I recently just got a new phone, so my old one is now my spare. I decide to put an extra Sim card in it so it can be my backup line, I tried U mobile cause I saw their advertisements and flyers around a lot, so I though okay no harm giving this a try, however I was so wrong, U mobile got to be one of the worst telecommunication provider in Malaysia. Here is my first impressions / reviews of their "wonderful" service.

From attending few conferences, siminars and even surfing the web there will always be someone who claims he or she is a social media expert. Gary vaynerchuk seems to sum up might taughts as his website. ( What he says is 99% of social media experts are clowns ). I been seeing a lot of young people ( Age 20-35 ) jumping on the social media bandwagon with little or zero marketing experience--not to mention a lack of social media management skills or any campaign track record. And yet they call themselves "social media experts" giving siminars, getting huge contracts, etc.

According to Dave McClure there is five key stages in any startup which are Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and finally Revenue. I am going to explain my understanding of his theories for those who are still blur.

As the title says, this is just a way I came up with on how you can calculate the dropout rate of people who come / use your website.

On of the ways most of the youths in Malaysia earn some extra pocket money is by using SAYS.my and sharing commercial campaigns across various social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, or perhaps even that new Google+. I noticed there some people who are still in the dark on the best practices on how to garner the most clicks possible on their campaign links so hence I decided to write this small mini-guide.

There has been many speculation among most Malaysians how the Main Stream Media like Television and Newspapers ( which are also Government owned / linked companies ) always have bias reporting to ensure the current government is in good light all the time. Whether that is true or not, I leave it to you to decide, but I found this image online, that was published by one of our Local Newspapers, Berita Harian on their website ( I am not sure if it was publish in their daily today as I don't read it ). The picture seemed to be a doctored one.

Hey I had an interesting discussion with a collegue of mine at work today on how should we handle e-mail replies. The way I currently do it is the SMS Style, aka the short, blunt and to the point method, however some people like my friends have pointed out to be to use more formal robotic style, aka the normal way companies send you e-mail where the beat around the bush, try to be your friend and you just might figure out what he / she is trying to say.

By chance today, I stumbled upon Maxis Communication ( one of Malaysia's Largest Telecommunications provider ) 's Facebook Wall. It seems they were in the process of rejecting social media. Today afternoon, I noticed their wall have disable user's posting, and just an hour ago I noticed the whole discussion forum is gone. I remember yesterday Maxis was teasing users about a whole new social experience, well I think they misunderstood what the world social means, since to me it seems that Maxis only wants 1 way communication on Facebook I guess.

I been working on a couple of projects over the last 1 year, and everytime I present my project someone will ask me to include a Facebook login for easier access, okay this isn't so bad, I don't mind doing this, but when they ask me to make a website 100% dependent on Facebook I seriously think they are mad.

Okay this is going to be one of my first personal postings related to political events happening in my country Malaysia. I normally like to avoid writing this which are controversial and focus more on technology related stuff, but the buck stops here. I am going to write about how to use technology in the upcoming BERSIH 2.0 rally to ensure accountability from all sides, police, civilians, etc.

Me being an indian I always believe in the concept of Karma, I believe that whatever we do upon others will eventually come back upon us. Here is why I believe that Karma is now being a bitch to Microsoft.

The Star ( one of our local newspapres here in Malaysia ) is serious old fashion. Sometimes I start to think if it is runned by dinosaurs or something. Here is an example of why I say so.