Author: Andi Miftachul

[Event] Festival TIK Untuk Rakyat

Relawan TIK Indonesia, sebuah organisasi nirlaba untuk berbagi ilmu IT kepada masyarakat, menyelenggarakan Festival TIK untuk Rakyat. Festival ini akan terdiri dari beragam acara seminar, workshop dan pameran TIK dari pemerintah, industri, perguruan tinggi dan komunitas. Acaranya akan diadakan di Kampus Politeknik Telkom di Jln. Terusan Buah Batu, Bandung pada tanggal 28-29 April 2012.

Dalam menyelenggarakan acara ini, Relawan TIK bekerja sama dengan Kementrian Komunikasi dan Informatika, Politeknik Telkom dan Diskominfo Provinsi Jawa Barat. Selama acara Festival TIK tersebut, akan digelar 4 seminar dan 23 workshop yang sifatnya terbuka untuk umum dan gratis.
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Three Local Applications in Samsung’s New Galaxy Devices

New Galaxy family, whether smartphone or tablet, will be complemented with local application.

Cited from Kompas Tekno, Pambudi Baskara Sudirman, Apps Manager of Samsung Indonesia, said that currently, the process of the three applications to enter the Galaxy family is still waiting for the certification of internal Samsung. At least, there are 3 applications that will complement the device namely eReading by Scoop, Laguku and Lubitu.

eReading by Scoop is an e-reader made by Apps Foundry. Before, Apps Foundry has made a couple of applications such as Scoop for iPad and Indonesia Terkini for Playbook. Both Scoop and Indonesia Terkini are applications used for reading local and international magazines. Apps Foundry has worked with many publishers to fill the content on both applications.

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[EVENT] Mobile Game Monetization Tour

Beintoo and MoVend hold a tour titled “Mobile Game Monetization Tour”. Visiting three countries Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia, this tour invites mobile application developers to share many things about the monetization of the mobile gaming application.

The tour is scheduled to start at Singapore. Previously, on Game Solutions Center’s page, there was information that this event will be held on May 15, 2012 but the page is no longer existed. There is no further information about this event in Singapore. In Malaysia, the tour will be held on May 17, 2012. Beintoo and MoVend are working with Code Android Malaysia to hold this event in Malaysia.

In Indonesia, this Mobile Game Monetization Tor is organized by Code Android Indonesia. The event will be held on May 18, 2012 at Bina Nusantara International University, The Joseph Wibowo Center of Advanced Learning, Jl. Hang Lekir I no. 6, Senayan – Jakarta. The event will take place in two sessions from 12 AM to 5 PM.

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Comparing Three Online Small and Medium Enterprise Directories

Wiku once had written his opinion on a wide-open opportunity to help Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). In that opinion, he said that despite SMEs owners’ knowledge about the internet is increasing, opportunities for business development as well as helping SMEs owners to develop their businesses, remains wide open.

This may be true because until today, this kind of business model keeps on sprouting. When I googled the keyword “SME Directory”, I found many websites have SME directory, whether it’s there for a very long time or newly made. But in my opinion, there are only 3 websites that deserve to be mentioned in providing listing service to SMEs in Indonesia. Those three websites are Promo UKM, Bisnis UKM (beta) and PlazaID.

This many not meet Wiku’s hope at the time to give a service that’s different and combine two or more existing services. The three directories are still a container to be a place to promote products and services offered by SMEs. At least, that can help SMEs to meet prospective clients. Let’s compare the three based on several things below.

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[Event] Microsoft holds Developer Conference 2012

Welcoming Windows 8, Microsoft intends to introduce the new product to developers in Indonesia. Microsoft will hold Microsoft Developer Conference. In this Microsoft Developer Conference, developers in Indonesia will learn about the ins and outs of Metro application programming in Windows 8.

Microsoft Developer Conference in Indonesia will be held on May 1 and May 2, 2012 at the Mawar Room, Balai Kartini. The event on May 1 will take form as a seminar and the next day’s event will be a workshop. The keynote speaker in this event is Neil Hutson, Senior Director of Microsoft Corp.

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APMF Adds Big Break Session for Startup Pitches

Asia Pacific Media Forum (APMF) 2012 will spare one of its sessions to give a chance for 5 startups to do pitching. Named as Big Break, this session is held for the first time in the history of APMF. Association of Asia Pacific Advertising Media (AAPAM), as the committee of APMF, announced this in a press release received by DailySocial.

Asia Pacific Media Forum (APMF) is a place for executives and managers of advertising agencies, media, brand owners, media experts, research companies and academics from Asia Pacific regions and other parts of the world to discuss the dynamics of media industries in the world and the Asia Pacific region. APMF 2012 will be held in Nusa Dua Bali, on May 23-26, 2012.

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Sophos: Indonesia Ranked Fourth on Spam Sender

Once again, I must reveal an ugly truth. After writing about Indonesia having the slowest internet speed among 50 countries surveyed by Google, I must talk about another bad news about Indonesia. Indonesia is ranked fourth in the list of countries that send the most spam. During January to March 2012, from 100 spam spread around the world, 5 of them shipped from Indonesia.

Indonesia’s rank goes up compared to last year’s third quarter. At that time, Indonesia was ranked eighth with contributing percentage of 3.3%.

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Internet Speed: Slovakia is the Fastest, Indonesia is the Slowest

Thursday last week, Google released their research on internet speed in both desktop computers and mobile devices in 50 countries with the fastest internet speed. Of the fifty countries, for desktop computer category, Slovakia recorded as the fastest while Indonesia has the slowest speed.

Internet speed is measured from the average time to load a web page. The result, the average time to load a web page via desktop computer in Slovakia is 3.3 seconds, faster than South Korea (3.5 seconds), Czech (3.7 seconds), Netherlands (3.9 seconds) and Japan (4 seconds). Meanwhile, if using mobile device, South Korea is the fastest. The average time to load a web page via mobile device in South Korea is 4.8 seconds. Below it is Denmark (5.2 seconds), Hong Kong (5.9), Norway (6 seconds) and Sweden (6.1).

For Indonesia, recorded time is 20.3 seconds for desktop computer and 12.9 seconds for mobile device. Indonesia is not only rank better in the mobile category compare to desktop category, in terms of speed, the average time to load a page on a mobile device is faster than on a desktop. This is in contrast with the world’s average where the speed on mobile device is 1.5 times slower than the desktop.

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MalesBanget Network Launches Slang Directory, KamusSlang

MBDC Network, who also own content site MalesBanget.com, launches its new product called KamusSlang. As the name implies, KamusSlang (literally “Slang Dictionary”) is an online Indonesian slang language dictionary. KamusSlang was made in order to preserve Indonesian slang language and make it easy for people to access it.

KamusSlang, located at www.kamusslang.com, is a site with user generated content. Users, registered or not, can add new words or add new meaning to the words that already exist. KamusSlang’s admin only moderates the content based on the completeness of the contents, definitions and appropriate way of writing. Editing process is done only to correct typographical error or adding links to related words.

In addition to the meaning of a word search facility, KamusSlang also provides translation feature that is similar to Google Translate. This translation feature translates a sentence inputted by user into standard language, ‘alay’ language, 80s language and internet language. When I tried on this feature, it seems that only the translation from standard language to ‘alay’ language that’s working properly.

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Jago Kabo, A Collaboration of Game Developer and Indonesia Football Club

A crossbreed between music industry and game has already done by Touchten and Aquarius Musikindo. Games with football theme are also not a few. But I still think this game is different. Why? Because ChocoArts, the creator of this game is working directly with Persikabo (Persatuan Sepak Bola Indonesia Kabupaten Bogor – Association of Indonesian Football in Bogor), a football club which plays in First Division, to make a mobile football game specifically themed Persikabo.

This game is launched on Sunday, April 22, at the time of the match between Persikabo as the host against PSP Padang at Persikabo Stadium, Cibinong, Bogor. Several hours before the match, ChocoArts together with Persikabo management opened stands around the stadium to introduce this game to the Kabo Mania, the nickname for supporters of Persikabo which also the target of this game.

Jago Kabo game is simple. Players only need to make a penalty kick against the goalkeeper to play this game. This business model, which decided by both parties, is a great breakthrough made by a football club in Indonesia. Erwin Saleh, Operational Manager of Persikabo, in an article by the First Division, said that the presence of this game is one of the proofs that Persikabo is ready to develop its business aspect which is an important part of professional football era.

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