On Christmas day, not everyone is on holiday. I received a mail from Grabmyads, a new monetary site for bloggers, and in Ringgit Malaysia too. Firstly, I wonder how they got my email address? I wonder if this is a spinoff from nuffnang or advertlets. Nevertheless, I am happy that they sent me a mail, so that I could sign up. But then, on the sign up process, I am required to provide full name (which is fine), address (which is also fine), IC/Passport number (hymmm, why do they need this?), Race & Religion (huh?) and bank account number (this is where i draw the line).

In a nutshell, I was rather interested to join a new blog monetary company, but I was not willing to give out too much of a personal informations, especially bank account numbers to a new company that has no track reputation.

Why can’t they be like Google, no IC needed, no need to say race and religion and best of all, no need to give bank account number. If google can do it, why can’t grabmyads.

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I got peanuts from them anyway, without me, there is also not much impact, also, I would rather focus on Adsense and Nuffnag solely and not to have too many bells and whistle around. So, farewell, till we meet again, good luck and all the best. Bye Bye Adverlets…

The future of social networking is through the hands of Intel and Apple.  If they can make UMPC – Ultra Mobile PC and Wimax work, anyone can now go online anywhere.  People can do that now with their cell phone, but cell phone is so tiny and only a handful of sites support cell phones tiny browsers today.  With UMPC, one can bring their “Origami” along to where ever they go and with WiMax, they could be connected 24hrs a day, even they are in the lavatory in the middle of nowhere on I5 freeway.  So, what does this means for application developers? A huge market of addictions left untap.  Games and Social Networking are the two current addictions that could be easily ported over.  Developers just need to make the current applications light weight, using new technologies like Ajax, etc, developers could make a feature rich application that could create a new form of addiction to the Internet.  A while ago I was hooked on simple Internet MMORPG games that took 10 hours of my time away.  This is only because I could not carry my laptop with me where ever I go.  With Wimax and UMPC, one could do that, and imagine the level of addiction.  One could go to war with the Orges while sitting in a Can crapping all the junk food consumed while hacking away a tiny little slug.  The market for this is huge and the best thing is, that this is totally not radical.  It is not a long short, it is an existing addiction platform that just need a little ingenuity for the UMPC.  UMPC today is powered at 1-2W and some could even run Vista.  These low power processors could not take heavy apps like Warcraft.  This is where the money is, which is to make a game like warcraft, but based on Ajax, and runs online and not that graphically rich.  This is my wild idea… 

internet advertising

As I came home, I whip out my tiny little HP nc4010 and looked for the power cord.  The laptop was already 3 years old and the battery was already flat.  “Duh!” screamed the Homer in my head.  I forgot to bring home the power cord.  All I have was < 30 minutes of computing time.  Ah, should be fine, I though to my self.  It took a few minutes to power up, I didn’t notice as I was using the time to clean some dishes and when I was done, the laptop was all fired up and running.  I opened up my mail box and there were tons of free beer and french fires flying around in my facebook.  After replying my last mail, which is to Philip from University of Liverpool, declining his invitation to do MBA there as it was too expensive.  I jump over to Facebook. I was surprise to find two friends of mine who knew each other, one was a friend from high school days and another was a car pool friend when I was working in Intel.  That’s the nice thing about facebook for me.  I detest all those senseless apps and never ending invitation to do something just for the sake of doing it.  I have found a few old friends over facebook and I am keeping it alive and looking for more old friends over there.  I hope to connect up with some of my university old friends, who I have lost contact for over 10 years.  I wonder what they are doing now or where they are laying their eggs.  Where am I rambling too, back to the story, once I was done with facebook, which is a good 15 minutes in, I started to browse over to Pay Per Post.  I usually check if there are interesting opportunities that is worth > $10 per post, something that is worth my time in writing.  I found one, and this one was really interesting, not only it met my monetary requirement, it also promise to give a 5 star tac rating for a good post. Hooked on this sale pitch, I started to write the post.  As I was already almost close to the laptop closing time, I decided to get my post in first then only reserve for the opportunity.  Half way through typing my post, the screen went blank.  The laptop decided to close shop early today, without any warning.  Feeling a little disrupted for missing this opportunity, I turn to my PSP for some distraction.  A day over the opportunity is still there, and today, I did bring my power cord home.  This money is mine… hehehe…

Its about time Microsoft provide a more comprehensive solution, instead of leaving gaps here and there for 3rd party applications to thrive.  This is from a Microsoft perspective.  From a consumer, which is my perspective, its another application that is trying to compete in the thriving world of online marketplace.  Windows live, comes with a photo application, blog writer, mail program and Instant Messenger all bundle under the name of “live”.  Window users can now live their online presence with this “live” package similar to Apple’s .Mac offerings.  The only consolation is that the “live” bundle is free and all the application’s online are also free. 

I am now blogging through the ‘writer‘ application and setup was a breeze.  It was much more efficient compare to Office 2007 Word blogging extension.  With just a few clicks, and I am hooked up to my WordPress powered blog.  I only need to provide the blog root address, login name and password, and whola, I can start blogging from the writer.  These applications gave me a good first impression, and I am in no hesitation to pick them up and start using.