I came upon this interesting website, BlogTV.com which allow users to create, share and watch live broadcast online. It seems to be a pretty busy site and it has been around since 2006. Yeah, it is a bit late though for a short review on this site. :P 

The design of the site is quite user friendly as I find it easy to navigate the site. The main page itself is interesting enough.. I spent some time watching the featured live show and others that were ‘on air’ at that time. BlogTV offers great variety of live shows and it has the following channels :

• News and Views
• Music
• Travel and Places
• Comedy
• Art and Entertainment
• How to & DIY
• Sports 
• Tech and Games

And if you find live shows that are good, you can subscribe to them. In case when someone is hogging the TV, you can opt for live tv at BlogTV.com.

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Hi all,I am sorry that I have not been updating my blog regularly as I am currently working a project which eats up much of my time. It will (and should) be completed by end March. Please bear with me.  Besides, it is Chinese New Year now and here, I would like to wish you all : “GONG XI FA CHAI”

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 … because most of them are rubbish. The visitors referred by Entrecard were of “drop and go” pattern. They visit your site, drop their card and leave your site.. all done in within an average of 18 seconds. Check out the stats below:-

Despite the “low” quality traffic, I will continue to use them because it gives me an opportunity to advertise in other popular blogs (JohnChow, JohnCow, Problogger) for free. That’s the only beauty of this program.

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MySQL, a popular database system for web application (more than 10 million of installations) announces today that it has been acquired by Sun Microsystems for US $1 billion.

MySQL has been one of the essential component for running web applications like Wordpress, Wikipedia and other huge content management systems (i.e Joomla, Drupal).Most people (web developers especially) would like to know where MySQL is heading after the takeover. Will it remains as an open source project?

I found this on MySQL.com :

I’d like to think that the acquisition of MySQL by Sun will be seen as good news also by the core group of users who form the active MySQL community. This is because Sun is a safe haven for MySQL. Sun knows Open Source, and to the extent things change, I expect Sun to add value to our community. I don’t expect huge change, though. We continue to work with our quality contributors, we continue to provide our MySQL Forums, the Planet MySQL blog aggregator, we remain on the #mysql-dev and #mysql channels on Freenode, we provide MySQL University lessons, we meet at the MySQL Users Conference. We’ll put effort into connecting the many FOSS enthusiasts and experts at Sun — whom we will now learn to know better — with our active user community.

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I was visiting my blog on Jan 5th and was surprised that it redirected to another website, adbaaz.com. I did a quick check and found that as soon as my blog starting to load the Advertlets script, it triggered the redirection. Afraid it might affect my blog’s traffic and earning, I removed ALL Advertets scripts from my blog and true enough, it solves the problem.

As I was not in Malaysia that day, I do not have the luxury of time to investigate the cause of the redirection until today.

So what happened?
According to Josh Lim

A complication in the renewal process caused the Advertlets.com domain to expire, and caused issues for bloggers with our ads installed, which made their blogs redirect to a placeholder page. It was not our intent to do so. Advertlets.com blog users were unable to login to their Advertlets accounts and access the website as well.

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