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Cuti-cuti 1Malaysia, how much does it cost actually?

How much does this Cuti-cuti 1Malaysia facebook page cost actually? Let's listen to what Preetham Venkky has to say. Preetham Venkky is the business head at KRDS India, one of the Facebook authorized app development firms in Asia.

While anything is possible, spending US $590,000 on six Facebook apps doesn’t make much campaign sense. So for an app like Citrawana (one of the six) to costs close to US $100,000, this is impossible since the app is pretty straight to the point. The money paid is seriously unjustified. It should cost anywhere between $ 12,000 – $ 15,000 inclusive of two iPads being given away as prizes. These costs would include (to quote directly) – “creative works, concepts and ideas, design, flash programming and coding, testing and debugging, uploading and launching of application, system server development and maintenance, and development of database from the contest”.
Based on the minister’s statement, what’s important to note is that the cost does NOT include campaign management, monitoring, Facebook ads, or fan recruitment through Facebook and Google. In most cases, the costs can escalate quite rapidly if a key deliverable is fan count. If there’s a target to acquire one million US fans for the page (this could be a realistic expectation since the client is a Tourism client) where the CPC is US $1.10 (on average) then it might be a good deal. If I were to make a guess, I think it would make sense if $90,000 includes the development of six apps with the remaining money spent on media (buying ads) to propagate and rapidly increase engagement.
What’s shocked me is something different altogether. The agency hasn’t used the basic mechanics involved in Facebook fans acquisition. For instance, a user can play the game without ‘liking’ the page. There’s a micro-leaderboard but no global leaderboard. How would the user be motivated if he doesn’t know where he stands globally? And honestly, it’s extremely difficult to get 50,000 points which will only encourage the users to give up soon.

Also, the developer hasn’t used any ‘virality’ at all in the app. For instance it doesn’t prompt the user to share their score as an update, it doesn’t have an option to ‘challenge’ and invite your friends to join the game etc. There’s a lot that could’ve been done with the app, but it looks like the development agency has missed out on the core features to make the app go viral and hence increase fans and awareness.

source: http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/06/15/facebook-stupid-app-malaysia/

Read Before Comment

I noticed some people like to comment on things that they are not certain or don't understand. They are not illiterate, in my humble opinion, they just don't bother to read.

For example, Namewee (黄明志) updated his facebook's fan page and he said:

FB closed / blocked my official "NASI LEMAK 2.0" the movie page! Sigh ... it happened to me before in 2009 when my own page was closed for almost 5 months ...

Because he is popular, people started to like and comment on the status update. Below are some of the funny comments I extracted. They are written in Chinese so I translated them.

不是真的！facebook要关闭是假的!
(It's not real! Facebook shutting down is a hoax!)

消息传出facebook创办人将在3月15号永久关闭facebook server。我看你应该不用抱着期望他跟你开回了。
(Rumours say the founder of facebook will shut down facebook's server at 15th March. I don't think he will reopen it.)

LOL,namewee bro...about the facebook close is fake..so u still can continue to do ur next thing =D 我很期待 (I'm looking forward to) ur new movie =D

吊你们那些相信脸书要关的人，无脑！
(Fuck those people who believe the facebook-is-shutting-down hoax, no brainers!)

If you are not an active facebook user, then you probably don't know that there is a hoax spreading like wild fire claiming that Mark Zuckerberg is going to shut down his $50billion business at 15 March 2011. Thanks to facebook addicts who do not read and do not know how to differentiate news and hoax.

Anyway, it's not the point I want to discuss. Read again, what did Namewee write and how people commented. They don't match at all. Namewee was saying his new page has been blocked and these idiots misinterpreted his statement as facebook is shutting down. Read before you comment ok? Verify rumors before spreading it ok? Do not make yourself look like idiot. Use common sense.

Malaysia is not going to ban Facebook

There is a rumor spreading on internet saying Malaysia's government is going to ban or block Malaysians from using faceboook after the incident of Alviss Kong's suicide. As the intensity of debate over the suicide accelerates, a several facebook users follow suit and claim they are going to kill themselves too (copycat's suicide). Of cos most of these people are pranksters.

Many concern that the suicide trend might be a good excuse for government to shut down Facebook. Do remember that Malaysia is not a socialist country. The government cannot just ban Malaysians from accessing Facebook and intervene our freedom of speech, and there is no such law that prohibit people from leaving suicide note (as long as they do not attempt suicide). Besides, just because a few people are leaving suicide notes on facebook it doesn't make it a valid reason to stop people from using it. Accident rate in Malaysia is high, is that implying a car-ban as well?

I realized many people are sharing false information on facebook without clarifying the validity. Please do not believe everything you read on internet, be a smart internet user. I came across a good-course website and read one particularly interesting comment left by a Chinese (China Chinese), :"... I discovered this after I came to America, and I can use facebook here too! I want to do more to help solving problems around the world....", and I realized facebook is not a right, but a privilege for many people, but many Malaysians choose to abuse such privilege instead of benefiting from it. How sad is that.

Malaysia Bans Facebook?

Someone finally came up with a brilliant idea to solve the ongoing argument between pro-government and opposition supporters on Facebook. He thought :"Why not just ban Facebook?"

I must admit, this is the most brilliant idea I have ever heard. Why no one has ever thought of it before? No facebook, means no more 1M Malaysians Reject 100-storey Mega Tower page, no more Lim Kit Siang, no more Hishamuddin Rais, so on and so forth thus threats to national securities will be gone.

Besides, ban facebook can indirectly increase the nation's productivity as people will focus more on working rather than farming on Farmville, hence improve the economic performance and we'll be high income individuals in no time! If that's not wisdom what is that?

Update:
Malaysia will not ban facebook.

TM uses Facebook to Boost Productivity

I saw this photo on facebook just now and I thought it would be interesting to share with people.

At first glance, you might not find this photo interesting. So lets enlarge it and take a closer look.

It must be TM is starting to utilize facebook as a medium to connect all its employees. She was probably communicating the customer's complaint to her superior. The idea is simply brilliant! Facebook instead of its own intranet, it would probably save up millions of ringgit per year and yet enjoy the same or even more features. They can have a group, and with new group chat feature management doesn't even need to have face-to-face meeting anymore!

The money saved can be used to upgrade its internet service too. Even though it's already excellent now, but excellent will never be good enough for ambitious and visionary company like TM. It will not stop until all Malaysians can enjoy free high speed internet access! Bravo!

I'm dead sure she wasn't using facebook for personal purposes during working hour.

The most effective way to improve blog traffic - Facebook

I discovered some very effective ways to gain blog traffic. I personally use it and my traffic increases about 1000%. Even though my page isn't generating 10k traffic per day, but still it proved it is effective especially if you're blogging about something worth for readers to share, by their standards of cos, not yours. If you're blogging about your emotion and feeling, I doubt that this post can help you.

The most valuable lesson I have learned is to utilize your social network. The biggest and most popular social network is no doubt the Facebook, founded by the legendary nerd Mark Zuckerberg.

There are a several very useful functions on Facebook, for example the Share button, Like button, and Fan page. The best of all, they're free of charge. For small-fry blogger like me, cost is most important factor I care in choosing the methods of promoting my page. So FOC is good.

Make sure you place Like and Share buttons for every single blog post you publish. So that people who find it interesting have higher tendencies to share it on Facebook. Convenience is playing a very important role here. Readers might be reluctant to share if they have to copy the page link and share it manually, it's too troublesome.

Second thing is the Like button. It serves more than just a tool for people to "like" your post, it's rating. When people see a high number of "like" for a particular post. They might stop to read your contents, to find out why so many people like it. Herd mentality is the key.

The third thing is Fan page. Create a fan page for your page. When people become fans, they indirectly follow you. To certain extents, fan page has the functionality of Twitter, RSS and bookmark. When you update your fan page, they will see it. It's better than Twitter because your fans can have a platform of discussion on Facebook. The downside is that people might not login to Facebook everyday or they might miss your update on. So, the best thing is to get your readers bookmark your page. That's it, my 2 cents of opinion.

10.10.10 North-South Expressway Accident - Who to be blamed?

October 10, 2010 or 10.10.10. A special day for many people but also a heartbreaking day for many families. A massive fatal collision happened at North-South Expressway, has taken away 12 lives and injured more than 40 people inclusive of 10 in critical condition. I express my deepest condolence to these innocent victims.

News can be found on The Star, NST, The Sun and all over internet. Video can be found on 8TV facebook page. Some eyewitnesses also took photographs of the scene and shared it on facebook.

Do not confused between accident and collision, these terms are not interchangeable because accident means there is no one to blame because everything happened by nature. Collision has someone to blame.

Who to be blamed for this massive collision? Whose fault is it the constant high traffic collision rate in Malaysia?

Blame the bus driver for not following the traffic rules?
Passengers for not asking drivers to comply with traffic rules?
The bus companies for not educating their drivers to drive safely?
The law maker for not making tighter traffic rules and regulations?
Traffic police for not enforcing the traffic rules stricter?
PLUS for not building better road?
Proton for not making safer car?
Dunlop for not making tyre with more grips?
Media for not spreading enough road safety messages?
Teachers for not teaching how to drive safe?
Parents for not nagging their children to follow traffic rules?
Time for passing too quickly?

Blame ourselves for being inconsiderate, impatient, and ignorant on road.

You are no Michael Schumacher, nor you are on race track. If you are attempting to commit suicide, there must be a better way to die than reckless driving. You have no right to drag someone else to die together with you. Stop being selfish.

Update

Update 2
Bus driver was innocent! read more..

Facebook Slut Strips for Reload Card.

A "sexy young girl" said she is willing to show her naked photographs and video of her masturbating to anyone who is willing to buy her prepaid reload phone card and online game point reload card. The sweet offer turned out to be a lusty trap to con some horny and stupid guys. "She" who is actually a man communicates with "her" horny victims through Facebook, first makes friend with them, then slowly lures them into the con trick. For more information read this.

This trick is as old as time and yet some stupid guys can still fall into it. At least request for a preview of "her" webcam first before you buy her anything will you? If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. There's nothing wrong to be horny, but make sure it doesn't cloud your judgement.

The Most Racist Page on Facebook

"Cina balik China" statement has obviously put the racial harmony in danger. However, conspiracy theorists claimed it was a dirty political trick played by oppositions to create chaos. There is no doubt that exploitation of such racial chaos would result in political advantages, but who is the winner in the end of the day?

If one argues that oppositions framed Puan Hajah Siti Insyak BTE Mansor to breed racism, as a conspiracy theorist myself can argue that oppositions have been framed for framing her, to create a villain impression of the oppositions. Conspiracy theory will never end.

The questions are:
1. Is Puan Hajah Siti Insyak BTE Mansor a political victim?
2. Did she make those moronic and racist statement?
3. Is she being setup?
4. Why would students lodge such fake police report?
5. Is this a political trick?
6. Who is the big winner in this chaos?

I shall leave it to your own critical analysis.

Above is showing the most racist page you can find on Facebook. Malaysians are making fool of ourselves by letting bunch of morons to use internet. You can witness yourself by clicking this link:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sokong-Cikgu-Puan-Hajah-Siti-Mangsa-Politik/145217835508875?ref=ts

It's disappointing to see so many racist who think they are racialist. No pride, only stupidity shown in their comments and statements made. It's a fucking joke when they point fingers and label each other as racist, I feel very offended by the way they turn racialism into racism and insult rather than try to make peace with each other.

Steven's Corner's Public Relations Rescue Mission - "We are innocent!"

Apparently the incident where Steven's Corner Big Boss beat his old neighbour without mercy and reason has affected its business badly.

Big Boss decided that he must do something to fix things up, so he called up all his mafiosi for a meeting. After consulted his consigliere, they have decided to use the most sophisticated Public Relations techniques and advanced information technology (Facebook) to prove their innocence!

Eventually, Steven's Corner found a witness who can prove its innocence. Big Boss is totally not a violent hooligan, he was provoked by the disrespectful old man, Lim!

Check it out

We were totally blindfolded by Lim the Old Man, and alleged Steven's Corner with all sort of bad and mean crimes.

Sorry Steven's Corner, our bad!

"Hate" Button on Facebook

I assume all of you know about Facebook and if you have a Facebook account, I assume you know what is a "Like" button. "Like" button is for you to click on it to show that you like something, for example if your slutty net friend updates her relationship status to "Single", you can click on "Like" since she is once again available in your potential-get-laid-prospect list.

I'm sure you liked something on Facebook before, whether it's a status or Nike's Make-You-Freekick-Like-Beckham football boots, maybe McDonald new Dead-Horse-Mixed-Dead-Chicken Burger. So don't tell me you never "Like" before, I'll say BULLSHIT. Just for your information, you can like it on Facebook as well.

Just in case you really don't know

Here comes the question: If we have "Like". Where is the "Hate"? I like a lot of things, and I'm certainly hate or dislike a lot of things as well. I hate when a pretty girl got into a relationship with a big fat ugly fuck, but just when I'm about to show my hatred, I realized there is no fucking "Hate"!

So I decided to make my own, so that I could hate those emo statuses like

I'm so lonely, no one understand me or

Why do you treat me so bad when I love you so much! or this,

Happy Mother's Day to my mum, I love you forever!

For fuck sake, your mum is not even on Facebook.

"Hate" Button

If there is a "Hate" button, I will not be surprised if people use it more often than "Like". There are just so much things that I hate.

Nonetheless, do like my page. Simply click on the like button, or you can find me on Facebook.

I created a group called UTAR Hall Of Shame (previously named as UTAR Ganasai) for UTAR students to share their thoughts and opinions over issues in our university. The group had approximately 600 members and was constantly growing.However, there are people who are do not respect the freedom of speech and would like us to shut up. They then decided to sabotage our effort by reporting us as inappropriate.

Unfortunately, we are outnumbered by this group of people. Facebook requires certain amount of reports before it will take action such as remove inappropriate content or worse —— remove the group completely.

However, we are not going to give up our right to speak out. We have formed another group 'UTAR Ganasai II' to continue explore more issues and problems in our university.

I Debated With a Short-Tempered Woman

Just now, I was clicking through my facebook and I saw a friend's feed

This friend of mine was so damn emo and I guess he just wrote this to express his love to this anonymous girl.

爱一个人很辛苦所以我下定决心不再爱一个人了，还是决定了偷偷地爱着她。

Let me translate this sentence to you, it means
Loving someone is such a great torture, therefore I decided not to love someone anymore, but I also decided to love her anonymously.

There's paradox in this sentence. What I mean is, how do you stop loving someone if you love her secretly?
So, I expressed my doubt in my comment toward the statement.
However, there is a girl, who totally disagree with my thought and she commented on this feed obviously against me.

The Short-tempered Girl

lema, 不爱一个人, 跟偷偷爱着她, 简直自相矛盾, LOL

(lema, don't love someone no more, but love her secretly, it's paradox, LOL)

在爱的世界里, 不就是互相矛盾得吗?

(Isn't the World of Love is fulled with ambiguity and paradox?)

爱怎么会矛盾, 不爱怎么会恨? 只是人心在作祟, 把事情搞得复杂了.

(Love is never paradox, if you never love, why would you hate? It's the flaw man who makes thing complicated.)

每个人都只会说要简单一点, 但是说这种话的人~ 一点都不简单, 而且也很复杂! 人是最复杂的动物!!

(Everyone says that they want to keep thing simple, but those who say this, are not simple at all but very complicated. Human is the most complex creature in the world!!)

觉得别人很复杂的人, 肯定要比会说要简单一点的人, 来得更复杂一点, 自己不复杂, 怎么会觉得别人复杂? 起码说要简单的人会简简单单的把自己想要的东西表达出来. 哈哈

(Who always think other people are complicated, is actually more complicated than those who want themselves to be simple. If oneself is not complicated, how does one feel others' complexity? At least those who want simplicity would say it out simply loud and clear.)

我从不否认我是复杂的, 因为我是人!! 而那些自认很简单的人, 不见得是简单~

(I never deny that I'm very complicated, because I'm a human!! Those who think they are simple, they ain't no simple at all~)

Debate between us ended when the short-tempered girl brought in personal element and turned it into a nasty game. Anyway, I hope the girl could see the world simpler, because complexity blinds u from seeing the core of life.