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If you’re a blogger/follow blogs from Singapore, Malaysia, you’d know what Nuffnang is. But for those who don’t, Nuffnang is a blog advertising agency, or in their own words, Asia Pacific’s First Blog Advertising Community. Believe it or not, Nuffnang and I go a long way back. I am a regular [...]

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The Christian Science Monitor has announced plans to end its daily print edition next year and become the first national US newspaper to adopt an almost entirely internet-based strategy.
The 100-year-old newspaper, which like other US dailies has been losing readership and advertising revenue to online media for years, said it would drop its daily print [...]

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This has to be the most exciting news of the week in search engine world. Official google blog announced that Google has learned to crawl Flash content. If you are interested to find out how this is being done, FAQs on indexing flash content can be found at Google Webmaster Central blog.
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Internet Explorer 8 (beta) is here for web developers and designers. It is a developer preview for web designers and developers to help prepare their websites for the launch of Internet Explorer 8. (Ref: Internet Explorer Blog)

My understanding of its new features, after watching the demo videos:
Developer Tools: IE 8 comes with a [...]

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This is a bit of an old news, but I have just found out today via MelbourneIT newsletter that .asia top level domain names are now available to anyone in the world with online presence in the vast Asia region. According to NAT/GM, Press TV, “the region is home to some of the [...]

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It is not absolutely shocking but yes, news has it that Yahoo has rejected Microsoft’s offer to purchase them for $44.6 Billion. While Yahoo! did not accept the offer from Microsoft this time, it does not mean they will be saying no to another offer which comes their way.
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By now, I assume almost everyone in the industry has heard about Microsoft offering to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion. And thanks to a friend who gave me a heads-up on the interesting news, I have spent the past hour thinking what would/could happen should the deal be successful. Anyone can tell that [...]

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Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world’s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun’s position in enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion [...]

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Now facebook is not the only social networking site (I know) with funky widgets and applications. Friendster, the #1 social network in Asia and the third largest branded social network in the world, realised the popularity of applications and widgets among social network users today and introduced widgets and application to the site in [...]

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Remember all the talk about the founder of Wikipedia looking to build a human-powered search engine which took place some time last year? Well, looks like an alpha version of the search engine has been released and it is called wikia search.
Although in the About page it was mentioned that [...]

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