Salam and hello everyone. I just got a news from Amanz regarding Nuffnang Malaysia website which has been hacked by Gaysec. Gaysec is probably a group of hacker or an individual which recently has leaked several users database from several well known websites such as TM Streamyx, Geng Blogger, CIMB and the latest one is Nuffnang Malaysia. Nuffnang Malaysia website is currently inaccessible and it has been placed into maintenance mode. If you didn’t know, Nuffnang is one of the largest blog advertising network in Malaysia and south east Asia, hence this incident would be great challenge for Nuffnang to ensure their website’s security is always at optimum level as well as to ensure their customers and users’ privacy are protected properly. This incident should be a good lesson to Nuffnang.

There is no official announcement from Nuffnang regarding this issue.

Update by Nuffnang Malaysia.

Update: Official community announcement by Nuffnang Malaysia regarding last night security breach.

It seems it takes a long time for Nuffnang ads in this blog to load and this ads loading issue has caused slow page loading for this blog. Hence, I’ve disabled all Nuffnang ads in this blog for a while.

p/s: It is good to know that Gaysec’s objective is not more than just to pointing out the security holes of the websites they have hacked, rather than damaging the system.

Salam and hello everyone. Just a quick entry to share with you the result for yesterday DIGI WWWOW Award which has been awarded to several bloggers and individuals based on online voting system. Well, I didn’t take part in this as I know where is my level in this internet industry. Nothing much to comment about the result even I heard so many people are disagree with some result of the award. So, here is the full result for the first DIGI WWWOW Award 2011.

1. Best Internet For All Idea : A.F.O Radio
2. Best Internet Good Award : Petfinder.my
3. Blogger of the Year : Anwar Hadi
4. Fave Malaysian Female Online Celebrity : Stacy
5. Fave Malaysian Male Online Celebrity : Nicholas Teo!
6. Fave Person Over 40 : Brandjontan
7. Fave Person Under 15 : Let It Be
8. Fave Tech Head : The Techno Hut
9. Must-Follow Personality : Anwar Hadi
10. Online Shop Of The Year : Karysma Beads and Sequins
11. Online Story Of The Year : Suzuki AFF Cup
12. Picture Of The Year : Beautiful White Orchid
13. Top Kay Poh : Lee Zi Wen
14. Top LOL : BlogSerius
15. Top Makan-Makan Expert : OhMalaysia
16. Video of The Year : Anwar Hadi

Like other competitions or awards, the result are finalized. However, I believe with one thing; an award should be awarded to the one which deliver quality in his/her passion, regardless whether you know him/her or not before or after the competition or award. People can judge whether you’re qualified to get the award or not. Well, online voting doesn’t portray the true result though, hence for those who didn’t win for this year DIGI WWWOW Award, try again next year if you still interested to grab the award.

Salam and hello everyone. Finally, after 2 weeks, my final exam now ends. I feel a bit relief right now and I’m just thinking of getting a great rest for this limited 3 weeks of holiday. Well, I’m still planning what to do in this holiday period.

My final exam ends on last Thursday and luckily, I got my first Nuffnang cheque into my mailbox one day before. Haha! What a great timing! If you ask about the amount, actually not too much. Hehe. But, plus minus, it is equivalently with two times of cash out. So, you may guest how much it is.

Ok, not much of things I want to write right now and above is the picture of Nuffnang’s cheque that I got. Well, for those who didn’t reach the minimum amount to cash out, don’t give up. Keep working on increasing your blog traffic and please, don’t ever ask your blog visitors and readers to click on your Nuffnang ads. It is such unethical to force others to click the ads that they are not interested. I’m saying this because I have seen several blogs do this, so please stop. Because it does not give you much. You better keep your blog traffic up and get those CPM and MCPM ads for more earning.

Ok, till next entry. Bye!

Hello, I would like to say thank you to Nuffnang for these 2 weeks of advertisement. I know there are lot of bloggers out there already got their first CPM ads so many times before. But since this is the first ever CPM ads for me, so I want to write something about it. LOLS..

Yesterday, I checked my email inbox using my phone. I really shutdown my computer on 3rd May 2008 okay. Hoho.. At least I’m trying to avoid to use computer for the whole day. Haha. But after I checked my email inbox, I found an unusual email in my inbox.. from marketing@______________. Then, I’m thinking.. err.. marketing? Ok2, I know I never received any CPM ads before this so I don’t know this email is actually from Nuffnang. Then I opened the email..and this is what viewed on my phone..

Hi, Muhamad Izzat Bin Ruslan,
Congratulations!
An advertiser has chosen to advertise on izzatruslan.com.
The advertisement details are as follows:
Campaign:
JetStar CPUV Leaderboard
Week(s):
1. 04 May 2008 to 10 May 2008
Ad Unit:
Leaderboard
Please do not remove the Ad Unit from your blog during the period(s) of time above or you will not be paid the full amount for the ad.
If you have a Skyscraper Ad Unit, please ensure that it is placed high up in the sidebar or the advertiser may choose to withdraw the ad.
Thank you.
The Nuffnang Team

Then, I think for a while.. err.. is it means that my blog will advertise CPM ads soon? Yeehaa..!!! ( actually I’m not shouting because at that time I’m in McD, so to avoid any compilation and other peoples around me to say “Gila ka budak ni” so.. I’m just shouting in my heart) wtf. Then, I signing off and continue enjoyed my meal.

Last night, I checked again the inbox. Open again the email from Nuffnang and noticed that there are two email actually from Nuffnang. Lols.. Another email? Checked the email and this is what viewed on my computer screen.

Hi, Muhamad Izzat Bin Ruslan,
Congratulations!
An advertiser has chosen to advertise on izzatruslan.com.
The advertisement details are as follows:
Campaign:
JetStar CPUV Leaderboard 2
Week(s):
1. 11 May 2008 to 17 May 2008
Ad Unit:
Leaderboard
Please do not remove the Ad Unit from your blog during the period(s) of time above or you will not be paid the full amount for the ad.
If you have a Skyscraper Ad Unit, please ensure that it is placed high up in the sidebar or the advertiser may choose to withdraw the ad.
Thank you.
The Nuffnang Team

Wa… another one week for advertisement!!! So thats mean I got 2 weeks of advertisement from Nuffnang. Thanks Nuffnang!! After joining Nuffnang about err.. I don’t how many months I joined Nuffnang but I never expect I will get advertisement from Nuffnang since this blog is less than 3 months old. Anyway, thanks Nuffnang! Give me more ads after this..LOLS.. *So greedy

*So if you want to know more info about the advertisement, please don’t be hesitate to click the above advertisement. Hey, I’m not forcing you ok..

Hello to all, this post is a respond to a post by one of the nuffnangers. I’m not trying to insult or start a flame war or what so ever. But I just want to express my own view and opinion from my own perspective. At first I know Nuffnang, I didn’t really know how to get such an immediate traffic to my blog. Before this I’m just hope that my blog will be listed on the first page of the search result which somehow sound impossible such for a new comer in this blogsphere. But after Nuffnang introduced a system called Innit, everything changed. At least, I still got an amount of visitors in a day even I didn’t post anything new on my blog. It’s better than no visitor right?

At first Nuffnang introduced Innit, users only allowed to submit their blog post url. After that, Innit comes more popular for those blogger who want to get an immediate traffic to their blog. And after a while, Innit comes with a new system which allowed users to vote aka ‘Nang’ which post they find interesting. Next, Innit comes with ‘Dang’ button which I can said it somehow a button to decrease the vote of the blog post. This 2 system becomes more interesting when Innit now shows which posts are most popular, which means got more vote from the nuffnangers and also which post got the top ‘Nang’ by the nuffnangers. Ok, that’s is Innit. So, to get your post to be listed on the most popular and top post, you’ll need to get ‘Nang’ by other nuffnangers. And of course you need to write something interesting so that peoples will ‘Nang’ or vote your post. But the question now, do you ‘Nang’ or vote your own post? Before I continue, lets have some screenshot here.. hehe

maybe this post didn’t get much ‘Nang’, how about this?

and this..hehe

Huuhu.. see that? They also ‘Nang’ and vote for their own post. Is it ok to ‘Nang’ or vote your own post? My answer is, it’s all up to you. Ok why you should ‘Nang’ your own post?

• Because it is your post. You write it heartedly with your own passion to write.
• In fact it is your post, off course you like your post and you know it was interesting.
• In fact it was an interesting post….
• Off course you’ll and should ‘Nang’ it!
• and you should be proud to be the first to ‘Nang’ your own post before others.

I don’t think it’s such a big deal for someone or blogger to ‘Nang’ for their own post. It’s only one vote or only one ‘Nang’. And you only allow to ‘Nang’ your own post once. Not two, not three etc. LOL.. It just one vote anyway. Otherwise you really love to see that number zero. If you think blog writer aka post owner don’t have right to vote or ‘Nang’ for their post, I think Nuffnang should come out with a filter that blog owner can’t ‘Nang’ their own post. *I wish it’ll not happen*

But the thing now is this..

I’ve right and been given a chance to vote or ‘Nang’ for my own post just once. Why not I just simply click that yellow button and give my post 1 ‘Nang’? Why not I grab that chance? I find my post interesting because I wrote it. And of course I’ll ‘Nang’ it!

When I got ‘Dang’-ed for the first time, I tried to figure out what’s wrong with my post till I got ‘Dang’-ed. I don’t know what’s wrong with my post. LOL.. lastly, is it only because I ‘Nang’ my own post. LOL again. What ever.

Before I end my post, my answer is, Yes, I’ll ‘Nang’ my own post! Yeah, because I write it and I know it is interesting so I ‘Nang’ it! huhu.. ok.. Chill ya.. don’t get offended. Again, this just my point of view.

P/s: Till now, I didn’t use that orange button aka ‘Dang’ button even once although I found that post is not interesting, because I don’t like to condemn their post like that. So, let it be.