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I attended BarCamp Malaysia today and it was actually pretty good. I did not know what I was expecting at the bar camp but now I finally undersand. It is basically a learning curve for everyone there, and you will be able to chose between classes and talks on the topic that interest you.

BarCamp is actually an international event with their official website at http://www.barcamp.org.

The first 200 registration was actually fully taken up and I did not manage to pre-register for this event. But luckily the event open up for walk in. I was there early at 9.10am to register and sat for few classes before leaving.

I won’t be there tomorrow because plans was made in advance and did not know that I will appear in BarCamp Malaysia. Although the place is kinda small when the are actually expecting more than 200 people, but there is no complaint since everything was free and there is tones of people you could possible meet.

And it would be greater fun if there is Wifi as a lot of people actually brought their laptop.

Great job to the committee that brought us this event and their sponsors. Thanks.

Apple iPhone is actually making such a big hit that even wordpress is having its script available for iPhone users. Users will actually be able to upload photos, edit post or write a new post with an iPhone or iTouch. You will be able to update either Wordpress blogs hosted at your own server or Wordpress.com blogs.

This is actually pretty useful for Malaysian users since WiFi is easily available in a lot of some cafes, malls, KFCs and all Starbucks in Malaysia. People could actually blog on the move with picture taken from iPhone.

I am actually hoping that iPhone 3G will be here at Malaysia, but I guess it would be long and Digi would be the last provider I am hoping could get the contract.

If you are currently holding an iPhone or iTouch. Go on to http://iphone.wordpress.org/ to find out more about the application.

Here you can view it in action:-

It is free for a long time now in Malaysia. Even our KFC have free WiFi (not sure if it is whole Malaysia, though). But only happen now in United States, Starbucks is trying to lure more customer with their Free WiFi. I tried Blogging at Starbucks once , and it is pretty pleasant with great atmosphere. But when I was in Indonesia Airport and hoping to do the same, I only found out that they do not have WiFi there.

But good to know United States now have WiFi, maybe when I am there for business, it would be useful.

But there is a small catch to it, read the terms!

The Wi-Fi freebie will be available starting Tuesday to customers who purchase a minimum $5 reloadable Starbucks Card, register online for the Starbucks Rewards Card program, and use the card at least once a month. The two hours must be consecutive. New members also receive a voucher for a free drink.

Source USA Today

Since Alexa changes its algorithm, I thought that it would be good to look at Alexa Top 100 Malaysia Sites 100. As expected, Yahoo, Google and Friendster grab the top 3 spot.

What is amazing in the Top 100 site is RedTube and YouPorn is actually not far behind. But they rank higher in the global ranking, so it means that there is more visitor from other countries.

File sharing also is a huge trend in Malaysia with website such as 4Shared, eSnips, SendSpace and RapidShare.

Was actually looking forward for KennySia or LiewCf on the list, but does not see any blogger other than Malaysia Today and another X blog.

I find that Alexa ranking being inaccurately because I have another site which have more traffic than this blog but have a 4 times higher alexa ranking recently. I think Alexa may have taken page rank into account for its ranking.

A Twitter account is for sale at eBay and it is going for $405.00 with 9 days to go, very impressive. The twitter account belongs to Andrew Baron, It is also carrying a PR5 at his twitter account, meaning you will get a linkback to your blog. The important factor which determines the price I guess would be the follower, 1413 currently.

After some calculation, this amount to $0.2866 / follower. Not too shabby right. I bet Andrew is getting tons of publicity to his personal blog for this sale too. Great idea, and there will be a lot of followers very soon.

Grab from Spend Money Online