Jakarta Will be the Only City in Asia Which Hold BBM Apps Hackaton

Research in Motion will hold BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) Apps Hackaton in nine cities in the world starting in September. Jakarta will be the only city in Asia which chosen as the venue. Other big cities chosen are in North America and Europe. This event take “by developers for developers” as its motto. RIM has not decided yet the time and venue in Jakarta event, but I predict that it might be held in November.

The focus of BBM Apps Hackaton is around the Social API implementation on BBM 6. RIM always pushes BBM Social Platform and claims to have more than 45 million users and 100 billion messages sent every month. By now, there is only one application from Indonesia has adopted BBM Social Platform. It is Menoo that is developed by Elasitas. The implementation is dealing with the users’ ability to do share their culinary activities to their friends via BBM status.

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Social Media Festival Highlights Indonesia’s Love Affair with the Internet

More than 40 thousand attendees packed the three-day Social Media Festival held in Jakarta last week from 22-24 September. The event, held by internet media companies SalingSilang and DailySocial took over all eight floors of fX Lifestyle X’nter in Central Jakarta. It recognized and celebrated the adoption and influence of social media by individuals and various organizations in Indonesia as the country features significantly among users of social networks and online services such as Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, Mig33, and so on.

The event highlighted dozens of communities who take advantage of the internet, social media and technology to further their cause, raise awareness, and organize their activities. Musicians, filmmakers, actors, comedians, bloggers, talk show hosts, and various other professionals took part in the festivities to meet directly with members of the communities and engage offline in a way that may not be possible online.

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14 Participants Have been Selected for Founder Institute while The Registration is still Available until 9th of October 2011

Several days ago, we got information that at that time, the number of participants for Jakarta Founder Institute (JFI) are 102 applications and 14 of them has been selected. The announcement of the application numbers and the selected applications is also done by Andy Zain via Twitter several days ago.

Novistiar Rustandi informed through email that the 102 applicants consist of 7 females and the rest are men. He also added that the decision has been done through the review and has been decided by Founder Institute (FI) team from Sillicon Valley, led by Adeo Ressi.

Novistiar also explained that there is good news in which Adeo Ressi stated that there are many participants or applicants have good quality. Novistiar also added that FI hopes that the good quality entrepreneurs collaborated with top quality mentors also strong curriculum can create good technology startups. Founder Institute is still waiting for other participants who want to register until 9th of October 2011.

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Nokia DevStart Competition Winners: Manaya and Sajian Sedap NFC

Last Thursday, suWec held a meetup to celebrate its anniversary, the event also become the place to announce the winners of Nokia DevStart Competition Grand Final. This is also the celebration party of SuWec 2nd anniversary.

There are many communities attended the event, which held at Hotel JW Marriott Surabaya, “potong tumpeng” (local tradition of taking the top part of rice formed like cone and give the first cut to someone else) is also given symbolically for the community representatives, which I see as a form of relation from different communities that exist in the city of Surabaya into suWec.

After suWec meetup, there was the Grand Final of Nokia DevStart Competition. As reported by DailySocial some days ago, there were 10 finalists on the grand final. They competed to be the Best Local App and Best NFC App.

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Founder Institute Early Bird Registration is Still Free of Charge until September 18th, 2011

If you are the one who want or already start startup on technology and willing to get intensive training from experienced mentors, Founder Institute may be the good option.

This activity will be held in Jakarta from 26th October 2011 to 6th February 2012. The registration fee is still free until this 18th September 2011. After that date, every registration will be charged $25 and the registration will be available until 9th October 2011. For getting opportunity to join this course, you have to do Predictive Admission Test to determine whether you have entrepreneur mentality.

The number of participant targeted by the Founder Institute is 30 participants. Last information told that they are already 11 participant selected. It means that you still have chance to be the next 19 participants. If you are selected, you have to pay $500 for the course. However, this fee is still negotiable because the organizer has been cooperated with some sponsors, including incubator, to make the lower charge.

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Event Report: Bancakan 9th Meetup

Last Friday on August 19th 2011, startup and developer community in Yogyakarta, Bancakan 2.0 held the 9th meetup and Iftar dinner. The event ran well. Although the theme seems random, the speakers presented at the event are so interesting.

As reported in DailySocial several days ago, this event presented Anggit Tut Pinilih (MbakDiskon founder), Guntur Sarwohadi (Soybeansoft founder and CEO), also Saga Iqranegara and two other founders from JogjaHub, geek database in Yogyakarta.

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Event: Bancakan 9th Meetup on Ramadhan Day

After its rousing 8th meetup, which also celebrated as its first anniversary in last February, this month Bancakan 2.0 will hold its 9th meetup. Bancakan 2.0 is a startups and developers community in Yogyakarta. The event takes the Ramadhan moment this year. This meet up will present three speakers from Yogyakarta.

The event will be on Friday, August 19th 2011, starting from 3.30 pm, at AngkirngQ Café, Jln. Pandega Satya No. 10, Jakal KM 5.8, Sleman, DI Yogyakarta.

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Event Report : Gamelan Meetup Presented Square Enix

Some months ago, Gamelan – Yogyakarta Startup GameDev Community held their first meetup. This event was very rousing. Last Friday, on August 12th 2011, they held their second meetup at Humaniora Room, University Club UGM.

Participant were very enthusiastic. The impressive thing is that most of them came from other cities, far from Yogyakarta such as Salatiga and Surabaya.

Why did they come to this event? They didn’t only want to attend to this event but also wanted to meet some people from Square Enix – the Final Fantasy game maker. The Square Enix staff members coming to this event were Takashi Tokita – Producer, Mobie Division Senior Manager, Sachiko Takahashi – Bussiness Corporate Planning Division, and Hayato Sawada – Project Investment Manager Division.

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Square Enix Seeks Mobile Game Opportunity in Indonesia

Last week, I and some media reporter got a chance to meet people from Square Enix: Takashi Tokita – Producer, Senior Manager Mobile Business, Sachiko Takahashi – Senior Manager, Business Development Corporate Planning Division dan Hayato Sawada -Project Investment Manager Division. They attended the public lecture and introduction to Game Ideas Competition event held by Mikti in ITB.

Surely I would not discuss about game or Square Enix game development. I am more interested in startup issues in game segment in Indonesia especially Bandung, more specific in mobile gaming.

There are some mobile game studio appear recently and some of them have been existing since long time and gives enough focus not only on game product they develop but also the startup game itself. Some of them are Anantarupa, Elasitas, Onebit, and in Bandung there are Nightspade which is funded by East Ventures, and Agate with its mass production of mobile game.

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Game Idea Competition from Indonesia Bermain Now Open for Public

A series of events from Indonesia Bermain enters the next stage, namely Game Idea Competition. Registration for competition has been open since August 1, 2011 until August 31, 2011.

Before the opening of registration, Indonesia Bermain held Road Play series of events in various cities, such as Semarang (7/14), Solo (07/15), Yogyakarta (7/16) Surabaya (7/21), Bandung (7/ 23) and Jakarta, which was held last July 30.

From a release sent to DailySocial there will be three categories to be contested, the first category is Digital (not limited to one platform), Conventional Game (boardgame) and Mobile Gaming Idea (the idea of the game will be developed for Nokia phones), the last category is sponsored by Nokia.

Unfortonetly DailySocial can’t attend the last Road Play event, but we reported Bandung’s event, you can see our report event in here. From a release sent to DailySocial, Indonesia Bermain explained that the Jakarta’s event was attended by more than 60 participants and came from various backgrounds such as game developers, game enthusiasts, media, students and family, they played board games and mobile gaming, there is also a talk show with three speakers, Narenda Wicaksono (Developer Marketing Manager – Service & Portfolio Nokia Indonesia), Ivan Chen (Anantarupa Studios), and Eko Nugroho (Initiator of Indonesia Bermain).

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