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Saturday, January 12, 2008

Rambo 4: John Rambo Premiere Screening



AMBP, in collaboration with United International Pictures, presents a special screening of Rambo 4: John Rambo, a movie that brings an old friend back from retirement; this time to show the tyrants in Myanmar who's the boss.

The screening will take place on Jan 24 at Golden Screen Cinemas, Mid Valley Megamall and you're invited as an AMBP member – just as long as you complete a very simple task as outlined here: http://www.allmalaysia.info/ambp/editor/permalink.asp?id=11.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Newborn Planet Found Orbiting Young Star


A newly formed planet orbiting a young star offers the first observational evidence for the long-held theory that planets form early, within the first ten million years of a parent star's life, according to a new study.
Until recently all of the 250-plus planets outside our solar system have been found around much older stars—a hundred million years of age or more.

Now a research team led by Johny Setiawan of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, has found a newborn extrasolar planet—or exoplanet—around a star that's between eight million and ten million years old. The exoplanet, which is ten times more massive than Jupiter, is still linked to the dusty disk of material surrounding its parent star. With this new find, Setiawan said, so-called protoplanetary disks have at last earned their name. "It is very exciting to know that things we called 'protoplanetary' disks are indeed protoplanetary— they form planets!"

Setiawan and colleagues describe the findings in this weeks' issue of the journal Nature.

Saturday, January 5, 2008

Why You Should Join The Nuffnang Glitterati





What is an “exclusive Nuffnang blogger”?


An exclusive Nuffnang blogger is a blogger that has NO advertisements from any other ad network that originates from South East Asia on his/her blog.

How do I apply for the Nuffnang Glitterati club?

You do not need to apply and will automatically be included as a Nuffnang Glitterati as long as you do NOT have any ads from any other ad network that originates from South East Asia. Our crawlers will automatically include your blog in the club within 48 hours.

Note that if an ad from another ad network is placed on your blog at any time, our crawlers will pick it up within 48 hours and you will automatically be removed from the program.


Why You Should Join The Nuffnang Glitterati

1) Payment Rates for both Cost Per Unique Visitor and Cost-Per-Click.

The less ads a blogger has on his blog, the higher share of voice and the less each ad will have to compete with other ads for attention. Hence, the higher the CTR and the higher the value of that particular ad space on the blog.

That is why for example you will never see 8 different ads on the same page on a newspaper unless it’s in the Classifieds where each advertiser pays a small amount.

As a result of that, Glitterati Nuffnangers will earn 20-40% more than ordinary Nuffnangers.

2) Payment Terms

In the advertising industry just like in many industries, payment from advertisers come from specific terms like 60 or 90 days. In the past, Nuffnang has used its cash reserves to pay off bloggers for campaigns that we still have not been paid for by our clients. Due to the great increase of bloggers in the Nuffnang community, we are no longer able to provide this service for all our Nuffnangers and unfortunately will have to restrict this service to Nuffnang Glitterati.

However, all Nuffnangers will still be paid in a timely manner as stipulated in the Program Table.

3) Advertorial Opportunities

Many bloggers know that while banner ad campaigns earn a decent stable income, it is advertorials that pay the most. Each advertorial depending on the advertiser, commitment and traffic can earn a blogger a minimum of RM 50 to RM 1,500 not including freebies that may sometimes be included.

In the past, advertorial opportunities were available for all our Nuffnangers. However, due to the high demand for advertorials and the need for us to narrow down which blogger of the thousands will get advertorials, only exclusive bloggers will now be eligible for advertorials.

4) Community Events

Nuffnang is known to organize the biggest community events ever which range from free movie screenings, lunch meet ups and many more. We find that in many of these events, many Nuffnangers would like to bring guests along with them and we at Nuffnang would like to oblige as much as we can.

As such, 70% of the seats for each event will be allocated to Nuffnang Glitterati AND the guests they may bring.

5) Contests

Contests among Nuffnangers have been something we’ve been having quite a lot with many bloggers winning everything from free meals at Friday’s to mobile phones or even the upcoming contest of a free trip to Gold Coast. With the high demand for these contests, we will give priority to Nuffnang Glitterati with 70% of the prizes to be allocated to them and the remaining 30% to be allocated to non-Nuffnang Glitterati.

6) Innit

Innit is a tool developed and hosted by Nuffnang to add the additional service of driving traffic to any Nuffnang blog. This tool will now only be restricted to Nuffnang Glitterati since it is within our best interest of our community not to indirectly drive any traffic to a future competing network.

The vast majority of the Nuffnang Community is already eligible for the exclusive program so there isn’t much to worry about. All of us at Nuffnang sincerely hope that this new initiative will show how much we do appreciate your loyalty.

Friday, January 4, 2008

Understanding Law

During a Law course class, the 'Audi Alteram Partem' rule was explained. Translated it means "To hear the other party."

After discussing the subject at great length, the lecturer asked if anyone didn't understand the rule.

Responded one woman, "My husband."

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Microsoft won't launch iPhone rival: report

January 09, 2008 (Reuters) Microsoft will not launch a product that competes directly with Apple's iPhone, Chairman Bill Gates said in an interview with Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

"No, we won't do that. In the so-called smart phone business we will concentrate solely on software with our Windows Mobile program," Gates was quoted as saying in the interview published on Wednesday.

"We have partnerships with a lot of device manufacturers from Samsung to Motorola and this variety brings us significantly more than if we would make our own mobile phone," he added.

Apple's iPhone, which also plays music and lets users browse the internet, has been a big hit.