Right now, I would say that Fusion is my favorite beer in Mongolia, hands down.  The reason has nothing to do with taste, although it isn't bad.  There are at least dozen other beers in Mongolia that taste just as well or better.  What Fusion does is something that should be implemented on ALL beers.

Fusion beer is extremely easy to open.  In fact, all you need is two beers.

Earlier today, I received an email SPAM asking for my CV.  Well, this was a first.

Typically, email spams ask for credit card or bank information of some sorts.  The email pretended to be from Holiday Inn and had even included the photos of the Holiday Inn Executives.

In short, if you receive an email and you are not sure what do & whether the email/message is SPAM, you can follow the below steps:

1. Do NOT click on any links within the email or Yahoo Messenger message window
2. Review the URL/address of the link. If it is not something you can recognize, delete the email. If the link is something like This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and not This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , again delete the email.
3. If the email is not something that is critically important that you respond, delete the email. If you feel the email is possibly important and still are not sure if it is a SPAM, review some of the guides below.

Here are some of the top ways to spot email SPAM.

• Spam Email: How to Identify and Deal With <-- email SPAM basics
• Hidden URLs <-- watch out for hidden URL's; links look authentic but are not!
• Tracking the Source of Email SPAM <-- technical explanation for how to read email headers

Hope this was helpful.  Wish you a safe & secure email inbox!!

The above is a street sign promoting awareness about "human trafficking in Mongolia".  At the top are the three organizations supporting this street advertising sign: Asia Foundation, Equal Rights NGO, and Mongolian Police Agency.

While I most definitely understand the sensitivity of the human trafficking issue, I still would like to take the approach of a marketing professional and give praise where it's due.  Based on my assumptions, probably this was an excellent advertising spend by the three organizations supporting this signage.

For my marketing thoughts on the street sign, please read on.

This morning, we received an email from Google.  It stated that Google would like to offer a direct link to our blog post from a Google Help page as part of Google's user generated content experiment.

Hi there:

My name is (removed for publishing purposes) and I’m reaching out from Google, Inc.  I noticed your previous blog post ( http://webguru-co.com/blog/51-set-up-google-adwords-my-client-center-mcc) and based on the helpful content and high quality, I am planning to include a link directly to http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=22064 in the AdWords Help Center.

This is part of a user generated content experiment—we love helpful, user-generated content here at Google—and the plan is to offer a direct link to a handful of useful content articles, including your your article, for a few weeks in our Help Centers.  You may see an increase in traffic, though it is difficult for me to predict how much of an increase.

At the end of the experiment, I would appreciate your feedback via a survey.  I’m interested in how much your traffic increased as well as your thoughts on the experiment as a content author.  Pending the results, this practice may continue as a regular part of our Help Centers.

Let me know what you think,

NOTE: This article was prepared on March 19, 2010, but not published until April 13, 2010.  As of today, we have not been notified by Google of posting of our article.  Our article also does not show anywhere on the Google Help pages, as far as I can see.

Update 2010/3/19: Some kind readers have informed me that the text is not Chinese but Korean.  But still, we are neither Chinese nor Korean!  hahaha.

This morning, I received an email from one of our clients regarding their improved website traffic and plans to work with us to further increase the website presence.  Of course, I was very happy to receive the email.  However, one thing I did not expect was to see Chinese text when I visited google.com/analytics to view my client's website traffic statistics:

The really interesting thing is that a) I am logged into Google, b) I am not in China (Mongolia is an independent country with its own language; no, 95% of us do not speak Chinese or anything close to it; Mongolian language is in the same family tree as Turkey and sounds more Turkish than anything else; read here: Mongolian language on Wikipedia), and c) my Google language settings are US English.

I thought maybe this thing would go away after logging in, but no...

Earlier today, I got an email from Google Apps Development team stating that Google Apps will not support Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) starting in March 2010.

I think this is a good move.  After all, how long do we have to suffer the wrath of Microsoft's decision not to honor web standards way back in 2001 when the IE6 was launched?  Most of us are quite aware of the security vulnerabilities & compatability issues posed by Internet Explorer 6: IE6 issues.

The downside to the move is that still way too many people use IE6 even today.  As such, we, web designers and web developers alike, have to pay very close attention to IE6 issues and have to modify coding to get our websites to work better with IE6.  Thus, Google's move may hurt them a bit with users accessing Google Apps with IE6 today.

Personally, I am just happy that the big boys are starting to make bigger stands to gradually move us away from IE6 and its security vulverabilities & compatibility issues.  After all, it is a possibility that IE6 security vulnerabilities were behind Chinese hackers to sneak into Gmail servers (Google vs China).

Originally, I did not intend to write a blog post with as strong of a statement, but I think it is well deserved.  Denver Post simply sucks at listening to its readers.  Anyone who looks at comments on some of its poorly written online content can see and understand that the content of the newspaper is very poor.

I am not here to bash the newspaper, I just want to highlight that Denver Post needs to listen to its readers and start providing more useful and relevant content.

Here are some examples of very poorly written content.  Apparently, even after the bashing received by writing poor articles in Summer/Fall of 2009, Denver Post has yet to learn.  The JR Smith article was posted on January 28, 2010.  Maybe we should all write to the editor.