Beneran deh, lucu banget. Tapi bahasa Inggris nih. Liat dan dengerin aja yah.

Iseng dan kreatif banget kan? Hihihihi.

Pagi ini dapet email dari Google Adsense mengenai pembayaran para Publisher Indonesia yang sudah bisa menggunakan Western Union. Berikut ini kutipan isi email yang saya terima:

Hello,

We’re excited to introduce Western Union Quick Cash as a new payment method
for Indonesia!  Western Union Quick Cash is a new form of payment that lets
you receive your AdSense payments in cash using the worldwide Western Union
money transfer service.  This payment method is quick, easy, and free.
Best of all, you’ll no longer need to wait for checks to arrive in the mail
or to clear at the bank.

Some things to note:

* Payments by Western Union follow our normal payment schedule
(https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9905)
and will be available for pickup at your local Western Union agent the day
after they are issued.

* Payments by Western Union are currently only available to individual payee
names and not to businesses.

* Payments must be picked up within 60 days of issuance or they will expire.
If this happens, a payment hold will be placed on your AdSense account and
the payment will be credited back to your account.

*Payments will be made in US dollars, but depending on your local Western
Union agent, they may be picked up in your local currency.

To sign up for this new payment method, please follow these instructions:
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=62330.

When signing up, if you do not have a last name, surname, or family name,
please leave the ‘Payee Last Name/Surname/Family Name’ field blank.

Once you’ve signed up for the Western Union Quick Cash payment method, you
can learn more about how to pick up your Western Union payment here:
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=65789 .

If you’d like more information about this payment method, we recommend
visiting our Help Center
(https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=10830).  If you
have any feedback about your experience
this month, please do not hesitate to share it with us.

We hope you enjoy this new payment option!

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense team

Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
USA

Mudah-mudahan saja metode pembayaran dengan menggunakan Western Union ini bisa terus berlanjut karena sistem pembayaran Google Adsense dengan menggunakan cek memang terasa sangat lambat, butuh waktu kurang lebih 1 bulan sebelum cek tersebut cair dan masuk ke rekening tabungan kita di bank.

Ayo semangat dan maju terus internet marketing di Indonesia !

A friend of mine play this song several days ago, and I found this song is really cool. So here is the lyrics from the original performer, House of Voodoo feat. Emily Jaffe.

Come, let’s choose a life,
Move, Maybe we’ll find.
We can take a piece of something
Bring it home tonight

Come, choose what we’ll be,
Take me by the hand because you know I’ll make it alright.
Close your eyes tonight.

This could be, you and me.
Such an inner feeling in between.
Just a smile, and would be.
Such an inner feeling in between.
On and on and on and on and on..
On and on and on and on and on..
………

REFF
Shadows deep in your heart,
In the shadows alone in the dark.
Shadows deep in your heart,
In the shadows alone in the dark

If you listened to the music or mp3 I’m sure you’ll enjoy it too. I did a google search and found that this song probably was produced in 2004, but me and my friends are kinda late so we only knew about it recently.

For the people who like travelling and cruising around the world, the experience of going places is irreplaceable.

Take for example, there are people who spend thousands of dollars or more in expense for a luxurious yacht cruises that arrange by travel agents around the globe. And that thousands of dollars are spent for a several days vacations on a cruise boat.

All of this got me thinking…..if I would often travelling or cruising on a boat, instead of spent thousands of dollars for a several days I would search boats for sale, and have my own personal boat for my future cruising endeavours. But every person opinion are different, so maybe other people have their own reason to do otherwise.

A couple friends of mine and mentor decided to try out their skills at the Busby SEO Test, a contest held by BusbyWebSolutions.com, an international Business-to-Business web solutions firm which based in Australia.

Being that said, I have thought to become a participant myself at the event…but it seem that this kind of event could cause me to deviate from my own plan. So I decided to become a supporter only and remain focus of what I’m already have planned for myself. After all the mistake I made and learned from, it always come down to lack of focus.

So, in the role of support for my friends and mentor, who are trying out their Search Engine Optimization skills, as a part of their internet marketing education I think I’ll give them a couple of link with various anchor text..hey that does make it looks natural to the search engine does it?

As a matter of fact if too many anchor text that said the same thing will raise a flag in Google algorithm don’t you think? Well I least that’s my SEO opinion. So I always try to diversify my anchor text with a slight variance for every phrase I want to rank for.

Every other person entitle to their own opinion, of course.

Update: Since several days ago, some people think that this blog is might be participating in the contest, but hereby I claim that I am not participating in the SEO Contest, and make this post solely to support my friends.

If you are a video game player, surely enough you have heard about this American gaming console from Microsoft and in cooperation with IBM, ATI and SiS, they are all big names in the industry.

Have you tried playing with your buddy using the XBox 360 Game Console? Don’t call yourself a video game player if you haven’t give this machine a spin or two. Even though this product was first launch on 2005, right now in 2008, this machine is still showing a solid performance with the report of 20 million unit sold as of  July 2008 according to Microsoft.

But as time goes, the product retail configuration also change. Previously, the XBox 360 have a product variant that is named XBox 360 Core, but now the product variant is discountinued. If you are interested to buy a video game console, then you should check the video game console buying guide first to keep an updated information about the various gaming console available on the market.

One of the feature that this product have in comparison to the other gaming platform is the online gaming capability which is known as the XBox Live for those who love to play online game, a totally difference experience from a static and lonely gaming.

Sebenernya kartu Indosat Broadband ini udah saya terima sejak hari Jumat minggu kemaren, hanya saja belum diaktifkan oleh pihak Indosatnya. Baru hari Rabu sore ini (tanggal 17 September 2008) saya dapet kabar dari pihak marketingnya kalo seharusnya kartu saya sudah aktif dan langsung saya coba.

Kesan pertama? Not bad, untuk sebuah koneksi akses internet unlimited dengan harga murah (hanya Rp.100.000,- per bulan, belum termasuk pajak). Ini screenshot kecepatan hasil test dari speedtest.net:

Yang bikin kagum saya adalah kecepatan uploadnya itu loh, hehehe. Ok, karena masih pengen tau kecepatan asli pas koneksi ini bener-bener dipake untuk download file maka saya mendownload sebuah file zip training Google Adwords dari sebuah forum. Berapa kecepatannya?

Kecepatan ini 2 kali lipat dibandingkan waktu saya masih pake Telkomspeedy (yang akhirnya saya ceraikan setelah pengen downgrade tapi prosedurnya ribet, mahal, ngga unlimited dan ngga bisa mobile, hehehe).

Berdasarkan pengalaman saya pada akhir tahun 2007 sampe bulan Februari 2008 waktu produk Indosat lainnya yaitu Mentari mendapat bocoran kecepatan HSDPA (bocor kok sampe 3 bulan lebih yah hehehe) koneksi Indosat cenderung lebih stabil dibandingkan dengan Telkomsel.

Saat ini saya pake Telkomsel Flash yang unlimited juga sih, jadi poligami akses internet juga. Mungkin nanti kedepannya bisa dibandingkan kestabilan sinyal dan koneksi antara 2 provider internet broadband murah ini.

Cuma yang jadi ganjalan di hati saya adalah Indosat 3.5G ini saya ngga dapet surat kontrak seperti waktu saya berlangganan Telkomsel Flash, saya hanya berbekal informasi sebuah thread jualan di kaskus.us dan kepercayaan saya pada Marketing Indosat tersebut, jadi rada deg-degan juga khawatir tagihan fantastis seperti yang dialami oleh banyak pelanggan Telkomsel Flash pada awal peluncurannya.

Paket apa saja yang disediakan oleh Indosat Broadband unlimited ini? Berdasarkan informasi dari website resminya di http://www.indosat.com/Indosat_35G_Broadband/Indosat_35G_Broadband_Up_Date paket yang unlimited ada 4 tingkatan:

Paket Unlimited

Package	Kecepatan Maksimum	Biaya Bulanan
ISAT Eco	Up to 256 Kbps	Rp 100,000
ISAT Medium	Up to 1 Mbps	Rp 300,000
ISAT Heavy	Up to 3.6 Mbps	Rp 500,000
ISAT Super	Up to 7.2 Mbps	Rp 1,500,000

Mudah-mudahan saja akses internet broadband dari Indosat ini stabil terus walaupun jumlah peminatnya bertambah setelah launching soalnya denger-denger dari marketingnya kalo mereka ini lagi soft launch, masih masa uji coba gitu deh belum launch beneran, temen saya di-plurk.com juga ngomong hal yang sama. Cuma kalo belum launching kok udah ada di website resminya yah? Hmmm.

Anyway, kita nikmati aja dulu kecepatan broadband unlimited ini dan berharap semuanya lancar tanpa ada masalah.

Update Maret 2009:

Bulan Januari 2009 saya berhenti pake Indosat karena memang lemot banget, kebanyakan yang pake…. huhuhuhu.

We all know that lamps are used as a source of light when the dark falls upon us. But in a modern life as we live in, lamps are more than just a source of light.

We can use lamps and lamp shades as a home decoration too.  Pretty fancy and making your home feels cozy. If you are not afraid to try different things when remodelling or decorating your house interior design, you should also try several desk lamps and torchieres that suitable for your room and your desk. It can give you a difference atmosphere.

Giving your room a different atmosphere can influence your mood and increased productivity. So I don’t think it’s a bad idea to try using lamp as a home decoration. What do you think?

Kemarin malam saya buka email, ada email alert notification, isinya pemberitahuan bahwa account Yahoo Search Marketing saya sudah mencapai nol. Memang seingat saya account pre-paid YSM saya memang tinggal sisa $15 ketika saya terakhir login beberapa hari yang lalu.

Di dalam email tersebut ada link menuju halaman Login ke account YSM (masih belom sadar kalo itu email Phishing) dan saya juga meng-klik link tersebut…huhuhu…menuju ke halaman website yang digunakan oleh sang penjahat untuk mengambil data-data login siapapun calon korbannya. Disitulah saya baru sadar kalau alamat URL di address bar bukan URL dari Yahoo…tetapi something else. Untung saya engga langsung login. Selamet deh. Hari ini saya coba browsing ke situs fraud tersebut browser kesayangan saya si Mozilla Firefox sudah melaporkan kalo itu situs adalah halaman Reported Web Forgery (bagus deh, biar ngga banyak korban).

So, guys….be careful ketika menerima email-email yang mirip-mirip saya tadi. Lumayan kan kalo di account YSM-mu masih banyak isinya ntar bisa dipake sama orang-orang yang ngga bertanggung jawab deh.

Tadi siang saya ke Plasa Telkom, niatnya sih mau Downgrade paket Speedy yang saya pake. Kenapa kok downgrade? Karena gini loh, sekarang Telkomsel (anak perusahaan Telkom juga) ngeluarin paket Telkomsel Flash yang unlimited dengan harga yang murah, kalo mau ambil yang paket dengan harga sama dengan yang saya pake sekarang (paket Speedy Professional, kuota 3 GB) maka Paket yang ditawarin ama Telkomsel jelas lebih menggoda. Dengan biaya yang sama-sama Rp.400.000,- (belom tambah Ppn) per bulan Paket Flash Unlimited ini speednya Up to 3,6 Mbps,  bandingin ama Speedy yang cuma Up to 1 Mbps (gak bisa mobile lagi) hehehe.

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