I got this phone 2 weeks already, it is a great phone as I have upgraded from a pretty lousy phone that I have used for almost 2 years. With the high expectation of getting a phone which could keep up with my online updates, I quickly install some great applications, but come to know that most of the resource hungry application or resource hungry websites actually make my new Nokia E72 restart. This happens without fail, so there is no chance at all for me to log into Nimbuzz, or even Meebo url will cause it to restart. Not to mention website like Facebook (non mobile) will do the same. I can’t tell you how many times my phone restarted….

Overall, I think that the qwerty keyboard and touch scrolling feature is simply great. Makes it look and feel like a blackberry. For a RM1,550, you are getting WiFi, qwerty keyboard, 3G with HSDPA connection speed, GPS (Garmin if you have the map), 5.2mp camera + second camera for 3G, and the mail application is such a great deal.

But the constant restarting of the phone is getting into my nerf, while I tried my friend E71 and they had no such problem. They are discussion about this E72 restarting issue at Nokia forum too.

Looking forward for firmware upgrade, which I heard European version is out, hopefully they fix this problem, or I am getting myself to the Nokia Service Center to bug them for a fix.

It seems that we will be seeing twitter search result when we do a search on Google. Although I would admit that I do not actually search for anything in Twitter before, and including them in Google seems to clutter up the information for me. Also, the twitter search result will update from time to time to get the latest updates.

Yea, I am also taking a look at the latest iPad! Would like to see and feel an actual unit. I believe it is a nice unit to do some reading.

Yes, I am back with Exabytes Hosting. A few months ago I ended my hosting with Exabytes because I am getting quite frequent downtime with Exabytes, then I was offered a free hosting by Exabytes just a week ago. They had given me this hosting for free, to prove that their move to AIMS datacenter will improve their server uptime, previously their servers with TM Net. I did not need any extra hosting but since they are free (I already had 2), I think that it is great to give them a try.

I have transfered one of my website back to Exabytes, it is at Mart.com.my. Although Serverfreak uptime has been great so far, I still miss the Exabytes load speed for Malaysian and it is still the same with AIMS datacenter.

Submit a ticket for SSH in order for me to transfer my domain quickly, and within 2 minutes it is activated. It was pretty much the same as previously.

I am currently exploring the use of email marketing as I know that there are a lot of people in the affiliate marketing uses this. I do not intend to use them for affiliate marketing purpose, but just to keep my members updated, so it may be a monthly thing going on. I tend to keep away from email marketing all this while because I kept the perception of it as spam, but then I notice that some online community are sending monthly newsletter which I am keen to get updated. So will give this a try.

First I will need a good software that supports HTML, if you have any software in mind free/paid is fine, as long the price is decent and I can do a trial before purchasing. Currently I am giving these two software a try for free:-

• MailList Controller Free 7.2
• Sendblaster – Limitation but it is withing my needs

If you have any experience in this field, feel free to drop me a comments as I will need help in this as much as possible. I do not want to do this wrong the first time.

I had always like to make classifieds website as my very first website that makes me some money is my malaysia classifieds (http://www.Syiok.com). At the same time, I also like wordpress a lot because of its user friendliness, great seo, its free themes (also paid theme is just great), plugins, and tones of reason I like wordpress. Having a Classifieds Theme / Plugin for Wordpress is simply superb.

Classipress had made a great classifieds out of Wordpress. I still maintain the permalink, which will be great for seo purpose. Wordpress trackbacks, Update Services for sites like Technorati, user friendliness and other plugins could be added on top of this.

Check out my new classifieds site, Geekyfieds. that is dedicated to trading gadgets, games, console, trading cards and toys. It is targeted towards a specific group. At the front, I just change the logo, and everything else is original.

It also has a dashboard for your users to pause or edit their ads, rather than going into wordress admin to edit post.

Also it uses the Wordpress email confirmation for user registration and has a built in spam filters on each ads posting which is simply great for classifieds script. Here are some extra features which I like:-

• Separate image management for classifieds
• Ad pruning – to delete ads after some specific set time
• Google Map features
• Adding banner ads is very easy, although I always like to put into the code when I like the ads to appear
• Ajax – some swift design when you click on “post a classifieds’
• Drop down menu for classifieds category
• Cheap classifieds script! Very cheap!

Configuring it is very easy and it is said that you can make use of the custom fields to get more different fields, I have yet to try this out.

I am mostly into free classifieds website, but if you would like to charge your visitor for posting, you can also do so with this classifieds plugins. If you are interested to start a classifieds website, you should take a look at this.

Classipress – Wordpress Classifieds Plugins

Also remember to give my new classifieds some support.

I am sure everyone can’t wait for year 2010 and there is much more on Make Money Online posts from famous bloggers, upcoming bloggers and also bloggers who gave up after 4 weeks in the year of 2009. So I thought that it may be great to take a poll on how everyone done this year? If you have set your target for year 2009, did you achieve them?

Despite the economy downturn, my online venture have increase. I did pretty well on the second half of the year, but I spend much more too on stuff like various new php scripts, more domains, advertisements, some gadgets, and also my semi-dedicated hosting with Serverfreak. Hopefully I will be able to pocket some earning in the future.

Also, I have got some income from Affiliate marketing for the very first time, it is some extra and got some money stucked at paypal waiting for a bigger sum to be withdraw later.

Currently I have Alexa and Technorati ranking on my ranking matrices for Malaysia Top 100 Blogs. I have been struggling to get other ranking up when I got compete API and the ranking ready, only to find out that it does not rate subdomain. Meaning yourname.blogspot.com will rank the same as www.blogspot.com, which is ridiculously bad. I have yet to come out with a solution.

While Google Rank script works well running one domain at a time but when I run my database of almost 200 domains, it seems to have no response from Google at all. I will need to fine tune this.

It has been a boring weekend with my daily job taking up a lot of time as I am on standby and my servers are not behaving well, I am stuck at home monitoring those metal box.

I was browsing around for wordpress and I stumble across this great Wordpress Directory plugin. If you intend to have a directory and do not have the money to buy a php directory scripts like PhpMyDirectory or PhpLinkDirectory, you can give this a try because it is simply free.

Wordpress is always a great CMS to me, because I am comfortable editing its code and its theme. On top of that, because it is a a wordpress directory plugin, you could take advantage of Wordpress’s permalink that is always my preferred method because of its search engine friendlyness. Not to mention you could use other great features like trackbacks, ping feed aggregator, have rss feeds easily, widgets friendly panel and much more.

Currently Directory Press has 11 different themes on their website and it looks pretty professional.

I have yet to use them but will definitely give it a try once I know what directory I am going to make. Not to forget that you could also use this as a paid directory, link bid directory and it does have dmoz importing function.

Demo

Download Directory Press

Ride the latest Google launch, the Google Wave. I have actually gotten this last night, a little slow on the wave as I was busy and not really keeping up with stuff.

Google wave is a communication tools, and I am yet to find out about its functionality. From what I could see and try, you can share files, have conversation, do a playback on all the waves so you can basically ride the wave, sharing video and other web gadgets.

I have some Google wave invites and if you wish to try them out, leave me a comment here with your valid email and I will send you the invite when I had the time.

It is never too late to ride the wave.

Marketing through other sites like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, or Youtube would be consider as Social Network Marketing. SNM is still very new as you can see those sites above are only created few years ago and today, there is more and more people using these channels to promote and advertise their website or products.

Previously I have covered some tips to do some of the Social Network Marketing on Facebook like making pages and having a ads banner on your facebook profile. I have been using them on some of my websites and blogs and some proven to be pretty successful and there is more interaction day by day.

I started using full feeds on my facebook page that I have created, then slowly I do only excerpt rss feed because my final intention is to have visitor to visit my website.

It has been a month and although it is not as high as search engine traffic but I am currently getting 5.67% of my traffic from Facebook alone and as my fan grows, I will actually increase this value / or increase the visitor referred by facebook.

I would not say myself as an successful affiliate markerter as I suck so badly at it. Spent quite an amount of money and time on this but never had much success. It seems easy for some people while I am better off making websites that could attract visitors to use my website rather than selling them affiliate products.

But after persistent I actually did not lose out that badly as I did sell some products. The most shockly was from Market Leverage which I had not check for months. But yesterday when I decided to log in, this is what I see:-

Ready to cash out, not bad for suddenly getting something.

Other than that, I did quite well with PhpMyDirectory because I bought their script and gave my honest review on PhpMyDirectory. While I just gained back the cost of my script after like a year, I am pretty glad that I still have my website running together with my extra comission. This is good because I felt good giving out review on this new script and at the same time I manage to earn some money, planing to get the second one for 50%, since I am earning some money from it.

Then I also got some payment from CJ.com quite some time for promoting hosting account. So here you go, my affiliate marketing journey. I had no earning from Clickbank despite various attempts and time spent there and together with Amazon (I had like $50+ there but not enough to cash out). So I think it is easier to earn from some other source whereby there is less competition, but finding the right product would be hard.

I still prefer my Internet Marketing journey, while I goes hand in hand with Affiliate Marketing, I somehow find it hard and not as profitable as my website creation.

It seems that Webmaster Malaysia got Spammed and at the same time Malaysia Webmaster also got spammed on every forum category. I used to be a regular at Webmaster Malaysia learning about building website, Internet Marketing, SEO and even getting hosting review. Although I do not visit it recently, they are still great community portal if you want to interact with Malaysia Webmaster.