Apple WWDC 2012 Keynote Recap

Note: This post takes into account the author’s experiences as ex-Microsoft evangelist and a cross-platform mobile app vendor. It is not from a tech blogger rejoicing the new hardware line-ups, rather it’s from the personal experience of a man sitting in the middle of the Presidio Room, where the Keynote took place in Level 3 of Moscone West, San Francisco.

The Arrival

I’ve read from Twitter that people have been queuing since 12 midnight last night, but I thought they were just crazy. Confidently, today at 6.30am I started walking downhill towards Moscone West, hoping the queue won’t be really long.

Oh how wrong I was! By the time I arrived before 7am, the queue already formed a wrap-around. Like a snake circling its prey, the queue was already 1 complete loop around the block! “At least I got some sleep, “ I comforted myself and started to queue from the tail…

At around 9.45am, I managed to enter the huge Presidio Room and found a seat somewhere in the middle, not too close to the stage, but not too close to the exit either. I guess it was worth it, compared to standing from 3am, getting a front-row seat but having sleep-deprivation 🙂

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Bibbycam-Detikinet Holds Photo Contest for BlackBerry Users

Bibbycam, a photo editing app for BlackBerry, together with Detikinet hold a photo contest with the theme “Urban Photography”. This photo contest provides 5 BlackBerrys for best 5 photos.

Submitted photo must meet the contest theme, namely Urban Photography. Participant is free to explore and record the image of urban people/areas. The, the photo is customized with the filter from Bibbycam app to make the photo more interesting.

Certainly, the submitted photo is not allowed to contain inter-racial religious ethnic groups racism, pornography, violence or defamation. Participant can upload their photos until June 24, 2012.

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Org(dot)Com To Represent Indonesia in Game Design – Phone Imagine Cup 2012

In addition to the Malabar team, Indonesia will also be represented by Org.com in Imagine Cup 2012. While Malabar competes in the software design category, Org.com will compete in the final of Imagine Cup 2012 for the game design: phone category. Org.com will present its mobile game, Cronus.

For this competition, Org.Com sends Muhammad Hilman Beyri, Prisyafandiafif Charifa, Alfian Ramadhan, and Mahardiansyah Kartika. All of them are students of Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) class of 2009. Org.Com is actually a community of students similar to Creacle. Both of them are communities of students who like to create games and participate in game competitions and together have a dream to build a professional game studio once they graduate from the university.

Org.Com with its game, Jonk! was also a finalist of Mobile Games Developer War 3 held last week. Prior to that, it also released a game titled The Garbager and has created Gundu Tubruk and Pasar The Game.

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Day Two Recap of All That Matters Conference 2012

Widi Asmoro is the Entertainment Services Manager for Nokia Indonesia who is currently attending All That Matters Conference in Singapore representing Nokia Indonesia as one of the event’s sponsors. This post appeared originally on his personal blog.

Wednesday, 23 May 2012, rain fell in Singapore and pushed back the start of the second day of Digital Matters. The second day focuses on how to monetize content through existing platforms and challenges in which people no longer access contents through just a singe device. The ability to access content on multiple screens became the main topic of discussion among panelists.

The opening keynote speech came from Brian Taptic, VP International Development for Zynga, who underlined his company’s vision of connecting people through social games. Case studies such as the Coca Cola campaign through CityVille is a fascinating study into how a brand can influence its potential customers through a series of stories developed through interaction within the social game. People are no longer forced to see ads and they would even voluntarily participate in promoting the product to others.

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Day One Recap of All That Matters Conference 2012

As I did last year, this year I received the opportunity to attend the Asian music and technology discussion, Digital Matters & Music Matters. As with last year, this event is being held at Ritz Carlton Millenia Singapore for four days between 22-25 May 2012. Even though this is an Asian event, the speakers are world class. On the first day we had Ralph Simon, a mobile content entertainment guru, Michael Schneider a top mobile app developer who developed apps for Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, as well as Ted Machover, a lecturer and professor at MIT Lab.

The first day began with three workshops; Gaming Matters, Digital Publishing Matters, and Video Matters, all of which were happening concurrently which meant that attendees had to choose which workshop to follow. I went with Video Matters. In the afternoon after lunch, President of Digital & Music Matters Jasper Donat led the opening ceremony and followed by several panel discussions such as digital entertainment, publisher’s challenge to monetize digital content and to chose the right platform to create apps.

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[EVENT] Game and Entrepreneur Festival at Unika Soegijapranata

Soegijapranata Catholic University, Semarang, as one of the organizers of under graduate program in Game Technology, feels obliged to share its insight to the people of Central Java and the surrounding areas about the gaming industry. Some views on the gaming industry that considered not serious and damaging need to be clarified through socialization.

This is the underlying of Game and Entrepreneur Festival 2012 organized by Unika’s S1 program of Game Technology in cooperation with the Ministry of National Education and PT. Telkom IV Regional Division Central Java & DIY. This festival highlights the seminar with the theme “The Future of Gaming Technology and Business in Indonesia” in addition to organizing a series of Defense of the Ancients (DotA) game tournaments.

The seminar will be held on Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at Thomas Aquinas Theater Building, Unika Soegijapranata, Semarang and planned to invite Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Mari Elka Pangestu as keynote speaker. Not just talking about how to create a game, there will also be representatives from Telkom to discuss the potential of games and psychologist to discuss the sub-theme “Smart with Game”.

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[EVENT] Google Business Group Workshop

Indonesia Google Business Group (ID GBG) is a community of business users who are interested to learn and become more successful in using the Internet and the latest web technology to support their business. This community consists of professionals, businessmen and other circles interested in Google’s products. Active since December last year, ID GBG has organized various activities such as meetup, gathering, mailing list and so forth.

This time, ID GBG is inviting you to come to a workshop that will be held on Tuesday, May 22, 2012. The workshop will be held at the Upper Room, Annex Building 11th floor, Wisma Nusantara complex, Jl. M.H. Thamrin 59, Jakarta. It will be divided into two sessions with similar contents. Morning session will take place at 08.00-12.00 and the afternoon session will begin at 12.00 to 16.30.

The workshop will be opened by Ola Krainska, Head of GBG from Google Switzerland. Next, Aileen Apolo (Head of Outreach of Google Southeast Asia), Henky Prihatna (Google Indonesia Country Consultant) and Yansen Kamto (founder of Indonesia Google Business Group) will simultaneously take place in providing material related to Google’s products and their utilization for business benefit to the workshop’s participants.

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Game Netwoking Jakarta, A Chance to Build a Network with Game Publisher from Japan

Nikkei Business Publication, Inc. (NBP), will hold a Game Networking Jakarta. This business matching event will bring together large game publisher and mobile game publisher from Japan with potential business partner candidates from Indonesia.

Game Networking Jakarta event will be held on May 28 at the Grand Hyatt Jakarta. A couple of big game publishers are brought to this event such as GREE, Konami, Sega, One Up, f4samurai, GMOAppsCloud and Aiming. Although GREE is the only one which has confirmed its agenda so far, the event will be a golden opportunity for game developers from Indonesia to meet and build network with big developers from Japan.

The event that will be started at 10.30 AM, will be preceded by a conference by representatives from Sega and Konami with an agenda that has not been announced. After that, GREE, through its Vice President of Business Development Department, Kobayashi Noritaka, will explain the theme of a new social mobile global platform. In the evening, Bullitt Sesariza, founder and CTO of Kark Mobile Education PTE, Ltd as well as Chairman of PT. Logika Interaktif, will be a representative from Indonesia to talk about game industry in Indonesia.

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Indigo Fellowship 2012 Officially Launched

Located at Bandung Digital Valley, last Friday, Telkom Group, along with MIKTI, officially launched Indigo Fellowship 2012 program which enter its fifth year of implementation.

Bringing the theme “For Brighter Digital Creativepreneur”, this year’s Indigo Fellowshop will focus on growing entrepreneurs. As described by Hari S. Sungkari – chairman of the judges, this is what distinguishes the event from last year’s event. The theme will also affect the assessment process to determine the winner.

12 winners will be selected for the Indigo 2012, with 3 winners for each 4 different categories. Contested categories are Application & Content for Tourism, Health, Education; Comic, Animation, Social Games; Short Movie & Video Clip and Digital Radio. With a special note: the latter category is a special award given by Telkom Group to Suararadio.com.

As written in a press release, the assessment will be focused on the 4Ps, namely Products – originality and quality of item, including its readiness to enter the market, Profitability – clarity of business model, readiness of marketing strategy, business development and financial planning, then Personality & Team – character of individual and team skills, things needed to be a tough digitalpreneur, and the last is Prospect to Collaborate – the prospect for collaboration with Telkom Group, adjusted to Telkom Group’s overall strategy.

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Encouraging Local Developers to Embrace a New Platform, Microsoft Holds Windows 8 Hackathon in Yogyakarta

After hackathon event with Nokia that challenged local developers to develop application on the Windows Phone 7 platform, now, Microsoft is back with even bigger hacktahon event than the previous hackathon.

At this hackathon, Microsoft challenges local developers to develop applications for Windows Phone 8 and this event is a great opportunity for developers who can develop applications for this platform before it’s launched in full version. Microsoft targets 1000 developers to participate in this hackathon. Windows 8 Hackathon will be held on May 16-17, 2012 for 24 hours nonstop, taking place at the Mataram Room. Sheraton Mustika Hotel Yogyakarta, Jl. Laksda Adisucipto KM 8.7, Yogyakarta. Continue reading Encouraging Local Developers to Embrace a New Platform, Microsoft Holds Windows 8 Hackathon in Yogyakarta