Slow Load Time?

Quoted from Exabytes News;

Intermittent Network Issue - CBJ2

Some Malaysian based ISP subscribers are having problem connecting to the CBJ2

Date : 20 May 2008
Time : 5.30 PM (GMT + 0800)
Expected ETA : Unavailable

Maintenance Details :
The Data Center Network that are hosting IP range 210.48.145.0/24 is encountering slow and intermittent network access. Our Network Engineers are currently checking on the matter.

Maintenance Effect:
Users whose websites are hosted on the affected IP range will encounter intermittent connection accessing their websites, emails, and databases.

We will further update the announcement on the latest progress of the maintenance.

Based on the above excerpt from Exabytes, we at Nuffnang would like to apologize to anyone who has problem loading Nuffnang’s sites or ads due to this problem. We would do our best to update the status of this issue as soon as we have new developments from Exabytes.

Thank you for understanding.

Update 

The problem stated above has been solved. Our deepest apologies once again for the inconvenience caused.

Nuffnang Maintenance Scheduled - 19/5/08

Nuffnang will be performing maintenance and upgrade to our servers on the coming Monday, 19th of May 2008. Expect downtime in our main site such as Innit and Nuffnang for 2 to 3 hours starting 7am. This will also affect our ad units in all the blogs serving Nuffnang’s ads. That being said, our ad units will not be visible during the maintenance. This is only temporary as your ad units will look the same as they were once the maintenance is over.

We would like to apologize in advance for any inconvenience that this maintenance might cause to our bloggers. Thank you for understanding.

Fish Your Way to a Dinner at JW Marriott And a Movie Premiere

In conjunction with the release for Made of Honour in Malaysia, Hong Leong Online in collaboration with Buena Vista Columbia Tristar is having an exquisite 8 course dinner at JW Marriott KL which features various wedding themed performances and the movie premiere of Made of Honour right after the dinner.

Details of the event as followed;

Date : Thursday, 12th June 2008
Venue: JW Marriott KL Ballroom
Attire : Formal, Suit, Evening Gown
Time : 7.00 pm (sharp)

The people at Hong Leong Online were nice enough to offer Nuffnangers 40 invitations to the grand event! Each invitation grants access for two and is inclusive of the Premiere Screening of Made of Honour.

As in many of our events we normally receive more demand than we have to supply. So in order to find a fair way to distribute the tickets, all a blogger has to do is:

1) Play the current Hong Leong fishing game located here.

2) Post a screen shot of your result on your blog with the title of the entry as “Fishing My Way To Made Of Honour”.

3) Then send an email to flipflopflippy@nuffnang.com with the permanent link to your particular blog post and kindly include your contact number as well.

40 Nuffnangers with the highest score for the game will win an exclusive invitation for two each to the exquisite dinner and the Premiere of Made of Honour organized by Hong Leong Online. 30 of these invitations are exclusively reserved for Glitterati members.

The deadline for request of invitations is on the 4th of June 2008. The list of winners will be disclosed in Nuffnang’s blog by the 11th of June 2008. See you at the dinner Nuffnangers!

Application for invitations to this event has been closed.

Top 40 Nuffnang Scorers of FlipFlopFlippy

Win RM10,000 and Free Big Macs at McDonald’s

The Nuffnang community always share their best with each other. When we see something which is entertaining and funny, we’ll definitely show it to everyone for their deserving credits.

Here are some funny and entertaining videos of our Nuffnangers doing the Big Mac Chant.

In case you don’t know, these videos are for a contest organized by McDonald’s with Nuffnang to give away a prize of RM10,000!

It is actually pretty simple. Just take video of yourself doing the Big Mac Chant in your own creativity and send an email to us to participate. For more information regarding the contest, do check it out here.

Alternatively, you can now get a free Big Mac by doing the Big Mac Chant within 4 seconds at every McDonald’s nationwide. There are a two conditions to get your free Big Mac with the Big Mac Chant which are; you can only do the chant with a coupon that comes together with purchase of a McValue Meal and you can only do it from 3pm to 8pm. Yup. That’s all it is. You can even chant during the weekends! That’s how one of our bloggers, PinkPau, managed to have 3 Big Macs in 3 different McDonald’s outlets.

So hurry and make a video of yourself now doing the Big Mac Chant and stand a chance to win RM10,000. And don’t forget to get your free Big Macs by doing the Big Mac Chant!

P.S. One of these days, the Nuffnang team might just storm into a McDonald’s and start chanting like mad for the free Big Macs during dinner.

Nokia IAC bands @ Zouk

As the wise men say, a picture speaks a thousand words. Here you go.

There you have it. Now everyone knows that there’s a live performance by our favorite local artists next Saturday at Zouk. The best thing of all, entrance is free and anyone can attend! Spread the news!

On top of that, Nuffnang is giving out 10 VIP passes for the event. And what does VIP passes grant you? Let’s see. VIP passes allows you to bring a guest along with you, a complimentary drink from Zouk, access to VIP areas where all the savvy peeps are, goodie bags from Nokia with lots of surprises, and the ability to dominate the world. Okay, I was joking on the last part. Forget that.

So how do you obtain these hot VIP passes? Simple. Just write in to robb.chew@nuffnang.com with the title ‘Nokia Independent Artists Club Rocks’ and complete the following slogan ‘My favorite local artist is ….. because …. ‘ in not more than 20 words. May the best slogans win.

The event was great! Thank you for writing in those slogans, peeps! More events coming in the near future!

Nuffnang Launches Nuffnang Smart Poll

Dear Nuffnangers,

When our developers at Nuffnang are not spending time improving our site’s backend, adding new internal features or fixing any small problems we encounter every now and then, they’re adding small improvements and features to Innit or developing tools for our bloggers.

One of the new tools they’ve come up with is a poll that we can all add on to our blog to learn more about our readers. All Nuffnangers have access to the poll of their own blogs but only Nuffnang Glitterati will be allowed to customize their own questions.

The new Nuffnang poll is a new state of the art tool with many new cutting-edge features.

For example, the intelligent poll learns about you every time you do a poll on an individual blog. For example, if you do a poll on Blog A and answer that you are between 19-23 years old, the same question will not appear when you visit Blog B with the questions in the poll.

Instead, your answer from Blog A will be carried and stored into Blog B’s profile to give you more information about the people who read your blog. Reducing the frequency of the same poll being answered repeatedly also reduces the sampling error of your results, giving you more accurate results.

If you wish to activate or deactivate the poll, please login to your Nuffnang account and click on the “Blog Manager” tab. If you don’t find the tab then click on “More” to see more tabs.

Alternatively if you run into any problems, you can contact us via our Helpdesk.

Have fun with the new tool everyone!

Media Recognition

As the role of bloggers strengthen in today’s information age, we have come very far to be recognized and acknowledged as part of the new age media. Alongside with journalists from the conventional media, we’ve attended Press Screenings for new movies, Contest Launches, Event Launches and many more.

Last month, 10 Glitterati Nuffnangers attended their first Press Screening for the first time watching Death Note 3.

Then we had our hands full sending invitations to our exclusive bloggers who are available to attend Digi’s Reload Contest Media Launch last Friday with a cool invitation. The invitation was in the form of a millipede.

Digi is practically giving everyone a chance to win RM100,000 each week without having to do anything difficult and daring. Simply reload your phone with a minimum amount and you’ll stand a chance to winOur bloggers were no doubt the most spontaneous when challenged to perform daring feats. Almost all of our bloggers took pictures with a python wrapped on them!

Among other daring feats our bloggers did were kissing an iguana, touching a gecko, locked in a cage filled with snakes, putting their hand in a box full of live crickets, drinking cocktail with bugs as main ingredient and many more.

Two of our bloggers even walked away with an iPod Shuffle each as the keys from their millipede boxes matched the locks of boxes containing the iPod Shuffles!

To add icing on top of the cake, two days after the event 2 of our bloggers came out in an article of Sin Chew Daily.

The next event was GuaMuzik launch on Monday, 14th April. Once again, we sent a legion of bloggers to cover the event.

The events kept rolling in as the day after that, Coca-Cola Euro 2008 Ground Event was held at Sassorosso. It was to promote their contest where you can win a trip for 2 to the final match of Euro 2008 and all you have to do is just drink Coca-cola, Coke Light or Sprite.

All these would not be possible if we bloggers have not stay united to express ourselves. We thank you for your support to Nuffnang.

If you would like to enroll your name in our list to attend future media events, please drop me an email at robb.chew@nuffnang.com with the title “I Would Like to Receive Press Invitations” with your name and blog URL.Due to the maximum limit of bloggers we could send for each event, we’re restricting this privilege to only our Glitterati members.Please bear in mind that most Media Events and Press Screenings are held on weekdays during working hours. We would appreciate it that you only write in if you are available at those hours to maximize the attendance of bloggers.

Cheers
Robb

Malaysian Dreamgirl Grand Finale

After 8 weeks of challenges, drama and excitement, Malaysia’s 1st Online Reality Show, Malaysian Dreamgirl is coming to an end. The Grand Finale is set to take off on 29th of April 2008 at The Oval, One Utama. Who would be the first Malaysian Dreamgirl? Would it be Adeline? Cindy? Ringo? Jay? Hanis? Or Nadia? Keep voting if you want your favorite contestant to win.

In conjunction with the Malaysian Dreamgirl Grand Finale, we’re handling out 5 special invitations to our Nuffnang members to attend the event. All you have to do is just write in an email to mdg@nuffnang.com with the title ‘Grand Finale’ and complete the following sentence in the most creative way ever.”I want to attend Malaysian Dreamgirl Grand Finale because….” (Not more than 20 words)

May your creative brain juices secure you an entry to the Malaysian Dreamgirl Grand Finale as it’s a chance of a lifetime.

Nuffnang Reveals Click-Rating System

Dear Nuffnangers,

This week alone, there are 20 different campaigns running concurrently on the Nuffnang network involving thousands of blogs. That being said, some bloggers tend to get repeated ads week after week and some receive ads in a lower frequency in spite of the network ad revenue growth for the past year being 90% month after month.

The truth is many factors affect a blog’s selection in being delivered a Cost-Per-Unique Visitor ad, among many is the ad placement on the blog and whether a blog is Glitterati or not.

However, another very very important factor that advertisers look at is often the historical click-through ratio that a blogger gets for a previously run campaign on his/her blog. The more clicks and the higher the CTR that a blogger gets, the more likely that a future advertiser will choose to run a campaign on the individual blog.

The lower the clicks and the lower the CTR of an individual blog in previous campaigns, the less likely an advertiser will want to place an ad on the individual blog.That being said, prior to today, such information was not being made public and many bloggers were in the dark about how their ads perform. Hence, today we are launching a Click-Rating system that will rate how well or how badly a blog has performed in terms of CTR in the previous ad campaigns.

The click-rating ranges from 1 to 5 levels. 5 being the best, and 1 being the lowest. Each week the Click-rating will be updated based on the campaign that ran in the previous week. If there was no campaign in the previous week then there will be no change in the Click-Rating of a blog.

We hope this new system will provide bloggers with more information on the performance of their ad spaces on their blogs.

GuaMuzik Soft Launch.

Hello lucky Nuffnangers!

The good people at Gua.com.my were so generous to provide us with free tickets to the soft launch of GuaMuzik - The COOLEST music portal in Malaysia.

This means you guys get to experience GuaMuzik even before it’s officially launched! :D

We have 20 passes for Glitterati Nuffnangers, and this event will surely be a blast so don’t miss out on this great opportunity to reserve a space for yourself! We’re looking for bloggers who love entertainment and music (which is probably the whole blogging community :P).

E-mail me at michelle.tan@nuffnang.com with the subject ‘GuaMuzik’ (please include your contact number and blog URL too yeah!) so that you can secure yourself a pass to the soft launching of GuaMuzik. RSVP me by 5th April (Saturday) okay!

See you there! :D