Jason brought this cake down from Malacca to KL last weekend.

It is fattening… but it makes me sooooooooooooo HIIGGGHHH!!!!!!!

If you haven’t had the chance to eat this cake yet… then you’d better make friends with Jason quick…

I found myself at Federal Hotel for the Together Gather Blogger Meet that Wingz and his committee organized last Friday.

I arrived far before anyone else had arrived, when the tables were empty and the chairs were all nicely arranged.
But I had an ulterior motive for arriving early that night.

I was there with my crew to set up our Nuffnang Booth.

At least half the bloggers we met there were already with Nuffnang, so the booth gave us an opportunity to meet in person a lot of the bloggers that have so far supported us.

And also to give out freebies like Nuffnang Bookmark and Pin BadgesNuffnang Car Stickers

And for the bloggers that have joined us, Nuffnang Digital Clocks.

We have 3 staff manning the booth the whole time while Ming and I ran back and forth meeting people and getting feedback on what they thought about Nuffnang.

But on the rare occasion that we all got to sit at the booth together, we took a picture of Ming, myself and most importantly Kelly who was essential supervisor we had that night.

I also managed to take a picture with Wingz at our booth.

A picture of Cely and Earl grabbing some freebies from our booth.And a picture of Ming teaching new bloggers how to sign up.

Oh and I managed to grab a picture with Yvonne Foong, April and Minishorts who were seated at the booth next door.
All that action while Lilian was busy Live Blogging at our meet.

Unfortunately that was just about all the pictures I took that night at the meet. I spent the rest of the time chatting with the other bloggers and forgetting to camwhore 😛

I’m sorry my dear readers… but this is all Boss Stewie can tell you about the meet for now.

In the mean time, check the other blogs. There is even a big picture of everyone at the meet (which I missed out on).

Ahh my dear readers.

You are all probably going to start sending me e-mails on why I haven’t updated in a few days.

I’M VERYY SORRRYY!!!!

My schedule has been very very tight lately and I’m sitting at Coffee Bean right now using the internet to make a quick update before a meeting I’m about to have.

That doesn’t mean I don’t have time for you guys… it just means.. I’ll have to owe you a bit first okie?

Hehe thank you for understanding ar!

Last night, Ming sent out an e-mail to all the bloggers that have so far joined Nuffnang.

He has since received many e-mail responses.

Let me share his e-mail with all of you who haven’t had the chance to read it yet.

Dear Bloggers,

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Ming Shen or Ming, and I am the “co-founder” of Nuffnang.com.

I used the inverted commas because even though Timothy and myself initiated this network, every single one of you who is reading this email is a founding member of what we hope will be Malaysia’s biggest and most influential Blog-advertising community.

Herein lies our philosophy. Being young and green internet Entrepeneurs, we want to run things differently.

1st principle

We want to be a network By Bloggers for Bloggers. How do we propose to achieve this aim?

Well, for a start, Timothy and myself are avid Bloggers. But to tell you the truth, before I started this project, I had very little idea why people Blogged. Now, I find myself having difficulty going anywhere without a camera, and hear myself saying alot more, “Hold on! I want to take a photo for my blog!” We hope, that through our own experiences, and our interaction with fellow bloggers, we will always be aware of what your needs are.

Secondly, for a while now, we have been identifying bloggers of certain repute and specialties to take a stake in our company, in most cases for free. One thing we realised almost instantly from our many meetings with bloggers are that they are a very talented mix of people! Why not make them partners, and make use of their skills to make a stronger network? We are talking about photographers, consultants, programmers, graphic designers, and the like.

They are also our ambassadors. They will help bridge the gap should ever we miss the small picture (which we will try our best not to do). Over time, their identities will be revealed to you (We have not approached all of them yet, so hold your breath!)

If you feel you are a possible candidate, then do drop me or Timothy an email. We would be more than happy to consider it. A word of warning though, being a business partner in this network means high levels of commitment and contribution in the company’s workings.

2nd Principle

Bloggers of all sizes, shapes and colours

You are not merely a statistic. No matter how small your Blog, you are important to us. And we mean it.

We have tried as far as economically possible to include Blogs of small sizes (20 daily unique visitors). We are looking to build a community here. And as long as you are part of it, you are important to us.

3rd principle

Technology is important.

We hope you agree that Nuffnang.com is a solid and powerful platform. However, we promise to never stop improving and innovating.

What this means is that you will see interesting and engaging facets of our product come to light in the following months. Some will be brand new and never seen before, others will not be.

We are interested in getting the basics right. With a solid foundation, we can move on to greater things that the marketplace demands. And we will.

As we are in the Beta testing phase, some things may not run as smoothly as we might hope. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for your understanding.

4th Principle

We aim to raise the profile of blog advertising

We set up Nuffnang.com because we felt Bloggers and their readers deserved better! And they do!

We hope you will see RELEVANT advertisments on your blog. From CREDIBLE bluechip advertisers.

These advertisers are demanding, as they pay top dollar. Therefore it is imperative we have a strong set of credentials before we approach them. We need to fully understand what we are marketing before we can do the marketing.

How many blogs? How many readers? What kind of readers? Which kinds of ads? These are some of the statistics that we will have to gather in the next two weeks, before we can approach the RIGHT advertisers for you.

Therefore, I reiterate that the whole process might take at least one month before advertisements are served on your blog and you are payed!

Not to worry, over the past months, we have already created inroads and networks which we will be looking to exploit once we have the necessary information.

It could be sooner rather than later. But we want to be realistic and manage expectations.

5th Principle

Community and relationships first

Nuffnang.com is a community. In the future, functions will be added to emphasize that fact.

We will be organising exclusive parties, outings, to forster relationships between our members. These events will either be fully paid for by us, or heavily subsidized.

The generosity and friendships me and Timothy have encountered over the past few months have been simply amazing. We hope to grow these friendships and create new ones.

These principles will and more will in the near future be released on our website as a reminder to ourselves and to you of what Nuffnang stands for!

Thank you so much for your support! My email is always open for suggestions, or anything related to the Nuffnang community.

Humbly yours,

Ming Shen

I have been buried with work on my leetle dotcom lately.

So I went to Haagen Dazs with some friends for a breather.

The Hemsem waiter came over to take our order and I decided that it was only appropriate I have the maximum… the triple scoop.

Our ice-cream came and I gulped it away in no time!
But even after that I felt unsatisfied.

3 scoops of yummy delicious Haagen Dazs ice-cream wasn’t going to make my day any better so I pondered…

and pondered….

and pondered….

and then I finally decided
“AH FUK IT!!! I’ll just buy it”.

I left Haagen Dazs suspiciously carrying a bucket with me (nobody was looking).
Fortunately for me as well, they were having a Scratch & Win Promotion where for each RM50 you spent or something you get 1 voucher.

I got… quite a few

But the best part came when I went home and opened up by bucket to see my loveeely coffee flavoured ice-cream hiding inside.
It looked sooooo peaceful…

I so WANNA BITE IT…
But no… enough for the day!

I put it to bed.

Sleep my dear precious…

A couple of days ago, the Nuffnang Office in Penang received a particular envelope addressed to me.

There were no stamps, no address.. no nothing.. (and considering I’m still alive.. no anthrax too).

The mysterious sender just wrote my name on the envelope and chucked it into our mailbox.

I opened it in my office only to find this.

Curious to find out who sent me the wonderful book, I looked on the first page only to find a note from the sender.

“Scott Adams illustration wasn’t perfect when he first started but his ideas were funny.
He improved & so will you.”

My guess is this comes from a reader who managed to find our office address on the Nuffnang website.

To that dear anonymous reader, I don’t know how else to thank you but through this blog entry.

Thank you…

If you change your mind about being anonymous, send me an e-mail at lengmoublogs @ yahoo.com so I can personally thank you.

“Okay here’s what we’ll do. On the 27th, we’ll get about 5 blogs to sign up with Nuffnang. We’ll see how the system holds with just these few blogs and any small number of blogs that join us in this first week. We do this so we can run more tests before we get to the second phase of the launch which is when we will invite all the other bloggers that have agreed to join us.”

That’s what I told our team long before the soft beta launch yesterday.

I was expecting a slow gradual launch.

I have never been more wrong.
In just two days since a launch that was meant to be small, news of our website has somehow got around and we’ve been fortunate enough to have almost a hundred bloggers sign up with us!

So much that our server started overloading causing certain functions to stop working consistently, most importantly: Our default ad units stopped appearing consistently hence affecting the accuracy of the blog stats that we track.

The good news is that most of the bloggers signed up with us understand that this is a beta phase and beta phases are meant to weed out problems like this.

The bad news is…. all of us at Nuffnang haven’t been getting much sleep and we’ve been relying too much on Cheezels and Peanut Butter Sandwich biscuits to keep our stomachs full.

We’re rushing to get a new dedicated server of our own that can support this many bloggers.

Stay tuned guys… and thanks for understanding.

I am particularly touched by the few bloggers who have e-mailed me and said
“You know, I’m not interested in whatever money you can pay me, I’m just joining to support you”.

Another blogger said
“Let us all be your guinea pigs! We support Malaysian products!”

It is indeed very heartening to hear these kind of comments though we know that we just can’t simply take it for granted and assume that everyone feels the same way.

Many people expect us to perform… and perform we shall… (as long as our supply of Cheezels keep up).

I walked into the office yesterday morning only to hear a fellow Nuffnang Team Member say
“So… uhmm… 5 blogs eh???”

Just about a week to go before Wingz’s organized Blogger Party and Wingz had been telling me the response has been insane!!!

Some readers have asked me whether I’m going.

Truth is, these few days and I can imagine even for next week I’ll be extremely busy with Nuffnang.

But since Wingz put so much effort into this… I’ll go…

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Ok lar ok lar.. the real reason why I’m going is to see the Digi Yellow Man !!!

Click here to sign up before it’s too late… and if you’re not a blogger… still come okay?

You can sit with me 😛

It is 3.30am and I am awake.

Not because I’ve been up all night working or partying but because it is time to announce the soft-launch of my leetle dotcom’s website.

Ming consulted a Feng-Shui Master of some sort to come up with a “good date and time” for the launch of the website and unfortunately the good date came out to be 27th of February between 2am-4am.

So to all my dear readers, I now present to you what we’ve been working on for the past 6 months: Nuffnang
My inspiration to start Nuffnang came about from my Leng Mou days.

With a fast-growing readership, I found myself spending more and more time blogging so it only came naturally that I began to want to earn some advertising dollar from it.

I initially had a taste of the glamarous ad networks that scour the internet but found disappointment for a few reasons.

i) They didn’t pay as much as I hoped for.

ii) I was annoyed that it took so long before I got my USD cheque and even after I received it and banked it in, it would take 2-4 weeks before I get my money (or whatever is left over after the bank has taken its commission).

iii) In some cases, I can’t stand being paid in Paypal dollars that I find sooo hard to convert back to cold hard ringgit!

iv) I felt that the ads were often irrelevant to my local readers.

I promised myself that by the time I returned to Malaysia, if nobody had already started a website that brings the blogging community together to achieve the kind of advertising dollar that each blogger on his/her own can’t possibly achieve, I would set about to do it.

So with the help of Ming, we started on our journey.

We spent a good deal of our time studying the business models of existing blog advertising networks like Blogads and we observed how most of these networks were set up only to serve advertisers to high-traffic blogs.

Blogs with small-medium sized traffic were neglected and for good economic reasons as well (they were just too small on their own to command any advertiser dollar).

That however, was something both Ming and I were not willing to accept. We envisioned a website that could offer a piece of the action to as many bloggers as we can, even those that have as low as 20 unique visits a day.

Attempting to cover these smaller blogs proved risky but we innovated and built a system that would solve the problems surrounding such an action.

Today, the Beta Version of our website is finally ready to be made public.

Starting from today, we will be gradually opening up our website to the initial group of prominent bloggers who have agreed to be the pioneers of this community (among which are Jeff Ooi, Kenny Sia, XES, Petertan, Rojaks, Shaolintiger, Suanie, Cheeserland, MasakMasak, Smashpop & Gang and a whole lot more).

In the mean time, to all my dear readers, please feel free to join our website and tell us what you think.

Note we’re still in a Beta Stage so if you find any bugs, do e-mail us to let us know. And to show our appreciation of you helping us out, we’re giving away prizes like an iPod Nano in our monthly lucky draws.Okay okay it is late and I think I’m going to resist telling you guys all about Nuffnang myself.

I’ll save the rest for the coming blog entries.

Here’s the URL
www.nuffnang.com.my

Ok I’ve been extremely busy lately because my leetle dotcom is due for launch anytime soon and we’ve been working overtime.

But knowing that my readers expect something to read every day they log on, let me give you a quick update.

In the midst of all the busy work, yesterday afternoon I found myself at e-Gate’s Starbucks.I’ve heard much about this Penang Blogger Meet but I was never really sure if I was going. But thanks to Alcheong who insisted I go, I went and had a very good time!

Now you would think that the Penang Blogger’s Meet would be tiny compared to the ones in KL.

Chanlilian once told me that she organized a Penang Bloggers’ Meet before and only 5 bloggers showed up.But at yesterday’s meet… there were over 50!!!

And of the 50, there were the young generation of bloggers who were ever so energetic.
And a couple of ancient ones like Sapiensbryan and I who walked and talked at a much slower pace than the rest.

Then of course, there were the LADIESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!
And the group of girls who told me that they stopped eating taugeh after reading my post on it.

And of course there was Chanlilian who gave every blogger there a big ang pow!

And Jolene who was treated pretty much like a VIP considering she had always been one of the organizers for the KL Blog Meets.
Oh and lets not forget BRENDA… WHO IS FUKING HOT!!!

PS: Mae, a lot of people were asking about “The Couple Who Met on my Blog”.