Tag: Social Media

Yahoo! She and Sites for Indonesian Women

Coinciding with International Women’s Day on March 8, 2012, Yahoo! Launched Yahoo! She, a site dedicated exclusively to women. Yahoo! She, with the tag line “Real Women; Real Answers”, is targeting female consumers aged 19 – 35 years old.

In its news release, Yahoo! She will not only raise the issue of lifestyle but also will open to topic that is considered taboo by most people in Indonesia. This is what distinguishes Yahoo! She with other sites for women.

However, to grow in Indonesia, Yahoo! She does not only have to dare in raising a topic that is considered taboo but really pick it up with an Indonesian sense. Because in reality, several topics that are considered taboo, let’s say sex and romance, have often been brought up by two women-oriented sites that already exist in Indonesia, Kompas Female and Detik Wolipop. What is lacking is to raise it according to the situation in Indonesia, not just translate it to Indonesian.

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Preparing Angry Birds “With Indonesia Flavour”, Rovio Opens Internship Opportunities for Indonesians

The significant role of Indonesia in the Internet world has made Rovio as a creator of popular game Angry Birds to take an action. After we heard that Angry Birds for Facebook would be publicly announced in Jakarta (as the city with the largest numbers of Facebook users in the world – according to SocialBakers), now at Valentine’s Day this February, Rovio opens an internship opportunity for Indonesians in order to prepare Angry Birds version which has Indonesian distinctive character.

The first opportunity is for the people who are interested in the Social Media. Rovio offers an internship program for 3-6 months in Rovio’s headquarters, Helsinki, Finland. The requirement are: fluent in English and Bahasa Indonesia (oral or written), understand social media and technology, pro-active, productive and certainly is a fan of Angry Birds. There is no limit of education and age to take this opportunity. Full details on how to register can be seen in the post published by Andy Zain. Andy Zain also provides some additional information through his Twitter account about internship opportunities for Social Media. The interesting thing is the internship is paid (in Euro) and if the requirement is matched, there will be a possibility to be a permanent employee.

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Siapkan Angry Birds “Rasa Indonesia”, Rovio Mulai Buka Kesempatan Magang bagi Orang Indonesia

Semakin pentingnya Indonesia di percaturan Internet dunia membuat Rovio, sebagai pembuat permainan populer Angry Birds, tidak tinggal diam. Setelah kita dengar bahwa Angry Birds untuk Facebook akan diumumkan secara perdana di Jakarta (sebagai kota pengguna Facebook terbesar di dunia, setidaknya menurut versi SocialBakers) saat Valentine’s Day di bulan Februari ini, Rovio mulai membuka kesempatan magang bagi orang-orang Indonesia untuk mempersiapkan versi Angry Birds dengan karakter khas Indonesia.

Kesempatan pertama hadir bagi orang-orang yang berminat di bidang Social Media. Rovio menawarkan program magang selama 3-6 bulan di kantor pusat Rovio di Helsinki, Finlandia. Syarat yang dibutuhkan adalah fasih dalam Bahasa Inggris dan Bahasa Indonesia, baik lisan maupun tulisan, memahami social media dan teknologi secara mendalam, berjiwa pro-aktif, produktif, dan pastinya adalah penggemar Angry Birds. Tidak ada batasan pendidikan maupun umur untuk mengambil kesempatan ini. Keterangan lengkap tentang cara pendaftaran bisa dilihat di post yang dipublikasi oleh Andy Zain.

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Indonesia Will Lose The Title as “Second Largest Population in Facebook” This Year

So far, we are always proud of the fact that Indonesia is a “social media country” — so active in Facebook pages and Twitter. There are many countless times that Twitter users from Indonesia “lift” the topics to be trending globally for days. Indonesia is the county with second most populous Facebook users in the world after the United States, tally at 41.7 million users according to statistics recorded by social media agency SocialBakers.

However, seeing the trend that occurred in recent months, Indonesia seems should be ready to let go of this title. Over the last six months, the increase of Facebook users in Indonesia is “only” about 7.5%. Two countries behind Indonesia which also has a massive population such as India and Brazil have recorded a fantastic growth.

In India, within the last 6 months they managed to increase the population of “Facebook resident” by 40%. The number goes 65% for Brazil. No wonder that today India has 41.4 million of Facebook users and 35 million for Brazil. Not to mention the fact that the percentage of Facebook users in India is still around 3.5% from the total population. Both Indonesia and Brazil, the number of Facebook users has reached 17% from the total population. On the other hand, the number of Facebook users in Indonesia is almost the same as the number of Internet users in Indonesia.

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Indonesia Bakal Lepas Gelar “Populasi Terbesar Kedua di Facebook” Tahun Ini

Selama ini kita selalu membanggakan suatu fakta bahwa Indonesia merupakan “negara social media” yang begitu aktif memenuhi laman-laman Facebook dan Twitter. Sudah tidak terhitung berapa kali pengguna Twitter dari Indonesia “mengangkat” topik-topik menjadi trending secara global selama berhari-hari. Indonesia adalah negara dengan populasi terbesar kedua di dunia sebagai pengguna Facebook, setelah Amerika Serikat, dengan jumlah pengguna 41.7 juta, berdasarkan catatan lembaga statistik social media SocialBakers.

Meskipun demikian, melihat tren yang terjadi dalam beberapa bulan terakhir, nampaknya Indonesia harus siap untuk melepaskan gelar ini. Selama enam bulan terakhir, tercatat penambahan jumlah pengguna Facebook di Indonesia “hanya” sekitar 7.5%. Dua negara di belakang Indonesia yang juga memiliki populasi penduduk yang masif, India dan Brazil mencatat pertumbuhan yang fantastis.

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Social Media Festival Menunjukkan Kecintaaan Masyarakat Indonesia Atas Internet

Pekan lalu, lebih dari 40 ribu pengunjung memadati Social Media Festival yang diselenggarakan selama tiga hari di Jakarta pada tanggal 22-24 September 2011. Acara yang diselenggarakan oleh perusahaan media internet SalingSilang dan DailySocial mengambil alih semua delapan lantai fX Lifestyle X’nter di Jakarta Pusat. Acara ini mengenali dan merayakan adopsi dan pengaruh media sosial oleh individu dan berbagai organisasi di Indonesia yang dikenal sebagai negara dengan adopsi jaringan sosial dan layanan online yang tinggi seperti di Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, Mig33, dan sebagainya.

Acara ini menghadirkan lusinan komunitas yang memanfaatkan internet, media sosial dan teknologi untuk membantu tujuan mereka, meningkatkan kesadaran, dan mengatur kegiatan mereka. Musisi, pembuat film, aktor, komedian, blogger, pembawa acara, dan para profesional lainnya ikut ambil bagian dalam festival ini, bertemu langsung dengan anggota masyarakat dan terlibat secara offline dalam cara yang mungkin tidak dapat dijalankan secara online.

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Social Media Festival Highlights Indonesia’s Love Affair with the Internet

More than 40 thousand attendees packed the three-day Social Media Festival held in Jakarta last week from 22-24 September. The event, held by internet media companies SalingSilang and DailySocial took over all eight floors of fX Lifestyle X’nter in Central Jakarta. It recognized and celebrated the adoption and influence of social media by individuals and various organizations in Indonesia as the country features significantly among users of social networks and online services such as Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, Mig33, and so on.

The event highlighted dozens of communities who take advantage of the internet, social media and technology to further their cause, raise awareness, and organize their activities. Musicians, filmmakers, actors, comedians, bloggers, talk show hosts, and various other professionals took part in the festivities to meet directly with members of the communities and engage offline in a way that may not be possible online.

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Kartumuu Launched Business Facility (Updated)

May be some of the readers start their vacation and packing, or have already gathered with family to welcome Ied Al-Fitr this year. But wait, this is a good moment for startups to run their program, one of them is Kartumuu.com.

Kartumuu.com is a social media service which gives facility to users for sending digital cards. According to their press release several days ago to DailySocial, they launched their business facility. Kartumuu Business helps brand for their online campaign program.

There are three main services explained in the press release from the Kartumuu’s business facility. The first one is the special page for brand (profile page) on Kartumuu, so every brand can have special page with custom design.

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Event: Social Media World Forum – Asia 2011

Social Media World Forum Asia akan segera hadir kembali, event tahunan ini akan diselenggarakan selama dua hari dari tanggal 1 – 2 September 2011, bertempat di Singapura: Suntec Singapore, International Convention & Exhibition Centre, 1 Raffles Boulevard, Suntec City.

Acara ini akan menghadirkan berbagai pembicara ternama, studi kasus atas brand tertentu, tanya jawab dan debat atas topik tertentu, eksibisi, workshop dan networking. Beberapa hal baru yang ditawarkan di Social Media World Forum Asia (SMWF) tahun 2011 ini antara lain format diskusi panel yang baru, tweets up panels, on stage interviews, open ‘Q&A’ portions, audience sourcing debates dan break-out group discussions yang memberikan kesempatan untuk para peserta dalam menggali lebih dalam topik tertentu.

Tahun ini juga akan disediakan ‘Apps World’ yang memberikan fasilitas untuk menggali lebih dalam seputar topik aplikasi sebagai perangkat pemasaran. Agenda lengkap bisa dilihat di sini.

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Opera Mini Statistic: 77% Indonesian Users Access Facebook.com

Opera in its April 2011 Opera Mini access statistic, focused on social media websites access, shows clear fact that Indonesia is “Facebook Republic”. A total of 77% Opera Mini users access Facebook.com, and its equal with 69% page views total by Indonesian Opera Mini users. The number is also equal with Philippines and is the largest percentage in the world for social media statistic.

However there are some countries where Facebook isn’t dominating. In Brazil. 40% users access Google’s orkut.com. In Uni Soviet’s ex nations vkontakte.ru dominates the statistic by 47% in Russia and 11% in Kazakhstan. Lesser number went to renren.com in China (4%) and zing.vn in Vietnam (9%)

As for Indonesia despite 3% decline on page views rate compared to April 2010, there’s a rise of 41.9% for unique users on the same period. The statistic said that in general every users access 477 page with average data transferred of 5MB per user.

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