Faceboook is heading for IPO, which is expected to raise US$12 billion for the company. One Malaysian company will be looking forward to the good news. It is MOL Global, which Malaysian tycoon, Vincent Tan, is the major shareholder. The company, which holds about 10% of Facebook, is expected to rake in US$420 million from the Initial Public Offering.

That is certainly a huge amount of money, especially in good ol’ Malaysia, and how will that benefit ordinary Malaysians? I guess that with fresh funds thanks to Facebook IPO, MOL can go on a shopping spree and buy up some dot coms or collaborate with companies that offer social networking services.

My friend told me that he has received a second warning from his manager this month for being late to work. He said that since his office moved to a new building, it is now quite a distance to drive to work and the road is always jammed as well. I feel that what he should do, obviously, is to wake up earlier so that he would be in the office earlier than usual. However, my friend confesses that he has problems getting out of bed in the morning.

Perhaps what he should do is register with Talkoclock. This is a new social networking company that is unique. I don’t think I have heard of a “social alarm service” before, where users could request to be woken up by other members.

What I like most about Talkoclock is that this is a free service and best of all, it is available throughout the world! The company wants us to spread our positive energy as far away as possible. In addition, it works with all kinds of phones. How great is that? I think it is awesome that new friends are just a phone call away, and yet we are provided with the security we need among strangers, initially.

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As I am currently checking out online back up services, I am reading many reviews of such services as it helps save time, without having to commit money on a service and then finding that I do not like it, or the company offers only limited services. I am currently reading about Carbonite Pro. There is a very comprehensive carbonite pro review that I find very useful as it provides me with all the information that I require, before signing up with it.

I have been talking to a friend about problems I faced with my ever increasing collection of photos. I have no idea how my media friends cope with this, but after one year, I have already ran out of space on my desktop computer, laptop and a huge external disk. I thought it was huge, but apparently, it is still inadequate.

My friend told me to look for an online backup service that provides secure, unlimited storage and whatever features that I need. While some online backups are good enough for home use, some would meet the requirements of a business user. I don’t really know what I need. I guess I would have to continue reading reviews on online backups to find out their differences.

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Google announced that they will be revising their privacy policies and data use, combining more than 60 policies into one, so that all Google services, including Gmail, Google+ and YouTube will share a single privacy policy. This new policy will come into effect on 1st March, 2012, and Google has promised to send an email to all users, as well as post it on their homepage Google.com.

I’ve been wondering, though, since most of us use so much of Google’s products and services, if we are not agreeable to their new terms and conditions, what would happen, then? We’d have to be forced to agree so that we could continue using the services!

My friend just told me that his hard disk is showing a red warning and he has to delete some of his files to make way. We photographers are always facing the problem of running out of disk storage. I am heading that way as well, and have bought a large external hard disk to store my files but I am looking for a good online backup as well, to keep the most important photos. That’s called double backup!

I tell you, it is not easy to look for good online backup services. I have tried a few, but end up having to move my files when they close down. I just found a list of top three online backup services, though, and plan to sign up with one of them. I like this list as it gives me comprehensive information on what features are available for each of them. Surely, I can expect a good online backup service to be free, but I do need to know clearly what are the features and value-added services, if any, that I am paying for.

This list on the top three online backup services helps me a lot, especially the in-depth review. Check it out at www.wpdesigner.com/online-backup if you are interested.

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