Negaraku Digg Style

Negaraku the local news aggregator I posted about some time back has gone through it’s evolution cycle and now emerged as a Digg clone.

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Malaysia has been busy with it’s politicians since the recent elections. Murder trials, sexual harassment, misconduct in law enforcement and the list goes on.

Ridicules if you ask me. Why do “upper class”, “educated”, “leaders” perform such “low class” acts? Are they no more then upper class beggars and prostitutes?

Well anyway, back to my post. My dad spends most of his day surfing the net for inside on the local political scene. His constant thirst for knowledge  drives my mom insane, especially when he skips his meals. 64 years old but the mind of a 20 year old.

Today I found Negaraku, a Malaysian news aggregator. Put together by noktahhitam and laman7 the aggregator polls feeds from local newspapers, general blogs and political blogs. The interface is clean and easy to navigate but the site is slightly sluggish which will improve in time I hope. My dad’s going to love this, all his info in none place.

Check it out: Negaraku! - The Malaysia News Aggregator

The controvertial news portal in Malaysia, Malaysia Today by Raja Petra is moving.

The old site was http://www.malaysia-today.net/ and the new site is http://www.malaysia-today.net/blogs. But somehow the URL seems to be down. I am not sure if http://www.malaysiatoday.com is the new site. Anyone?

Update: 27-08-2008 Malaysia Today blocked by TMNET

Defensio has been down since yesterday.

My spam aren’t being filtered, I can’t access my Defensio quarantine page and users are unable to post new comments.

Their hosting provider Amazon (EC2) push some software which caused Defensio’s services to go down. The team’s currently working on the issue and updated can be tracked through their blog and twitter.

Google joins the Social Network boom by introducing it’s latest work, Google Friend Connect. The basic idea behind the new service is to socialize any website looking to be socialized.

Google Friend Connect provides a platform for website owners to interact with their users through current social networks like Facebook, GTalk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo and the many other social networks available today.

OpenID,  OAuth,  OpenSocial,  Yahoo,  Myspace,  Google,  Facebook  data access  APIs and many others. There are so many social standards today and Google’s target to to simplify access to them through Google Friend Connect.

So what’s in it for you?

1. Chances are your social network friends will  be driving new traffic your way.
2. Connect to more people. Something like what MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog do.
3. Low learning curve. You get features in the past companies were willing to pay millions for free and best of you don’t need to be super computer savvy to enjoy the features.

The service is currently in preview release. If you are interested in taking Google Friend Connect for a spin, sign up for a preview here.

Source: Google