Bancakan 2.0 Will Celebrate Their Second Anniversary

By Bonang Setoaji - February 22, 2012
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Startup community from Yogyakarta, Bancakan 2.0, will be having its second anniversary. And as they celebrate their second birthday, the community which was established on February 24, 2010 will again hold a gathering on Friday, February 24th 2012, from 18:30 – finish. The meet up will be held at Plaza Telkom – Jl Yos Sudarso No.9, Yogyakarta (Kota Baru area).

In previous meet ups, speakers brought on by Bancakan 2.0 were made up mainly of startup owners and developers. This time, on the tenth meet up, the speakers will come from a different background as the theme for this meet up will be “Startups From Investors’ Perspective”. As per the theme, the speakers will be investors who have funded a number of Indonesian startups such as Antonny Liem (Merah Putih Inc), Andrias Ekoyuono (Ideosource), and from Telkomsel, Rizky Muhammad.

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Ursa Madjor, One More Service of Virtual Reality 360°

By Andi Miftachul - February 22, 2012
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More than half a year ago, DailySocial discussed the opportunity to raise the photography technology Virtual Reality (VR 360 °); the one that offers VR 360 is IndonesiaVirtual.com, a photography service supported by SmartaIndonesia. Now another service that offers a similar facility (VR 360 °) is coming. The service is delivered by the Ursa Madjor in www.ursamadjor.com.

Ursa Madjor has stated in a release received by DailySocial that Virtual Reality is “an environment with additional virtual objects such as text, audio, and video.” With this technology, Ursa Madjor tries to present an interesting visual experience and informative. You will be able to see 360° image. 360° that referred here isn’t only 360° circle, but it’s 360° of a ball, a space. With it, you may feel as if you are directly in the neighbourhood.

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[Simply Business] Content Curation is Taking Over The Web

By Guest Post - February 22, 2012
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Aria Rajasa is the CEO of gantibaju.com, a clothing startup not dissimilar to Threadless but with a touch of Indonesia and a very strong design community. His passion in entrepreneurship has gotten him to start a number of companies since leaving university

Content is often the most overlooked element of a startup. This usually happens because most founders are techies and techies concentrate on what they know best: Technology. They can tinker days and months perfecting their code, playing with the test unit and scaling the servers like crazy. Yes, playing with technology is awesome but content is King.

Content is where I expect much of the real money will be made on the Internet, just as it was in broadcasting. ~ Bill Gates

But content itself is worthless if it adds no value. Without value, content is just noise and the Internet is full of them! Nobody needs more noise in an already complicated life. To create great content, curation is needed. Curation is what differentiates between noise and great content. It adds value and selects only the most relevant content to specific users.

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Should Application Stores Drop The Five Star Rating System?

By Aulia Masna - February 22, 2012
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YouTube’s Hunter Walk presents an argument that the five star rating system used by application stores should be left behind, replaced by more accurate, more reliable measures of popularity. In his view, the five-star system is subjective to the values of those who give them. Your judgment for a three star app may mean differently to someone else’s, but a like or dislike is almost absolute. The same subject was raised back in 2009 by MG Siegler with regards to YouTube.

It certainly serves Walk’s argument that Google changed YouTube’s rating system in favor of thumb up and thumb down. This is similar to the approach that Facebook has taken since the very beginning with its thumb up icon for liking or expressing approval to a status update although Facebook has never allowed a negative vote or a thumb down.

There are also other ways to determine an app’s popularity, some of which are presented in Walk’s blog post. These include co-installation, market segmentation, actual usage, and social graph, as he explained further in his post.

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Talking About Expansion With MOL Indonesia’s Country Manager

By Rama Mamuaya - February 21, 2012
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As we all know, the dying social networking site Friendster got acquired by Malaysia-based MOL (Money Online) and now revived as an online gaming portal. After a while, finally MOL decided to enter Indonesian market by establishing a company PT. MOL AccessPortal and apparently has a dedicated man running the country operations since September last year.

Dailysocial have a great discussion with Patrick Setiawan, MOL Indonesia’s Country Manager and we talked about MOL as a company, Friendster, the gaming industry in Indonesia and digital money as a way for platform like Friendster making money from markets like Indonesia.

Check out interview with Patrick below :

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Tokopedia Adds UNIK As a Payment Method

By Wiku Baskoro - February 21, 2012
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Last week Tokopedia announced that it has adopted UNIK as an additional payment option that its customers can use to purchase goods from its online stores.

UNIK, short for Uang Elektronik (Electronic Money) is a payment system developed by a company called Transmaya. it covers online purchases, utility bills, and phone credit top ups and the company is also working to add fund transfers to its service. To use UNIK, buyers will have to register as a member and deposit funds before they can take advantage of the facilities.

Tokopedia explains on its website that the benefit for customers by using UNIK is the instant verification of payments which allows a speedier transaction between merchants and buyers. For merchants, the benefit is the addition of UNIK users as potential customers.

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iPayMu Officialy Launched ‘EscrowMu’ Feature

By Bonang Setoaji - February 21, 2012
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Riyeke Ustadiyanto (founder of iPayMu.com) has announced in the Station Community Facebook Group and in the #startuplokal mailing list about the latest iPayMu feature called EscrowMu. Riyeke explained that EscrowMu is escrow professional software issued by iPayMu which allows both parties (seller and buyer) to be involved in the sale without any risk.

“EscrowMu can be owned by anyone who is interested to organize joint account or escrow. For buyers, they can be assured receiving 100% good condition of goods from the seller and the seller will be protected from online scams. If you run a webhosting business, domain appraisal service or website domain registration, we can add value to the site by offering customers an online escrow service”, explained Riyeke  in our e-mail interview.

Riyeke also explained that EscrowMu (escrow premium iPayMu) feature was made to be more flexible and users can set the percentage amount of transactions that are set by the escrow owner. In addition EscrowMu merchant can put their own label branding.

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IDOL Voucher from eVoucher.co.id

By Andi Miftachul - February 21, 2012
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eVoucher, one of the local daily deals services, launched a new service called Idol Voucher. Idol Voucher is a combination between daily deals concept and the meetup events. eVoucher will be holding an event that invites Idol endorsed by merchant which is having cooperation with eVoucher. By purchasing a voucher for the event, fans would be able to meet, talk directly, and to take pictures with the idol.

Idol can be anyone who is proposed by the fans. It could be artist, celebrity, doctor, photographer, blogger, entrepreneur or anyone who is considered successful and popular in their field. Fans who want their idol to be elected as Idol Voucher could propose by mentioning to eVoucher Twitter (@diskonevoucher) with hash-tag #IDOLVOUCHER.

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Jakarta Founder Institute (1st Batch) has graduated 13 Founders – 8 Startups

By Wiku Baskoro - February 21, 2012
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On February 9, at @america Pacific Place Jakarta, Jakarta Founder Institute (JKTFI) held a graduation ceremony for their first batch of startups.

13 founders have established eight startups with a variety of services, there are live features and services that can be enjoyed by users. However most of them are still preparing to launch their services.

The event was quite interesting. Attended by the mentors and the invitees including the investors, the event also featured the presentation from the graduates who have described their services, market opportunities and market business strategy.

Founder Institute is an idea-stage global incubator that has been held in various countries. In Jakarta, this 13 founders is the first batch of successful ‘education’ in Jakarta Founder Institute. As written in previous DailySocial articles, there are 132 participants registered, 42 of them were accepted and finally only 13 founders are left.

The participants had more than 20 mentors consisting of the big names and experienced professionals in Indonesia technology world and global; among others are Andi S. Boediman, Andy Zain, Izak Djenie, Peter Vesterbacka, Phil Libin and Nanda Ivens, Remco Lupker, Antonny Liem, etc. The task and guidance are quite tight but finally the founders have managed to deal with all tasks and succeeded establishing 8 startups.

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How to Register to S Apps Planet

By Amir Karimuddin - February 21, 2012
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In the previous article I was talking about S Apps Planet released by S Nexian. This mobile application store will present as a pre-loaded for new S Nexian Android smartphone. With the ads that have been circulating everywhere, in a large billboard and in a media, everyone in this industry must assume that S Nexian is working seriously on this app store business.

However, if we try to navigate various menus on the S Nexian official site, there is no information at all about how the developer could register their Android application into S Apps Planet. I tried contacting S Nexian and got a reply saying Iguana Technology is in charge for the application registration process. Finally, Iguana Technology Representative, Linda Regina provides information on how the developer can register the application.

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