Malaysia Most Wanted Food is Alive & Kicking

It had been a quite a while since I last updated this blog, but you can’t really rush good things.


Malaysia Most Wanted Food is finally alive and kicking, capable of finding all the tasty and yummy food around Malaysia. Not sure where to eat next? Give it a spin and it might just solve your stomach worries. All the food venues are recommended by a group of Malaysia’s most influential food bloggers, including Eating Asia, ^julie the biscuit^, KampungboyCitygal, sweets for my sweet tooth, Cely's Perfect Day and Yummy Corner. There are still a lot to be done, with a lot of good food to be found. At the meantime, feel to drop comments (or you personal review) or anything else worth 2 cents or more (or less).

Show me something Yummy!

PS: If you are a food blogger and would like your food blogs to be archived, drop me a comment here and I shall follow up.

MAPEX 2006 Property Listing

It is estimated last weekend’s MAPEX (National) at MVEC had over 200 properties offering, and we had managed to list half of it at MMW Property so far (will try to list the rest ASAP).

The properties showcase at last MAPEX (Selangor) on 7-9 July had been fully archived as well.

Properties fair isn’t like IT or Gift fair, where there is absolutely no goodies to be given away (except a paper bag from Ken Holdings Bhd) and not hot babes in skimpy dress (though they have pretty salesgirl). Generally it’s a serious business with not much of fun, with mostly property developers, one real estate agent, a property portal, a research house, and handful of bank and finance company and some government agencies to create some awareness campaign.

MAPEX 2006 (National Level)

Well it is time for the Malaysia Most Wanted team to strike the property fair to do some promotional and awareness campaign, and also to finished up all the free postcards we had printed and get tons of property information to share with you guys.

This is the 3rd property fair the team visited this year, looks like the local property scene is booming and in good shape. There are 276,508 property transactions in 2005, with 57,290 units of new launches (over 50% is sold) and 95,714 units completed (worth over RM 2.6 billions (Source: Property Market Report 2005).

MAPEX (National Level)
Date: 15-17th September (Fri-Sun)
Time: 11am to 9pm (I thought I saw 10am at the banner, but 11am should be a safer bet)
Venue: Mid-Valley Exhibition Centre (MVEC)
Entrance is free, as usual.

There seems to be Mega Malaysia Property Showcase the following week at PWTC, but it should be in smaller scale (if it’s almost as the same as the one held in last June).

July Update

July Update:

• Nearly 200 New Property Projects had been archived from Jan-July 2006
• A total of 619 Pictures of Building, Map, Floor Plan, Area View and etc had been added

We’ll try to make MMW Property a weekly update from now onwards :)

Google help you search property better

One of the biggest problems in looking for your ideal property is the searching part, find exactly what you need. Besides constantly tweak our search algorithm to provide you with the best search results, we bring in the master of all searches as well, Google Site Search. A Google Site Search bar is provided at the bottom of all Information Page as an alternative for easy searching.

WWWMMW

As usual, we added a few more new property projects entry for the month of JUNE. We had setup MMW Advertising Program, providing free and paid advertising for property developers. You can email us any new property project information which we have not archived yet, and we will post it up for you for free.

Last but not least, we are working very hard to generate some statistical data about Malaysia Property Market (we are getting the help of PhDs for this purpose). Finally, the questions of "What is the value of my property?" could be answered in a statistical manner, providing a lot of interesting and useful analysis data to aid your buying decision.

MMW Property May Update 2

MMW: What is cooking today?

• Enhance Searching: location field will include searching of location and project name as well
• ATOM 1.0 Web Syndication Feed Supported (Tested with Firefox Live Bookmark and FeedReader)
• Added more project detail such as Launch Date, Land Area, Bumi Discount
• The date shall constantly reflex when is the last time the project is still active
• New Property Projects Archived had increased to 140++ (with more images as well)
• Fixing Errors (Do leave a comment if you found any errors, or anything which annoys you, or anything you would have hope for)

Malaysia Most Wanted (MMW) Property May Update

Malaysia Most Wanted (MMW) Property is updated on today with the following changes and enhancement:

• Enhanced search experience to retrieve more relevant results accurately
• The number of new property projects archived had doubled to 100++
• Inclusion of Project Area feature to group similar projects together (e.g. Project Area Puteri Subang will have Project such as Casuarina, Araluen and Begonia under its umbrella)
• Include relevant links to some of the most prominent property reviews and information portal such as Property Malaysia Blog, Malaysia Real Estate Forum, China Press: 新樓新屋, New Strait Times: Property Times, The Star Online: Property Talk and etc
• Bug Fixing and Performance Enhancement

Malaysia Most Wanted (MMW) Property goes BETA!

After months of hard work, the BETA version of Malaysia Most Wanted (MMW) Property is finally alive and kicking!


What is Malaysia Most Wanted (MMW) Property?
"Malaysia Most Wanted Property will provide the most comprehensive information to help property buyers find their ideal properties"

Malaysia Most Wanted (MMW) Property is to help property buyers to find and decide on their ideal property (for home or investment) . MMW Property is a property information/classifieds service that provides a simple yet powerful searching to help you find the property; and a property research house to offer useful information and data analysis to help you decide on its worth and value. Buyers could expect useful information such as price comparison, market value, reputation index, location analysis, community reviews and etc to reinforce your buying decision. We provide where market alternatives fail to deliver, and we are focused to reduce your pain and solve your headaches in finding what you need.

What is the BETA version offering?
The current BETA version offers a simple yet powerful searching for new property development projects. You could search by property type, price, location, project name, developer name and etc.

At the current moment, we offer limited but nevertheless useful information to help you understand the developer’s offering better. Besides the basic information (Price, Floor Space, Product Type, etc), we offers:

• Project features such as Facility, Interior, Landscape, Accessibility and Landmark
• Images of Map, Area View, Building, Interior, Floor Plan and Others
• Links of Property Review, Archive, News, Forum, Resources and etc
• Developer’s Information

What could we expect within the next month?
We would continue to enhance on the new property development projects’ database in terms of quality and quantity, and focus on providing new features such as location analysis, public/community review and developers’ profile/portfolio/reputation index.

What would MMW Property be in the long term?
We shall provide online property information and classifieds service, and become a resourceful property data banks and research house. Our main objective is to help property buyers to find their ideal property. Besides that, we offer data analysis to aid property valuation (such as price comparison & history, rental yield, growth rate, location growth and value comparison, etc) and value added information to ease purchase decision (independent review, amenities, map, etc). We would offer property market research & analysis, while focus on simple and effective searching.

How is MMW Property different from other market alternatives?
Besides our unique and strategic offerings mentioned earlier, we are buyer centric. Everything we do, we do it to help property buyers find and decide on their ideal property.

Logo is Sweet too

Gathering opinion for logo design is not easy, as every had very different opinions. Thus, I have to be selective and bias towards my preferences, logicality and my tiny bits of design knowledge.

Khim says:
You managed to emphasis the product name but try not emphasis brand name as well, you will make people confuse what "message" you trying to bring out

I agree with her, you can only emphasize on one thing in logo design. Gotto make "Malaysia Most Wanted" simpler.

Mich preferred a one line horizontal design, rather than top and bottom layer. This design is quite technically challenging, as “Malaysia Most Wanted Property” is a pretty long phrase.

MasterMind prefers less variation is size and colour, but I like the catchiness of “Property”.

Mei Ru said “Malaysia Most Wanted” font look a bit “playful”. I kinda agree with her, as I want “Property” to be lively and colourful but “Malaysia Most Wanted” to be more "classic" with personality.

Tang wants to focus on brand name rather than product time. This could be true, but perhaps not for my case. At this moment, “Malaysia Most Wanted” brand had no value, and it doesn’t reflect the functionality of the site (nor I have the budget to market the brand name). “Property” on the other hand is our current main service and should be emphasised. At least to let people know what am I offering them.

I had made some changes to the design. “Malaysia Most Wanted” and “Property” shall be of the same width, to have a more box solid feel. The design of “Property” shall remain unchanged.


This is quite a normal and safe font, yet round and kinda cute. I shall use Black Colour as it is classic. I shall not used shades or multiple colour, as “Malaysia Most Wanted” shall be simple and “Property” should be catchy. Pillow Emboss effect is used to create an “On the Ground” effect.


This is a simple design with attitude, no shades and no effect. It seems slim and wild.


This is dark brown with Emboss effect to make it stand out. It is solid with character.


This is another plain vanilla black with no effect, and the font by itself is strong enough. It kinda gives the feelings of creativity and strength.

These designs seem to be a combination of simplicity and liveliness. Which one do you like?

Logo is Sweet

This is initial Logo for MMW Property. Malaysia Most Wanted (MMW) is the brand name, while Property is the product name. This design is simple and clear, but perhaps a bit too dull.


After 3 months into development, I believe it is time to design to a catchier logo. Thus came the classic Malaysia Most Wanted theme coupled with the colourful Property (inspired by Google style), and Mei Ru helps me to pick up the fonts. Kenny mentioned that MMW’s font seems a bit Matrix look alike, and I kinda agreed. He claims the entire design is too messy, which might be true. Wynn also commented the classic black and white MMW does not match the colourful Property. The reason for this is to create a sense of visual separation of the brand name from the product name. Making them same themed or almost same colour seems kinda messy, any good suggestion?


After some discussion with Kenny, I decide to shrink MMW and use a less complex font. I reduce the colour of Property to 3 colours only (the previous design had 3 colours too, but with a slight variation).

I am still not quite satisfied with this. Any more idea?

Malaysia Most Wanted (MMW) Property

"Malaysia Most Wanted Property will be an online property classifieds and research house to provide the most comprehensive information for property buyers find their ideal properties"

Property shall be the pioneer product of Malaysia Most Wanted (MMW), and will be launched initially as BETA and new features shall be rolled out by stages.

Malaysia Most Wanted (MMW) Property is to help property buyers to find and decide on their ideal property (for home or investment) . MMW Property is a property information/classifieds service that provides a simple yet powerful searching to help you find the property; and a property research house to offer useful information and data analysis to help you decide on its worth and value. Buyers could expect useful information such as price comparison, market value, reputation index, location analysis, community reviews and etc to reinforce your buying decision. We provide where market alternatives fail to deliver, and we are focused to reduce your pain and solve your headaches in finding what you need.

The initial focus of MMW Property shall be on archival of new property launches, and this information shall be easily searchable using our intuitive search interface. We are like the Google of Property in Malaysia. We help you find your dream property, and will try our best to provide as much useful information as possible about your dream property (the featured information shall be rolled out in stages).

MMW Property shall include all property classifieds (rental and sale) of old and new properties in the near future.

Malaysia Most Wanted

"Malaysia Most Wanted will be an online service to provide the Most Wanted information in Malaysia, in a useful and easy to use manner"

Malaysia Most Wanted (www.malaysiamostwanted.com) is Malaysia brand name for all about the most wanted things in Malaysia, from Property to Food to Travel. It is a collection of information and resources (blog, web site, forum, etc) of local contents which are archived with contributions from the community, and preferably following some Web 2.0 mantra in concept and design.

Malaysia Most Wanted will archive public internet resources, provide simple yet powerful searching, be community-focused, equipped with simplicity and usability in design. We strive for continuous innovation and pain solving. If we manage to solve your pain by providing what your desired, then we should be on the right track.

The 1st product launch for Malaysia Most Wanted shall be on Property. The BETA version shall be around the corner soon.