Last evening, I was invited to register with Yahoo! Vibes, a survey panel in collaboration between Yahoo! and TM. Well, of course I registered since I do participate in surveys once in a while.

However, the website is really BLANK. There is nothing in there except member’s profile. I don’t know how successful this survey marketplace will be in future but I am a member of a handful of survey sites and this is the worst I have seen. It’s only because it’s local that I was interested to participate in the first place.

I am not sure when Yahoo! Vibes was launched but I guess it is still early days. I hope that in the near future, members will get to participate in many surveys; including members from outside the Klang Valley.

If you love YouTube, then this would be great news to you. YouTube will start to stream full length TV shows on their website but these videos will come with advertisements.

If you do not mind some ads, then you would probably enjoy watching sitcoms from CBS on YouTube. I actually spend so much time on the computer that if given the choice, I prefer to watch my favorite shows online. However, I do not have a good broadband line and all the buffering drives me crazy.

My friend recently bought a netbook tablet and he told me that it’s awesome watching YouTube videos with it. Now, he no longer needs to make do with short clips but full length TV shows! I wish I could get my dose of complete Korean dramas and TVB serials on YouTube. What about full length movies on YouTube in the near future?

I may not be a musician myself but I have friends who are and they tell me that it is really not easy to get that big break. I feel that local musicians need to have enough exposure to get noticed but there are not that many avenues for them, unfortunately.

This morning, I was told of LocalBandsOnline.net, a website that allows local bands in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia to showcase their talent and bring attention to their music to event planners, promoters, talent scout, music executives and everyone in the music industry around the world.

LocalBandsOnline.net is a paid membership site. If you are interested to sign up, please email: info@localbandsonline.net. The official launch of the website is 15th October, 2008.

Facebook has confirmed that co-founder and head engineer Dustin Moskovitz, will leave Facebook in a month’s time along with manager Justin Rosenstein to set up a new start up internet company. A number of top executives have left Facebook this year alone and they are planning to move their headquarters to Dublin, Ireland.

As a Facebook user for a long while now, it’s exciting to see so many changes not only site-side but management-side as well. One has to wonder if Facebook will be sold to larger internet corporations like MySpace, Bebo, PayPal and others.

Currently, Microsoft Corp. has a minor stake in Facebook so I think if major shareholders decide to sell Facebook, Microsoft Corp. would probably have the first option.

Whatever the case, it’s amazing how, within just a few short years, Facebook has exploded among internet users around the world. It is said that there are more than 100 million Facebook users now but I personally know of individuals who hold countless accounts to level themselves up in the various games in Facebook. These are the people who inflate the membership number.