Tech Blog Malaysia Statistics (Feb 09)

As usual, check out the analysis for 2008.

For month of Jan 2009.

For Feb 2009, we have the followings:

• The brand of this blog
  
• A company providing HAPS technology
  
• Malwares and Phishings
  
• A speaker in WCIT 2008
  
• Tips for database remote connection over the Internet
  
• People are interested to compete with the biggest ERP software in the world
  
• Internet slow in Malaysia
  

It is fun to see what most people are thinking and having the same problems.

Overview:

• Total monthly traffic increased by 7.77%%
  
• Traffic from referring sites improved by 1.53%
  
• Google still tops contributor (68.16%). Slightly up from last month.
  
• Top 5 countries (Malaysia, US, UK, India, Singapore). Check out here.
  
• New visitors 88.30%. This partly due to the increased in traffic from search engines

This blog has a lot of potential. We are constantly seeking more contents and cover a broader aspect of tech news and happenings.

For those looking for collaboration, send email to team@it-sideways.com

Tech Blog Malaysia Statistics (Jan 09)

Check out the statistic for 2008.

For Jan 2009, we have the followings:

• The brand of this blog
  
• A company providing HAPS technology
  
• Malwares and Phishings
  
• A common VB6 programming problem
  
• Promotional codes for e-learning
  
• A speaker in WCIT 2008
  

Overview:

• Total monthly traffic decreased by 1.11%
• Traffic from referring sites improved by 0.07%
• Google still tops contributor (66.39%). Slightly down from last month.
• Top 5 countries (Malaysia, US, UK, India, Singapore)
• New visitors 87.26%. This partly due to the holiday season where loyal readers and critics were on leave

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Tech Blog Malaysia Statistics (Dec 08)

As usual, check out the analysis for 2007.

For month of Jan 2008
For month of Feb 2008
For month of Mar 2008
For month of April 2008
For month of May 2008
For month of June 2008
For month of July 2008
For month of Aug 2008
For month of Sep 2008
For month of Oct 2008
For month of Nov 2008..

For Dec 2008, we have the followings:

• The brand of this blog
  
• A company providing HAPS technology
  
• Malwares and Phishings
  
• A Common MS Windows' Problem
  
• A common VB6 programming problem
  
• Problems with accessing Apple store in Malaysia
• Internet performance

Overview:

• Total monthly traffic decreased by 9% (This is a more significant decrease compared to last month)
  
• Traffic from referring sites improved by 1.54% and even traffic traffic improved by 1.06%
  
• Google still tops contributor (67.7%). Slightly down from last month.
  
• Top 5 countries (Malaysia, US, UK, India, Singapore). Check out here.
  
• 84.22% of visitors are new visitors. (A slight decrease from last month, this is attributed to the increase in traffics from direct and referring sites.)

Conclusion:

• Site loyalty improved. This is good for marketing of certain types of product such as subscription based.
• Dec 2008 is a holiday month for readers and would-be readers, people seemed to use the Internet and search engines for more leisure topics. This is good too :P (let the world take a good break). We have stopped blogging since the past 9 days to respect this great harmony.
• The requirement for ICT news and blogs is most peak at the end of 1st quarter and 3rd quarter 2008. This suggests that people actually started working (selling) at the end of 1st quarter and try to meet quota at the end of 3rd quarter.
• IT-Sideways hasn't gain significant new traffic sources, partly due to limitations of topic categories.
• The ICT summary for 2008 suggests that Malaysian companies are not aggressive in terms of PR and marketing, mostly busy on sales and servicing customers. This is a trade-off for becoming global brand power.

ICT Summary for 2008 From Tech Blog Malaysia

Check out the most interesting news from IT-Sideways for year 2008.

March 2008

RPK fined with RM 2 million.

April 2008

• Adobe Education Leadership Forum
  
• iFund for iPhone

May 2008:

WCIT 2008

June 2008:

• iPhone 3G
  
• Acrobat 9 Launched

July 2008:

• Juniper Networks named CEO
  
• SAS' Intelligently Green Forum
  
• KLSE Halted for one day
  
• The Adobe Master Tour (2008)
  
• Indexable Flash

August 2008:

• Malaysia ICT Budget
  
• MNP
  
• Wimax to roll-out as promised
• Malaysia's ISP ordered to cut access to Malaysia Today
  
• IDC Green Conference 2008

September 2008:

Juniper Network's industry’s first Dynamic Services Architecture

October 2008:

• Adobe CS4 Launched
  
• Google's 10^100
  
• Financial industry effects on ICT industry
  
• The new MacBook
  
• Solutions to the Cyber Security Epidermic

November 2008:

The 100 GbE Services

Conclusion:

• The 3rd quarter is the most happening of all.
  
• Nothing much happening from Malaysia's companies, not much interesting products and news.
  
• There are still other significant events like Microsoft TechNet and etc which IT-Sideways didn't blog about.
  
• The most blogged about event is WCIT 2008.
  
• The most blogged about company is Adobe
  
• The topic generated the most interest is Qucomhaps

Happy New Year to all readers and contributors

Special thanks to the following people:

• David Gibson and Anne Ewe from Inter-Asia
  
• Jana from Emerald Communication
  
• Visitra from EC-Council
  
• Sirius PR

Thanks for all your leads and supports. This is indeed a great year for IT-Sideways.

Tech Blog Malaysia Statistics (Nov 08)

What People Search on Tech Blog Malaysia (Nov 2008) ?

As usual, check out the analysis for 2007.

For month of Jan 2008
For month of Feb 2008
For month of Mar 2008
For month of April 2008
For month of May 2008
For month of June 2008
For month of July 2008
For month of Aug 2008
For month of Sep 2008
For month of Oct 2008

For Nov 2008, we have the followings:

• The brand of this blog
• A company providing HAPS technology
• Malwares and Phishings
• A Common MS Windows' Problem
• A common VB6 programming problem
• Problems with accessing Apple store in Malaysia

Overview:

• Total monthly traffic decreased by 7% (This is a significant decrease)
  
• Traffic from referring sites improved by 1.68%
  
• Google still tops contributor (68.17%). Slightly up from last month.
  
• Top 5 countries (Malaysia, US, UK, India, Singapore). Check out here.
  
• 86.51% of visitors are new visitors. (A slight decrease from last month, this is attributed to the total monthly traffic decrease.)

Tech Blog Malaysia Statistics (Oct 2008)

What People Search on Tech Blog Malaysia (Oct 2008) ?

As usual, check out the analysis for 2007.

For month of Jan 2008
For month of Feb 2008
For month of Mar 2008
For month of April 2008
For month of May 2008
For month of June 2008
For month of July 2008
For month of Aug 2008
For month of Sep 2008

For Oct 2008, we have the followings:

• The brand of this blog
  
• A company providing HAPS technology (This company is popular!)
  
• About Malaysia's recent telco initiatives
  
• MS Windows Installation Tips
  
• A Crystal Report 8.5 Deployment Issue
  
• Malwares and Phishings
  
• A Common MS Windows' Problem
  

Overview:

• Total monthly traffic decreased by 0.3%
  
• Traffic from referring sites improved by 0.6%
  
• Google still tops contributor (67.96%). Slightly up from last month.
  
• Top 5 countries (Malaysia, US, UK, India, Singapore). Check out here.
  
• 86.55% of visitors are new visitors. (A % increased from last month, this is attributed to the total monthly traffic surged.)

Tech Blog Malaysia Statistics (Sep 2008)

What People Search on Tech Blog Malaysia (Sep 2008) ?

As usual, check out the analysis for 2007.

For month of Jan 2008
For month of Feb 2008
For month of Mar 2008
For month of April 2008
For month of May 2008
For month of June 2008
For month of July 2008
For month of Aug 2008

For Sep 2008, we have ...

• A company providing HAPS technology (This company is popular!)
• The brand of this blog
• Malwares and phishing
• Malaysia education initiatives
• Information regarding a top computer networking equipment company in the world
• About a high flying techno CEO in Malaysia
• About Malaysia's recent telco initiatives
• An IT company in Malaysia

Overview:

• Total monthly traffic improved by 4.78%
• Traffic from referring sites improved by 1.53%
• Google still tops contributor (67.22%). Slightly down from last month.
• Top 5 countries (Malaysia, US, UK, India, Singapore). Check out here.
  
• 85.51% of visitors are new visitors. (A 3.78% increased from last month, this is attributed to the total monthly traffic surged.)

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Thank you for sending it to Malaysia!

The last Adsense cheque this blog received was in Christmas 2006.

New one is coming soon.

Tech Blog Malaysia Statistics (Aug 2008)

What People Search on Tech Blog Malaysia (Aug 2008) ?

As usual, check out the analysis for 2007.

For month of Jan 2008
For month of Feb 2008
For month of Mar 2008
For month of April 2008
For month of May 2008
For month of June 2008
For month of July 2008

For Aug 2008, we have ...

• A company providing HAPS technology
• Malwares and phishing
• The brand of this blog
• Malaysia education initiatives
• Information regarding a top computer networking equipment company in the world
• A Malaysian educational institution

Overview:

• Total monthly traffic improved by 0.5%
• Traffic from referring sites improved by 3.26%
• Google still tops contributor (69.87%)
  
• Top 5 countries (Malaysia, US, UK, India, Singapore). Check out here.
• 81.73% of visitors are new visitors.

For more information, please contact team@it-sideways.com

Don't Sue Media (for doing their jobs)

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz said "Don't sue the police, ACA and media for doing their jobs."

Exactly, the media such as blogs must NOT be sued if not attacking someone else personally or with malicious intentions. I endorse this statement personally.

It's just like you came across a bug in MS operating system, and you blog about it. Would Microsoft sue you for blogging that ? Or should they thank you ?

I recently came across a blog where a blogger is being sued by a corporate company in Malaysia.

For those industrial experts out there, check out the blog! Reserve your comments unless you really know what is right to comment.

The irony is that we live in a world where software are full of bugs and open source software is just too un-commercialized.

Asia Pacific Corporate Blogging Masterclass 2008

Image via Wikipedia Much to my delights, as what we have predicted in 2006, corporate blogging will take momentum.

The question is always, why not ? But momentum really takes time to gather, now it is starting to roll ? Wow dude, I am excited about this.

LiewCF, KennySia and others will be even more famous.

And rumors claimed that Malaysia's ex ruling political coalition (Barisan Nasional) lost edges to blogs... And they have taken the cyberspace more seriously. Such phenomenon even caught the ex-PM Tun Dr. Mahathir to start his own blog and became the most successful blog (in terms of traffic) within the shortest period of time. Politics, controversies, rumors, gossips simply sell like hotcakes. And Malaysian just love it; to compensate boring lifestyles.

I just received a marketing promotions about Asia Pacific Corporate Blogging Masterclass, I must admit that after years of receiving uninvited emails, this is the first of its kind. Bravo !

Well of course, having said that, bloggers are not specifically gifted people per se. Yes, most bloggers can write good english, some have great ideas to share and to entertaint, while some have great web engineering skills. In my opinion, successful bloggers are usually those who persevere and are able to maintain a blog with the slightest efforts.

In retrospect, not everybody have the license to blog freely. If you are working for a big corporate, high chances that you are not allowed to blog about your job and risk exposing corporate secrets. If you are a CEO of a big IT companies, it is just not too good to blog about topics such as "MLM is a great business". Why ? because that would contradict your CEO image. So, it is kind of complex to mingle blogs with corporates.

Blogging requires a lot of effort per se, particularly a blogger must have the ability to repaint a message into a new dimension by sacrificing time for cigarettes, relaxation and etc. We must always stick to a virtue of not running toooo far away from what we stood for (i.e The IT-Sideways), while at the same time, adapt to the constant interruptions of new trends that massively sweep us daily in the media front, especially the websphere. It is exciting, challenging and always rewarding.

The promotion suggested the following benefits of corporate blogging:

1. Build rapport with customers.
   
2. Free feedback and suggestions from key constituents.
   
3. Increased website traffic from higher search engine rankings.
   
4. Position your business as a thought leader.
   
5. Lead generation.

I agree with all these, but most people still don't really care about it because they would prefer to buy something to earn something rather than dwell into something which is free (blogging).

Blogging is unbelievably lost-cost and its effects can be tremendously fantastic.

In my opinion, all marketing executives must be represented with a blog if not supported by corporate blogs. The logic is very simple, if you are passionate about what you are marketing, why can't you write something about it every few days or at least once per week ? Afterall, this is the most fundamental aspect of your job, to create life out of your products, to associate with emotions and human touch.

Finally, according to the promotion, the following people should do corporate blogging.

• CEOs
  
• Heads / Managers of Corporate Communications
  
• Public Relations Managers and Executives
  
• Marketing Managers and Executives
  
• Online Managers
  
• Marketing Managers
  
• Marketing Communications Managers
  
• Branding and Advertising Managers
  
• Web Marketing Managers
  
• External Relations Managers
  
• Business Development Managers
  
• IT Managers

So, now these people have the license to blog if we can create a culture for that. In a way, I endorse it because if we start to merge our professional life with personal engagement, it is a clear path to a better success.

Check out the promotion here.

By the way, if we do it right, it can be bigger than The Dark Knight ?

What People Search on Tech Blog Malaysia (July 2008) ?

As usual, check out the analysis for the whole of last year (2007).

For month of Jan 2008
For month of Feb 2008
For month of Mar 2008
For month of April 2008
For month of May 2008
For month of June 2008

For July 2008, we have ...

• A company providing HAPS technology
• The brand of this blog
• A Malaysian educational institution
• Malwares and phishing
• Microsoft OS installation tips
• Malaysia education initiatives
• A global company providing networking solutions

Overview:

• Total monthly traffic plunged
• More traffics from referring sites
• Google still tops contributor
• Top 5 countries (Malaysia, US, UK, India, Singapore). Check out full details here.