If there is anything you can see as a direct result of the March 8 general elections, where the ruling coalition took a beating because it ignored the influence of online news alternatives (blogs and YouTube etc), it is this: the online news business in Malaysia is relatively unexplored and its market undertapped. Otherwise how else would you explain the emergence of new online news sites?
Other than the 10-year-old Malaysiakini, which has positioned as the alternative media quite successfully, there is little to quench the thirst of the Malaysian public looking for alternative news sources except for blogs and some forums here and there.