[Simply Business] Creating Demand From Thin Air

Makko is a comic book publisher with high quality standard that focuses on digital distribution. The company is trying to do the impossible, it’s trying to create a market from thin air, something that Nintendo did with its Wii which turned everybody into casual gamers. A move that was then followed by Apple with its iPhone which can make non-gamers be a avid Angry Bird players. It’s definitely confident with the talents that it has, but does the market actually exist? If you look around your favorite book stores, you will find it hard to see comic books done by Indonesians.

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Multiply Closes Blog Service, Is It the Right Step?

We’ve all heard about the surprising news from yesterday. Multiply has officially announced that it will be shutting down its blog service which had been the core of Multiply all these years as it continues its transition into becoming a marketplace. The decision which was announced directly by CEO Stefan Magdalinski immediately sparked strong reactions from bloggers who have had accounts on Multiply for years. Is it the right move for Multiply to shut down its blog service and switch entirely to e-commerce?

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Google’s Two-factor Authentication Gets Highlighted In Light of Epic Hack

Everyone should now be already aware of what happened to Wired senior writer Mat Honan. A hacker clan wanted to take control of his @mat Twitter account simply because it only has three letters and in the process managed to break into his Apple, Amazon, Twitter, and Google accounts as well as Gizmodo’s Twitter account thanks to the different processes in how the services handle user password retrieval, the details of which are spelled out in Honan’s account of the events as well as here. Honan is a former writer for Gizmodo.

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[Manic Monday] Would You Rather Pay For Content Or Access?

I almost always start my articles with an “old world” comparison – you know, when the only media you consumed was in pre-defined formats from the producer’s choosing (and obvious profit). And then I would go on that since the Internet age, things have turned more or less upside down, changing the game, with or without the producer’s consent. And then I’d go on to explain the various possibilities of making sure this “Internetz” thing works for you, your band, your movie or your business.

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[Dailyssimo] Internet As TV Platform

Media changing is something that will always happen along with development in technology. Some of you may remember how we followed the way the Compact Disc replaced cassette tapes in the audio world, Laser Disc technology replaced the VHS and soon after replaced by DVD in the video world. Arguably, CD and DVD (and its derivatives) are the pillars of the revolution in their own industries, just like with radio and television in the broadcast world. The question is what would happen if those pillars merge, in a new media.

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[Simply Business] Should You Do Your Own Customer Service? Yes

I’ve been running Tees.co.id for two weeks now and like most new startups, it’s a consecutive hectic day after day and I’m loving it. There’s a lot of things that I do differently from my previous startup but the one thing that’s clearly different is the way we do customer service. We are very open from the start, we give our visitors our email addresses, phone numbers, and BBM (I hate it but I just have to..) and also available in Twitter as well. We have emails for all sorts of things just to classify interests but every email, SMS, phone call, Twitter DM and mentions and BBM goes directly to one person: ME.

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Koprol lives on, rebuilt from the ground up

When Yahoo decided to “give” Koprol back to its founders a few weeks ago, users were confused whether Koprol will remain dead or coming back to life. The founders only got the brand “Koprol” and the domain name, but the code and user database still belongs to Yahoo. They’re left with no other option than to built Koprol from scratch. And by god they will! Continue reading Koprol lives on, rebuilt from the ground up

[Dailyssimo] Cyber-Bullying Tendencies in Social Media

Bullying tendency occurs when there is something that’s considered out of line with the widely accepted perception. The effect of this tendency is greatly amplified in social media. Whether you agree or not, the article written by Cathryn Sloane, a student at University of Iowa, at NextGen Journal sparked a controversy. The article, titled Why Every Social Media Manager Should Be Under 25 lit the emotion of many people because Sloane stated that nobody over 25 is qualified to handle social media jobs. More than 600 comments were posted on that article, most of which were full of anger.

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[Manic Monday] The Multiple Screen Strategy

Some of us grew up with only one screen – the TV screen. In Indonesia until the late 80s, there was only one national, government-owned TV station that graced the airwaves, which we watched dutifully since there was nothing else to watch. Having the TV on was somewhat of a necessity, whether or not we watched anything – it somehow connected us to the world, even if it was only one way (and any content was tamed first by the government). Even for those fortunate to own videotape players, you had to choose: watch TV, or watch a videotape.

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