Nokia: The Future of QT/Symbian Developers

We’ve heard of longterm partnership news between Nokia and Microsoft announced a few days ago and become sensational in internet world up until now. The long term agreement stated that Nokia will use Windows Phone 7 operating system in its smartphone device and decided not to use Symbian as has been done before.

Reaction from technology industry varies between the ones who gladly welcome Nokia’s decision to use better OS than Symbian while others upset thinking that Nokia left QT and Symbian’s application developer community that Nokia had built.

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[Guest Post] It’s all about Discovery

I read the blog post on e27 describing the war between Facebook and Google shortly after it came out and while there are a lot of interesting points, describing the difference as being “social vs utility” just did not seem to capture what I believe is the essence of competition between the two companies.

I always thought that Google vs. Facebook – and Yahoo! vs. Google before that, is really all about who owns Discovery on the web. I’ll define discovery as simply finding new content, whether you are looking for it or not. It could be new articles, new sites, new products to buy, new entertainment such as music or video or viral jokes. But in the end it is all about discovering something new and how you go about “discovering” it.

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East Ventures closes the year with Disdus investment

East Ventures is not going to end this year without some serious announcement for their Indonesian portfolio, as we receive a press release from Jason Lamuda, CEO and co-founder of Disdus. Disdus launched in August 2010 –together with 2 other similar sites– is one of the biggest Groupon clone in Indonesia together with DealKeren as incumbent players in the collective commerce scene. Their partnership with Kaskus in October boost up their visibility and gained new users from the mammoth forum, and apparently their partnership with the people behind Kaskus is only getting better.

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Plasa.com CEO resigned, Ariadi Anaya steps in as interim CEO

This morning, a big announcement comes from a company who claims to be Indonesia’s biggest e-commerce website,Plasa.com. Plasa’s CEO Shinta Dhanuwardoyo is officially confirming the rumor about her resignation from the government-funded company as per Dec 1st 2010. Shinta has been responsible for growing Plasa.com from scratch into a e-commerce platform with 400.000 users on November 2010, together with Andi S Boediman who acts as Chief Innovation at Mojopia -the legal company behind Plasa.com

Before her official statement, rumor has been spreading about her departure and the dispute that happened almost exactly a year ago between Plasa.com management with their Board advisors. Although it seems unlikely for the board to oust Shinta only, that move should be applied to the whole executive team and not only her.

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Two Indonesian daily deals sites on the loose

Yesterday, two daily deals site (you know, groupon clones) launched and ready to serve their customers and to compete with other bunch of clones existing in Indonesia. The newly launched services are Lapar.com and Valadoo.com. Lapar in Indonesian language means “hungry” so it’s a really cool domain name, while Valadoo is short for “Value Added Discounts Online Organizer” and i have no idea what that means.

Valadoo is a general discounts site, where they offer daily discounts for spa, restaurants, entertainment, etc; putting them on a head-to-head competition with the incumbent DealKeren and Disdus. As a differentiation factor, Valadoo has 3 types of deals : individual deals, just a simple deal without any group buying necessity involved; group buying, where you have to fulfill the quota in order for the deal to be activated; and friends deals where you have 1 voucher and invite several people in order for the deal to be activated.

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Koprol release mobile web version for touch devices

This morning Koprol unofficially releases their new mobile web version optimized for users with touch devices. Touch phones are getting popular in Indonesia with the growing number of Android users, also the newly released Blackberry Torch and also the iPhones. It’s just make sense for Koprol to “postpone” their native app requests by releasing the touch web version, that’ll keep me waiting for a couple of months before the Android app is released.

The interface of the touch version is really dead-simple, easy to use and very user friendly, you can immediately navigate through the service without any difficulties. But the site is still in beta so you can still find some bug on the site, although all the basic functionality is provided; so shouldn’t be that much of a hassle.

You can start browsing the touch site by going to http://touch.koprol.com from your touch devices and start Koprol-ing immediately. Let us know what you think about Koprol’s new touch web on the comments.

Rakuten Indonesia is alive (sort of) and start recruiting merchants

When Rakuten announced their partnership with MNC last May, everyone in the internet and ecommerce industry was stunned by Rakuten’s bold move to invade an undeveloped land. When i say undeveloped, i mean no one has done a success by relying on online transactions of any kind, it’s a big investment and risk. Rakuten is currently internationally growing like crazy by opening office all over Europe and several countries in Asia, and although Indonesia is one of them; it’s a totally different ball game.

In Japan, Rakuten is the biggest e-commerce service followed by Amazon with only half of Rakuten’s revenue. It’s not really a competition for Rakuten, so they decided to go all around the world and embrace new competitions. Rakuten Japan’s advantage -compare to Amazon- is they sell digital goods, which generates revenue (and lots of them) to the company.

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Is Voice-Blogging the next big thing in Indonesia? BubbleMotion think so

The voice blogging company, BubbleMotion had a great success promoting their services in India and Japan, and recently struck a deal with Indonesian telco XL Axiata to bring voice blogging to Indonesia. Previously BubbleMotion seen significant traction in India with its deal with two of the biggest telco in India : Reliance Communications and Bharti Airtel.

India and Indonesia both have similarities in mobile and web adoption, in both countries mobile market is more promising than the web market although the behavior of how they’re using the technology is totally different. Indonesia is one of the top users for Facebook and Twitter, but not so many people know that Indonesia is the 3rd most used language on WordPress and both Blogger and WordPress is on Indonesia’s top ten most accessed website according to Alexa.

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Rockto catching up for holidays, adds new badges

This holiday season, Rockto – a social recommendation startup – is catching up with their users by releasing new features and also new badges on their service. What Rockto does is to simply enable you to share internet content at any form on their platform, most people would say they looked like Tumblr but with a public timeline instead of personal timeline. It’s like a combination of Tumblr and Digg, plus the badge rewarding system like Foursquare.

Rockto releases a few new badges for their users this holiday that includes Fanboy, Worker, Rocker Chips and Goosebumps. And if the badge is not enough to intrigue their users, they also have a point-reward system on their service, called Rockpoints, which you can earn for every activity on the site. With 7500 rockpoints and a fanboy bagde, you can win a 4th gen iPod Touch and with 3500 rockpoints + fanboy badge you can get yourself a nice nifty 4th gen iPod Shuffle for their Rockto Store.

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