KOH KHO KING

Microsoft to buy Yahoo for US$50 Billions?

Posted on May 8th, 2007 by KhoKing.
Categories: Computer / IT.

I read an interesting news at lowyat.net:

http://www.lowyat.net/v2/latest/is-yahoo-worth-us-50-billion-2.html

Microsoft set into motion the next step of their plan in which they hope to eventually dominate the search and advertising by first making an offer to with Yahoo for a possible acquisition that could be worth $50 billion, according to a report from Forbes. This move is possibly a reaction to the increasing pressure Microsoft is facing to effectively compete in the online advertising space, even more so after the largely publicized bidding war recently between Microsoft and Google for DoubleClick, one of the internet advertising giants of today. Eventually, Google won and settled with DoubleClick for roughly $3.1 billion. What’s more, Yahoo had recently announced its acquisition of online advertising firm Right Media for $680 million.While US$680 Million is chump change compared to the US$3.1 Billion Google spent on DoubleClick, the move showed that Yahoo was willing to invest in becoming, and in fact already is a significant presence in online advertising. Of course, there’s also the issue of the market in the search industry. With Microsoft currently sitting in third place behind Yahoo and Google, the successful acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft would give Google the first really significant threat in a long time.

Personal Comments:

As an internet user, I use Google on my daily search nowadays. I use Gmail as my main email. I use Analytics for my website statistics. I use Products (previously Froogle) for my online store. I use Sitemap for google to take a more details look of my sites. I use Google Earth for searching of maps and location of a place.

I was an Adsense user, until they banned me… :’(

Google has dominated my internet life. Microsoft and Yahoo are both facing the pressure, they are loosing out market share daily…and Google stock has gone higher and higher.

Is Yahoo worth US$50 billions? Hmm…initially I thought that would be a bit cheap, as Yahoo is a company as of similar status as Google. The potential is huge.

However, on a second thought…do you need US$50 billions to setup another Google? If you have the idea, or use the US$50 billions investment, you might be able to create another Google…or you might not. I don’t think I am smart enough for that…

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PentaxWorld First Advertiser!

Posted on May 7th, 2007 by KhoKing.
Categories: Photography.

After 4 months 10 days since its birth, PentaxWorld has gotten its first advertiser!

http://www.k10dbook.com

The advertiser is an author of the Pentax K10D book, with link as stated above. I spent some time to make a banner for the advertiser, as I find the original banner that he sent me is a bit plain.

Here’s the banner that I designed:

So, how much made? Not much actually, US$50 per month and the advertiser subscribed for one month period (6th May 2007 ~ 7th June 2007). I do hope that he will continue subscribing in the coming months.

Getting an advertiser means PentaxWorld is now being recognized by others. This is a big encouragement as I have put in a lot of effort in designing and making PentaxWorld better and better each day.

I have also noticed that these few days PentaxWorld has many visitors and new signed up members. Google still don’t index much of PentaxWorld forum’s threads or posts, so promoting PentaxWorld still requires a lot of members’ link and word of mouth. I think at the moment dpreview.com is still the biggest referral site to PentaxWorld. Though PentaxWorld.com has been banned at dpreview (dpreview doesn’t allow other forums to be at their sites), but members still can post PentaxWorld without the .com at the back and it will not be filtered. So, from time to time some members at dpreview do still post reference and links to PentaxWorld.

I have also registered and created a sister’s domain: PentaxWorld.net that will link to PentaxWorld.com.

Goodnight for now…

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How much is your website worth?

Posted on May 5th, 2007 by KhoKing.
Categories: Computer / IT.

I read about a link to a website that estimate how much is your website worth:

http://www.dnscoop.com/

Here’s some interesting examples:

http://shashinki.com = $7,420

http://yahoo.com = $2,129,100,000

http://google.com = $1,743,760,000

http://msn.com = $406,200,000

http://microsoft.com = $241,200,000

http://youtube.com = $1,113,980,000

http://apple.com = $374,400,000

http://mac.com = $26,390,000

http://dell.com = $97,600,000

Ok…do more search yourself for your website if you like.

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Merchant Account at PhotoMalaysia.com

Posted on May 5th, 2007 by KhoKing.
Categories: Photography.

PhotoMalaysia is now offering Merchant Account to its members!

1. Who are the merchants?
Shop owners, online retailers, home-business person, entrepreneurs…etc. anybody who would like to sell products online frequently.

2. What are the benefits of opening a merchant account?
Merchants at PhotoMalaysia will have their own dedicated forum under Merchants Corner section in PhotoMalaysia main forum index page. Merchant is having the full power in their forum to edit, delete, unlimited sticky thread…etc. in their forum. The dedicated forum can also act as a customer feedback board for the merchant.

3. Who are qualified to be a merchant?
As long as you are selling legal products, you can contact us to apply for a merchant account. Merchants can be from within Malaysia or oversea.

4. Why should you want a merchant account?
Having your own dedicated board means getting more exposure and recognitions! PhotoMalaysia is the First & Largest photography community in Malaysia, with more than 9 thousands registered members, millions of page hits monthly and thousands of unique visitors daily.

5. Is it Free?
Every new approved Merchant are entitled for one month free trial. Subsequent monthly fee for Merchant account is RM50 or US$15 / month (subject to change in future).

6. What if a merchant stopped subscriptions?
Forum that belongs to a merchant that has stopped the merchant subscriptions for more than 3 months will be moved to an achieved child forum. It can be moved to the main forum index once a merchant resumes his/her subscriptions.

To apply for a merchant account, please send a private message to me with the following details:

1. Shop Name:
2. Owner’s Name:
3. Shop’s address (if having physical shop):
4. Type of products:
5. Number of offered products:

For more info and application, visits:

http://www.photomalaysia.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25005

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Another website to check PageRank

Posted on May 3rd, 2007 by KhoKing.
Categories: Computer / IT.

I just discovered another website to check the PageRank of your website for 37 data servers of Google:

http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_checker?domain=shashinki.com

Yes, still PageRank 4 for ShaShinKi.com.

Showing results for: http://shashinki.com

# Data Server Current PageRank
1 toolbarqueries.google.com 4
2 216.239.37.* 4
3 216.239.39.* 4
4 216.239.51.* 4
5 216.239.53.* 4
6 216.239.57.* 4
7 216.239.59.* 4

(more…)

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Gospel Sharing at Megumi Church

Posted on May 3rd, 2007 by KhoKing.
Categories: Church.

I went to Megumi Church last night to attend a gospel sharing by a pastor who is a big bike rider that ride big bike across the country in Japan.

Here’s the invitation brochure regarding the talk:

Here’s a photo we took at the church together with the pastor:

God bless!

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Canon EF LENS WORK III - FREE DOWNLOAD!

Posted on May 3rd, 2007 by KhoKing.
Categories: Photography.

Canon EF Lens Work III - A MUST HAVE book for ALL Canon users! Though I am a Nikon users, I still want and owned this book!

Now, Canon Europe has offered a free PDF version to be downloadable at Canon Europe website!

Contents:

THE EF LENS CONCEPT

CANON’S CHALLENGES

THE EF LENS WORLD (SINGLE FOCAL-LENGTH LENSES)

THE EF LENS WORLD (ZOOM LENSES)

THE EF LENS WORLD (EF-S LENSES)

EF LENS ACCESSORIES & VARIETY IN THE CANON LENS WORLD

THE BASICS OF INTERCHANGEABLE LENSES & CORRESPONDENCE OF EF LENSES TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

PHOTO TECHNIQUES

EF LENS TECHNOLOGY

OPTICAL TERMINOLOGY & MTF CHARACTERISTICS

DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS & LENS MAP

Download link:

http://www.canon-europe.com/Support/Documents/digital_slr_educational_tools/en/ef_lens_work_iii_en.asp

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Government’s Extra Generous & Hardworking during Election?

Posted on May 3rd, 2007 by KhoKing.
Categories: Rojak.

Here’s a quote from SinChewJitPoh:

http://www.sinchew.com.my/content.phtml?sec=1&artid=200705021290

蔡細歷：民生痼疾9天治好“要選票才做事”令選民不滿

國陣依約補選期間解決的民生問題：

• 八丁燕帶垃圾場於4月7日起，永久關閉。改造為休閒公園。
• 副首相宣佈撥出320萬令吉撥款，完成選區內的一切發展建設。
• 雪州大臣宣佈撥款3600萬令吉，充作依約選區的基本設施發展經費。
• 依約新村面對蒼蠅充斥的問題，雪州衛生局鑒定蒼蠅是在養雞場大量繁殖生長，並發出警告信要業者在1星期內清理養雞場內的環境。
• 武吉洛賓森居民獲得每方尺1令吉地說的新地契。
• 水利灌溉局鋪建水溝。
• 首相署撥款80萬令吉，以及教育部撥款20萬令吉給八丁燕帶育智華小增建禮堂。
• 工程部批准撥款50萬令吉，為瓜雪依約2座華人義山鋪設全長2．25公里的柏油路。
• 依約新村的“天福振龍宮”獲政府撥款27萬令吉，充作神廟重建經費。

You judge.

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More PageRank!

Posted on May 2nd, 2007 by KhoKing.
Categories: Photography.

Another three of my websites are now having PageRank 3!

http://oy-oy.eu/google/pr/?url=http%3a%2f%2fpentaxworld.com&#r�

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� http://oy-oy.eu/google/pr/?url=http%3a%2f%2fcapturesg.com&#r

http://oy-oy.eu/google/pr/?url=http%3a%2f%2fecmalaysia.com&#r

Some said PageRank is useless nowadays. Is it really useless? Personally I still believe there are useful, as Google is still using PageRank to rate the importance of their indexed sites. There might be more and many websites indexed by Google nowadays, hence PageRank 3 might not mean much…but at least it still give an indicator to webmaster how importance the sites in Google’s eyes. Websites with PageRank 5 or higher definitely mean they are of more importance and will show up more frequently in Google search.

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Page Rank 4!!!

Posted on May 1st, 2007 by KhoKing.
Categories: Computer / IT, Photography.

Google has ranked ShaShinKi.com as a Page Rank 4 website now!

It was still Page Rank 3 last month and many months before. I remember it has a mixed of Page Rank 3 and 4 few months ago, but suddenly drops to all Page Rank 3 one or two months ago. Two days ago, it has a mixed of PR3 and PR4 again, but weighted more towards PR3 (so average still a PR3 site).

Just a few minutes ago, I checked again with 43 unique datacenter of Google and it has FULL PR4 ranking! Where do I checked?

http://oy-oy.eu/google/pr/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fshashinki.com

Hurray!!!

What is PageRank?

Here’s a quote from Wikipedia:

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank)

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of “measuring” its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E).

PageRank was developed at Stanford University by Larry Page (hence the name Page-Rank^[1]) and Sergey Brin as part of a research project about a new kind of search engine. The project started in 1995 and led to a functional prototype, named Google, in 1998. Shortly after, Page and Brin founded Google Inc., the company behind the Google search engine. While just one of many factors which determine the ranking of Google search results, PageRank continues to provide the basis for all of Google’s web search tools.^[2]

The name PageRank is a trademark of Google. The PageRank process has been patented (U.S. Patent 6,285,999 ). The patent is not assigned to Google but to Stanford University.

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Grape Farm 2006

Posted on May 1st, 2007 by KhoKing.
Categories: Family.

Was browsing my old photos…saw a folder of grape farm visit in year 2006. I better post them up for sharing instead of burring forever in the HDD…

Date: 16th September 2006
Place: from Higashi Hiroshima (Sunsquare) to Hirata Farm (grape season)
Fee: 1300 yen per person
Drive time: one hour
Depart: 9am
Arrive: 11am (we went to other places first)
Weather: Raining lightly
Transport: Self-driving (Daihatsu Mira)
KOH KHO KING and WONG SIAW FOONG

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