Netvibes - The real executive desktop

While glancing through some of the freelance projects frowarded to my email, I saw a job which require cloning a site called Netvibes. The price offered were around USD100-300 and it is all AJAX. Sound reasonable to me, but when I browse through Netvibes :O USD100-300 is too small for this kind of job. It could take ages (for me) to clone it. Well see it for your self.

Netvibes claims their service as Web 2.0 expert and currently based in Paris. Netvibes still in beta (like every industry player), but when using the application I feel like using Yahoo Desktop with steroid (lots lots of steroid) or should I say Pageflakes alike?

Looking for a freelancer or want to become one?

Occasionally a friend of mine always ask for people or any of my friends that has capability for certain type of job. It was hard for me to find a suitable candidate for the task but by googling a bit it wasn't hard at all.

I found a website that focus on IT freelance resources called GetAFreelancer.com belongs to a Sweeden company. Basically it almost look like the everyday job seeker portal with 2 types of target user; a Buyer and a Provider. A buyer post a job into the system pool by adding the job description and choose criteria such as programming language, OS platform and so on. A provider will search any job that match with their criteria/specialty and engage the price bidding. It is up to the buyer to choose which provider suitable for the job.

Now the catch here is that none of the buyer or provider are allowed to insert their contact infomation as it will violates their terms of service. I guess this will be a thread for their existance. Furhtermore, GetAFreelancer.com will act as the payment aggregator, which means a buyer will only pay to the sites not to the provider directly.

I manage to join this site for a couple of days now and I subscribe to the buyers job email alerts. To my surprise the system does alert me many jobs posted by the buyer from all over the globe. This look like a lucrative business to me.

Ramadhan is leaving us

Ramadhan is known as a month with thousands of blessing (Bulan penuh rahmat), has just left three more days. I wish every month is a Ramadhan, but Allah has set it for reasons. So I hope I can do much more prayer- terawih, kiamulail, reading Al-Quran and gifts to the one needed.

For Muslim all over the world, this month brings opportunity to them - interms of selling anything related to celebrate the Eidl Fitr: Cookies, cloth, household stuff... and much much much more. Even in Jalan TAR Malaysia itself the flow of crowd never stop.

So I take this opportunity to wish every muslim Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri & Maaf Zahir Batin. To friends, have a save journey. Like the TV3 said Aidilfitri adalah hari untuk di rayai bukan ditangisi.

Packages2Go In Kosmo

While doing my daily maintenance on Utusan's Kosmo server today, I saw a few familiar faces. Who others that our dearest Nurezali (not Nurazeli) and Jeffry Noor. Well kudos guys, you guys are now officially famous.

I've spent 5 wonderful years with you guys. Keep the ball rolling.

Yahoo first Open Hack Day

When I first read it I thought it was black hat kind of hack, but I thought wrong. Yahoo initiates this first hack day to gather all the coders to hack Yahoo applications. I can smell some new innovation coming up next.

Anyway, here are the list of the Open Hack Day Winners:

• Best Overall: Blogging in Motion: wearable technology. Blog from your purse. - Diana Eng, Emily Albinski, Audrey Roy
• Second Place: YBox: Turn TV into a simple, web configurable dashboard. - Josh Rooke-Ley, Tarikh Korula
• Thired Place: Search Hack with Dynamic Tagging: Semantic Search using Yahoo Search API for Seed Documents, Evan Hoff
• Best Sharp OSA Hack: Print a Pretty Impromptu Poster, pick a Flickr tag and print impromptu posters on the colour photocopier. - Ben Metcalfe (with assistance from Tim Shattuck)
• Best Social Commentary: Y! Space. It's like Yahoo! 360. But not for old people! - Winona Tong
• Too Useful: shill.icio.us. Find users who are trying to drive traffic to their sites by artificially boosting del.icio.us popularity. - Jason Gurney
• Best Schtick (and Worst Hack): Blabber. It's a talking head! Except it has the same voice as you! - Mo Kakwan
• Best Messenger Hack: Lingo! Y!Messenger plugin to help put Yahoo! Services in Context. - Kristopher Tate, Matt Olson, Qingfeng Huang, Aiguo Fei
• Best Messenger Hack, Second Place: Plaxo Yahoo Messenger Plugin. A plugin for Yahoo messenger that allows you to look up your friends' Plaxo contact information. - Trevor Gattis, Amber Haq
• Best Messenger Hack, Third Place: Ask questions to Y! Answers from Messenger. Allows users to ask question by typing their request into a messenger secondary window. - Sharan, Vincent
• Best Upcoming Hack: Gutentag. Describe yourself, then find people, events, and places that you'll love but would have never known about. - Josh Dewald, Mabel Liang, Taylor Dondich
• Best Local/Maps Hack and Worst Kiss-Ass (for comments made to the moderator during the demo): Road-Trip Radio. Take a trip down the coast and know exactly when and where to turn that dial...so you never miss a moment of your favorite NPR or radio program (and don't have to buy a satellite radio)! - AJ Arora
• Best Flickr Hack: The Color Field Camera. A 1950s snapshot camera with built-in LCD screen. Blends live video with flickr images that match the color of the object in the center of your view. - Bjoern Hartmann (presenting)
• Best Mail Hack: Yahoo! Mail with Flickr Image Association. Use photographic association to easily recall and visualize email. - Dan Lindquist
• Best Mail Hack, Second Place: Flickr Photo Postcard. Send a postcard of a Flickr photo to a friend's email. Just find a cool photo on Flickr, click the send postcard button, fill in the email and message, and click send! - Leah Culver, Tantek Celik
• Best Mail Hack, Third Place: Something With Your E-Mail. Just a draft of turning microcontent from email to actionable goodness. - Christine Hodges

Hard Disk vs Online Back Up

I've been thinking is it worth it to buy a SATA hard disk to back up my stuff or find any online back up service to store everything online. The same thing happen previously when I try to decide to search for web hosting with a big storage or a small one.

Browsing the web today lead me to a service provided by Amazon (yeap that Amazon.com). They call it the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). If you are a developer and having headache to store your data, this is might be the right choice. What's catch my eyes is the pricing. There is no minimum fee, and no start-up cost. $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used. $0.20 per GB of data transferred.

Well again it is up to your personal preference. With Bluray coming up next, I think storage price will keep cheaper & cheaper.

YouTube soon to follow Napster history

Read it from the Yahoo news today. It says Universal Music Group, the world's biggest record company, recently accused YouTube of being a serial copyright infringer.

I guess life is like a roller coaster. YouTube now is like at the top of the peak and soon or later will going down. It just a mater how steep the slope is. Currently YouTube is the 3rd most viewed website in the world (damn Alexa is down to confirm this). I even uploaded a few videos in there.

But hey YouTube is not the only free video sharing out there. Some of it like MetaCafe are equally interesting, but I think YouTube has the much volume compare to the others.

Not to forget, recently Yahoo acquires online video editing JumpCut as part of the Yahoo family. I did try it, and it is simple enough.

PHP Editor - A complete list

While searching for a good PHP editor, I found this site , which is a link from the PHP.net itself. All this while I was using the Eclipse & CFStudio only. Hmm, feel like live in the box :D. Now I wonder which one is the best.