Accor Rolls Out Online Reservation System in Indonesian, in Agreement with The Government

By Amir Karimuddin - May 24, 2012
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We have learned that Accor group, a leading worldwide hotel groups, has rolled out Indonesian version of its online reservation platform. It’s part of agreement with Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy to boost the platform utilization from the country. The mobile site can be accessed from http://accorhotels.com.

With over 50 properties in the network, including famous brands like Novotel, Mercure, Ibis, and Pullman, Accor is simply the largest international hotel network in Indonesia. Now, not only accessing domestic hotels, Indonesian tourists be able to book Accor hotels using their own fingers.

Accor’s EVP, Sales Distribution and Loyalty, Jean-Luc Chretien, in the press release said, “The launch of Accorhotels.com in Bahasa Indonesia is part of Accor’s strategy to develop its Internet, mobile, and digital presence in Asia Pacific. With more than 100 million users and with Internet penetration reaching 37 per cent in 2015, Indonesia is a promising digital market in the region.”

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OpenKurir Is Officially Released, Facilitating Couriers and Courier Service Users

By Bonang Setoaji - May 24, 2012
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Previously, we have written several articles about OngkosKirim. Yes, OngkosKirim is a product developed by OpenKurir.com. OngkosKirim service development is faster than OpenKurir itself. And now, since May 4, 2012, OpenKurir was officially launched in beta version and the service can be used by users who want to find a courier service or offer themselves as couriers.

OpenKurir is a service that brings courier and courier service provider in one place. The release of OpenKurir is late from schedule; one of the reasons is a matter of management and operations that were not ready. But eventually, OpenKurir is now available for public in beta version.

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Inapay Launches InaKlik, Focusing to Acquire New Users

By Bonang Setoaji - May 24, 2012
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Inapay.com, a payment intermediary system with service system that is similar with joint account, recently launched a new feature to its members. This new feature is named InaKlik where the members can participate in promoting Inapay via the internet by placing a link provided by Inapay on the members’ blogs and websites.

You may be aware that Inapay is a startup that received investment from EastVenture in mid-January 2012. After the investment, many advances and changes happened in Inapay. Some of them are the change in the tagline on the logo, change of the concept of Gold Member and Silver Member, Inapay even handed out gadget prizes to its members. To be sure, this is done to keep acquiring new users to use this service.

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Profitlook, Cloud Computing-based Accounting Application for SMEs

By Andi Miftachul - May 24, 2012
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Cloud service is not only presented by major corporation such as XL Axiata, Telkom and Lintas Arta. A startup called Profitech Indonesia is also trying to bring cloud computing service to the owners of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Profitech delivers Software as a Service (SaaS) in the form of a cloud computing-based accounting system called Profitlook.

Profitech Indonesia was established in 2011. The demo version of Profitlook is now available if you want to try. Rachman Amir, founder of Profitlook, in an interview via email, said that in general, the main target of Profitlook is SMEs owners. Profitlook’s features have been tailored to businesses like car or motorcycle dealerships, small shops, repair shops, salons, restaurants, handicraft industries and many other similar businesses.

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[Imagine Cup] RedHub Simplifies Recipients in Finding Blood Donor

By Andi Miftachul - May 24, 2012
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DailySocial will discuss each one of Imagine Cup Indonesia 2012 winner teams and their works. Please join as we discuss from the third place to the first.

Third place of Imagine Cup Indonesia is RedHub project created by Quarternion team. The name of this team is originated from a name of a system of numbers in mathematics. All members of Quarternion are currently in the fourth year of college at the Faculty of Computer Science University of Indonesia. They are Affath Firdausi (winner of Nokia Apps Challenge – as UX and Windows Mobile developer), Agung Pratama (developer), Alfira Fitrananda (business analyst) and Akhmad Rahadian Hutomo (system designer).

The idea of this RedHub project began when Ian, as Akhmad Rahadian Hutomo known to others, participated in last year’s Imagine Cup. In an interview with Indonesian Red Cross volunteer, Ian saw a need to resolve the issue of blood distribution. Prospective blood recipients should be able to get the blood quickly and easily.

With this background, they created RedHub, an integrated system that holds information of blood inventory and distribution of all blood banks. The system will connect the three parties: recipient, donor and health care institution such as hospital and blood banks. RedHub is expected to make prospective recipient to be easily and quickly find potential donors when needed.

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Prioritizing User’s Convenience, Sribu Revamps Its Look

By Bonang Setoaji - May 24, 2012
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Sribu, a media service that bridges creative project owner and designer is changing its look. The startup which takes user-generated content segment is suggesting that the reason behind revamping its look is based on input from its users where Sribu.com’s users demand convenience when using the site, as conveyed through a press release we received.

“In addition to the new look, we also improve the functionality on the website, namely the rating system. In the future, we will launch new additional features for the clients as well as for the designers,” said Ryan Gondokusumo (CEO of Sribu.com) in the press release.
Basically, there are a lot of changes on Sribu.com’s look from the beginning until now. You can compare the look of this site when we first discussed it on DailySocial with its new look today. We also observed that Sribu.com has repeatedly changed its look.

When compared to the previous look, Sribu.com’s look today is not so striking as before. The selection of dark colors on its UI might spoil its users to feel at home while accessing Sribu.com. And most importantly, will Sribu.com gain more user/traffic with its new look?

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[Dailyssimo] A Piece of Garden Called Social Media

By Abang Edwin SA - May 24, 2012
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Have you ever noticed that the social media we know today have the meaning that is quite different for each user? Maybe if it’s about basic definition by only pointing to Facebook and Twitter, everybody would understand immediately but do you ever dig what they actually understand about social media?

Quoting from a conversation with a ex-Yahoo! fellow, Jonas Del Los Reyes who currently resides in the Philippines, you probably can imagine what the situation is here. The quote is as follows, “…our market is still young, definitions are scattered, everyone running with their understanding.” Yes, I think that’s exactly what is happening in this region. I might say it’s chaotic but in a good way.

Maybe you still remember what was done by General Motor (GM) a while ago just before Facebook took the historic step to enter the stock exchange (IPO). GM decided to discontinue its advertising investment on Facebook Ad worth $10 million. GM said that while it decided to stop the investment in advertising, it won’t leave Facebook but would be more focus on content strategy that would keep being distributed via its Facebook Page.

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Day Two Recap of All That Matters Conference 2012

By Guest Post - May 24, 2012
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Widi Asmoro is the Entertainment Services Manager for Nokia Indonesia who is currently attending All That Matters Conference in Singapore representing Nokia Indonesia as one of the event’s sponsors. This post appeared originally on his personal blog.

Wednesday, 23 May 2012, rain fell in Singapore and pushed back the start of the second day of Digital Matters. The second day focuses on how to monetize content through existing platforms and challenges in which people no longer access contents through just a singe device. The ability to access content on multiple screens became the main topic of discussion among panelists.

The opening keynote speech came from Brian Taptic, VP International Development for Zynga, who underlined his company’s vision of connecting people through social games. Case studies such as the Coca Cola campaign through CityVille is a fascinating study into how a brand can influence its potential customers through a series of stories developed through interaction within the social game. People are no longer forced to see ads and they would even voluntarily participate in promoting the product to others.

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[Simply Business] Stick to What You’re Good At and Outsource the Rest

By Aria Rajasa Masna - May 23, 2012
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After reading about the winner of Imagine Cup 2012, I remembered my days as a finalist when I was in senior year for Imagine Cup 2005. I was with a team representing University of Indonesia and brought an app that can calculate the fastest way to get to one place to another using a public transportation. Back then we didn’t have Google Maps so we made our own version of it.

It was an awesome app, at least in our heads. We made our first prototype on an HP iPaq PDA using the Windows .Net mobile (or something.. can’t really remember). But two problems arose: We didnt’ know how to draw a correct map and we couldn’t get the right data from public transportation because there was just not enough information on the net.

We ended up getting the map from a screen-printed version of Cybermap, and generating random possible spots of public transports because we couldn’t get the right data. Everything was hard-coded, the app was a mess and even with those compromises we couldn’t finish the app in time. Even so, we won second place.

 

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WGChat Offers Solution for Online Customer Service

By Andi Miftachul - May 23, 2012
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WGChat, a startup with a tagline “Empowering Online Chat”, offers a solution for company that uses chatting services to serve its customers. WGChat offers feature completeness a la live chat but with the advantages of instant messaging service accessibility.

In short, WGChat allows a company to have only one active instant messaging account like Yahoo!Messenger. Customers will contact this account but can meet different customer service officers who are not busy taking care of other customers; while the serving customer service officer will be able to access the archive of previous conversations with said customer as a reference.

This way, customers can find the company’s customer service account to be always active and accessible, including via mobile application. WGChat also provides statistical reports for company that wants to monitor its customer service’s performance.

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