The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search
December 23rd, 2007 by aizatto
I came about the The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search through one of my emails. Here are some slogans from their site.
- The Hunt For Innovative, Commercially Viable Website.
- Web Awards recognizing the very best in Malaysian Youths.
If you go through the list of over 100 websites, you’ll notice that a large number of them are blogs. Does that make them commercially viable? No not really. But when you opt to join their ranks, they ask you “How is your site considered INNOVATIVE?” (with capitalization preserved). Is there any innovation in these bloggers? Personally, I think not.
Where is the innovation?
As an experiment, I submitted my Malaysia Air Pollution Index, and see how it fares amongst them.
Disadvantages: haze.net.my gets booted from the list.
Advantages: More visibility for the site.
Interestingly enough they also ask “How does your site bring INCOME?” (again with capitalization preserved). To which I honestly responded “It doesn’t”.
kaeru Says
How does your site bring INCOME?
Job offers
Dec 23rd, 2007 at 3:32 pm
drizad Says
Yes, I kind of agree with you, MOST of the site submitted are personal blog.
They should be more strict on the website submission, and should not treat blog as website. And they should change their slogans to “The Hunt For Innovative, Commercially Viable Blog”.
Well, I don’t know whether they know the difference between website and blog…
Dec 24th, 2007 at 8:49 am
IronRabbit Says
Dear Aizatto ,
Go through few of your posting , you are cooool ..
Not bad for a young Malay boy .. We don’t need to go to space by “tumpang” Russia rocket , we don’t need to climb Everst with the help of sherpa..
We have broken Guiness Record by using physical body but not brain .
We yet to have a programmer for Malaysia to be proud of …
Keep up the good work and happy Rubying …
Dec 24th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
anwar Says
Erm… It CAN bring income/sponsorships, just for simple example, from the ads of environment related products?
Jan 3rd, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Sha Says
I also wanna see which site that exactly going to emerge as the winner. May the best site that fits the overall winning criteria win!
Cheers!
Sha
Jan 16th, 2008 at 3:44 pm