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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (OPENPRESS) March 26, 2010 — The partnership gives mySimplifieds visitors real time access to over 85,000 property listings for rent and sale found on iProperty.com Malaysia. Visitors looking to buy property who also visit mySimplifieds will now be able to view all iProperty.com listings in full detail with pictures, descriptions and property specifications. They are also able to send an enquiry to the advertiser directly via mySimplifieds.com.

“Our goal is to be the No.1 online classifieds portal in the country. Forging a partnership with the strongest players in each industry, has given us a huge advantage over other classifieds portals. We’re thrilled to have iProperty.com join us,” said Aishah Ali, Managing Director of mySimplifieds.com.

“Teaming up with mySimplifieds.com is a fantastic opportunity for iProperty.com Malaysia to extend our reach to new audiences. Our advertisers stand to benefit from this new influx of traffic as it increases the exposure of their listings which ultimately leads to an increase in sales,” said Patrick Grove, Executive Chairman of the iProperty.com Group.

iProperty.com Malaysia hosts the largest and most comprehensive online database of properties for sale and rent. It is used by over 500,000 property hunters who view over 10 million pages of properties every month. The website is the one-stop information centre for all things real estate with news and a host of real estate resources and tools to keep its visitors informed. iProperty.com Malaysia is home to over 80,000 property listings for sale and rent advertised by over 4,000 real estate agents and property developers.

MySimplifieds harnesses the full potential of Web2.0 and social networks to make BUYING and SELLING simpler via various online features and functionalities. Unique to mySimplifieds, the portal allows users to create an additional access to promote their classified items via other websites, blog widgets, popular social networks (Facebook, Friendster), and mobile using WAP. Users can grab great deals online and on mobile for almost anything ranging from properties and gadgets, to tour packages, cars and books.

About iProperty.com Malaysia
iProperty.com Malaysia is the country’s No.1 property and real estate website in all key metrics (as confirmed by: ComScore, Frost & Sullivan, Alexa.com and most recently, Google Ad Planner). Working with Malaysia’s top developers and more than 4,000 real estate agents, the website offers the largest online database of properties for sale and rent in the country. iProperty.com Malaysia also publishes a monthly magazine.

About IPGA Limited
Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, IPGA Limited (ASX: IPP) owns Asia’s No. 1 network of property websites under the iProperty.com umbrella brand. The Company is focused on developing and operating Internet-based real estate portals with other complementary offerings in Asian markets. It currently operates consumer and business online property portals in the markets of Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, India and the Philippines. With further expansion planned, IPGA is continuously working to capitalise on its market-leading positions and the rapidly growing online property advertising market throughout the region.

iProperty.com Network
Singapore: iProperty.com Singapore
Malaysia: iProperty.com Malaysia
Hong Kong: GoHome.com.hk and House18.com
India: iProperty.com India
Philippines: iProperty.com Philippines
Events: iProperty.com EXPO
Luxury: iLuxuryasia.com

Amazingly, 4 books delivered today to me without me getting out of office. Books from eBay.ph. I paid only P700 pesos for the said books (1 is a coffee table book about gardens, btw, I am not gay). I paid via gcash and it was sent via 2Go courier service.

And today, I ordered clocks from HK. For personal use and project. The amount is around 100 dollars. I paid via my Paypal account and in minutes, payment is done. The clocks should arrive perhaps next week.

If 20 years ago, you told me, “hey in twenty years you can sit your butt off, and can shop and pay wherever the seller is and wherever the items are and whenever you want it”, I would have told you, you’re crazy. Then again, you may have been a toddler twenty years ago.

Beauty shopping is a sure-bet stress buster from a long day’s work, or a week full of grueling activities. Beauty products somehow appease us, making us look good, feel good, and somehow just give us a reason to get excited for another day’s worth of primping and prettifying. Beauty shopping is usually equated with raiding cosmetic counters or health and beauty stores, where you get to see the products up-close, get recommendations from your friendly sales assistants, road-test the products yourself, and see what makeup fits your skin tone, or what perfume pleases your olfactory senses, before making that purchase. Nowadays, shopping is not confined within the malls or boutiques anymore. You can shop for your beauty goods while sitting at your desk surfing the internet!

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Last week, the owners of topblogs.com.ph launched another Philippine blog related project. It’s the Weblogs.com.ph.  We use their topblogs site, and most likely, we’ll list our sites too on this brand new Philippine Blogs Directory.

While the point of TopBlogs.com.ph was to rank sites according to the raw traffic they got, Weblogs.com.ph will be the de-facto blog directory for the Philippines. It will have features TopBlogs.com.ph does not have, such as related blogs, the current buzz, and
more. All blogs will be manually approved (something also coming to TopBlogs.com.ph soon), and old and defunct blogs will be promptly removed.  Add your blog to http://Weblogs.com.ph now.

With hopes of becoming the country’s one-stop shop for shopping, search, and networking activities, 88DB.com, erstwhile a local classifieds site, has recently implemented a major overhaul of its portal by integrating 28 new categories that users can browse through.

Travel, Business Services, Beauty and Wellness, Pets, and Weddings are just among the categories that the new site will carry. “All of us are always seeking to connect,” said Racquel Cagurangan, general manager of 88DB Philippines, “whether through someone who can give us information we need, a product that can help us, or a service that can make our lives better. We are also looking for people who may need our services or products that we in turn offer. It is this dynamic continuous interaction that makes 88DB different – while other sites do have categories, ours build on that to become engaging communities.”

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1985 – Symbolics.com is registered, with Bbn.com and Think.com making up the first three dotcoms.

1986 – Xerox snapped up theirs in January, following by IBM in March and Boeing in September. At this stage, the concept of using the internet for commercial purposes was still unheard of.

1987 – Apple, just as it was launching its groundbreaking SE computer, registered Apple.com in February – again, without much of a clue of its future potential. The 100th dotcom to be registered, Nynexst.com, is added to the list on 30 November.

1988 – Robert Morris, a student at Cornell University writes the first notable computer “worm”, supposedly to gauge the size of the internet at that time (some 60,000 computers, as it turned out). He’s convicted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; today he’s an associate professor at MIT.

1989 – The World becomes the first company to offer dial-up internet access to the American public. In March, Compuserve – an alternative dialup service – makes its first links to the internet, allowing the receipt and transmission of email messages. Still no web, though

1990 – The first search engine, Archie, is written by Alan Emtage, a computer science student at the university of Montreal, enabling users to locate material on public computers. On Christmas Day Tim Berners-Lee compiles the first webpage at the unmemorable URL nxoc01.cern.ch.

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Connect with your customers – fast and easy!

88DB.com creates more opportunities for you to get that sale – fast and easy. We have recently added a new feature that will allow your customers a quicker and faster way to reach you. With 88DB.com’s on-site SMS facility, your customers can now send their inquiries to your mobile phone free of charge.

This service is currently available to paid advertisements so upgrade your account to one now. Realize the potential for more profit as 88DB.com’s on-site SMS facility will allow you to cater to your customers’ needs right away.

To send a message, a customer just has to click on the “Send SMS” button on the upper right corner of your ad profile page and then fill in the inquiry form. You will receive the inquiry instantly and without any added cost. Just make sure that you supply the team at 88DB.com your updated contact information.