST which placed me on the worst blogger of the year campaign. That killed my page rank, alexa ranking and other real value to my site. It’s like what my sis screamed about… death comes to paid blogging.

Right now, with the lack of paid blogging revenue plus that not enough traffic driving my web sites to scale, I have to resort to doing the ultimate sin… finding a proper day job.

Meaning, I won’t have the time of my life anymore. No more being my own boss. No more being able to do anything I wish at any moment’s notice.

Actually, it means I have to resign from RA Tree Intra Holdings Sdn Bhd as their business development director too… since business has not been that great with the economy not being well, ie in RECESSION.

Even with me removing all my paid links… the pagerank won’t come back. Even I can’t get an account at OCBC or UOB just because I was a victim of fraud and the account did not behave as it should…(who is the fool, when the bank authorised a card transaction when there is no money in it)

Whatever it is, I will be selling my domains too. Well, TEMASEK.NU and CHAT.NU is up for sale with reserve prices of US$100,000 and US$150,000 respectively. This is despite Temasek Holdings giving an informal offer of 100,000 shares in the stock market (won’t say which one due to SGX Laws) in exchange for TEMASEK.NU

What does it actually mean?
I will still operate iExploreAsia Media alongside GizmoNET Intraweb Domain & Technical Services as a sideline and an initial seed capitalist doing micro-lending of technology to start-ups. If business venture gets better, well, we will talk about this when we it’s time to cross the river.

I will be actively in the blogging, but not as often.

So unless Nuffnang up my earnings to over $7000 a month, then it will be OK.

PS: I have not tried CHIPSTER yet because it’s way out of my budget for a snack (i’ll just down alot of them junk at a go..) but then, I would anytime lay myself down over a whole bag of Salmon Terriyaki Twisties…which ..is actually more expensive (about RM2.70)

Heh heh heh….

I was starting my initial advertising campaign for a customer of mine, just to test out the market as to the quality of back links and Conversion Ratios just to see how reliable our Malaysian and Singapore market are.

One thing that made me furious is whan I am told to be more polite? Heck, I don’t use vulgarities and what not and since we are all in Business to make money, we make comments and lash it out when things don’t go straight. We are not politicians where we have to kiss babies butts just to get elected (did I mention some Malaysian politician did it today?)

And as to Fraud Review report from 2CO, why the need to? I told them that they MUST get their own PAYPAL Account so they can know it’s fraudulent or not as the PayPal user ratings are already there , either verified or not and if they are eligible for protection.

So, was I wrong in telling them off that they took ages to get things done? Or did I listen not correctly. Nor did I get that email stating that media rich will be up only in June or July *(I Archived all my emails for 7 years in compliance to FCC Laws). In giving them a chance to prove the market wrong because of the lack of nufflets GoKita advertising media Publishers makes me wonder too..if I will get fraud clicks.

And as to my questions… I think it’s legit..since it’s my customer’s money I am entrusted to work with and without CLARITY and TRUST *(Jujur dan Amanah), there is no honour within oneself to be alive.

As an advertiser, we try to be patient, but when hickups happen, things are bound to be sour, after all you promised that everything will be responded to , reviewed etc after 24 hours which basically did not happen!

I too have to run a business, and I take to task replying ALL and actioning my support tickets within 12 hours, which is not a hard thing to do.

That in itself, is very polite of me in my comments and posts, without any vulgarities or such not that I have been reading about over the web, plus you guys did not even make a press release about the Nuffnang and Advertlets* suing you guys over the NuffLets brand name.

Also, In itself, I sincerely thought all the API etc is already GoKita instead of being redirected from 2CO as Nufflets , and what about that you getting your own Paypal account?

I am without holds, just as Tech Crunch are… So if you want to make and run a proper business, do it properly with a full heart.

Best Regards
*Subject to disclosures

So, what I mean is be transparent, bitter or not. And HostForWeb don’t own the infrastructure in itself.And didn’t you mention that you used VPS instead of dedicated? Because if it’s dedicated, it won’t be more sluggish than my old cranny IBM Netvista 1Ghz PC after running Video Editing programs.

Really this is driving me nuts…and my client has the right to do so since they pay me…. so when things don’t work… I scream it out. At least if something screws up at Nuffnang I can always call Tim at 3am in the morning to get him to sort it out.

With you Nabil..you can’t even provide me with your cell phone number, nor it’s a Sdn Bhd Company. I like to help out our people…. supportive…but this is crucial criticism. Sort it.

Well, I was starting to put some trust in Nabil and the Crew of GoKita (former and still loads as Nufflets) before their Money Back Guarantee program..but one thing that makes me sore… the slow loading of their servers. Come on bro. You can surely do better than that?! Heck, even xBrain which is a cheapskate can afford a good decent dedicated server.

And what makes me mad is that I got to wait for you to review my ads? WHAT THE FISHCAKES?! You scared we sell links to Pornography or what? When I want my ads run, I want it run then, or scheduled on a time frame…NOT TO YOUR WHIM AND CRANNY! No wonder publishers and Advertisers are shying away from you and sticking their guns to where their money can be found.

Gosh, Nabil..wake up…. have some censorship… but self censorship. Not to your guys own wish! And where is the leaderboard and Banner and skyscraper rich media capabilities that you told me you opened up a few months back. Now I got my advertising budget and start to place some faith, you disappoint me slam dunk.

This serves as a Legal Notice for Seagold Liquid Gamat and it’s associated products.

iExploreAsia Media and iExploreAsia Networks Pte Ltd Singapore are the network service providers for Seagold Marketing and Trading , Malaysia Business Registration no 0016318877-V. Seagold Liquid is a trademark and service mark of Seagold Marketing & Trading, whereas the product is manufactured by Kin Herbs Pharma Sdn Bhd and licensed to Kin Bio Sdn Bhd for the acquisition of the health product approval. Seagold Liquid is authorised for sale and marketing in Malaysia under the Pharmaceutical & Poisons Board License authorised by the Ministry of Health Malaysia under approval code MAL07050073TC.

iExploreAsia Media provides the infrastructure for the e-Shoppe and collects payment on behalf of Seagold Marketing & Trading. We collect and charges VAT of 17.5% where applicable (in EU and US) under Registration No GB823680232. Where as PAYPAL or the Payment Gateway Provider (Moneybookers or Google Checkout) charges a fee of about USD2.00+5% of the gross amount to accept payments through the web using their platform. iExploreAsia Networks Pte Ltd here in remit the proceeds back to Seagold Marketing & Trading in the local currency.

We do not impose any charges to the customer. We may collect a fee for CASH ON DELIVERY for credit based customers or resellers.

We guarantee that the product are safe and should it arrive damaged, please do not accept it and ask the courier to return the product to us. Should it be found damaged after acceptance, please contact us immediately. Do however seek Medical Advise prior to consumption.

Nut Allergy Sufferers are to be made aware that the product may contain nuts as we process nuts within the vicinity of the compound. We also do not have any control over what the creature *(Sea cucumber) may have consumed in it’s lifetime, but we do commit to do periodic checks to ensure it is well treated.

The product is certified to be SUITABLE FOR VEGETARIANS. However, due to the nature of the product, Practicing Buddhists are to be made aware that Sea Cucumber is also treated or classed as a living creature. Though we do not kill it, some may die due to the extraction process.

We however, provide a 14 day no frills guarantee. Return the product Postage Paid to us and we will refund the whole amount.

For more information, please contact Seagold Marketing directly.

Privacy Terms:
We collect all sorts of data. It may be where you have gone,visited now or after this or even your history. We keep all records. Sorry. Even when deleted..there will be some record..somewhere. We promise that we won’t sell your data…but then, it may be used to analyze the dermographics etc etc etc.

Questions, ask me.

End of Terms of Trade , dated 22nd Feb 2008

Microsoft Corporation’s new operating system, Windows Longhorn aka Vista is far from just a Vista of goodies, as many have found out. Apparently, they have been in cahoots with Hewlett-Packard (HP) to package only VISTA DRIVERS for the new HP range of Notebooks and Tablet PCs. Forget XP Embedded or Home as most of the drivers don’t work for these motherboards. Poor users, as that means only one thing, poor performance as the need for more memory and faster hard drives will make the system more sluggish.

Basic reasons of why choose XP over Vista?
1) Lower need of Memory
2) Quicker loading
3) Easy driver compatibilities
4) Software compatibilities (Accountants please note)
5) Lower cost

XP requires just basic 32MB RAM and 250MB Hard disk space compared to Vista needing 1GB Ram and 10GB Hard disk space.

Even with XP Home at Vista’s requirements will do excellent in performance as the OS in itself loads up about 200MB of memory in it’s static kernels (kernel32.dll , Explorer, Firefox, Yahoo Messenger, Skype) loaded up.
That is far less than Vista’s 800MB memory (RAM) loaded up in it’s kernel with the need to have a swap file. Heck even at 1 Gigabyte worth of RAM, you don’t need to load any swap file or PageFile.SYS as you won’t need to unless you start doing animations or photo editing (Photoshop,Adobe Illustrator etc) or Video Extraction which is sluggish because it takes ALOT OF PROCESSING POWER (CPU) as to the RAM. Also, the hard disk needs to be fast to read/write/rewrite data to the banks.

Windows XP loads up in less than 45 seconds compared to 3 minutes of Vista Basic as it needs to check if you installed any pirated junk and pornography or pedophile related materials so they can report you.

Windows XP too can be tuned up to run at maximum capacity of 20 simultaneous TCP/IP Connections per stack compared to the rigid 5 connections per application. So much for Multi tasking!

Drivers are not so compatible with Longhorn / Vista as most are written for Win32 aka Windows 2000/2003/ME/XP and they are backward compatible as to Vista which is static for them. Mainly it’s because Vista is written to the core so that it works with Apple MacBook. Yes.. Vista runs Mac! XP Drivers don’t work with Vista and at this edition, ALi, LinkSYS, Asus and some manufacturers older boards and API don’t cal for Vista and HP is evil enough to write only drivers for Vista and not XP as they are too lazy! Dell is as evil too as their proprietary hardware won’t work on Vista as they try to clear off their old stock of Motherboards. This information is up to date for their Desktops and Mini Servers too. A collegue from DELL MALAYSIA which is round the corner confirms this as the compatibility issues makes Vista a problem child.

Software wise, I was told that QUICKBOOKS and many others are not compatible YET on Vista due to the way the network issues are set up. Security tokens don’t work with even SUN Servers. So much for inter-operatability.

Costs? XP Home Stickers can be bought as low as USD25 as they are over the 6mths tie in with the OEM Manufacturer. Vista..is far more. I can’t disclose due to the licensing rules.

For me, if all fails, I just stick to CentOS or Debian Linux. It will sure work at base configs! And it’s free@! Anyway, Microsoft based their kernels on Linux..so what works on XP or Vista MUST work with Linux. Right? Even Apple MacBook Air works on Linux.

Sorry! This is me.. The Geek!
Any updates will be flashed at http://www.azrin.net/?s=helium
Do look out for the privacy issues too@!

We are pleased to announce that Kodak is advertising on our internal networks alongside with other key networks like ASDA and even Porsche. Yes, the notorious out of reach PORSCHE is advertising on our network but due to it’s dermographic targetting, some of you may not see their new campaign or the media rich creatives.

Yes, it means alot of money to be earned for those serving my internal network of clientèle. Averaging over $10 CPM, this are high paying converting ads which some don’t see much sense into that. Well, in essence, it still drives and makes money.

Does it mean I will loose my Glitterati? Maybe as this are target specific. I actually don’t mind loosing them as I don’t make enough on it to warrant me loosing my precious sleep. Some even point out I shouldn’t be cluttering my site with so many ads but then I am just gathering dermographics and statistics to which product or targetting suits me. Those enquiring on if I would be placing an advertorial guide to Forbes campaign run, my answer is not so soon as I have a few products and projects to complete in the first instance. But what I can tell, is that Forbes in itself are getting very much aggressive in their marketing to offering as much as $70 a day in bid advertising to those who carry a lot of weight… like members of the National Press Club in the US which all US Presidents are part of.

To get to that, means it’s alot of work, and alot of reviews, some over 2100 characters or 500 words or more whichever is higher. Plus you have to rate about 500 reviews in a week to retain 5 star membership which is alot of work.

To be one. you need to join Helium (or email me for an invite to the League) and write as much as possible. Plus you get royalties for that.To date, I myself have earned over $200+ in reading royalties for them and other mentions in publications such as Wall Street Journal.

Oh did I mention that you get about $60 per piece of selected article for the publishers?

Ooh well, join in.!

First..this pop up from my banners…

SELECT command denied to user ’nuffmy_nn20′@’192.168.1.9′ for table ‘cookie_session’
Cannot find /user/home/nuff…………(hidden)

OUCH! That hurts! I had a stinger here…someone was complaining that my site is slow because of this nuffnang thingy..and guess what…the complaints come from Google Analytics , Forbes and Blogsvertise as they wanted to place adverts on my pages.

Come on Tim. I thought you had multiple DEDICATED SERVERS and DEDICATED SERVERS don’t have /user/home as that is only for shared hosting lah bradder. Either someone configured the servers haphazardly or their lied to the customers.

Rule is that dedicated loads their pages from /www mount or /usr/bin/apache or similar in Linux *(CentOS is the favorite as it’s FREE and easy to install) or in the case of Windows Based… it’s c:\inetpub directory….

Why I have to mention this?? Because alot of customers are fooled by so many hosts that they just provide Shared Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on their servers. Cheap does not mean it’s the real deal.

Me? My network is placed on 800MBps Cisco Load Balanced, DDOS Firewalled 16 Chassis of 19 blades of 4-Quad Core CPU Blades with 32GB of RAM on each blade.
With a total of 30Terrabits of processing and data transfer at one go, I could whip off about 750TB of Data within the hour or so…

That ..for just about USD10K a month..

So Tim, Raff..what the fish have you guys been doing?! Cam Whore again huh?