[Manic Monday] Reviving Music CD Sales

Sales of music CDs have been experiencing a year-on-year decline since the turn of the century. This has happened in line with the spread of MP3s through the internet, through services like Napster, Kazaa and so on. The choice of downloading songs from the internet, with ‘just’ an internet connection (or even through a friend who as an internet connection), appeared to have impact to the previous habit of buying CDs, at the CD producer’s expense. These recording companies then targeted these services as pirates, and asked them to take on the burden of lost sales by facilitating the unauthorized spread of songs.
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[Manic Monday] The Technology Behind Running Competitions

Lately, Indonesia has been hit by running fever. Running, as a sport, could be said to be the ‘new cool thing’ to follow, although quite many already love the sport. Of course, this trend has a much better impact to society compared to, say, trends of eating at fast food restaurants or hanging out at 24-hour convenience stores, as this trend advocates living healthy.

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[Manic Monday] The Importance Of Entertainment Infrastructure

Today, we as entertainment consumers have a multitude of choice. We still can enjoy entertainment channels handed down from the 20th century: TV, radio and print media – the variety of these three types of media is increasing, fulfilling the ever-widening preferences and needs of society for entertainment and information. With the growth of digital media like the internet, the variety of content or entertainment technologies has also increased. In a period of around 10 years, the cellular phone has evolved from a simple communication device into one of the main entertainment devices, to the point that the technology advancement of cellular phones is outpacing the PC industry. Any kind of entertainment is only a few clicks away, through browsers or applications.
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[Manic Monday] Taking Exhibitions Into The 21st Century

In Indonesia, especially Jakarta, as the country’s largest trade center, each week there are exhibitions and trade shows of varying sizes held at places ranging from mall atriums to hotel ballrooms and all the way to proper exhibition buildings hosting thousands of visitors per day. These exhibitions cover a variety of industries, from education, real estate, electronics, to the currently-running car exhibition at JIExpo. These exhibitions basically fulfill a need from those industries to display and sell their products or services; but as with most open for public events, exhibitions have become an entertainment source of its own.

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Pitching Pintails at AngelHack Global Demo Day

The following is part of a journal series written by Pintails engineers during their trip to San Francisco as winners of the AngelHack global hackathon series. By winning the Jakarta event, the Pintails team were entitled to participate in the AngelHack accelerator program, pitch at the Global Demo Day, and participate at TechCrunch Disrupt. This post by Asep Priandana describes his view of the Global Demo Day for AngelHack winners, held on 5 September.

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[Manic Monday] What You Can Learn From Krayola

This time I want to tell you a little bit about myself – more specifically my experiences several years ago, as part of a band called Krayola. Krayola is a band that actually has been around for a while in Jakarta’s music scene, and once often played at various high school events. Because all of its members had jobs, the development of the band itself was somewhat slow – a quite standard tale in Indonesia’s music industry.

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How Pintails Shocked AngelHack in San Francisco by Presenting on BlackBerry 10

This is the second post in our AngelHack trip series as we follow Radita Liem and Asep Priandana make they way across San Francisco representing Pintails which won the inaugural AngelHack Jakarta hackathon event back in June. After team leader Vincent Putera gave us the brief about the run up to the trip, Radita Liem tells us the story about facing criticisms, questions, and doubts over the use of the BlackBerry 10 platform to develop Pintails. The following is an edited version of her story.

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Pin Your Dreams Up High and Your Feet Down Low

Following its win at AngelHack Jakarta, the team behind Pintails spent several weeks under the mentorship of Robin Malau (Musikator, Cerahati) and Fajar Budiprasetyo (Ice House) polishing the app and the ideas around it. Last weekend, two of the team members, Radita Liem and Asep Priandana, flew to San Francisco to participate in AngelHack Global Demo Day and TechCrunch Disrupt. We will be chronicling their trip beginning with today’s post from team leader Vincent Putera.

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[Manic Monday] Music Discovery And Curation

Last Friday, I came (a bit late) to a discussion forum and get-together held by Seven Music, attended by people from many walks of life, among them artist management, bands that are just starting out, to bands who have signed on to Seven Music. I was introduced to a few of the attendees, among them a band called Tokyolite, who just finished their home recording EP, and were offering their CD for sale. It turns out that they have already had a chance to play on a TV show in Japan, after being discovered by the TV show’s producers through their YouTube videos. Tokyolite is naturally still at the start of their career, and if they are smart, they can take advantage of these opportunities to further their music careers.
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