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For Malaysians & Singaporeans. Google will hold the annual Google Analytics Master Class in both Singapore (March 9, 2010) and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (March 11, 2010).

You will get tips and insights from web analytics professionals and Google Analytics speakers in the afternoon event. It’s FREE!

Related book: Google Analytics, 3rd Edition

The Google Analytics Master Class in Singapore will be held on Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 1.30pm – 6.00pm, at Meritus Mandarin Orchard, Ballroom 1. Get the map, agenda, and registration form here.

As for Kuala Lumpur, the event will be held on Thursday, 11 March 2010, from 1:30pm to 6pm, at Hilton Hotel Kuala Lumpur. Register here instead.

Since I am using Google Analytics to track my websites, I think I will be there (KL venue) to learn more tips to understand my blog readers (you!).

Will you be there too?

Have you quit Friendster? is a followup poll to my previous blog post “How to cancel Friendster account?“.

According to Feedburner’s feed stats, my tech blog, LiewCF.com, now has over 7000 feed subscribers! A new milestone!

But, how many are real feed readers?

Although I have over 7000 feed subscribers, but there is merely 400 reach for the feed. “Reach” means the total number of people who have viewed or clicked on the feed content.

60% of my feed subscribers are from FriendFeed and Google Feedfetcher (email, google reader & iGoogle). I think most of them are not active subscribers.

What is your feed stats? How many feed subscribers you have? and how many “reach”?

Tips: How to get 2000 feed subscribers in 12 days.

The once popular social website, Friendster, is fading out. It’s traffic is dropping constantly since 2009. Many people have quit Friendster and switched to Facebook.

Here is the step-by-step tutorial (with screenshots) to tell you how to cancel your Friendster account, permanently.

How to cancel Friendster account?

1. Login your Friendster account. Click the “Settings” at the top right corner.

   

2. At the new page, click on the “Cancel Account” link at the end of “Basic Info”.

   

3. At the Friendster cancel account page, there is a form at the page bottom. Fill in your Friendster’s email address and password.

   

4. Tick one or more reasons why you cancel Friendster account.
5. Tick “Yes, I want to cancel my Friendster account.”
6. Click the “Proceed” button.
7. Done. Say “bye-bye” to Friendster

   

“How to cancel Friendster account?” is a question received from a reader halijah mustafa. Send in your questions and I will answer yours too!

Since my 2nd iPhone left me for repairing cracked screen glass [link], I wanted to get a smartphone as the backup of iPhone. It should have similar iPhone features (touchscreen, 3G, Wifi, GPS..) but at more affordable price.

I found Nokia 5230 touchscreen phone.

It is cheap, around RM600-RM800 (USD175-USD235). Nokia 5230 has a big touchscreen (3.2 inch), supports 3.5G, GPS, powered by Symbian v9.4 (to run latest symbian apps). But, it does NOT support WiFi.

If you need a Nokia touchscreen phone with all features: 3G, GPS, WiFi, and better camera with flash, then Nokia 5800 is the one for you. But it is about RM300 more expensive than Nokia 5230.

Nokia 5230 brief review

By coincidence, my dad too wants to buy a new phone. His requirement is simple: touch screen phone with handwriting (chinese) input and GPS.

With my recommendation (*evil grin*), he bought the Nokia 5230 and I got a chance to play it for a night.

In the box, we got the Nokia 5230 phone (white), a short (7.5 inch) USB data cable, 3 changeable color battery cover (red, pink, blue). Changing the battery cover is not as easy as it seems, it bends like almost want to break when you lift the battery cover.

The user manuals is only available in English and Malay (Malaysia).

The body of Nokia 5230 is quite thick, plastic feel but light weight. The touch screen is sensitive to tap but not so for scrolling.

There is a SIM card slot at the side of Nokia 5230. But, you still required to remove the battery cover and battery before you insert a SIM card into the slot.

That’s a weird design, in my opinion.

Nokia 5230 has all the ports at the top of the phone: USB, 3.5 mm AV jack, power port. There is a slider at the side to lock/unlock the phone.

The 2 megapixels camera of Nokia 5230 is not good. It has no auto-focus nor LED flash. The image quality is bad with a lot of noise. Click Here to Continue Reading »