Rocket Internet indicates e-commerce expansion in Indonesia

By Rama Mamuaya - January 27, 2012
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The mother of all clones, Rocket Internet, a Berlin-based internet company that specializes on ripping off successful internet companies and scale it locally, has indicates that they’re expanding to the SEA region. As Sarah Lacy puts it, they are the worst kind of entrepreneur. There’s no commitment or belief in what they’re building if memos like that one above are to be believed– they’re just shallow profit-seekers.

And shameless as they may be, it’s not stopping them to expand to Asia. Our friends at SGEntrepreneurs just posted the news that Rocket Internet is launching Zalora (Zappos-clone) in Malaysia and is soon launching in Singapore. It just comes naturally that the clone-meister will soon enter Indonesian growing internet market.

And so they are.

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Talking gaming with Unity 3D’s John Goodale

By Rama Mamuaya - January 27, 2012
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If you can’t tell just yet, we’ve been giving a lot of buzz about Indonesia’s growing gaming industry for the past few months. I was clear that 2012 is going to be the year of gaming in Indonesia. More gaming companies established this year with fierce incumbents like Agate Studios, Altermyth, Toge Productions,etc.

The potential benefactor for this industry, is engine/platform provider, exactly like Unity3D. For those not familiar with the name, Unity3d is a tool for video game development, architectural visualizations, and interactive media installations. In short, it helps people develop 3d games.

Unity’s development environment runs on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, and the games it produces can be run on Windows, Mac, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, iPad, iPhone, as well as the Android platform. It can also produce browser games that use the Unity web player plugin, supported on Mac and Windows but not Linux.

Dailysocial got the chance to talk with John Goodale, Unity 3D’s General Manager for Asia region. A bit of background about Goodale :

John Goodale is the Asia-Pacific General Manager for Unity Technologies and is directly responsible for all of Unity’s operations in the Asia region. John has been with the game industry for over 20 years and has held several leadership positions in his career. During the early part of his carrer he focused on game monetization as a producer, product marketing manager, licensing director and business unit manager at game publishers Sega, Activision and Turner Entertainment.

Since 2007 he has focused on game development in Asia, building and leading large teams and launching the Asian businesses for game engine companies as General Manager Asia of Gamebryo, CryENGINE and now Unity Technologies.
John has lived and worked in Japan, is fluent in Japanese, and has been doing business in Asia for more than 20 years. John resides in Boise, Idaho with his family but spends upwards of 80% of the year travelling throughout Asia.

Without further ado, check out Dailysocial’s interview with Goodale below.

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Are Tech Conferences Worth Attending?

By Aulia Masna - January 25, 2012
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Indonesia’s technology startup community did not waste time in kicking 2012 off into high gear by holding the two-day Boost Asia conference which was held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Jakarta on 17-18 January. The conference boasted a host of speakers and panelists from Japan, USA, Vietnam, and Indonesia and was attended by nearly 300 entrepreneurs, investors, other business people, the media, and even students.

I’m not going to go into much about the conference, that I’ll leave to Rama who will be able to talk about it much deeper. What I want to discuss however, is the effectiveness and appeal of conferences, especially tech industry conferences such as Boost or DailySocial’s very own SparxUp and whether it’s worth paying to attend them.

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Location-Based Service Yotomo, Released Version 2.0

By Amir Karimuddin - January 24, 2012
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Years have changed; surely it should be a reform of existing services to be better. Location-based service, Yotomo, aligned with the New Year released the latest version 2.0 for BlackBerry and Android platforms. Yotomo uses Foursquare’s location data as the basis to bolster its own service. They stated that in addition to improving their design, there would be also a number of new features introduced.

The focus on version 2.0 update is a game called the “Title”. This game takes after the mayorship model that was introduced by Foursquare. The difference is, there are a variety of titles up for grabs for a venue, depending on the categories. unlike Foursquare, there isn’t just one title to win but there are three levels. For example, in the Restaurant venue category, Yotomo users will compete for Yotomo Chef, Cook and Waiter title. Another example is the Office category in which the titles to grab are CEO, Manager, and Intern. For each venue in each category, the highest title can only be had by one user – like a Major in Foursquare.

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Tiket.com Is Now Accepting Credit Card Payment

By Amir Karimuddin - January 24, 2012
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As announced by their Twitter account, Tiket.com finally accepts payment by credit card. Tiket.com claims that they use payment system using the best technology to detect fraud and to support 3D Secure. Payment gateway that they use is CyberSource, and it’s also used by many large companies such as Apple, Microsoft, and Symantec. One of things that become 3D secure warranty technology is a guarantee from Visa and MasterCard to do full refund in case of fraud.

Previously, when Tiket.com was launched, they only can accommodate payment via bank transfer (ATM) and BCA or Bank Mandiri Internet banking. Method of payment via credit card isn’t only ease to be done via web but for those who are using mobile web, Tiket.com can be used easily as well. Tiket.com currently serves hotel room reservations, theater tickets blitzmegaplex, and one or two events.

Tiket.com was launched last November and received a tremendous feedback. During the promotion period Tiket gave away a three day vacation package to Bali and recently announced the winner of that lucky draw. We’ll now see whether Tiket can make it, following the promo period, in the increasingly tight online travel booking business.

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idblogNetwork to Launch Pay-Per-Sale Program

By Amir Karimuddin - January 24, 2012
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idblogNetwork, a local ad program aimed at bloggers, will launch a new feature to advertise in the near future. It’s pay-per-sale or pay-per-lead basis. Advertisers will only pay based on the number of items sold with a referral program that is owned by idBlogNetwork. Programs like this remind us of the Amazon affiliate widget that was popular among bloggers as one of the monetization efforts.

To be able to become an advertiser on this program, advertisers must first fill out a product category that has been arranged by categories. There are 48 categories to choose. To achieve target market, advertisers must choose the corresponding category. Of course this would be of interest for online seller.  The “reseller” principle isn’t something new for them. We don’t know yet the rate given by idBlogNetwork, but based on previous experience the commission given to the publisher has been pretty competitive.

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mig33 Launches Twitter-like Miniblog

By Amir Karimuddin - January 24, 2012
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mig33 strengthened its base in social networking services by launching a miniblog similar to Twitter. With this miniblog, mig33 users can send messages using 140 characters that are integrated with third-party service games, avatars, profiles, and chat. As quoted from VentureBeat, mig33 CEO Mr Steve Goh said, “We think miniblog could be a liaison, unifying our diverse range of services to users. You can access rich media, play, and get the badges directly in the platform. It represents the evolution in our community. ”

Goh continued that miniblog was inspired by similar service owned by Twitter, Sina’s Weibo, and Tumblr. This service will be implemented first time in Indonesia as the largest mig33 mass base and then expands it into the corners of Southeast Asia and South Asia. There are approximately 30 million of mig33 registered users in Indonesia alone.

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Garage Technology Ventures’ Bill Reichert Visited Bandung Digital Valley

By Wiku Baskoro - January 24, 2012
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Last Tuesday, Bill Reichert, Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures visited Bandung. He went to the office Agate Studio and Bandung Digital Valley and I had the opportunity to attend a light discussion with him at BDV. Bill came into Indonesia as part of the entrepreneurial programs run by Bank Mandiri.

Garage Technology Ventures (Garage) is a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital fund headquartered in Palo Alto. Two other managing directors at Garage are Guy Kawasaki, who is also the founder, and Joyce Chung.

This light and casual discussion yesterday was attended by digital entrepreneurs, startup founders, a community like Mikti and FOWAB. There are some interesting things discussed at the meeting and it could become an idea and information for startup technology activist.

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Interview with Adstars about Digital Advertising Market in Indonesia in 2012

By Amir Karimuddin - January 24, 2012
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Adstars was recently appointed as the exclusive country reseller for ads on ÜberSocial, a popular third party Twitter app that leads the Indonesian market. ÜberSocial is made by UberMedia and is available in three major platforms: BlackBerry, Android and iOS. Additionally, Adstars had also been appointed as a country exclusive reseller for Multiply.

We talked via email to Chief Commercial Officer of Adstars, Mr. Yazid Faizin, about the digital advertising market in Indonesia, his predictions for 2012, the cooperation with UberMedia and favourite mobile platforms that will be the next big thing.

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XL Axiata Partners with Huawei, Transfers 1200 Employees Across

By Amir Karimuddin - January 24, 2012
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Several days ago we received a press release stating that Huawei Tech Investment was appointed as a partner of PT XL Axiata to manage its mobile network for the next seven years. The designation is based on Huawei’s experience in managing the network and the ability to provide assurance that the XL network services will remain reliable. Mr. Hasnul Suhaimi (President Director of XL) asserted that this step was taken by XL in order to be more focus on core services, namely the network services.

Huawei will manage operation of XL’s 2G/3G mobile network services including Network Operations Center (NOC), Field of Operations (FOP), Network Performance Management (NPM) and Spare Parts Management Service that is owned by XL. One of the highlights of cooperation Managed Network Services is the transfer of 1200 XL employees (which I assume most of them are the engineers) becoming an Huawei employees. XL ensures that the rights of employees are still aligned with the regulations, including the same remuneration scheme.

Employees who transferred to Huawei include permanent employees and outsourced employees.
The decision to outsource its own employees in the form of assets and to restructure labour division are most likely to minimize the cost incurred for network management. Will this become a trend in the future? We have to wait. Clearly we hope this decision will not be a bad precedent for existing contracts and the network management transition went smoothly to ensure quality service to customers.

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