Harpoen Raih Penghargaan World Summit Award Mobile 2012

Beberapa waktu lalu kami sempat mengulas mengenai keikutsertaan enam wakil Indonesia pada acara World Summit Award Mobile 2012. Dalam perhelatan yang dilangsungkan di Abu Dhabi ini, Indonesia diwakili oleh Yotomo untuk kategori m-Business and Commerce, Akzara (m-Learning and Education), Rob n Roll (m-Entertainment and Lifestyle), Movreak (m-Media and News), Bango – Warisan Kuliner (m-Health adn Environment), dan Harpoen (m-Tourism and Culture). Kabar baiknya, salah satu dari perwakilan Indonesia ini berhasil menjadi pemenang.

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Nightspade’s Stack The Stuff and Application Potential in Education

Stack The Stuff is a new game that started making me addicted. Addictive because the game system is similar to Cut The Rope, where you must arrange all sorts of school supplies tools (ruler, pencil, pencil sharpener, eraser) to be balanced and can reach as many stars as possible. The special thing was the game that is universally available for the iPhone and iPad (and also be available for Android) was made by Indonesian mobile game studio based in Bandung, namely Nightspade. Nightspade, which recently gained funding from the East Ventures, indeed have the specialization to make a game on the mobile platform.

Stack The Stuff can downloaded for free and after several levels (multilevel models such as Cut The Rope or Angry Birds; 1-1, 1-2, and so on), you’ll be given the option to purchase (in-app purchase) the full version for $ 0.99. There is also the option to make donations (also in the app). I think this option is very effective because they don’t need to make two versions of the game, lite and full. Stack The Stuff seems to get a broad response globally and included in the list of New & Noteworthy in the App Store in many countries. It also earned high ratings.

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Elasitas’ Menoo! is Launched for BlackBerry and Android Platform

We were informed that Menoo! – brought by Elasitas to Android Developer Conference in March – has released its beta public version for Android and BlackBerry platform. iOS platform will be launched in July. Other than that there will be Windows Phone/Windows Mobile as well. In general, it looks like Tasterous, focusing on Location Based Service, food review. Tasterous has also launched its application for both platforms.

Menoo! was officially released at CommunicAsia in Singapura a few days ago. For restaurant/food stalls entries in Indonesia, Menoo! collaborates with JalanSutra community. As for US entry, Elasitas collaborates with AllMenus.com. Other than that Menoo! also has over 3000 entries in Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand. According to CEO of Elasitas, Calvin Kizana, as quoted in his press release, “The tren is not only to create applications that people like, but to create application that people like AND increase their social interaction.” Menoo is designed to assist users to share their experience in menu/food tasting.

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Developer Koprol Raih Juara YMDA Indonesia

Sabtu 16 Mei 2009 kemarin bertempat di X2 Club, Yahoo Indonesia mengumumkan pemenang dari kompetisi Yahoo Mobile Developer Award 2009. Kompetisi yang pertama kali diadakan tahun 2008 di Singapura ini bertujuan untuk mencari pengembang aplikasi mobile yang inovatif dan berbakat dari dalam negeri. Di Indonesia sendiri kompetisi secara resmi dimulai akhir bulan Maret kemarin, dan akhirnya dari 50 peserta didapatlah seorang pemenang. Pemenang itu adalah Rafeequl a.k.a VCool yang tidak lain dan tidak bukan adalah juga salah satu pengembang di belakang layanan jejaring sosial Koprol.

VCool memenangkan hadiah sebesar US$20.000 dari Yahoo Mobile untuk aplikasi mobile yang dibuat untuk korporat Vivanews. VCool membuat sebuah aplikasi mobile bernama Lapangan Hijau dimana pengguna bisa melihat informasi skor di liga sepakbola nasional, dan pengguna juga bisa menerima SMS untuk mengingatkan mengenai adanya pertandingan bola yang akan berlangsung. Aplikasi ini juga telah terhubung dengan Facebook Connect, streaming video, dan juga berisi informasi statistik pertandingan, jadwal, dan banyak lagi.

Sebelumnya VCool dan 4 finalis lainnya sudah menerima US$10.000 dan berhasil masuk final, namun VCool menerima tambahan US$10.000 karena menjadi pilihan juri yang diwakili oleh para sponsor. Jadi total US$20.000 berhasil diraup oleh VCool.

Selamat untuk Rafeequl a.k.a vcool for the prestigious award! Ayo anak bangsa, tunjukkan kemampuan Indonesia!