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It won’t be official until next year but the site is live and Yahoo! wants young Malaysians to explore what’s in store at yahoo.com.my with a treasure hunt called Youreka!
How it works is pretty simple. Hidden in all the Yahoo! services – the News page at http://yahoo.com.my, Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Mail are tickets in either red, blue or green. If you hunt enough to be one of the top hunters you can then hunt for the purple ticket. Once you find a ticket, click on it and login with your Yahoo! ID. If you don’t have one, you can register for it. Successful hunters have a chance at winning adidas accessories, blockbuster movie screenings, BlackBerry® Curve™ 8520 smartphones, customizable mi adidas Supernova Sequence and Microbounce shoes, and exclusive passes to the YOUREKA! Finale party on November 25. One lucky hunter will walk away with a Digital Entertainment suite. You can find out more at the Youreka! microsite in http://yahoo.com.my.
It’s always nice to meet folks from twitter. People I talk to like I’ve known them forever but have never met are especially interesting to meet in real life. Sometimes you meet people completely opposite from what you know them to be online. The surprize is pleasant in most cases. And when I find a cool bunch of people, I whip out my camera.
Apparently there’s this Rahman Code that guides the selection of Prime Ministers in Malaysia. Nah, it’s just a coincidence. Right? I asked my muslim friends including Amir himself and was met with “What, you haven’t heard of this before?” Well no, seriously, I haven’t. Amir by the way gave a brilliant presentation at the recent Pecha Kucha Night in KL.
Now I’m wondering if there are more “codes” running the country. Enjoy the video, celebrate our filmmakers while they’re still alive (that’s Amir) and long live Najib.
What is Pecha Kucha Night?
Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds
The first Google Wave Hackathon for Google developers in Malaysia was held last Saturday at iTrain. Nazrul, Chief Thug of the Google Technology User Group in KL (GTUG KL) sat down with me and recounted the events of the week that almost led to a non-event. People had no Google Wave accounts up to 10am that morning. Thank gawd Google came through by 11am and everyone got down to business around noon.
If you’ve missed this one, you can look forward to the second hackathon which should be before Google’s public preview on September 30th. Follow @nazroll on twitter or join the GTUG KL facebook group for updates.
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Niki organized a Poken meetup in Bangsar on Saturday. Of course, everyone came with their Pokens. Then I had a thought, since we got a bunch of geeks together, let’s see what other gadgets they have on them. So I went around the table with the Vado HD. Thank you everyone for sharing what you have.
If this was a group research, here’s my observation:
- Everyone has at least 1 poken and 1 mobile phone.
- Most popular phone is Nokia. Only one iPhone owner.
- Almost everyone has a laptop (wifi ready) or a device that can connect to the internet.
- And the one with the most gadgets is a girl.
Have I missed anything?
This video wasn’t encoded in HD, btw. My machine has gots no juice. I need a mac (you hear that Santa?).
