Author: Aulia Masna

Setengah dari Seluruh Pengguna Internet di Indonesia Online dari Perangkat Bergerak, Dua Pertiganya dari Warnet

Pada hari selasa, The Jakarta Post merilis beberapa angka dari Southeast Asian Digital Consumer Report yang akan diriilis oleh Nielsen. Laporan ini menunjukkan bahwa Indonesia menempati urutan terakhir untuk penetrasi internet di wilayah Asia Tenggara, namun hampir setengah dari pengguna internet di negara kita online dari ponsel.

Laporan ini menemukan bahwa hanya 21 persen penduduk Indonesia berusia antara 15 dan 49 tahun yang mengakses internet sedangkan di Singapura 67 persen, 38 persen di Malaysia, 33 persen di Filipina, dan 31 persen di Thailand. Rata-rata perentase regional adalah 38 persen. Laporan ini tidak menyediakan angka untuk anggota ASEAN lainnya.

Nielsen menemukan bahwa 48 persen pengguna internet Indonesia mengakses internet dari ponsel dengan 13 persen lagi menggunakan perangkat genggam lainnya. Dalam hal persentase, ini melampaui semua negara-negara lain di wilayah Asia Tenggara di mana hanya 36 persen pengguna internet di Thailand dan 35 persen di Singapura lebih memilih untuk menggunakan ponsel dalam mengakses internet.

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Half of online Indonesians on mobile, two thirds still use Internet cafes

The Jakarta Post released some numbers on Tuesday from Nielsen’s upcoming Southeast Asia Digital Consumer Report which shows, among other discoveries, that Indonesia places last in the region for country-wide internet penetration but nearly half of the country’s Internet users go online from mobile phones.

The report found that only 21 percent of Indonesians aged between 15 and 49 access the internet whereas in Singapore it’s 67 percent, 38 percent in Malaysia, 33 percent in the Philippines, and 31 percent in Thailand. The regional average is 38 percent. The report does not provide numbers for ASEAN’s other members.

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Facebook releases Facebook for Every Phone app

Mobile devices shape the direction of the internet and a company like Facebook certainly recognizes this shift in device usage from desktop to mobile, which is why the company has launched Facebook for Every Phone app to offer the full mobile Facebook experience for basic phones.

As noted by Opera’s monthly State of the Web report, Facebook is among the top five most accessed websites using Opera mini across 14 of its top 20 countries, with the remaining being former Soviet Union countries, China and Vietnam.

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Kabar Terbaru dari SITTI

Terakhir kali kami menulis tentang SITTI adalah bulan November tahun lalu dan itupun tentang perpindahan kantor mereka ke Senopati, Jakarta. Karena sampai saat ini belum ada informasi dan berita baru tentang perusaahaan ini, kami memutuskan untuk bertanya langsung pada mereka.

SITTI adalah sebuah perusahaan yang menawarkan iklan berbasis teks untuk website menggunakan bahasa Indonesia, dengan kata lain versi lokal dari AdSense. Tahun lalu mereka melempar tantangan ke Google dan menunjukkan hal-hal yang mengatakan bahwa produk SITTI lebih unggul daripada Google. Apakah tantangan ini benar terbukti saya tidak bisa mengatakan dengan pasti namun jika melihat angka-angka yang pernah disebutkan, klaim mereka cukup beralasan, setidaknya dulu, karena belum ada informasi terbaru dari mereka.

Pagi ini kami mengirimkan beberapa pertanyaan pada para eksekutif di SITTI, seputar dunia digital dan startup di Indonesia serta pertanyaan lebih lanjut tentang kemajuan perusahaan dan arah, tetapi sayangnya kami belum mendapatkan jawaban atas pertanyaan-pertanyaan tersebut, meski kami mendapat balasan email yang mengatakan bahwa mereka akan menjawab pertanyaan kami esok hari.

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What is SITTI up to these days?

The last time we wrote about SITTI was way back in November last year and it was about the company’s new office at Senopati. There hasn’t really been anything much in the way of news about the company or how it’s been doing since then so we thought, you know what, why don’t we ask them about it?

SITTI is a company that offers text-based advertising for websites using Indonesian language, the local version of AdSense, if you will. Last year they threw a challenge to Google and showed ways in which SITTI’s product is superior to Google’s. Whether it actually is better I can’t say for sure but the numbers seemed compelling, at least back then, because there hasn’t been any update since.

Earlier today we fired off several questions to the executives at SITTI ranging from their opinions about the state of digital Indonesia and local startups to more probing questions about the company’s progress and direction but unfortunately we haven’t got the answers although we did get an email back saying that they should be able to address our questions tomorrow.

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DS-Tour: Better-B

Baru-baru ini DailySocial melakukan kunjungan ke kantor PT Diantara Kode Digital atau yang lebih dikenal sebagai Better-B, untuk berbicara tentang pengembangan mobile dengan salah satu co-founder mereka, Almaujudy. Better-B adalah sebuah perusahaan pengembangan aplikasi mobile yang dikenal dengan berbagai aplikasi BlackBerry yang dikembangkannya, Better-B juga meupakan salah satu anggota BlackBerry Aliance paling awal di Indonesia.

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DS-Tour: Better-B

Recently DailySocial made a visit to the offices of PT Diantara Kode Digital, better known as Better-B, to talk about mobile development with Almaujudy, one of the co-founders of the company. Better-B is a mobile application development company renowned for creating BlackBerry apps and is one of the country’s earliest BlackBerry Alliance members.

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Happify has a little project it wants you to participate in

If you’ve been wondering just what the heck is Happify all about, or have never heard about this stealth startup until today and are now curious enough to find out, may it’s time you check out this newly created site on Google Spreadsheets asking people to register their happy tweets.

Essentially Happify is a startup that aims to discover and measure people’s happiness. What for? To be honest, I’m not sure what it is myself and when I asked Farry Aprianto, the founder, he wasn’t willing to share much more than that either since the entire project had been on stealth mode. Until now. Sort of. To the best of my knowledge there’s no website for this little project yet so if you look up happify on Google, you’ll end up on places that most likely has little or nothing to do with this project. You can check out happify on its site (thanks @natalixia).

On the first Happify Project, it asks you to tweet about something that makes your friend happy with the #happify hashtag and then place the link into the form at the spreadsheet. All the #happify tweets will be collected and some will be featured on the upcoming Happify intro video. If you’re interested you have until 6 pm on July 8 (that’s two hours from now).

Happify is also giving away 100 stickers to those who attend the pitch at PPKI on Saturday for Project Eden. If you’re interested, it’s at Cendrawasih 2 Room at JCC.

Koprol Perkenalkan Tampilan Baru, Rencana untuk Monetisasi Lewat ‘Stamps’

Kemarin pagi Koprol melangsungkan konferensi pers untuk memperingati satu tahun Koprol berada di bawah naungan Yahoo dan mengumumkan beberapa informasi yang berkaitan dengan fitur tambahan dan yang baru dari situs mobile maupun desktop. Meski tidak sedramatis acara Facebook yang diadakan malam sebelumnya di Palo Alto, California, acara Koprol menekankan arah perkembangan yang berhubungan dengan pertumbuhan dan keterlibatan pengguna.

Country Manager Yahoo Indonesia, Pontus Sonnerstedt mengatakan  dalam sebuah pernyataan, “Koprol… memberikan pengalaman digital yang bersentuhan dengan apa yangmenarik dan diminati oleh masyarakat. Karena internet telah menjadi bagian dari hidup kita, kami telah memprioritaskan untuk meningkatkan layanan-layanan Koprol untuk mempermudah para penggunauntuk mensosialisasikan platform kami.”

Koprol introduces revamped sites, plans to monetize further through stamps

Koprol’s belated anniversary press conference today hashed out several announcements regarding new features and enhancements to both the mobile site and the desktop site. While not as dramatic as Facebook’s event held last night in Palo Alto, Koprol’s event emphasizes the direction it’s taking in terms of growth and user engagement.

Yahoo! Indonesia country manager Pontus Sonnerstedt said on a statement, “Koprol… delivers digital experiences that engages people’s passions and interests. With the internet being an integral part of our lives, we have made it a priority to enhance the service offerings on Koprol to make it easier for users to socialize on our platform.”

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