Google is venturing into local deals, much like what Groupon is doing, where groups of people purchase coupons for a limited-time deal. For example, a hair cut at a local salon is being offered at 70% off normal rates or something like that.

Google Offers is actually late in the game. Even in Malaysia, we already have quite a few companies offering this same deals concept, some would offer a deal a day without the condition of bulk purchase so buyers do not have to wait if a certain number of coupons are sold before enjoying the discounts, which I personally like.

But even though Google is late, with their capital, they could surely make this big. That’s an advantage they have. And with their money, they surely could polish the business model. Let’s see how this turns out for them.

For the second time, Lil Wayne’s Twitter account has been hacked and the hacker, using that account, sent out tweets to Lil Wayne’s friends, including hip hop stars 50 Cent, The Game and Soulja Boy. Soulja Boy even received an insulting message from the hacker on the poor sales figures of his latest album, DeAndre Way.

In the first hacking incident, Lil Wayne reacted with an angry outburst. I guess he has had enough of being hacked now that it has happened for the second time. Another angry outburst wouldn’t help. Just delete the account. That’s the best solution. Lil Wayne isn’t the first and only celebrity to leave Twitter after all.

A girl in the United States who came up with the idea to set a date to “attack a teacher”, created the page on Facebook and invited her friends to it, has been arrested along with five of her friends, all girls. The Facebook page had more than 100 students accepting the invitation but it is not known yet at this point if these students will face any punishment.

Although these girls are now claiming that it was just a joke, no one can really be sure if one of those who came upon this page or invited to it and participated would take it as a joke or really act upon it for real. Who can say this isn’t the catalyst needed for yet another school shooting?

The six girls arrested are only 12 and 13 years old and it is quite disconcerting that such young girls can think of something like that. Back in my time, we were brought up to think that teaching is a noble profession and teachers should be respected, even those that fail us.

I read with interest a about a man facing felony charges for reading his wife’s email to find out if she was having an affair and if she was exposing their daughter to her physically abusive former husband.

According to news report, the wife gave him her password to her email account so that should give him authorization to read her email, right? I don’t see how this should put him into trouble with the law. If the wife didn’t want him to access her email anymore, she should change her password, even if they may continue to share a laptop.

This reminds me of the case of Daphne Iking, whose now former husband also told of reading her email and instant messages, which means that if this case happened in the United States, he too could also be facing felony charges already.

I guess in Malaysia, people just don’t see that reading someone else’s messages is wrong.

One of my blog readers wrote to me asking if I could recommend him a good webhost. He wants to set up a blog and commercial website for his “dog training” business. I told him that I am hosting with friends at the moment and because of work commitment, they are not accepting anymore new accounts. They hold REAL jobs, you see.

And, since he plans to host a commercial website, I advised him to host with a proper webhosting company. I came across this netfirms.com promotion coupon which would come in handy if he decides to host with netfirms.com.

I told him that he has to act quickly to enjoy the discounts since these promotional coupons are all limited-time offers. Why would he not want to save 33% off a business hosting plan, right?

Anyway, this reader told me that this is his first time hosting a website and it will be his first website. He said he has no idea how to go about it but I believe that once he confirms his subscription, any good web host will walk him through the technical aspects of setting up and maintaining his website.

Now, I have to help him look for a website designer.

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