A few days ago, I registered a .MY top level domain. Although I have known of its availability for months, I didn’t get to register because if not mistaken, I would have to submit documents to my registrar to show that it’s a business registration. I am, of course, just an individual and it is for personal use.

A friend told me that he is registering a domain name for his website, changing from .com.my and told me to register one for myself because of the value of a .MY domain name in the future since it is getting more popular now. Apparently, even non-Malaysians are registering them.

So, after maintain that I would not be able to register, my friend said that he would register for me, which he did. I paid him back, though the domain is currently in his name, until I am able to produce proof of company registration before it could be transferred to me.

Although many bloggers would like to have their own TLD that’s short and sweet, when registration is only open to companies, it makes it hard for us, and hence, a lot of short names are still available.

A lawsuit is filed against Facebook for exploiting minors when they “like” a Facebook ad, making it seem like they are endorsing a product or service since this action on Facebook is updated on the profile and newsfeed, along with their profile photo. This lawsuit claims that Facebook is deriving illegal profits by charging advertisers and making use of children, their names and photographs, violating California law.

According to this lawsuit, Facebook should require teenagers to get parental permission before they can “like” anything, which I can imagine, could be quite ridiculous. Imagine if a teenager were to go to his or her parent or guardian to get permission first before liking anything on Facebook. LOL

The group of lawyers filing this suit is seeking cash damages from Facebook. I wonder who they are going to give the money too. Facebook reacted angrily, saying they will fight the suit vigorously because it is without merit. Who will win?

I find it interesting that Facebook is taking a new soon-to-be launched social networking website called Teachbook to court for using the word “book” in its name. Facebook is laying claim on the word “book” that “everyone” associates with social networking and according to Facebook, Teachbook is banking on Facebook’s popularity.

Also, according to Facebook, many of the features that Teachbook has on its website are already on Facebook. They don’t mind about that, it seems, just trademark infringement. Whatever their intention, I think that it’s going to be a David & Goliath fight for Teachbook, a social website for teachers.

I guess Facebook, with more than 500,000 million registered users now, don’t forget, many are duplicates, have forgotten where the original idea of a social networking website came from. Yes, the world is this unfair.

Google has announced that hey will be producing a weekly 90-second news and entertainer video called The Google Beat that will showcase the top search terms on Google search for each particular week.

Google certainly sounds very upbeat about their new project but I don’t see how interesting such a video could be when they are just bring Google Hot Trends into video format. They will be uploading this series of videos on YouTube, their own web property, though Google Beat will not be given prominent placing on YouTube.

Google Beat will be hosted by Anne Espiritu who is a staff of Google’s public relations department. And the first video starts this week. Check it out.

Facebook has announced that they will be ending support for its chat function on the old browser, IE6. They came to this decision after Facebook users who access the website with IE6 complained they couldn’t have a smooth chat experience. Facebook tried to fix he problem but it looks like they are giving up on the old browser.

Even though I use Facebook, I don’t chat. I don’t have the time to entertain so many people at the same time since I multi-task and I am not on the computer only to play or socialize. So whether Facebook will pull the plug on IE6 for their chat function wouldn’t make a difference to me. I still do have IE6 installed on my computer but that’s the last browser I would use.

What about you? Would the withdrawal of Facebook’s support for IE6 for their chat function affect you? What browser are you using, anyway? I have switched to Firefox already.

My friend’s birthday is coming up and I have been wondering what to buy for her. My friend, although female, is very geeky and if I could, I would like to buy her a novelty technology device. The problem is that these aren’t cheap stuff and since I have just purchased a new domain name, paid for my web hosting and am planning to buy a new desktop computer, I really am not in a very good financial position to fork out even more money in such a short span of time. But she is a good friend and a gift is a must!

While searching for gift ideas just now, I was lucky to find this think geek promo code that would save me $10 off an order of $40 or more. This translates to a maximum savings of 25%. Steep, if you ask me!

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This week, Gmail has started to roll out voice call service which allows users to call any phone number in the United States and Canada. It is not said if Gmail users from any international country could make use of this service, or if it is only available to users in USA and Canada.

Soon, Gmail will be offering international calls at low rates. How this is different from other web to phone services, I have no idea. None at all. What’s the hoo-haa over this, I also don’t get it. Also, although Gmail said that we will be getting this service of calling phones in the United States and Canada for free at least until the end of 2010, when I opened up the Phone dialer, I see that I only have 10 cents in my account.

I have downloaded the file required but have yet to install it so I can’t try out the service yet but I don’t know if I will even try it out since it is really nothing special to me. Is it a novelty to you?