Category: Events

Event: FOWAB #5, “Technology Trends for Digital”

Well it’s time for FOWAB #5 already. This routine event will be held on March 19, 2011 at S28 Café & Resto, Jl. Sulanjana 28 Bandung 17.00-22.00. This time they will talk about “Technology Trends for Digital” together with SparxUp.

The speakers will be Muqorrobien Marufi (Enterprise Software Architect) as first speaker, Rama Mamuaya* (DailySocial) as second speaker, and guest speaker from Orori.com/LoveBunch as representative of SparxUp winner.

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Event Review: Bancakan 2.0 – Qt Workshop & Hackday Winners (video)

As promised on the previous Bancakan’s event review, here are some videos on the 2nd and 3rd day of the event. The 1st day was a meetup, 2nd and 3rd day were Qt Smartphone Developer Day – Workshop & Hackday.

After listening to workshop’s theme explanation, Early Warning System towards Merapi and Earthquake, participants were given 24 hours to code and present + demonstrate their application, 3 winners would get prize of cellular phone from Nokia. However there was a change on the theme, participants can develop any applications as long as using Qt technology.

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Event Review: Celebrating Bancakan 2.0’s First Anniversary

DailySocial, Rama and I, were absolutely excited to participate in Bancakan 2.0’s meetup on 25-27 February 2011 at Hotel Hyatt Yogyakarta, and we were right. The event was organized well and their welcome was very warm.

This was my first time attending their event and I was totally impressed with Jogjanese spirit, both committee’s and participants’. The total participants were 200 people out of 240 people registered online. Bancakan 2.0 meetup this time was very special because it also happened to be their 1st anniversary and collaborated with Nokia. It wasn’t only for one day but for three days in a row. 1st day’s theme was Mobile Apps and Game, and the next two days’ theme was Qt Smartphone and Developer Day of workshop and hackday.

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Faculty of Computer Science, University of Indonesia Planned ICT Business Incubator

Faculty of Computer Science, University of Indonesia (Fasilkom UI), through World Bank’s financial support in IMHERE B2C Higher Education Directorate (Dikti) National Ministry of Education launched business incubator assistance program related to ICT (Information and Communication Technology) research and development. Special preferences are given to projects focusing on Intelligent Multimedia Information Processing (IMIP). IMIP can be defined as study of methods to help mankind processing and analyzing large quality of multimedia data using appropriate pattern and implicit recent knowledge.

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Sitti moves to a bigger office and a bigger ambition to take on Google Indonesia

Today, the contextual ad platform Sitti invited several people to their housewarming event in Jakarta to show around their new office and to see what they’ve been doing with the startup. The startup now have 25 people working on the platform, although i heard that the engineering all done from Singapore. I have to say, they have an awesome office with a good touch of ethnic art and decoration.

Sitti was getting a lot of exposure after they declare to take on Google on a “contextual ad war” and disclose some statistics on how they beat Google AdSense’s ad impression, clicks and also CTRs. It’s quite stunning to see the comparison chart provided by Sitti, stating a unanimous victory against Google’s platform summarizing that Sitti have a better contextual ad engine to recognize Indonesian language compared to Google’s. You can actually download the Sitti VS Google report here.

So, Is it true? They’re actually winning against Google?

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Bancakan2.0 is alive – Jogjakarta’s startup event is ON

After the monthly event got postponed due to Mt. Merapi’s eruption a few weeks back, now Jogjakarta’s startup community can no longer wait to gather around and do something BIG. The event is called Bancakan2.0, first started early 2010 with hackers and programmers gathered under one roof, enjoying keynotes about startups and technology.

Jogjakarta is famous as “The City of Scholars”, with several world-class university in town and low cost of living, making Jogjakarta an incredible place for hackers and tech startups to grow organically. And they didn’t take it for granted, Jogjakarta is definitely one city with the biggest potential in terms of startups and technology.

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Krazymarket snaps Red Herring 100 Awards

It’s a great achievement for Krazymarket, one of the niche e-commerce player in Indonesia focusing on collectibles and hard-to-get items. CEO Philippe Do today announced via Twitter that the company he’s leading is one of the Red Herring 100 Asia winners in Shanghai. Krazymarket went to the final 200 stage together with Circumflex Technologies to represent Indonesia, and Krazymarket went all the way to the winner’s hot seat.

Krazymarket compete with hundreds of other internet companies from all over Asia, such as Singapore, India, Kazakhstan, Vietnam and more countries. Although Indonesia only have 2 companies got through the top 200, It’s still a good achievement for Krazymarket who also the winner of dailysocial’s own SparxUp Awards 2010 for the Best eCommerce category.

Calling All Indonesian Startups : SparxUp Is Officially Open

The most anticipated startup award of the year is finally and officially open for registration. SparxUp Awards 2010, held by DailySocial together with our partner Semut Api Colony is set to be the biggest startup awarding event in Indonesia. And SparxUp Awards 2010 is more than just an awarding event, it’s a celebration of Indonesian startup awakening from a giant hibernation.

Indonesian internet and mobile user is huge, but this time we will produce something good, we’ll contribute something significant to the world’s tech-culture. This is a small contribution from us, who’s been blogging about Indonesia’s tech-culture for more than a year and see the big potential, hidden and undiscovered.

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Where Have You Been, Google?

Photo (left-right) : Andrew McGlinchey(Google), Hugo Diba (Detik), Desmarita Murni (WWF), me and Derek Callow (Google). Photo courtesy of Kompas

Most of you were already aware about yesterday’s event. Yes, Google launched their browser, Chrome, in Jakarta yesterday. That was the first time for Google having a consumer event for one of their product. So, i sat down with Andrew McGlinchey Google SEA’s Lead Product Manager and talk about it.

The 20 minutes discussion came up with a pretty interesting conclusion, from my side. So i asked Andrew, why Google decided to do something in Indonesia? Google have been operating in Singapore for quite a while, and until now they practically ignore Indonesia. And my second question was, why Chrome? Why not Android, or Google Maps?

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