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“Penang Technopreneur Dialogs & Web 2.0 Sharing” will be held in Penang at 1st February 2008. The objective is to spark interest for Technopreneurship through building a strong community of Rails, Open Source developers, taking advantage on the Web 2.0 practice in Malaysia and encourage networking between the technical programmers and entrepreneur in ICT.

Date: 1st February 2008
Time: 9:00am to 5:30pm
Venue: BayView Hotel, Georgetown, Penang (map)
Entry fee: Free, online registration required

The programs including talks on Web 2.0, Ruby on Rail, dialog on Technopreneurship, funding criteria and innovation, as well as networking cocktail. The event is organized by MDeC, PDC, USM and investPenang.

[hat tip: Nasir Sobri]

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Labanon, a 17 year old Malaysian boy, has successfully made RM10,000 (USD3,083) online in a month. Most of the income generated from an ebook he published. Other income is from his freelance design projects.

This is a truly “Malaysia Boleh!” story. While friends are still getting pocket money from their parents, Labanon is probably earning more than his parents! Eventhough the ebook sales will fade out by time, Labanon will have more e-products coming.

This is Internet, age is not important but your skills are. Labanon has the skills: Internet marketing, graphic design, copywriting, etc. If you can put your skills into products then you can make money online.

Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites today. One of the reasons that it becomes so popular is the various “applications” created by its members.

However, it is irritating to get tons of Facebook application “requests” from your Facebook friends. No worry, I found the solution — Ignore all! bookmarklet.

Ignore all! is a bookmarklet for web browser. Simply drag the “Ignore all!” link to your web browser’s bookmark bar (or right-click the link to add to bookmark/favorites).

To use it, go to your Facebook requests page, where you have tons of application requests. Click the “Ignore all!” bookmarklet. All application requests will be automatically ignored, but friend requests and group invitation stay.

What a time saving bookmarklet! I love it!

Ignore all [via CheeAun's Twitter]

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Malaysians might have the chance to work with Google soon!

In recent meeting with Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said “Google has started discussions with Malaysia’s Multimedia Development Corp on establishing a base in the country.” (reuters)

Google has been rated as the best company to work for in America again for 2008. Currently, Hanson Toh, Malaysia Google Country Consultant, is the only Google employee in Malaysia.

Google has offices in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

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Blogging is hard work. As bloggers, we would have to show our appreciation towards open source world and other fellow bloggers who create and distribute very useful tools to ease our job. Here are top five most essential blogging tools that had saved me a lot of time. My blogging world would be miserable without these applications:

Filezilla – The Open Source Free FTP solution

FileZilla is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface. You can use it to upload and download files from your hosting server.

When you need to upload a bunch of files or images to be used in your blog content, FileZilla can handle the job easily. You don’t have to manually select certain files and upload via your blogging platform. You can also change the folder and file access permission easily.

Google Analytics – The Free Web Traffic Analyzer from Google

Google Analytics give you free analysis of your blog’s traffic. You will be able to know the visitors’ origin, length of stay, bounce rate, browsers used and other details such as the size of screen resolution and referral sites. It even let you track your conversion rate if you are using pay per click service to drive traffic. All you need to do is to copy and paste some codes onto your blog pages.

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