Event Report: BlackBerry Developer Day and KIAD Competition

Yesterday at ITB Bandung there was BlackBerry Developer Day, a meet up between developers and RIM representatives namely Johan Kremer Head of Alliances for SEA, Research In Motion (Singapore) Pte Ltd dan Sarim Aziz – Senior Applications Development.

RIM presented BlackBerry’s development in South East Asia especially in Indonesia which according to RIM’s date is the highest in mobile phone ownership on age 8-24 years old, spiking on 80%. RIM also gave presentation on WebWorks Development for BlackBerry PlayBook and BlackBerry Smartphones, Adobe AIR Development for the BlackBerry PlayBook, and BlackBerry Development Platform Roadmap.

7langit, Elasitas and Tasterous were there as well as other Indonesian developers, although only 7langit and Elasitas gave their presentation regarding various things related to BlackBerry application development. They developed application for BlackBerry and PlayBook, and including some of many developers who joined the free PlayBook program by RIM.

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BlackBerry Developer Day: RIM’s Support for Developer and Approach to Universities in Indonesia

BlackBerry Developer Day was held yesterday in ITB, Bandung. It was the first developer day Research In Motion (RIM) held in university in Indonesia. RIM held several events previously in Indonesia to attract developers in developing application for their platform. I and several other friends had the opportunity to have light discussion with Johan Kremer, Head of Alliances for SEA, Research In Motion (Singapore) Pte Ltd and Sarim Aziz – Senior Application Development.

For me smartphone/tablet is all about application. There are more functions or features, but without application smartphone/tablet will not be maximized, and when talking about application that means we will talk about application store and eventually the talking will get to application developers and for RIM, with BlackBerry PlayBook on the market application is getting more and more important.

RIM’s approach by having events in universities is quite interesting. I’d like to remind you of the 2^ndBandung Ventures Night (BVN) held at ITB, they are also targeting entrepreneur side (like application developing studio) working together with popular platform like Android and RIM with its BlackBerry.

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FOWAB #6 – Monetizing Advertising Mobile Era and Introducing Blaast Platform

Regular event Forum Web Anak Bandung (Bandung Web Forum) for the 6^th time was held collaborating with SparxUp presenting “Monetizing Advertising Mobile Era”. The event was attended by more or less 90 people from various field, with 2 main speakers Leonard Agustinus – Account Manager Indonesia, Mobile Advertising Google and Edo Pamungkas – Mobile Platform Manager, Merah Putih Incubator and one guest speaker Andri Yadi – Movreak App, Winner of SparxUp 2010 (Best of Mobile Category).

Each speakers talked about the opportunity from developing application for mobile devices, various way in monetizing like paid apps, ad based, application as project or freemium, and which platform/handset to develop such as iOS, BlackBerry, Android up to Nokia and feature phone with high number of users in Indonesia. They also informed about application segments with bright future like social, game, themes.

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Social Commerce a la Mutiply: Shopping, Selling and Sharing

Multiply held a press conference in TransForce – Grand Indonesia, Jakarta on May 18, 2011 to introduce Multiply Commerce to the media and also introduce a variety of services available on their latest platform to facilitate the sellers who use Multiply as a place for online buying and selling.

DailySocial has written various updates and developments in Multiply which also showed their pace in Indonesia, most of their stock acquisition by Naspers Limited (e-commerce company in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa), including the launch of Multiply Commerce that have been reported also in DailySocial.

As we know Multiply alter their strategies of social networking into social commerce. Taking advantage of social networking to sell, there are important features in Multiply Commerce such as Marketplace, Stock Room, Payment Gateway, Shopping Cart and Buyer Protection. Multiply also provides the facility Multiply Promote, Trusted Seller, and Premium Accounts.

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SuBali Meetup: Creativepreneur!

Tomorrow at STIKOM Bali – Renon Denpasar will be held a startup event organized by colleagues from Subali (Startup Bali). The event will be held at 14:00 to 17:00 on the topic about Creativepreneur with the main speakers Ayip Arief Budiman, head of Adgi (Graphic Design Association of Indonesia).

It will feature a startup pitch from three Bali startup’s : Dodi Son Artawan – Flable-media.com, Sudi Artha – Balidibali.com and Wahya Biantara from Arunna.com. That certainly would be a very interesting Meetup event, if you are in Bali and the surrounding area, wanted to know about the tech startup and creativepreneurship, you must come.

If you want to come, do not forget to register here.

Malang Formed Startup Community

Startups communities are rising up in Indonesia. After Bancakan (Jogjakarta), Fowab (Bandung), Startuplokal (Jakarta), and Suwec (Surabaya), now Malang is forming Komunitas Startup Singo Edan Malang or Stasion.

The community is build by activists like Amar, Revandi, Agung Firdaus, Meru Vipasana, Rizky Yuniar and Arie Putri on March 26, 2011, aiming to become “stasion” or station for startups in Malang. Malang is one unique city; many of our friends are now become one of players in startup and technology world. It’s about time for Malang to show their potential in technology and entrepreneurship.

Stasion Community held their first event yesterday on May 18, 2011 at Islamic Centre Almarkazi Building, Jl Soekarno Hatta, Malang at 14.00-18.00. The workshop’s theme was Innovation on Digital Economy and Digital Entrepreneurship, collaborated with Brawijaya University, Malang.

We, DailySocial team, are really happy for Stasion Community, we see passion and spirit from Stasion team to bring forward their community and DailySocial will keep on supporting in any form to bring forward startup ecosystem in Indonesia.

Malang, we are waiting for your best startups. 😉

For further info you can check out their official website Stasion.

Translated by Nita Sellya.

Bubu Awards v.07 is Officially Launched, Registration Now Open

As part of IDBYTE, Bubu Awards v.07 is officially launched and open registration for their seventh annual event.

From official release DailySocial received earlier, continuing the success last year’s Bubu Awards and to support mobile and internet’s growth in Indonesia, this time’s competition will not just about web design competition but also covering digital competition.

Bubu Awards v.07’s main event will be held on July 14, 2011. It will have new subcategories and other categories which were never competed in this award before.

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Demo Conference Comes To Singapore

If you are not familiar with what Demo is, it is a conference where startup launch their service. Demo Conference is legendary event that has been around since 1991 and they have been witnessing the birth of the best and most innovative startups. Demo was a platform to launch application such Adobe Reader, Sun Java, Salesforce.com, VMWare, Shazam, TiVO and many more of them, outstanding technologies.

And now, Demo is available in Singapore and will be held in Sands Expo and Convention Center on November 29-30, 2011 organize by IDG Enterprise, VentureBeat and also Sphere Exhibits.

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Get ready for Startup Weekend Jakarta

Jakarta is going to have its first Startup Weekend event this month. The 54-hour marathon ideas, brainstorming, and networking event will be held at IDS at Epicentrum Walk in Kuningan, South Jakarta from May 20 – 22.

Supported by the Kauffman Foundation, which is the largest foundation in the world devoted to entrepreneurship, Startup Weekend aims to discover and connect developers, designers, marketers, and business people to build products and launch startups over one weekend. According to the website, half of the participants have technical backgrounds while the other half tend to be business people.

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Be Ready for Final Event of CHIP – Nokia Mobile Game Developer War

The series of events CHIP – Nokia Game Developer Camp and Developer War is entering final stage. Seminar, workshop, developer camp and developer war held in various cities like Jogja, Surabaya, Bandung and Jakarta will enter its final and closing event, on June 4, 2011.

DailySocial also followed the series of events among others in Bandung and Jogjakarta. You can check out the coverage here and here.

Now it’s time for the final stage, 6 winners from Jogjakarta and Bandung will compete with 3 winners representing Jakarta and Indonesia to “go on a war” and present their game applications and a live coding with higher level of challenges and difficulties. The finalists will be competing for a grand total of Rp 60.000.000 prize. The final will be held at fX Lifestyle X’nter – Jakarta on June 4, 2011.

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