Noise is good!
April 30th, 2008
What is noise? When you have hundred of products but only one which is selling well, the rest are noise. When you want to indulge yourself to do something, any interruption is considering noise, as well!
Outsourcing seems to be one of the way to cut off noise. Sony or IKEA will not be of what they are today if they choose not to outsource. Raw materials, production and logistics are examples of noise.
Noise can be passing around. Consumers buy rice from supermarkets, supermakets from distributors, distributors tfrom rice mill owners, and farmers lastly. Each level trying to get rid of noise.
What is the effect of noise? Farmers spent most of their time working in the paddy field to produce rice. In this case, farmers are bearing the noise from consumers, under the hot sun. The digested noise are now turning into experience of how to grow paddy!
Skill is a result of noise!
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April 23rd, 2008
If Google creates the most amazing website, why not they start their web design business?
When we work for someone, we get paid and at the same time we get the chance to acquire new skills. For example, a web designer creates an online store for someone and get paid for the time spent and the quality of work. Such relationship provides a very good platform for someone to learn.
The owner of the online store will not share the revenue with you. Everyday, values is built into the project and this has nothing to do with you (The very most you get a portfolio). The web designer goes project after project, having bad time during year end when all companies had finished their budget, etc.
This does not happen to only individual, but businesses as well. Most successful companies change their business direction to have recurring sales than one-off profit. All these involve applying their skills in different ways.
Web designers venture into their own online business; contractors builld their own housing project; programmer develop their own software for sale, etc. Remember, the moment you start, you are accumulating your values into somewhere. When you wake up tomorrow, it still still with you, Through you have much more to worry such as operation & marketing.
If you are Google now, would you want to start your web design business?
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April 22nd, 2008
When you are in another country, and the hard drive of the file server in your company crashed. Working remotely comes to a real test, where:
1. Restoration must be done quickly! Getting ready with second hard drive, moving backup files into the new server, re-install the Linux platform…
2. Tools to get you connected to your office, both voice and video. We use Skype. Broadband connection, power supply, cup of coffee - Starbucks, if only you can be there in time!
3. A team of people back in the office to work as your hands. This also means the whole set of infra for both voice and video must also be steadily available back in your office. I am lucky to have both, infra and a very capable team!
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April 20th, 2008
Beginning 19th March 2008, Cradle will now provide conditional grants of up to RM150,000 in the pre-seed level to groups of innovative individuals with great technology-oriented ideas, subject to terms and conditions.
The new amount has been tripled because the categories of funded items using the grant money have been expanded to include market research and access, IP (Intellectual Property) search and registration, product testing and certification, and product packaging on top of the presently funded categories of development of prototypes, proofs of concept and business plans.
A resource centre for innovative ideas, Cradle provides funding, assistance and guidance to help technology entrepreneurs turn their ideas into reality.
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April 15th, 2008
In order to pay via Paypal, buyers are required to sign-up for a Paypal account before they can submit the payment. In fact, the Paypal registration process is not as straight forward as it claims. Most of the time, seller will receive questions/complaints from buyer as following.
What is a Paypal Expended Number Program?
Why am I required to enter my bank details?
Why was I been charged for USD1? Is this a hidden charges from you?
First of all, it is absolutely Free for buyer to signup for Paypal account.
To prevent fraud cases, Paypal will require buyers to verify their account via the Expanded Use Program. To prove the ownership of the credit card/bank account, Paypal will charge/deposit a small amount of money to buyers’ credit card/bank that they’ve registered with Paypal. Buyers will have to check their credit card statement/bank statement to retrieve a secret code from that transaction and enter back to Paypal system for verification purpose.
As an Unverified member of PayPal, buyers’ payments are subject to a Sending Limit. By becoming Verified, buyers will be able to send unlimited funds with their PayPal account.
Paypal will refund money back to buyers’ account after they verifiy with Paypal.
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April 11th, 2008
The domain pizza.com was acquired by an annonymous bidder for 2.6 million dollars after 14 years. The owner, Chris Clark bought the name pizza.com in 1994, never thought that this can fetch to such a higher price, after he saw an opportunity of the acquisition for vodka.com!
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April 9th, 2008
Driving Visitors
If a website is new, without much traffic and returning visitors - a ‘good’ website should be simple and take less time to develop. More time should be spent on the marketing, to drive more visitors to your website.
Increase Conversion
Once a website is getting enough traffic (in our terms, above 500 visitors a day), you should have enough feedback to build a website closer to what your visitors want. In this case, ‘good’ websites are those with initutive layout, content what your visitors like, etc! In one word, higher conversion rate!
You may want to take a look at our related postsDiscard your PC in good way
April 7th, 2008
If you have any end-of-life or spoilt PC, you can send it to this drop-off centre near Taman Mayang, Petaling Jaya. They pay cash (RM1 - RM10) for your recyclables.
Pls contact Micol 016-2828366 or visit website hebatpages.com. Or, you can send your contact info by fax to them at 03-78806252 to request pickup.
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April 4th, 2008
Maintaining more than one Blog can be time consuming, endless patches, new WordPress upgrade (to enjoy the new features in the recent launch of WordPress 2.5), fine-tuning can keep you really busy!
We have decided to use single WordPress installation for all Blogs. Well, we explore WordPress Mu but it is just way too bulky and complicated. WP Mu is like a layer of control panel in front of WP core engine. Yet, due to this fact, it is hard to configure and having problem catching up with latest WP releases.
You can try the Multiblogs solution to work this out. This single WP installation works for everyone by loading a different config file. As usual, these are few issues to be taken note on:
1) Unicode_start, this is one way to show Unicode characters in your Linux Terminal. This is interesting, we thot Unicode filename in Linux was not well supported, looks we are wrong!
2) Symlink, this allows creation of folder structure in our approach to archieve something like /lang/country/destination. The command ln -s
3) The clean vuser function in mb-functions.php in multiblogs seems do not support non-ascii language well. It replaces all non-ascii to _, creating problem in the database Prefix name.
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April 4th, 2008
Was working on our travel guide business and Weikiat told me a about this… Apparently, the main page of WikiTravel Chinese version was hacked.
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April 4th, 2008
My friend asked me, “how to make a website appears on the top of search engines?”
The very first thing I can answer to her is, there is no quick for of doing this! Well, More than 50% of site visitors are directed from search engines.
Passive
Passive in a way, this is nothing new but a lot of passion needed, and often can and must be done on your end. There are unlimited kind of keywords which people used to find your website. In the simplest way, keywords are used by search engines to match content on your website. Now, do you think using keyword ‘石头汤’ can find my Blog, no way! Simply because I don’t have the Chinese translation. What about ‘石头羹’, ‘石頭湯’?
Active
Google sorts website using their patent-pending-never-disclose methodology. One of them, the PageRank, remain mistery but you can always interprete it to ‘the more links pointing to your website, the more popular your website is, eventually you deserve a higher seat’. Question, how to many many website pointing to you? This again, nothing new, not rocket science but a long term effort of making this to happen.
This first-class seat is not available for quick booking, you can only make your way to it!
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