Rolling Out Changes, Tweaks, and Improvements to DailySocial

Hey everyone, if you’re a regular reader of DailySocial, you would have noticed that there’s been a lot of changes that we implemented on the site since late November last year. These changes are still ongoing as we are rolling out long overdue tweaks and improvements across the board. When we’re done, we expect the site to be easier to explore and deliver more value to our readers.

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Tokobagus Lampaui Satu Miliar Page View, Ubah Logo, dan Tekankan Jual-Beli Antar Konsumen

Situs iklan baris Tokobagus hari ini mengumumkan bahwa sejak bulan Juli tahun ini, layanannya telah melampaui satu miliar page view per bulan dengan rata-rata di atas 25 halaman per kunjungan per orang, dan lebih dari 50.000 iklan baru setiap harinya, untuk menjadi satu dari lima situs iklan baris teratas di negara-negara berkembang. Selain itu Tokobagus juga meluncurkan kampanye dan logo baru untuk memperkokoh posisinya sebagai tempat jual beli antar konsumen.

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Embracing Digital and Mobile Media is Crucial for Advertisers

Advertising powers most of the web and as the world turns towards mobile interaction and activities, so must the advertising industry. The days of placing banner ads and counting impressions or click throughs are being left behind by new interaction and business models that are far more direct in measuring consumer responses and therefore return on investment.

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WhatsApp has a Payment Problem in Indonesia

WhatsApp may hold the title of the mobile messaging king in Indonesia as far as On Device survey is concerned, but its reign at the top is highly dependent on the likelihood of Indonesian consumers paying the annual $1 fee to continue using it for another year. Nobody will doubt the triviality of the amount because it’s something that people would be willing to pay even in multiple increments since a five year subscription will only cost $5. The problem lies in the method of payment.

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TrustedCompany Aims to Alleviate Trust Issues Between Online Consumers and Companies

Signs of an early stage Internet-based economy include the rapid increase in the number of all kinds of websites and services that let people sell and buy things online regardless of their nature. The near instantaneous appearances of these services only serve to seed doubts among consumers as to their trustworthiness. Some sites develop trust faster than others but there hasn’t really been a place where you can find this out for yourself for Indonesian sites.
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Taking a Stab at Mobile Advertising the Kakao Way

During the chat with Kakao co-CEO Sirgoo Lee on Thursday at Startup Asia, he also discussed about the popularity and direction of mobile advertising, specifically about Plus Friend, the premium branded channel that the company created to attract businesses to reach mobile consumers in a more effective way. Lee also dismissed the rumors that Kakao is going to IPO anytime soon as mentioned by Business Korea earlier this month.

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Indonesia Surpassed Japan as KakaoTalk’s Largest Market Outside of Korea

During Startup Asia on Thursday we had a chance to spend some time talking to Kakao co-CEO Sirgoo Lee who shared quite a bit of insight into how KakaoTalk performs in the Indonesian market, why Kakao’s games are not popular in the country, understanding and adapting to local market needs, and having Tencent as a major investor. As it turned out, Indonesia is now Kakao’s second largest market with 13 million registered users.

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PricePanda CEO Christian Schiller on Southeast Asia as a Market

Recently we had an opportunity to interview Christian Schiller, the CEO of price comparison website PricePanda. PricePanda was set up in early 2012 by Schiller and Louis Iskandar –both from Rocket Internet– and began operations in Indonesia around a year ago. While the company’s Southeast Asian markets are Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, with Thailand coming soon, it has been operating entirely from Germany although it does plan to open a regional office soon.

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KakaoTalk Growing Rapidly in Indonesia, Planning Something Big

Kakao is apparently comfortable with KakaoTalk’s position in Indonesia. Despite lagging in popularity compared to its competitors, KakaoTalk remains within the top 15 on Google Play in Indonesia and the company is pressing on with a new program that it claims will improve its revenue and popularity.

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Merah Putih Inc. Launches Kurio, a News Reader App for Mobile Devices

News junkies, get ready to add another news reader into your collection of news readers already filling up your smartphones. The latest player in the field is Kurio, an Indonesian take on the popular app category, built by a team of developers and designers at Merah Putih Inc. under the direction of David Wayne Ika, who is also the head of news aggregator site Lintas.me.

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