NST Interviews Malaysian Internet Marketers Who are Making Five Figures Income From the Internet
May 12, 2007 by Gaman · 12 Comments
The New Strait Times has recently published a story about several Malaysian who are making money on the Internet. The article featured three full-time Malaysian Internet entrepreneurs namely Samsul Zamzuri Abu Bakar (Alang), Gobala Krishnan and Liew Cheon Fong.
This is the kind of story that inspires people as it proves to them that there are ways to make real money online without getting involved in the dangerously popular get rich quick schemes.
Alang’s five figures income is derived from more than 15 websites. He got several blogs where he hires bloggers from countries like the US , and New Zealand to write the content.
His top revenue earners are directory websites where people pay to get listed. His number two money-earner is his first website at osx-e.com.
How Much Bloggers Are Currently Earning From Blogging?
May 9, 2007 by Gaman · 20 Comments
Paula Neal Mooney has listed Bloggers and the Salaries that they make from their blogging.
I think the title for the post is a little misleading because it leads some readers to believe that those people are actually making all those income exclusively from blogging.
There are quite a few from the list that are making money primarily from non-blogging sources. They just happen to have a blog and several of those make nothing from their blogs.
Tim Carter of AsktheBuilder.com and Rosalind Gardner do run their own blogs but they income comes from affiliate programs not blogging.
I was also a little surprise to see Joel Comm included in the list. As far as I know, he’s a successful Internet marketer not a blogger. She have missed many big names too if Internet marketers were to be included on the list.
Is Your Blog Written for Him or Her?
May 1, 2007 by Gaman · 4 Comments
Here’s an interesting tool to help you find out a site’s he/she ration. It is measured by counting the number of pages on the domain containing the word “he”. Then this is compared with the number of pages with the word “she”.
The following is the result for Sabahan.com
Does this means that Sabahan.com is written primarily for male audience? Nope. It just happens that examples/stories that I’ve written are usually associated with males rather than females.
In the post, one of the commentators writes
Pretty interesting idea, but you have to have sites categories in mind when interpreting the results. For example political sites have more “he” because there are currently many more male politicians. On the other hand porn sites in general have more “she”, because the biggest group using them is heterosexual males (again…). Less obvious examples are of course much more interesting. But the think to remember it that service with big representation of one gender’s form isn’t FOR this gender or PRO this gender or SUPPORTING this gender. It’s only ABOUT this gender (as porn sites example shows…).
Breaking News: Google Acquires the Internet
April 15, 2007 by Gaman · Leave a Comment
You may have heard that Google has acquired DoubleClick, an advertising company which also own the affiliate network/search agency Performic for $3.1 billion.
If you are an AdSense publisher or an AdWords advertiser, this acquisition will likely change the way how you make money in the future.
In addition to text ads, video ads, radio ads, TV ads, and so on, you’ll now have the ability to spread your advertising message to as many channels as you like and cover every nook and cranny of the Internet, provided that you have the money to do so.
At the same time, publishers will be able to monetize their content no matter what platform or website niche they manage.
OK, obviously those views are a little simplistic.
DoubleClick is the largest banner advertising network in the world and with the acquisition it seems Google is resurrecting this dying form of Internet advertising.
The Longest Domain Name In The World
March 24, 2007 by Gaman · 17 Comments
Internet domain name allows sixty three characters maximum and six people last year registered the longest Internet addresses allowed for the European .eu domain.
The domains names range from the tongue-twisting name of a Welsh village to the first 63 numbers that make up the mathematical constant pi.
The domains include
thisisthelongesteuropeandomainnameallovertheworldandnowitismine.eu
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.eu
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.eu
Another French company has registered a French language phrase promising that its services would help Internet business grow
lerelaisinternet-com-favorise-la-croissance-de-votre-entreprise.eu.
Another tongue-twisting name is
llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochuchaf.eu
which is a village on the Isle of Anglesey in North Wales.
A German technology company has registered the first 63 decimal places that make the number pi.
141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.eu
It was claimed that the longest domain name for the com extension belongs to
http://www.thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com/
The owner tried to have it recognized by Guinness as the longest domain in the world and got this response instead
March 24 World Shutdown Day – A No Computer Day
March 22, 2007 by Gaman · 2 Comments
We already have the CSS naked day where webmasters turn off their style sheets from their website for one day on April 05 every year.
Then someone came up with another idea of a day without something – this time it’s a day without a computer.
The day is supposed to be on March 24 which falls on this coming Saturday. People running mission critical operations should stay away from participating as I think this move is for those using computers personally. You wouldn’t want to shut down your company’s servers now would you?
At first thought, this seems like a fun idea to be part of. It’s apparently one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the Internet; or so claims the organizer on their website.
What will happen if we all participate? Can you survive for 24 hours without my computer?
Under 30, Online and World Beating
March 14, 2007 by Gaman · 9 Comments
The Observer, a UK Sunday newspaper has an article up about under 30 UK entrepreneurs who are shaping the future of the web.
You might have never heard most of them except one guy named Alex Tew who hit the jackpot in 2005 with his website Million Dollar Homepage idea.
With the diminishing cost of hardware, the cost of entry is getting cheaper.
All you need is a computer, an Internet connection and an idea. The profit margin is typically higher compare to what a brick and mortar shop is getting.
I am spending around RM800 on a web hosting per month and I am working from home. Renting or buying a physical shop lot will cost me around RM1000 to RM2000 or more per month. On top of that, setting up offline business is riskier and costlier.
Updating Malaysia’s 50 Most Influential Blogs Post
March 9, 2007 by Gaman · 3 Comments
I’ve been meaning to do an update to the 50 most influential blogs for a while but finally decided not to do so – at least for now.
Obviously, most of the blogs’ Technorati rankings have been changing daily; new blogs rose to the top, old blogs rose even higher up the rank and some blogs were overtaken by others.
The popularity of memes such as the Z-list only has only added more volatility to the rankings.
Sabahan.com was in the 52nd position when the list was posted. If all the blogs’ Technorati rankings were unchanged – obviously this is not possible, Sabahan.com would have occupied position number 18 today.
I am sure I’ve made it to the top 20 but checking the Technorati rankings of other blogs in the list is necessary to confirm my relative position.
How to Buy Votes and Get On Digg’s Frontpage
March 2, 2007 by Gaman · 7 Comments
Here’s some interesting story from a Wired reporter doing some investigative journalism.
The reporter created a boring and poorly written blog dedicated to showing picture of crowds and managed to get to the digg’s frontpage.
She paid User/Submitter to digg her blog and the natural organic digg followed suit.
It’s an interesting story worth reading.
What The Internet Was Like In 1993
February 26, 2007 by Gaman · Leave a Comment
This video clip is taken from a TV documentary which was broadcast in 1993. It talks about a new phenomenon so called the Internet.
Back then, there was not a lot or cursing or swearing or scream full go to hell one would expect to find online. The reason being I think,the Internet demographics back then was very much different from it’s today. The average surfers were mostly IT professionals and those from the academic communities.
The Interface was text based and best described as pre-historic but still it’s amazing in those days.
They were right to say this thing would change the world. It certainly has changed mine. Without the Internet I would probably working somewhere in the middle of the South China Sea LOL.
