Celebrity Social Media Power Rankings

Guess what?

Our wizard heartthrob, Harry Potter is ranked at no. 43, Ryan Gosling is at no. 35 while Taylor Swift is ranked at no. 6.

Who's at no. 1??

Does your favourite artist position in this ranking?

Check out Celebrity Social Media Power Rankings!

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The Comical Side of Hashtags

What You Need To Know About Twitter Hashtags

It's #Hastag Day!

Hello readers!

It’s #Hashtag Day today!

What is hashtag?

A hashtag is a label for content. It helps others who are interested in a certain topic, quickly find content on that same topic.

A hashtag looks something like this:  #Facebook or #socialmediaweekmalaysia

Hashtags are used mostly on social media sites.  

For business that uses hashtags, it creates an extra advantage in promoting the products or services as customers will indirectly click the hashtags items.

The main reason to use hashtag is to increase exposure and organize content. 

Twitter makes hashtag famous by creating a communication platform call trending. 

So, what’s trending on Twitter? That’s what they often say.

But now you can use hashtags on other social platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Google+.

How can I use hashtags?Typical uses of hashtags:

• Express emotions: #surprised #speechless #frustrated
• Identify places or brands or events: #Hawaii #Ferrari #CoolEvent
• Make recommendations: #MustRead #MustWatch #NowPlaying
• Connect with like-minded individuals: #CatLovers #TVaddicts

Lately, social media users have indicated that too much hashtags only causes annoyance – as they define it as hashtag pollutions. Is that true?

Budget 2014

Yesterday, our Prime Minister announced Malaysia's budget for 2014.

Here's the summary:

• The domestic economy is projected to grow at a stronger pace of between 5.0% to 5.5%.
• The unemployment rate is estimated at 3.1% while the inflation rate will remain low at between 2% and 3%.
• Goods exports are expected to grow 2.5% due to improving external demand while on the supply side, the construction sector is expected to  grow 9.6%.
• The per capita income for 2014 is expected to reach RM34,126 compared with RM24,879 in 2009, an increase of 37% over six years.
•  It is possible that Malaysia will achieve developed nation status much earlier than 2020.
• RM217.7 billion is for operating expenditure while RM46.5 billion for development expenditure.
• RM63.6 billion allocated for emoluments and RM36.6 billion for supplies and services.
• RM29 billion allocated to the economic sector.
• RM10.5 billion allocated to the social sector for education, training, health, welfare, housing and community development.
• RM3.9 billion allocated to the security sector, RM1.1 billion for general administration, RM2 billion for contingencies.
• In 2014, Federal Government revenue collection is estimated at RM224.1 billion, up RM4 billion from 2013.
• Federal Government fiscal deficit expected to further decline from 4% of GDP in 2013 to 3.5% in 2014.
• RM1.2 billion allocated for operating and development expenditure in 2013 and 2014 to implement Visit Malaysia Year 2014 programmes, targeting 28 million tourists.
• 2015 announced as the Year of Festivals.
• To promote tourism, RM2 billion will be provided to the Special Tourism Infrastructure Fund under Bank Pembangunan, to finance the cost of building hotels, resorts and theme parks, and the purchase and replacement of equipment related to tourism.
• No more tax filing required for individuals who pay tax (PCB) on a monthly basis.
• Corporate tax is reduced from 25% to 24%.
• Sales Tax (6%) and Service Tax (10%) abolished, Goods and Services Tax (6%) to be implemented on April 1, 2015.
• No GST on essential items such as cooking oil, spices, salted fish, rice, flour.
• GST also exempted on electricity (partial exemption up to 200 units), piped water supply, public transportation.
• Buying and selling houses, renting, not affected by GST.
• Starting salary for highest income tax bracket increased from RM100,000 to RM400,000. Tax for this income bracket reduced from 26% to 24%.
• 300,000 people who earn RM4,000 a month now no longer have to pay income tax.
• RM600 miilion grant for institutes of higher learning to encourage the publishing of international-class research papers.
• Education: RM450 million to maintain and improve old schools - including Sekolah Kebangsaan, Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina), Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Tamil), MARA, Sekolah Agama.
• RM168 million for new schools; RM209 million for improving the quality of teaching in Malaysian schools.
• 1Malaysia Book Voucher Programme: RM250 for each student.
• Transport: Subsidies for rural train commutes.
• Transport: RM15.3 billion allocated to centralise taxi industry administration and improve services industry-wide.
• RM4.1 billion allocated for rural community development, especially in rural Sabah and Sarawak.
• RM179 million to repair low-cost homes nationwide.
• Anti-crime measures: RM8.8 billion allocated to police, RM13.2 billion allocated for armed forces.
• CCTV to be installed in 25 crime hotspots.
• RM200 million allocation for police to purchase additional equipment including firearms and forensic van.
• National defence: RM75 million allocated to Eastern Sabah Security Command.
• 20,000 army veterans get RM8 million.
• Healthcare: RM22.1 billion allocated to improve public healthcare system.
• 50 new 1Malaysia Clinics in 2014, 6,000 new nurses to be trained.
• RM3.3 billion allocated to providing the best medical supplies to public healthcare institutions.
• Sugar subsidy reduced by RM0.34 as of October 26, 2014. The new price is RM2.84 per kg.
• Allocations for the disabled: RM441million to develop amenities and provide help to the disabled.
• Property: Government to revise Real Property Gain Tax or RPGT:
  - 30% for properties held for 3 years or less.
  - 20% (4 years) 15% (5 years and beyond)
  - RPGT for non-citizens: 30% (1-5 years), 5% (5 years and above).
• Affordable housing: RM578 allocated to the National Housing Department to develop 16,473 residential units.
  - PR1MA to construct 80,000 new residential units at 20% lower than market prices.
  - subsidies for private developers to encourage construction of low and medium cost housing units.
• BR1M:
  - Third phase of cash-handout under BR1M increased by RM150, to RM650, for families earning RM3,000 and below.
  - Families with a monthly income of between RM3,000-RM4,000 will get RM450.
   -Singles aged 21 and above with a monthly income not exceeding RM2,000, will receive RM300.
• Half month bonus or minimum RM500 for all civil servants to be paid in January 2014.

What do you think about the Malaysia 2014 budget? 

Share your thoughts here!


Source: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/in-budget-2014-najib-focuses-on-infrastructure-pegs-deficit-at-3.5

The State of Instagram

The #foodporn Syndrome

It's Instagram Day!

Instagram becomes an instant hit once it was established.

Currently, there are more than 100 million active users in Instagram!

And over 5 million photos are uploaded every day!

Isn't that amazing?

Instagram not only represents self-image sharing platforms but also has become a medium for business. 

It's like a new kind of Facebook, but in an image form!

Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and launched in October 2010.


Instagram is distributed through the Apple App Store and Google Play.

In January 2011, Instagram added hashtags to help users discover both photographs and each other. Instagram encourages users to make tags both specific and relevant, rather than tagging generic words like "photo" in order to make photographs stand out and to attract like-minded Instagrammers. 

Instagram was listed among Time's 50 Best Android Applications for 2013.

Happy Instagramming!

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Social Media Week Malaysia 2013

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Poor IE!

It's Web Browser Day!

Today we’re going to take an in-depth look on web browser!

As the internet blooms and smart phones dominates our communication, more and more browsers are created.

But, what is actually a web browser?

According to Webopedia.com, web browser is a software application used to locate, retrieve and also display content on the World Wide Web, including Web pages, images, video and other files.

The major web browsers are Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari.

Do you know the first ever browser??

Historically, the first web browser was invented in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. It was called WorldWideWeb and was later renamed Nexus.

Then, in 1993, browser software was further innovated by Marc Andreessen with the release of Mosaic (later Netscape), "the world's first popular browser", which made the World Wide Web system easy to use and more accessible to the average person.

Microsoft responded with its Internet Explorer in 1995, followed by Opera in 1996.

In 1998, Netscape launched Mozilla Firefox - in an attempt to produce a competitive browser using the open source software model.

Then, Apple's Safari was released in January 2003 and become number one Apple-based web browsing.

And in 2008, Google Chrome was released and dominates the web browsing industry.

Cool huh?

So, what’s your favourite web browser?