How Facebook and Twitter Change Telco Business in Indonesia

Facebook and Twitter have becomes a phenomenon. Their number of users grows so fast not only in western world but also to the farthest corner of the world. Indonesia, triggered by Friendster’s popularity adopts Facebook so easily that it beats Friendster total number of users. This social network adoption becomes goldfield not only for Facebook and Twitter but also for telecommunication companies.

The Telcos use this opportunity wisely to sell internet data packages for Facebook and Twitter users. Now their advertisement not only sell SMS and airtime (phone) but also internet packages including Facebook, Twitter, email, and chatting. And we can say that these campaigns work splendidly in getting new customers by offering affordable packages for Facebook-ing. Several new Telcos are fighting for the top place as mobile internet provider by offering affordable monthly subscription and fast internet network.

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Event Review: Jakarta Ventures Night 2011

Jakarta Ventures Night (JVN) 2011 was held last Friday and there were two articles from DailySocial related to the event. But here’s another article on JVN that will highlight startups in technology industry who were pitching there.

JVN is held by East Ventures since last year. The first one was Jakarta Ventures Night (JVN) 2010 and Bandung Ventures Night (BVN) 2010. On this JVN 2011, before pitches from 9 startups, there were 4 startups conducting presentation. 2 startups shared their experience, Jason Lamuda from Disdus and Aria Rajasa from GantiBaju.com and after breaks, the show continued with announcement of two startups in technology recently funded by East Ventures, they were TeknoUp and Nightspade. News on the funding can be found here.

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Event: First Day Coverage of Agate Mobile Game Developer Camp (Video)

Mobile Game Developer Camp event that was held by Agate and sponsored by Nokia has entered the first day. This workshop event will be held for two weeks starting from March 17, 2011 until 30 March 2011. Then on March 31, 2011 there will be a mobile game developers war in Bandung, as well as the National final will be held at the end of April 2011.

DailySocial visited the location of the event to see the enthusiasm of the participants and have some interviews with one of the workshop presenters at the event.

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First Experience, Getting Discounts with Foursquare Application in Local (Indonesia) Venue

Even if it might sounds a bit weird, frankly I was rarely even never use any discount facilities obtained from the check-in at a particular location with Foursquare applications, although I’m using location-based applications quite often such as Koprol, Foursquare and Gowalla.

It is still a hard thing to do – to get a discount by showing the results of check-in at a particular location – due to several reasons, such as my laziness, since the behavior to show the results of check-in itself is not my usual pattern of behavior in visiting a specific location (a cafe or a place to eat). Which means I have to add one new pattern in the activities of eating, for example by showing the phone’s display after I checked-in.

The second one is my own doubts on the certain location of business (cafe, etc.) whether they are ready to campaign through Fousquare system or just because it is popular, and the application of a discount program based on the activity of check-in itself is still unfamiliar for most location owners (though they are growing) compared with other promos such as discount coupons.

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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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[Guest Post] eEvent on Launch Conference

The following article was written by Edy Sulistyo (picture on the right) founder of eEvent ( Edy S is one of eEvent co-founders, the other co-founders are Andi Sie and Lawrence), who will share eEvent’s experience in participating Launch, startups conference founded by Jason Calacanis. eEvent got the opportunity to introduce their service in front of Adeo Ressi (Founder Institute), Mark Pesce (The New Inventor), Jose Caballer (desainer MySpace redesign), Marshall Kirkpatrick (ReadWriteWeb), Naval Ravikant (AngelList), Brian Alvey and all of the participants.

I’ve been following updates on Sillicon Valley, startup and all events related to startup launch. I am often astonished and inspired every time I hear news about a startup getting the opportunity to pitch and present on prestigious events such as TechCrunch Disrupt (formerly TechCrunch 50). Because even though that startup might not win TechCrunch Disrupt Award, just by being there and present is enough to take them to a higher level, in branding or traction. Because the fact remains that there are hundreds of other startups have to be denied for a presentation due to so many other remarkable startups are chosen.

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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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Koprol starts monetization plan, launched Koprol for Business

Today Yahoo-Koprol held an event in Jakarta dedicated for business owners who would like to try their location based service as a tool for online marketing and promotion and officially launch Koprol for Business. Pretty much the same strategy with Foursquare, as business owner you can submit your business profile and promote to users who checked-in in the specific location.

Business owners can also put a sticker to show that their business is listed at Koprol and basically pull offline customers to Koprol’s service. When business owners listed as Business account, you can monitor the statistics for visitors visiting the venue on Koprol and analyze the information for further promotion and marketing strategy. And also business owner can claim a venue and customize the page with photos and wallpaper

We will post a further analysis of Koprol for Business on our next blog post.