News came in yesterday that Pakistan has blocked access to the popular video sharing website, YouTube because of objectionable video content. Reports said the content deemed offensive to Islam which resulted in the ban, included Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, and a trailer for a forthcoming film by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, which portrays […]
Category Archives: Best of the Internet
Web reaches new milestone: 155 million active sites
Netcraft, an Internet monitoring company that has tracked the Internet’s growth since 1995, reports a mammoth milestone was reached during the end of 2007. In the December 2007 survey, they received responses from more than 155 million sites. This is an whooping increase of 5.4 million sites since the previous month. The web has grown […]
Sites you can’t live without
It’s interesting to see what sites folks at TIME think are so important that they can’t live without. I myself have been using a few of those sites but don’t think that they are so important until I can’t live without them… Surprisingly, Amazon.com tops the list, but perhaps the list is not in any […]
Shop gadgets, books and many more on my online store
Good news, Kongtechnology Online Store is finally launched. You are invited to come to the store and do your shopping. Shop now to make sure you get your delivery before Chinese New Year. Make sure you check out the books section. Some of them are really interesting. One of them which raised my interested is […]
Maybank2u has a new homepage?
I was in for a shock when I logged on Maybank2u.com.my just now. For a moment, I thought I went to a wrong address, or Maybank2u has redesigned their homepage! So very colorful ler! In true spirit of the new year! But, do you think it’s a tad too many balloons? 🙂 Although their website […]
Amazon.com sold 17 Wiis per second
One of the items in my wish list for 2007 was actually Nintendo Wii. Now, 2007 is coming to its end in a couple of days time… but guess what, I haven’t got myself an Wii yet. Sad. Even sadder, when I realize so many people have bought Wii, Amazon.com reports that Wii were selling […]
Top 10 downloads of 2007
We need to say goodbye to year 2007 and welcome year 2008 in a few days time. And it’s at this time of the year, lots of top 10 and best of the Internet lists start to appear. The editors of Download.com has also come up a list of the top 10 downloads of 2007 […]
Top 25 web celebrities for 2007
In less than a week’s time we are going to bid year 2007 farewell. But, before that let’s check out Forbes.com’s The Web Celeb 25 which lists the most popular web celebrities for 2007. On top of the list is none other than gossip blogger with a poison “pen”, Perez Hilton. Perez’s blog is hugely […]
Make money from Google Knol
What’s hot on the Internet since the past few days is that Google is preparing to launch a new service call Knol, a free tool to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it. For now, the tool is still in development and is still in the first phase […]
YouTube on your Desktop
You watch YouTube vidoes? I am sure you do, who doesn’t these days? There are perhaps millions of videos on YouTube for free viewing 24 hours a day that some people have forgotten what is TV these days! You don’t have 18SX shows on Malaysian TV, but you can watch uncensored XXX clips on YouTube. […]