[Manic Monday] Aplikasi Chat Sebagai Platform Hiburan

Belakangan ini, layanan-layanan chat seperti Kakaotalk, LINE, Wechat, dan sebagainya sedang seolah-olah berperang dalam merebut perhatian pelanggan, dengan harapan mereka akan mengunduh dan menggunakan aplikasinya. Beberapa perusahaan sampai mengeluarkan uang yang tidak sedikit untuk menunjuk ambasador yang dikenal masyarakat dan memasang iklan pada jam tayang TV prime time. Berbagai fitur dikembangkan dan program promosi dijalankan – bahkan fitur seperti stiker mulai ditiru oleh aplikasi yang sebelumnya tidak memiliki layanan chat, contohnya Path.

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BRTI Expects to Deploy Messaging Indonesia Before End of 2013

The push to deliver an Indonesian mobile messaging solution by the Indonesian Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (BRTI) continues amid collaborations by local telcos with foreign messaging companies. Temporarily dubbed Messaging Indonesia, the effort is expected to reduce consumer reliance on foreign services. BRTI is working with three major mobile carriers to develop this service.

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BlackBerry Messenger to be Available on iOS and Android. What’s in it for BlackBerry?

During BlackBerry Live, CEO Thorsten Heins announced the availability of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) for iOS and Android this coming summer. To use the free BBM service will require iOS 6 or Android 4.0. Aside from being multi platform, BlackBerry will also introduce BBM Channels which acts as special channels for brands and celebrities to interact with their fans.

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The Messaging Conundrum

Ask any smartphone-wielding Indonesian about their messaging apps and they would most likely say a combination of two, maybe three apps, aside from SMS, the usage of which had been in serious decline over the past year. WhatsApp, BlackBerry Messenger, and Line tend to be the top three messaging apps mentioned by Indonesians. Although people do actively use other messaging apps, they are not as prominent on people’s minds.

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McCann CEO: Older Messaging Apps Don’t Create Deep Connections

WhatsApp. Line. KakaoTalk. WeChat. Skype. BlackBerry Messenger. Path. iMessage. Facebook. These are just a few of the currently popular messaging apps. It’s inevitable that people will have to use more than one of these apps to contact different groups of people, adding to the complexity of communications, thanks to the different features each company has chosen to highlight, but the newer apps are getting more love from mobile consumers.

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Custom T-Shirt Startup Tees Introduces Affiliate Program and Opens API Access

Tees, Aria Rajasa’s latest custom t-shirt startup, has officially announced its API availability as well as an affiliate program. Built upon the knowledge and opportunities gained from his previous startup Gantibaju.com, Tees lets anyone design, print and sell t-shirts without having to place bulk orders.
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Facebook. Connecting People

Facebook has finally announced the Facebook “phone“. It’s not a phone per se but a launcher, a layer between the operating system of a mobile device and the applications that run on top of it. Home, as Facebook calls it, brings a whole new experience in using a mobile device and Facebook wants to have it installed on as many phones as possible. Home launches on 12 April as an app from Google Play downloadable to a number of Android phones, as well as built in to HTC First, the first phone to run Home natively.

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As Indonesian Mobile Carriers Prepare Move to 4G LTE, Frequency Allocation Becomes a Murky Situation

Indonesia’s CDMA and GSM operators in the country are converging towards LTE, much like in the United States. Carriers and regulators agree that it’s an important step to take to deal with the rising demand of mobile data and to keep up with the technological progress. Unfortunately there are technical, commercial, and political barriers preventing its deployment to happen widely and rapidly.

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BlackBerry 10 Desperately Needs Those Killer Apps

BlackBerry is introducing a new smartphone platform in the middle of perhaps the fiercest battle for consumers on the market for mobile devices. For all of the primary purposes of a modern phone, Blackberry seems to have nailed the experience in Blackberry 10, not to mention the additional features. What it hasn’t got or at least hasn’t appeared to have, is a collection of killer apps. These are the apps that people will pick up a Z10 or a Q10 for because the apps either are not available on other devices or performs poorly on them.
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Don’t Blame the Marketplace if You Can’t Sell Your Product

When the App Store was new, it was pretty easy to find a mobile app for the iPhone since just about any new one will be published, talked about, reviewed, and dissected by the technology blogs. Today, there are tens to hundreds of thousands of apps on each of the the major mobile application store and only notable developers are making serious money out of creating and publishing apps. Is discovery a problem and if so, how can developers overcome this?

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