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It seems that our Malaysia first blog aggregator is no longer working all the way back to 23 September. As a person that likes blogging, likes the SEO and the community that I could belong, PetalingStreet.org seems to land on the wrong person hand.

I liked the new face lift that is done on the new PPS, but hated that the owner is selling its soul in order to gain his ROI for the amount he paid for that site, I am sure he is doing great as he is selling text link to 5 websites and still able to maintain a pagerank of 2 and not get strip of everything at the early months.

Sadly enough the last tweet by the owner that pingger is down is now 15 days old.

Is PetalingStreet.org still fixable? Will it catch up with the latest web technology? Will there be loyalty at PPS?

I have updated the list of Top 100 Malaysia Blog, I am so sorry for the delay as I was busy, especially trying to move my hosting to which took tones of time and planing to do so. Here is some of the obvious changes I have seen from today updates:-

• My own ranking dropped from #15 to #38, for obvious reasons.
• Top 10 movement – KennySia has dropped (I think a lot of people will not like this) and a newcomer at #10 EmilaYusof.
• Added some new qualifying blogs that have requested through my email.
• Removed Hemmy.net as previously voted to remove idle blog, making some one extra space on the top 10 list

Dr. Mahathir (http://www.Chedet.co.cc) is still not there due to no technorati ranking, and it will be bias if I were use an approximate value for its technorati ranking. Maybe someone should tell the webmaster to register itself to Technorati.

How is the rank calculated?

I have been receiving emails, forum discussion, and comments on how is this rank calculated. It is not my personal opinion but I put a weight more on alexa ranking compare to technorati ranking. So if you ranking gets higher (drop in rank) in alexa or numbers gets higher in technorati as well, do expect that you ranking slip as well. But there are occasion that ones goes up and another goes down, this will depend on the changes.

Blog for FT or Blog for Federal Territories of Malaysia is a contest to promote the Federal Territories of Malaysia that will include Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan. Not quite sure who organize this and what are the prizes by reading their whole 4 pages website but it definitely seems to be professionally designed website. Anyhow, I don’t think there is much to lose for people who are already blogging about photo shots of Malaysia, or people who blog about Malaysian food or even people who blog about their daily lifestyle. Contest will start next week on the 5th of October until the 5th of January 2010.

This is a great way to promote the Federal Territories by organizing a Malaysia Blog Contest.

Meme is the new microblogging platform (like twitter) from Yahoo!. Wonder if it is kinda late to come in with yet another microblogging platform. We have like what……twitter, plurk, jaiku, identi.ca, facebook status updates, pownce (now closed), and now…..Meme by Yahoo!. I find it strange that they are still coming up with this, but I am waiting for my invite to check out that is inside. It better be something different since they are coming into the market these late and people are already connected with friends inside their own microblogging platform.

Site: http://meme.yahoo.com/

I have just stumble upon a website selling their “Twitter Profit House” kit, that claims that you could make money twittering. Personally I have not tried it and will not be interested to try it because I strongly believe that it is mainly spaming others. With twitter, we could batch follow and batch unfollow, meaning that you can easily expand your follower to five figures with minimal time and minimal efforts. This is the reason I recomended Tweet Later, so that you can control who you are following, and even block those who are annoying.

This make money twittering website looks pretty professional and it even has the linke “As seen and trusted on…” CNBC, USA Today, CNN and abc.