Detikcom Launched “Masak Apa” for BlackBerry, Android, and iPhone

Informations about cooking and where to find restaurants are increasingly becoming attractive commodity in the mobile realm. Launched in late July, with the official launching ceremony on last Saturday, Detikcom, under PT Agranet Multicitra Siberkom, released an “Makan Apa” (What To Eat) application for 3 mobile platform, BlackBerry, Android, and iOS (iPhone & iPad). Everything is available for free. The application doesn’t need much, you just have to use BlackBerry OS 5, Android 1.6, or IOS version 3.0. Previously, Detikcom has issued “Makan di Mana” (Where To Eat) for those 3 mobile platform.

As a leading online media in Indonesia, Detikcom seems to be more aggressive in making mobile applications. The reason is none other that the more rapid growth of mobile penetration compared to desktops in the country which caused such great potential for mobile. However, for the time being this is a new implementation in the smart phones area.

Detikcom has made a special Mobile Apps portal that lists what applications created by Detikcom and for what platform. However, it seems that Detikcom only the focus on 3 platform, BlackBerry, Android, and IOS (iPhone or iPad).

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buku resep is… another recipe book app for iOS

No, we’re not trying to torture those of you who are fasting on this first day of Ramadan but for some reason we keep coming across food related apps this last couple of weeks and we can’t help but check them out. Recipe book seems to be a popular category among Indonesian mobile app developers as we just discovered yet another one called buku resep.

buku resep is, as you can tell from the name, a recipe book. It has a list of more than 90 recipes of various Indonesian cookings from across the archipelago. The app was actually launched on June 29 and since July 7th has been holding on to number 9 on the top 25 paid apps in the Indonesian App Store.

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Tasterous Sekarang Tersedia Untuk Pengguna iPhone

Tasterous, aplikasi berbasis lokasi yang memungkinkan Anda menemukan dan berbagi makanan/restoran lokal, hari ini secara resmi meluncurkan versi iphone app mereka. Sebelumn versi iPhone yang diluncurkan hari ini, Tasterous secara resmi meluncurkan aplikasi Blackberry pada akhir April ’11 dan versi Android pada bulan Juni ’11.

Tasterous didirikan oleh Ronald Ishak dan Deche Pangestu pada akhir Oktober 2010, masing-masing sebagai CEO dan CTO, mereka kemudian mengumumkan penambahan dua rockstars startup menjadi dewan direksi, Ken Dean Lawadinata (CEO Kaskus) dan Selina Limman (CEO Urbanesia).

Aplikasi ini kompatibel dengan iPhone, iPod touch dan iPad, Anda membutuhkan iOS 4.2 atau yang versi terbaru. Aplikasi ini tersedia untuk diunduh di App Store melalui tautan ini.

Tasterous Is Now Available For The iPhone

Tasterous, the location-based app that lets you find and share local dishes, today has launched the iphone version of their app. The company officially launched their Blackberry app late April ’11 and their Android app in June ’11, before finally launch their iPhone app today.

Tasterous is founded by Ronald Ishak and Deche Pangestu by the end of October 2010, as CEO and CTO respectively, where recently announced the addition of two startup rockstars into Board of Directors, Ken Dean Lawadinata (CEO of Kaskus) and Selina Limman (CEO of Urbanesia).

This app is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad and require iOS 4.2 or later. This app is available for download in the App Store via this link.

Facebook releases Facebook for Every Phone app

Mobile devices shape the direction of the internet and a company like Facebook certainly recognizes this shift in device usage from desktop to mobile, which is why the company has launched Facebook for Every Phone app to offer the full mobile Facebook experience for basic phones.

As noted by Opera’s monthly State of the Web report, Facebook is among the top five most accessed websites using Opera mini across 14 of its top 20 countries, with the remaining being former Soviet Union countries, China and Vietnam.

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Asia Tenggara Menyambut Baik Pembelian Dalam Aplikasi

Melanjutkan artikel DailySocial tentang laporan Distimo pada aplikasi mobile yang dituliskan minggu lalu, kali ini kita akan melihat temuan mengenai in-app purchases – pembelian dalam aplikasi. Distimo telah menerbitkan laporan secara teratur setiap bulannya sejak Apple App Store dibuka pertengahan 2008 tetapi ini adalah pertama kalinya Distimo mengangkat wilayah Asia dalam laporannya.

In-app purchase beberapa minggu ini mendapat sorotan yang cukup banyak karena beberapa perusahaan yang menjual aplikasi dengan model in-app purchase ini diminta hadir di pengadilan oleh Lodsys, sebuah perusahan yang mengklaim bahwa mereka memiliki paten atas model pembelian seperti ini. Walau kasus ini masih berlangsung, ruang lingkup cakupan kasus tersebut berada di luar diskusi artikel ini.

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Southeast Asia embraces in-app purchase model in mobile applications

Following up on our break down of the Distimo report on mobile applications published last week, this time we will look at the findings regarding in-app purchases. Distimo has been publishing its reports regularly on a monthly basis since Apple’s App Store was opened in mid 2008 but this is the first time that the company shed light on the Asian region.

The in-app purchase model is something that has received quite a bit of limelight in the last several weeks as mobile developers selling applications on Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market are being taken to court by Lodsys, a company claiming to own the patent to in-app purchases. While the case is still on-going, the scope of its coverage is actually beyond the discussion of this article.

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Indonesian Developers Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Develop Paid Apps for iPhone

Us, Indonesian, by nature are freebies lovers – and pirated goods lovers too. Of course that applies only to some of us, but compared to other countries with higher GDP it is understandable why not many software are bought legally no matter how affordable the offers are. Even so, Distimo‘s publication on iPhone apps market in Asia, including Indonesia, shows surprising result. Indonesian users are considered to be the largest numbers who buy apps on iPhone.

According to Distimo’s publication, out of 300 the most popular applications in each country which significantly has a very large number of downloads, there are 5.18% paid application in Indonesia market. The conversion is among 300 popular apps – where mostly are free apps- there are 15 paid apps listed. The average price is US$1.84, higher than most application bought in USA, US$1.48. 5.18% is the third highest number in Asia, under Japan and Sri Lanka. Even more shocking, that number is much higher than Singapore (3.24%) and Malaysia (2.53%).

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Pengembang Indonesia, Jangan Takut Kembangkan Aplikasi Berbayar untuk iPhone

Selama ini kita tahu bahwa orang Indonesia, by nature, senang segala hal yang berbau gratisan — apalagi bajakan. Memang tidak cuma orang Indonesia tentu yang seperti itu, tapi dibandingkan negara-negara lain dengan pendapatan per kapita lebih tinggi, bisa dipahami mengapa tidak banyak piranti lunak yang dibeli secara legal, semurah apapun harga piranti lunak tersebut ditawarkan. Meskipun demikian, publikasi Distimo tentang pasar aplikasi iPhone di Asia, termasuk pasar Indonesia, menunjukkan hasil yang cukup mengejutkan. Pengguna Indonesia termasuk dalam kategori tertinggi dalam membeli aplikasi di iPhone.

Menurut publikasi Distimo tersebut, dari 300 aplikasi paling populer di masing-masing negara, yang secara signifikan memiliki total volume unduhan sangat besar, terdapat 5.18% aplikasi berbayar di pasar Indonesia. Konversinya adalah di 300 aplikasi terpopuler itu, di mana kebanyakan adalah aplikasi gratis, ada 15 aplikasi berbayar yang masuk dalam daftar tersebut. Harga rata-rata dari aplikasi tersebut adalah US$1.84, lebih tinggi dari rata-rata harga aplikasi yang dibeli di USA yaitu US$1.48. Angka 5.18% ini adalah ketiga tertinggi dari negara-negara di Asia yang disurvei, di bawah Jepang dan Sri Lanka. Yang lebih mengejutkan lagi, raihan tersebut jauh lebih tinggi ketimbang negara tetangga seperti Singapura dan Malaysia, yang masing-masing mencapai 3.24% dan 2.53%.

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Kaskus For iOS Still Needs Fixing, It’s a Bugs Galore

Collaborating with Apps Foundry, Kaskus as the biggest Indonesian Forum launches its official application for iOS universally and compatible for iPhone and iPad. With a minimum requirement of iOS 3.0, I’m sure it will still function properly on older version handset such as iPhone 3G or even first generation iPhone. Apps Foundry is known as a leading application developer with products such as Scoop for iPad.

I don’t remember when was Kaskus launched an application for iOS but the current one is already version 2.0, where according to the iTunes page, besides additional support for iPad, this new version claim to have fix various bugs and more enhanced performance. Previously, Kaskus already had several application for multiple platform like BlackBerry, Java and Symbian.

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