[Event] Annual 1% Event Made Its Way to Jakarta

If you have a platform to accommodate, would you share 1% of your knowledge, time or money to people all over the world? Well, I would! That’s what the 1% CLUB has been trying to do through their website: crowdsourcing solution for social projects all over the world. And to give the ‘1% experience’, they create the annual 1% EVENT. This year, nine countries participated in this co-creation event, they are: The Netherlands, Kenya, Cameroon, South Africa, Palestine, Tunisia, Somaliland, Indonesia, and Sudan.

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Asia E-Commerce Conference 2012 Will Discuss the Ins and Outs of E-Commerce

Asia E-Commerce Conferece 2012 offers many interesting agendas that would be of interest to people in the e-commerce field. Among them, the conference will discuss the best practices in e-commerce pricing strategy. The session which will be held on the second day, will present Suraj Mishra, Managing Director of aprikot.

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Indonesia Game Show dan Jakarta Game Show Will Kick Off This October

Indonesian gamers will be treated to a rare occasion this October, with two major game oriented events being held at the same venue. Gamers might find themselves excited and confused at the same time as Indonesia Game Show and Jakarta Game Show are scheduled to run within a few weeks of each other.

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Facebook Developers to bring FBWorldHack to Jakarta

Seems like Indonesian developers are getting a lot of attention from international tech world, and not just to get cheap talents but also the combination of creativity and programming skills. Last year, nobody knows what hackathon is but now there’s one hackathon every 3 months or so.

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[Event Report] BlackBerry 10 Jam Jakarta Introduces BlackBerry 10 Platform to Local Developers

BlackBerry 10 Jam Jakarta has been held by RIM on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 at JW Marriot Hotel. telah diselenggarakan oleh RIM pada hari Selasa lalu, 10 Juli 2012 di JW Marriott Hotel. Enthusiasm of the local developers are shown in welcoming the new and different platform by RIM. This BlackBerry 10 platform is indeed very interesting technology-wise, very different with the platform in the previous BlackBerry phones (OS 7 and below).

Although the launching of BlackBerry 10 is postponed until 2013, but that does not hinder the enthusiasm of 350 local developers who came to learn about BlackBerry 10. From the developer’s side, BlackBerry 10 is very interesting because it uses many programming languages in its development such as C/C++, Java Android Runtime, HTML 5, etc. as explained by Muhammad Syumandityo Noor – Evangelist Developer of RIM for Indonesia.

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Sparxup is Back This Year

As media focusing in the world of technology and entrepreneurship in Indonesia, DailySocial always commit to contribute as much as possible to the industry. It is our vision to advance the technology industry in Indonesia through entrepreneurship and it will always be the operational foundation of DailySocial team.

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Nokia Developer and Gramedia Majalah Holds Hackonten

Creating mobile applications as a promotional media seems to be an increasingly common thing to do in Indonesia where mobile devices have been very well adopted. Instead of hiring a developer to create an app, more and more companies are running competitions. Almost at the same time as the Coding on the Beach event held by Nokia Developer and Taman Impian Jaya Ancol over the weekend, Nokia and Gramedia Majalah will is holding what they call Hackonten.

Hackonten is an application development competition for Nokia devices (Asha and Lumia) in which developers will create apps using content from the Gramedia Majalah family. The apps will use content derived from Gramedia properties; Idea, Kidnesia, Sekar, Chic, Intisari, Nakita, DuniaSoccer, Hai, Tabloid Nova, and Kawanku.

On the first stage, interested developers are only asked to send the app concepts to the Hackonten website. This stage had been opened since June 11th and will close on June 20, 2012. Judges will then select 100 developers to be invited to participate in Hackonten from June 28-29, 2012 at Gramedia Majalah building in Jakarta. At the 24 hour coding event, participants will be asked to develop the apps as described in their submissions.

At the end of the coding process, the top 10 developers will be chosen to present their apps in front of the judges for five minutes each. At the end of it the judges will select the winner and two runners up who will receive cash prizes of Rp 20 million, Rp 10 million, and Rp 5 million respectively.

If you’re interested in participating, you can form a team of up to three people and send in your cool app concept. Terms and conditions of the competition are available from the Hackonten website.

[correction on the prize amount due to editing error]

Nokia Developer Invites Developers to Find Inspiration in Ancol Beach

Nokia Developer is back with another competition for game developers in Indonesia. In cooperation with Agate Studio and Taman Impian Jaya Ancol, it presents Ancol Games Developer Competition: Coding on the Beach.

This competition is dedicated specifically for seasoned developers who have published apps on Nokia Store. These developers will be invited to a getaway and find inspiration at Ancol. In addition to the accommodation at Putri Duyung Cottage, during the two day event, June 16-17, developers can enjoy recreational areas at Ancol including Dufan, Ecopark, Ocean Dream Samudera and Atlantis Water Adventure.

During the stay, developers are asked to create a game prototype based on what inspires them during the vacation at Ancol. The prototype will be presented in front of the judges from Nokia and Taman Impian Jaya Ancol. Best three prototypes will receive IDR2 million (third place), IDR3 million (second place) and IDR5 million plus free annual pass to Dufan (first place).

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Win a Ticket to See Steve Wozniak in Jakarta

Innovation and Creativity Seminar which brings Steve Wozniak, will be held next July 17th in Jakarta. For DailySocial readers who want to come to the seminar but haven’t had a ticket yet, you can follow DailySocial quiz to win the tickets. In the next three weeks, each week DailySocial will be having a quiz with a ticket as a prize.

For this week’s quiz, you only have to answer the question,

How do you define Creativity and Innovation?

Answer these questions through the Disqus comments of this post . The most innovative answers will get a Gold ticket. We’ll be waiting your answer until Friday, June 15th, 2012 at 21:00.