Yahoo!歡慶本地傳媒之夜

Yahoo! Celebrates its Social Media Community in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, August 30, 2007 – Yahoo! Malaysia (yahoo.com.my) celebrated its local social media community at Maison on Tuesday evening with several hundred of the most active users of Flickr, an online photo-sharing community, coming together.

The event highlighted a global “24 Hours of Flickr” project that attracted more than 20,000 Flickr members from around the world, including Malaysia, to submit one photo taken on May 5, 2007. Submissions from Malaysia’s Flickr users can be viewed at http://www.flickr.com/groups/24flickr/map/.

“Flickr is firmly established as the eyes of Malaysia,” said Tom Sipple, managing director, Yahoo! Southeast Asia. “Merdeka Day week is a great time for the local Flickr community to come together, in the spirit of unity and passion.”

Flickr is just one of Yahoo!’s many social media community platform. Others include:

§ Yahoo! Answers (http://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/)
o Yahoo! Answers is an online community where people can ask each other questions on any topic, and get answers by sharing knowledge in the form of facts, opinions, and personal experiences.

§ Yahoo! Movies (http://malaysia.movies.yahoo.com/)
o Yahoo! Movies enables users to search and find more information about movies, actors, new releases, showtimes and entertainment news. Users can also provide and read movie ratings and reviews of their favourite films, participate in polls and even ask contextual questions related to movies to the larger online community for an enhanced internet experience.

§ Upcoming (http://www.upcoming.yahoo.com/)
o Upcoming is a community for discovering and sharing events. It can help you find stuff to do, discover what your friends are doing, or let you keep private events online for your own reference.

§ Del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/)
o The web’s leading social bookmarking destination that enables people to keep, share and discover the best of the web.


For more information on the project as well as images from Tuesday evening’s celebration, visit Yahoo.com and search for “24 Hours of Flickr.”