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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Thoughts on the Life Online Show #LOLshow

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Hello everyone. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! Recently, I listen to this podcast called the Life Online Show or #LOLshow in short.

I started listening to it after I saw Niki Cheong's post on his blog. John Lim, Niki Cheong, David Lian and David Wang are the crews of the #LOLshow! #LOLshow is my 1st podcast and I think it was quite good. The podcast talks about the latest development of social media in the world and also in Malaysia. I thought it was great as it was not as long as This Week in Tech (TWiT) by Leo Laporte and it is more into the local scene as compared to TWiT which oftens talks about issues which happens in the USA. John Lim, Niki Cheong, David Lian and David Wang will share their views on the lastest issues like the roll out of YTL's Yes 4G in Malaysia, Twitter's new guidelines, Facebook's new profile page, Wikileaks, Gap's new logo and the suicide of Alviss Kong on Facebook. Some of the views are quite good, an example would be David Wang's view on the proposed ISP Liability Act in Malaysia (Listen to it on #LOLshow Episode 8).

Another thing I like about the #LOLshow is that there will be a web tip given every week. And of course thank you David Wang for the Groupsmore tip on #LOLshow Episode 4.

My suggestion is that a guest on #LOLshow would be really good. The current length for the show is appropriate for me. Overall, i think that #LOLshow is a great effort done by John Lim, Niki Cheong, David Lian and David Wang (The mic is louder now.. haha..)! I guess it must be difficult for all of you to meet up to record the show online every week? Thank you again for the great work!

This week you can stand a chance to win a BlackBerry Curve 3G by listening to this week's episode and check out how you can win it by checking it out here http://zineradio.com/lolshow/

Here's the latest #LOLshow - Episode 11: Best of 2010

John Lim - http://twitter.com/johnlim

Niki Cheong - http://twitter.com/nikicheong

David Wang - http://twitter.com/blogjunkie

David Lian - http://twitter.com/davidlian

I have done it and now it's your turn to try to win it. Just listen and blog! Check out how you can win it here: http://zineradio.com/lolshow/

Here’s what you get in the sleek and slim package that is the BlackBerry Curve 9300 3G:

2MP camera with flash

GPS

WiFi & 3G

Optical trackpad + media keys

BlackBerry messenger

Google TV: TV meets web. Web meets TV: Will it work for Google?

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Google started their Google I/O 2010 with the announcement of the new Google TV application, which will be used on set-top boxes and HD TVs.

Will it work for Google?

From a search engine, and diversifying into online advertising (Adsense), email provider (Gmail), web-based document processing and data storage service (Google Docs), video sharing (Youtube), and then venturing into the operating systems and web browser sector (Chrome, Android and Chrome OS), Google Earth, Buzz, Picasa, Google Maps, Wave, Google Mobile, Google Desktop, Google Checkout, Google Books Google Talk, Orkut, Google Video and now with Google Labs, Google has not stop introducing new products and services. Now it is Google TV.

Google Books' new look

Seeing so many new products, it seems that Google has a big market share on each individual product's market. However, it seems that not many people are using these softwares or services, especially Google Chrome, Google Docs, Wave, Buzz and Picasa.

As we can see Google Chrome's market share hasn't been stellar even though it is very use friendly with the introduction of bookmark sync and less clutters.

Internet Explorer (53.26%; Usage by version number) Mozilla Firefox (31.60%; Usage by version number) Google Chrome (8.00%) Safari (5.40%) Opera (1.82%) Other (0.89%)(Source: Wikipedia)
The dominating Microsoft (91% market share - Netmarketshare) has been bundling it's Internet Explorer with it's Windows operating systems, forcing users to use it. Of course, users will still use IE as many users such as colleges, universities(yes, i requested for Google Chrome and it was rejected.) and companies will not download any third party browsers as the operating system is preloaded with the web browser IE. Yes. Google's softwares are very useful, however, as we can see Google Docs, Orkut and Buzz, but all did not receive much buzz and hype as compared to Facebook, Windows Live Messenger and the user paid Microsoft Office. It is because it is not easy for Google to encourage users to change their email services from Hotmail to Gmail, from Facebook to Buzz and Microsoft Office to Google Docs because we know change is not easy. Perhaps something new, savvy and innovative can spark interest. Not easy though, we can see it from the Buzz (Initially, it forces all Google users to follow and be followed by fellow Google users) and Nexus One case. Now, with the iPad and and iPhone slated to be out on the 7th of June, Google need to do more in understanding the way people use the internet and software.

Can Google come out of the internet and go into that flat tvs? All we can do is wait and see.

Confession Of A Buddhist Atheist

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Stephen Batchelor talks about Confession of a Buddhist Atheist.According to Batchelor, the outlook of the Buddha was far removed from the religiosity that has come to define much of Buddhism as we know it today. He argues that the Buddha was a man more focused on life in this world than the afterlife. Posted via web from RATIO EX MACHINA