Malaysia’s ‘stupidity’ sizzles Internet (FMT) by Casey Lee

Malaysia’s ‘stupidity’ sizzles Internet

Malaysia’s ‘stupidity’ sizzles Internet (FMT) by Casey Lee

By Casey Lee June 17, 2011 | Free Malaysia Today KOTA KINABALU: Malaysia, it seems, is fast becoming the purveyor of laughs on the worldwide web. On the heels of the Obedient Wives Club which aimed to turn ‘good wives into first class whores’, there’s now the Malaysian government spending RM1.8 million (US$590,000) on six Facebook, which incidentally is free, applications. The Internet application (app) developer world is abuzz with humour and bewildement at the ‘stupidity’ of the move. The common view across the web is that the move to spend just over half a million US dollars is “seriously stupid” and an “utter waste of tax-payers’ money. Speaking in Penn Olson – The Asian Tech Catalogue site – Willis Wee said in an article headlined “Spending US$100,000 For a Facebook App is Just Plain Stupid” and many other experts in the business think so too. Wee said he forwarded th...

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