Cornflake sold on eBay for USD1,350

A piece of cornflake which resemble the shape of the Illinois state was sold on eBay for USD1,350 by two sisters.

This is the Illinois-shape cornflake sold for USD1,350.

The buyer for this piece of item is the owner of a trivia website, TriviaMania.com pop culture and Americana items. Read more here - Sold! Cornflake goes for $1,350

Other copycat items that are available in the ebay are conrnflakes shaped like Hawaii and Virginia, and potato chip shaped like Florida.

So, if you have anything interesting, you can consider using ebay to sell off your unique items like a Penisular Malaysia shaped carrot, tapioca or else.

Emirates allow mobile phone calls during flights

Emirates, a Dubai-based airline, became the 1st airline which allow its customers to make calls from their mobile phone during flight. The 1st permitted mobile calls were made during the Dubai-Casablanca flight recently in the Airbus A340.

A system which stop the mobiles from interfering with the plane's electronic was installed on the plane.

The new system will be implemented to other aircrafts in the future with more services and for devices such blackberry. The mobile service is activated when the airplane is on cruising altitude and the usage is monitored and controlled by the crew.

Read more here. (BBC NEws)

Tech Tags: mobile airplane flight

More Malaysian are selling online

Jenny's Auctionviva highlighted the latest report on the increasingly number of Malaysians involved in the online selling activities. The report was based on the regional survey on eBay sellers.

Jenny also provided 5 reasons contributed to this phenomena:
1. Increasing success stories of Internet venture.
2. Shorter learning curve for new users.
3. Easy withdrawal alternatives such as PayPal.
4. Improved Internet bandwidth for faster and cheaper connection.
5. Cheaper products online.

Tech Tags: online selling Malaysia

Electronic Commerce - Blog Carnival (18th March 2008)

Welcome to the March 18, 2008 edition of electronic commerce. (Vol 2, No. 6, 2008)

Jimmy Sansi presents Guaranteed Traffic Today Using These 7 Simple Methods posted at The Kaizen Business.

James D. Brausch presents False Security Thinking posted at Internet Business Blog.

Andrew Erickson presents Email Marketing for Ecommerce - Part I: What Is It? Why Do It? posted at WebSite Werx.

Woody Maxim presents The quickest way to more money is through testing posted at Woody Maxim.

Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents There’s No Need To Admit You’re Telling The Truth... Unless You're A Liar! posted at Rebecca Dean.

Carol Bentley presents Normal service is (almost) resumed. . . posted at Carol Bentley.

WebSiteWerx presents Yahoo Stores down on Cyber Monday?, but not mine! posted at WebSite Werx.

Ask Matt presents Using BlogCarnival posted at IM & Affiliate Marketing Product Testing.

Ask Matt presents AdSense in Text Widgets posted at BlogTactics.com.

Ask Matt presents Why I’m P’ed off with more traffic posted at iamUncovered.com.

Jean Mosher presents I See You Bought a Dress Online posted at Always in Motion.

Product Launch Formula 2.0 Jeff Walker presents How To Launch Your Product Even If You Only Have A Tiny List posted at Product Launch Formula 2.0 Jeff Walker Hands You The Insider Secrets To Successful Product Launches, saying, "You don't need to be a guru to have a successful product launch. Free non-guru product launch video case study shows you how. Truly Inspiring"

V presents About | tftb.net posted at tftb.net, saying, "The world of Internet is filled with information. Some useless and some precious. Get the valid information on this blog."

Andrew Erickson presents No Phone Number For You! Part I posted at WebSite Werx.

Carol Bentley presents Yesterday?s blog-post was completely off-track posted at Carol Bentley.

James D. Brausch presents Search Engine Ranking Case Study posted at Internet Business Blog.

Ask Matt presents New Clean and Simple WordPress Theme posted at IM & Affiliate Marketing Product Testing.

Stephen Dean presents How To Handle Refunders… Ban Them! posted at Stephen Dean's Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog - Copywriter.

Michel Fortin presents Internet Marketer Hit By Car posted at The Michel Fortin Blog.

Aaron Brandon presents Don’t Leave Home Without This posted at Aaron Brandon.

Andrew Erickson presents Merchant Processing 101 posted at WebSite Werx.

Joshua C. Karlin presents How Not to Ask for a Major Gift posted at Marketing & Fundraising Ideas.

Bill Mcintosh presents Google Testing Ways to Kill Your AdWords Income posted at Bill McIntosh.

Jimmy Sansi presents Memo To Entrecard Users: Get A Clue posted at The Kaizen Business.

Blogging

Kenton Newby presents Simple Solutions For the Content Creation Roadblock Nearly All Online Business Owners Face posted at KentonNewby.com.

Aaron Brandon presents Flooded With Links Back posted at Aaron Brandon.

Sarah Paine presents What Can Ebay Teach You About Your Blog? posted at Sarah Paine.

Carol Bentley presents Landing or floundering page. . . posted at Carol Bentley.

Gavin R. Putland presents Amazon should buy WordPress.com! posted at /etc/cron.whenever/.

Robyn J McCleary presents COMPUTERS ARE HOT posted at Information on Computers & Internet.

Stephen Dean presents 3 Quick Rules For Writing A “P.S.” posted at Stephen Dean's Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog - Copywriter.

E-commerce

Stephen Dean presents 3 Quick Ways To Judge Your New Product Idea posted at Stephen Dean's Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog - Copywriter.

Andrew Erickson presents Merchant Processing 102 posted at WebSite Werx.

John W. Furst presents 10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs To Grow Continuously posted at E-Biz Booster Blog, saying, "You probably have heard it before, **A business that doesn't grow, dies**."

Woody Maxim presents It really is a numbers game posted at Woody Maxim.

Robert Phillips presents Where Have All the Good .coms Gone? posted at How to Create a DVD without Spending a Dime.

Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents How To Write Your First Paragraph posted at Rebecca Dean.

WebSiteWerx presents Google Pagerank 0 Penalty Solution posted at BlogTactics.com.

WebSiteWerx presents No Phone Number For You! Part I posted at WebSite Werx.

Carol Bentley presents Time for another gift. . . posted at Carol Bentley.

Ask Matt presents Increase your optins and salespage conversions posted at iamUncovered.com.

Joshua C. Karlin presents Product Launch Blueprint posted at Internet Business.

WebSiteWerx presents ShopSite Version 9.0 Released posted at WebSite Werx, saying, "Shop site version 9.0"

Carol Bentley presents Landing or floundering page. . . posted at Carol Bentley, saying, "Landing or floundering page."

Ask Matt presents New Blog Tutorial Videos posted at BlogTactics.com, saying, "New blog tutorial videos."

Ask Matt presents 217 New Links in 20 Minutes posted at iamUncovered.com, saying, "217 new links in 20 minutes."

Ask Matt presents More Stumbleupon Ads Results posted at IM & Affiliate Marketing Product Testing, saying, "More stumbleupon ads results."

Fiona Lohrenz presents Why starting a day care makes perfect sense posted at Child Care Only, saying, "Starting a day care makes sense."

Steven Lohrenz presents Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Doing Badly posted at Steven Lohrenz, saying, "Only losers are good at everything they do. Those people miss all the good opportunities."

Brian Terry presents Your Website Traffic: 7 Crucial Reasons Why You Should Be 'Squidooing' posted at Big Selling Website Design.

Woody Maxim presents The Fear of Loss posted at Woody Maxim.

Raymond presents List Of Credit Card Foreign Currency Transaction Fees posted at Money Blue Book.

Internet

Brian Terry presents Why You Need Long Tail Keywords posted at Big Selling Website Design.

Tim Gary presents Are Your Google Search Results Tainted? posted at Internet Success Bites.

Sagar presents Learn Programming Online, For Free: 75+ Open Courseware Collections from the Ivy League and Beyond posted at WHDb.

Sabrina Jefferson presents Internet Marketing Newbie Action Plan posted at Sabrina Jefferson.

Ask Matt presents Google Pagerank 0 Penalty Solution posted at BlogTactics.com.

Matthew Paulson presents Adding Staff Members to Your Small Business posted at American Entrepreneurship.

Kenton Newby presents Overcoming Common Excuses for Not Building Your Online Business posted at KentonNewby.com.

Cindy King presents Foreign Lingo posted at Cindy King.

Online Security

Matthew Paulson presents Expert Q & A: Protecting Your Business Against Cyber Crime posted at American Entrepreneurship.



That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of electronic commerce using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Malaysian blogger Jeff Ooi elected to Parliament

Famous Malaysian political blogger Jeff Ooi was elected to the Parliament durnig the 12th Election, becoming the first blogger in Malaysia to be voted into the parliament.

With his present in the nation highest policy making and decision making arena, the likely issues to be paid attention by him will be technological- and telecommunication-related issues such as spamming SMS, Internet and Boardband access and blogging issues.


Note: This is not a political post. It is just a technological- and blogging-related news.

Electronic Commerce - Blog Carnival (4th March 2008)

Welcome to the March 4, 2008 edition of electronic commerce. (Vol 2, No. 5, 2008)

Andrew Erickson presents Merchant Processing 102 posted at WebSite Werx.

Andrew Erickson presents Merchant Processing 101 posted at WebSite Werx.

Stephen Dean presents A Simple Solution To Increase Sales posted at Stephen Dean's Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog - Copywriter.

Frank Barone presents 24 Hour Online Special? & It?s 100% Guaranteed! posted at dondmorrison.com.

Michel Fortin presents Give Your Joint-Venture Offer An Extra Punch posted at The Michel Fortin Blog.

James D. Brausch presents Sign It posted at Internet Business Blog.

Mark Riffey presents Why, even now, your business should have a toll-free number posted at Business is Personal.

Jimmy Sansi presents Grow Your List Of Publishers posted at The Kaizen Business.

Ed Rivis presents More sales from self-service link building. posted at Ed Rivis.

Sabrina Jefferson presents Decision Making posted at Sabrina Jefferson.

Pat B. Doyle presents How To Make Money with Affiliate Programs posted at Pat B. Doyle.

Brad Trnavsky presents A new kind of social networking site. - Sales Management 2.0 posted at Sales Management 2.0 - Featured Blog Posts.

Don D. Morrison presents Why Won’t They Buy? posted at dondmorrison.com.

James D. Brausch presents It?s You Too posted at Internet Business Blog.

Kevin Fleming presents How to Increase Your E-Commerce Sales with Pay Per Click Advertising posted at FOS Commerce Blog.

Hill Robertson presents Work Smart So You Can Smell the Roses posted at Hill Robertson, saying, "It can be easy to get so caught up with being busy that we overlook the important things that are often right in front of our nose."

Carol Bentley presents Yesterday?s blog-post was completely off-track posted at Carol Bentley.

WebSiteWerx presents Recommended: Targeted Blog Traffic Course posted at WebSite Werx.

Joshua C. Karlin presents Powerful Yet Reasonable Goals posted at Marketing & Fundraising Ideas.

Mark Riffey presents Marketing opportunities: As perishable as lettuce. posted at Business is Personal.

Don D. Morrison presents A Superior Method Creating Online Marketing Magic? 100% True! posted at dondmorrison.com.

Sabrina Jefferson presents Internet Marketing Newbie Action Plan posted at Sabrina Jefferson.

Brian Terry presents 17 essential “big selling” website strategies (Big Selling Website Design) posted at Big Selling Website Design.

John Crenshaw presents Paying Off Your Mortgage - Will It Save You Money? posted at Truthful Lending dot Com, saying, "There's been quite a bit of debate lately over whether or not you should pay off your mortgage or invest any extra money. This article explores the different mortgage payoff methods and will help you decide which, if any, are right for you."

PublicFlirt presents Improve your success in dating and relationships. posted at FeedBulletin for: financialbullet, saying, "How to use compliments with women to improve your success in dating and relationships."

Life. Money. Development. presents Diet Tips for Preventing High Cholesterol Levels posted at Life. Money. Development., saying, "A neat collection of diet tips for keeping cholesterol in recommended levels."

Blogging

Tiffany Colter presents Writing Career Coach: A Pleasant surprise and How I got here Part 2 posted at Writing Career Coach, saying, "This blog discusses a pleasant surprise on how to have success beginning from the first day of this New Year!"

Woody Maxim presents My review of Blog Farm Generator posted at Woody Maxim.

Aaron Brandon presents What To Blog About posted at Aaron Brandon.

Tiffany Colter presents Writing Career Coach: How I got here: Part 3 posted at Writing Career Coach, saying, "This blog discusses expecting success and how to know when you get there!"

Sarah Paine presents The Power Is In The Ping posted at Sarah Paine.

Sarah Paine presents StumbleUpon Site Traffic posted at Sarah Paine, saying, "Generate an amazing amount of traffic to your site using the StumbleUpon phenomenon."

Jimmy Sansi presents Guaranteed Traffic Today Using These 7 Simple Methods posted at The Kaizen Business.

Don D. Morrison presents Discover 18 Common ?Link Baiting? Methods (Or Getting More Online Back Links)? The Prime Directive! posted at dondmorrison.com.

E-commerce

Woody Maxim presents The Answer posted at Woody Maxim.

Anomynous presents Sexy and Sleek Top 50 Tech Gadgets! posted at CustomizedGirl Blog, saying, "This is a list of the top 50 Tech gadgets out there. Its got some interesting ones that relate to e-commerce."

American Entrepreneur presents How to Outsource: Advice for Small Business Owners posted at American Entrepreneurship.

Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents Stop Thinking. Begin Testing! posted at Rebecca Dean.

Michel Fortin presents New Copywriting Software Takes Flight posted at The Michel Fortin Blog.

Steve Oliphant presents Stop Gambling with Your Future and Start Making Money posted at Steve Oliphant's Musings.

Mike Remer presents Marketing opportunities: As perishable as lettuce. posted at Business is Personal.

Brian Terry presents Why you MUST become fanatical at testing and tracking posted at Big Selling Website Design.

Kenton Newby presents Focusing on Leverage posted at KentonNewby.com.

Carol Bentley presents How appealing are you posted at Carol Bentley.

Aaron Brandon presents Product Creation Worry posted at Aaron Brandon.

Thomas D. Brownsword presents Current Projects, Part 1 posted at Business Action Steps.

Mark Riffey presents How to measure advertising response in any media posted at Business is Personal.

Carol Bentley presents Normal service is (almost) resumed. . . posted at Carol Bentley.

Internet

Jack S. Keifer presents Writing Killer Headlines posted at Jack S. Keifer.

Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents Remember Your Emotions for Increased Sales Letter Pull posted at Rebecca Dean.

Woody Maxim presents The quickest way to more money is through testing posted at Woody Maxim.

Don D. Morrison presents It Isn?t Human Relations Anymore? Its Out Sourcing! posted at dondmorrison.com.

Sabrina Jefferson presents How To Create Your Own DVD posted at Sabrina Jefferson.

Don D. Morrison presents 10 Superior Methods To Incorporate An Online Marketing Auto-responder! posted at dondmorrison.com.

Brian Terry presents How to tap into 60+ million highly responsive, targeted visitors posted at Big Selling Affiliates Blog.

Jimmy Sansi presents Tools Worth Using posted at The Kaizen Business.

Thomas D. Brownsword presents Work: A Mixed Blessing posted at Business Action Steps.

Don D. Morrison presents 10 More Methods To Begin Generating Online Marketing Visitors & Prospects? For Real Blogs! posted at dondmorrison.com.

Online Security

Ed Rivis presents Planning for Catastrophic Failure. posted at Ed Rivis.



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Technorati tags: electronic commerce, blog carnival.