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Okay, the new Yahoo! Meme is here and I have some invites. Overall I think it loads pretty fast and compare with twitter, has a better design, but it does not have much more better features compare to other Microblogging platform out there. I like the built in Image, Video and Music sharing, but plurk has this but not sharing stuff that is currently residing on your PC.

The only chance of this surviving is to get flickr people to do Photo Microblogging at Yahoo! Meme.

As mentioned, I have Yahoo Meme Invites if you like to try, just leave me a comment here saying you wants invite and I will send you through email.

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/

Been really busy recently and so ashame of myself of not writing anything here for so long, because it indicates that I did not learn any new things, new ideas or found any new tips & tricks recently. But nevertheless, I have move some of my domains to a new Semi-Dedicated hosting. I have been looking for a great semi-dedicated hosting for quite some time. The reason mainly because of financial side which I am more than comfortable to pay for hosting now.

I believe that I found one reliable webhosting company but it is too early to say, all I can say now is “So far so good”. This blog will not move so soon because I have paid for Hostgator for their 3 years plan and it is not that resource hungry as my other websites. My new hosting is with ServerFreak Hosting, they are a Malaysia hosting company, pretty reputable so far and their office is quite near to my house. Will come out with their service review once I tried them out for at least 3 months.

On the other hand, I have been spanding some time with my family, and taking pictures with my new DLSR.

Previously  I have actually written about blogs that are manage by more than one person. The reason mainly because of time and wanted some variety in the posts. Currently it is doing pretty fine as we could get around $50/month, not much but I would say that it is pretty decent since we just spend like 2 hours each person each week. But the downside was that we only have two person blogging now. It was expected that some friends will give up or found out they do not like blogging.

Anyhow, it was nice that I found someone to share my interest and share my knowledge with and it generates new idea on how we could promote and increase our visitor. We manage to get 450+ visitor a day which is pretty good because it is quite a competative topic that we are blogging about. Not the best blog out there but pretty satisfied.

I am doing a trial for Malaysia purchase since I got the advantage of getting supplies of Surgical Face Mask and earn a small margin out of it. Previously I have tried various software for ecommerce. OS Commerce was the first but it has limitation because it is very very hard to edit things, but I still maintain the website with OS Commerce. After that I tried Zen Cart, I think it is better in terms of theme editing, new add on module and admin panel is much better, but still remain a lot similar with OS Commerce. While choosing Zen Cart I have tried Joomla’s Virtuemart and CubeCart but each have its own limitation and I ended up with Zen Cart.

My third experiment on online shopping cart is Wordpress E-Commerce, I wanted to try this a long time but did not had the chance until yesterday I setup a Wordpress E-Commerce site to sell only 2 items, which is the highly demanded Surgical Face Mask. Although I will not recomend this plugin for a full fledge e-commerce site whereby you have a lot of item because the order handling, receipt, invoice and quite a lot of features in a normal shopping cart is not there. Nevertheless, I like the fact that it is using Wordpress, and I am very comfortable with adding more plugin to make it search engine friendly.

My first 2 E-commerce site had fail, although not making lost since I could still make the money to pay for the domain renewal. This is my third, and purposely built on top of my 4 years old Classifieds to gain credibility. So if you are interested to purchase some 3-ply face mask or surgical mask.

Get them here: Surgical Face Mask