Bancakan2.0 is alive – Jogjakarta’s startup event is ON

After the monthly event got postponed due to Mt. Merapi’s eruption a few weeks back, now Jogjakarta’s startup community can no longer wait to gather around and do something BIG. The event is called Bancakan2.0, first started early 2010 with hackers and programmers gathered under one roof, enjoying keynotes about startups and technology.

Jogjakarta is famous as “The City of Scholars”, with several world-class university in town and low cost of living, making Jogjakarta an incredible place for hackers and tech startups to grow organically. And they didn’t take it for granted, Jogjakarta is definitely one city with the biggest potential in terms of startups and technology.

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Once the most popular microblogging service around, Kronologger shutting down

Another day, another startup dies. After the sad day for ArusMedia, now the grim reaper pays a visit to an old-school microblogging service, Kronologger. Founded by a serial entrepreneur Kukuh TW, who also went on and founded KumpulBlogger and IDBlogNetwork and made a decent amount of money from these two services with it’s solid business model.

Founded in 2007, it was originally named Kronologis.com and it was meant to be a weekend-hack project for Kukuh TW, he’s a hacker type who always keep on doing something new. So when Kukuh met Budi Putra (was the CEO of Asia Blogging Network), the two decided to rebrand the service and give it a new name, Kronologger, as a more serious project under the flagship of Asia Blogging Network. Budi Putra went on leaving Asia Blogging Network for Country Editor position at Yahoo! Indonesia, which basically leaves Kronologger out there all alone in the cold. Continue reading Once the most popular microblogging service around, Kronologger shutting down

Krazymarket snaps Red Herring 100 Awards

It’s a great achievement for Krazymarket, one of the niche e-commerce player in Indonesia focusing on collectibles and hard-to-get items. CEO Philippe Do today announced via Twitter that the company he’s leading is one of the Red Herring 100 Asia winners in Shanghai. Krazymarket went to the final 200 stage together with Circumflex Technologies to represent Indonesia, and Krazymarket went all the way to the winner’s hot seat.

Krazymarket compete with hundreds of other internet companies from all over Asia, such as Singapore, India, Kazakhstan, Vietnam and more countries. Although Indonesia only have 2 companies got through the top 200, It’s still a good achievement for Krazymarket who also the winner of dailysocial’s own SparxUp Awards 2010 for the Best eCommerce category.

TokoBagus hits 1 million ads, enters Indonesia’s top 30 visited sites

Seems like the guys at TokoBagus also missed the note about their first million ads put up on their e-commerce site, that makes it two in one day. Apparently Koprol’s one mil milestone remind Remco Lupker (CEO) to check his website’s stats only to find a similar achievement with the location based social networking site.

TokoBagus was one of the early player who survived the heartless jungle of the Indonesian internet ecosystem, founded in 2005 and currently one of the biggest e-commerce company in Indonesia. Based in Denpasar-Bali, Remco and their investors spend tons of money for TokoBagus’ marketing and promotion effort, they even have a booth opened at Jakarta’s biggest IT exhibition. Continue reading TokoBagus hits 1 million ads, enters Indonesia’s top 30 visited sites

GantiBaju and DealKeren strike up a deal

If you visit DealKeren’s website, you will immediately see their current deal with GantiBaju – an Indonesian Threadless clone with a unique touch. GantiBaju, the #1 winner of our own SparxUp Awards 2010, strike up a deal with one of Indonesia’s biggest daily deal site, DealKeren. DealKeren is a part of a daily deal site networks together with Ensogo Thailand and Ensogo Philippines and currently taking off with a big traction in Indonesia.

The deal between DealKeren and GantiBaju was a regular daily deal discount thingy, but this particular deal lasts longer than the usual one day deal. This deal is going to be active for at least 3 days until today, and this deal only valid for purchase on GantiBaju’s offline store down at FX Lifestyle X’nter, Jakarta. Aria Rajasa (CEO GantiBaju) told us that they receive a traffic spike from DealKeren with it’s huge traffic. And a good thing for DealKeren also, this deal is the first fashion related deals for DealKeren who usually put up discounts from restaurants, spa, and entertainment.

NsiaPay Rebranded Into Doku

NsiaPay is one of Indonesia’s startup company with a big chance to be the savior in terms of the online payment system. I even once refer it as the savior for bringing the online transaction platform grow in Indonesia. And now, NsiaPay is gone forever as announced by Ronald Ishak, one of the advisor for the payment company. NsiaPay is now officially Doku.

“It’s hard to pronounce and the brand name just doesn’t work”, said Ronald when asked about the reason behind the rebranding. I personally there’s something bigger under the table, rebranding is a big issue and took a lot of effort and less likely caused by a mere naming issue. I would think that NsiaPay was selling their product to the wrong bunch of people and realize their mistake and now rebranding their product as a new ride to acquire new sets of customers. Nsiapay’s website is still alive though.

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Koprol to release their API shortly

At the MobileMonday event last night at FX Plaza -the same venue they announced the Y! acquisition 6 months ago- Koprol‘s CTO Daniel Armanto announced that they will open up their API for third party developers shortly. At the event, Daniel also introduced a simple code for calling Koprol’s functions via their API using YQL. Although it’s not 100% ready, Daniel said that they will surely release the API for their services fully integrated with some of Yahoo! platform such as Yahoo! Query Language.

Currently Koprol has an API ready to used, but it’s mostly open for a few limited partners and not for public developers yet. After the API is fully integrated with Yahoo!’s platform, they will release the documentation for public developers to use their API.

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The Partnership Continues, Plasa.com Give 25GB Free Storage

The partnership between Plasa.com and Microsoft is (apparently) not done with Plasa.com’s webmail powered by Microsoft Live Mail. Today via Telkom Indonesia twitter account, Plasa.com announce another feature for their customer in their partnership with Microsoft. And just like their previous deal, it has nothing to do with e-commerce – you know, their core business.

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eVoucher Provides Online Discounts For Electronics

Out of so many Groupon clones existed in Indonesia, eVoucher might be the only one with a differentiation -although not exactly a strong one. How eVoucher.co.id works is basically the same as other Groupon clones, the payment method is also pretty much the same, but the oh-not-so-strong differentiation is on the items they sell. eVoucher focuses on selling discounts for electronics and gadgets, and when i say focuses means they’re not exclusive for electronics and gadgets only but also restaurants.

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