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A day in a Malay Sunday market – Malaysia

The early bird gets the worm and that is what you need to do if you are looking for the freshest food, you need to hit the fresh market early in the morning. We went to the market slightly after dawn and most of the best / fresh stuff is mostly gone. Either way, it was a good day at the market. This market is located at Tanjung Tokong, ...

NASA Space Shuttle for sale, at over 30% off

If you have some spare change and would like to own part of history, you can put your offer in for an authentic space shuttle at 31.43% off the asking price. There are some strings attached and you have the next 30 days to look under the matress to find the money before putting in the offer. Here is a fact that you might not know about the Shuttle ...

Is Google really pulling out of China?

With the recent development of Chinese nationals hacking Gmail - Google's Free Email service, this lead the world's largest search engine to rethink their strategy plus take swift action by enabling HTTPS for all Gmail users. The hackers targeted Chinese human rights activists where these Gmail users believe that their Gmail accounts were compromised by the Chinese authorities. A law professor and human rights lawyer in Beijing, Dr. Biao stated that “At ...

Friendster.com acquired for $110 million

This came as news to me when Friendster.com was acquired by a company in Malaysia. Friendster.com used to be the leading online social networking site and was often copied by the one Maga social networking site - MySpace.com (see book I finished on Stealing My Space). I know that Friendster.com is a big hit in countries like Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillipines and maintains a strong foot hold in ...

Google tackles Store Review Offline with Barcode Initiative

Google announced today that they are taking an aggressive move to make reviews more accessible to those brick and mortar stores. Google will allow U.S. consumers to read reviews about local stores on their cell phones when they point and scan the bar codes on those local stores. Google labeled this initiative as "Favorite Places on Google", and Google sent out 100,000 bar codes to 100,000 most popular local ...

Beyond Super Affiliate, Mega Affiliates and their relationship with retailers

I have been in the affiliate realm for quite some time and I have seen a lot of changes, from the rise and fall of cookie stuffing affiliates to networks imploding. Within the last 3 years, I have seen a surge in not just super affiliates like Fatwallet, SlickDeals but rather what I would call MEGA Affiliates that make those super affiliates look like dwarfs. Don't get me wrong, ...

eBay search not working

If you are having some issues with eBay search tonight, you are not alone. Apparently, this is happening to the eBay US and also eBay UK. Based on what I discovered on blogs, eBay will credit sellers for invisibility due to this outage. A regular search term that I tested, "Toyota Camry": 0 results grouped by products for: toyota camry Your search returned 0 items. and searching again for "Door ...

Sharper Image is back!

The once high flying Sharper Image is back, but utilizing a different business model with funding from Camelot Venture Group. I doubt that they are able to breach their ever successful pre-2004 strategy and this holiday season is going to be a good barometer. Their present model evolves around selling to consumers through other retailers as well as maintaining a presence online. I have no doubt that Sharper ...

Interesting Auction Business Model – Swoopo.com

I was browsing one of the tech sites and I stumbled upon this company - Swoopo.com. Pretty interesting and lucrative business model  - NO DOUBT!!! Basically, they are an auction company which sells directly to consumers. Swoopo started in Germany and is making an impact in US. They focus on electronics like LED TVs, SLR Cameras, laptops, ipods, top end cell phones like the Nokia N97, etc This is how ...

Getting ahead of your competitors with holiday emails

If you have yet to plan your holiday email schedule, you better start ironing it out. Many companies are already counting down the days to Christmas and hoping to get an edge over their competitors in a challenging economy. TigerDirect, an electronics giant based in Miami started counting the weeks until Christmas recently while ShopNBC stated their countdown with 100 days before Christmas. Seeing that it the economy is ...

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