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Dear Silicon Alley Insider editor (Nicholas Carlson),

I believe you have made a silly mistake in the recent Silicon Alley Insider article “Here’s all the stuff cops confiscated from Gizmodo editor Jason Chen” published on Apr 26, 2010.

The photo you used is my pro-blogger cards but you referred it as “one box of business cards for suspect chen”.

That’s wrong!

Dear, please use your eyes and brain. The cards clearly printed my full name “Liew Cheon Fong”, not “Jason Chen”.

Did you simply Google for the photo and used it in your article (without giving me credit) and assumed the cards belong to Jason Chen? That’s very misleading. How could you make such mistake? Click Here to Continue Reading »

SEA-ME-WE 4 cable network [image by Wikipedia]

Malaysia. TM Streamyx broadband connection is extremely slow recently due to the cable fault on the SMW4 submarine cable network. It is expected to be fixed on Sunday, 2 May 2010.

While we are waiting for it to be fixed, I show you 3 ways you can to do to improve your Internet speed.

1. Reconnect to get new IP address

While not scientifically tested, some IP ranges get faster speed that the others.

Try to reconnect your Streamyx connection then test speed at SpeedTest. I get a better speed after reconnections. Reconnect again if the speed become slower.

2. Use TMnet proxy server

Proxy server is a caching server which keep copies of visited web pages. By applying proxy server, you can load a website faster if it is already in the cache.

TMnet open proxy server is: 219.93.178.162 Port: 3128 Click Here to Continue Reading »

[image by jpctalbot]

Google has started including “site speed” when ranking your website in search engine results. Slow site might drop ranking. How do you check?

Site speed means how fast is your website response to a web request (a visit). Admit it, we love websites that load in a blink. Google’s decision can be totally understood.

How to check website speed?

No, not using a timer and load your website.

There are some free tools for you (site owner or webmaster) to evaluate the speed of your site:

• Page Speed — A Firefox add-on. Required: Firefox & Firebug add-on.
• YSlow — A free add-on for Firefox from Yahoo! that suggest ways to improve website speed. Required: Firefox & Firebug add-on.
• WebPagetest — web tool. show waterfall view of your site load performance plus optimization checklist.
• Google Webmaster Tools’ “site performance” — shows the speed of your website as experienced by users around the world.
• Many more tools

Click Here to Continue Reading »

Ever since Facebook was hiring software engineer in Malaysia, we were curious about the address of Facebook Malaysia Office.

Secret no more.

Facebook Malaysia office is at the Neo Damansara, Damansara Perdana, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

Neo Damansara [image by iProperty.com]

Neo Damansara location map:

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Thanks to “S X”, who attended the Facebook interview, tip us in the comment:

Their office is in the spanking new Neo Damansara complex opposite Metropolitan Square in Damansara Perdana. Lights up with gay colours at night. It is so new it is still under construction!

Now, will you peep Facebook Malaysia’s office when you pass by Neo Damansara?