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Author Archives: Aulia Masna
Indonesia Among The Worst and The Best in Dealing With Intellectual Property
TweetIntellectual property is one of the major trade issues that Indonesia and Indonesians seem to always stumble over when it comes to commercial trades with other nations, especially with the United States. The latest report by the United States Trade Representative on intellectual property protection and enforcement (USTR Special Annual Report 301) puts Indonesia on [...]
Facebook’s Billion Dollar Paranoia
TweetSilicon Valley is partly driven by Paranoia, even former Intel CEO Andy Grove wrote a book on this subject back in 1996. Companies often buy other companies not to advance themselves or to add assets but to prevent competitors from gaining an advantage by acquiring them instead. This applies across industries though, not just Silicon [...]
Is Google Drive Even Worth Using?
TweetGoogle has finally released Google Drive, the long awaited online file storage service that had been rumored for six years. But don’t call it that, because Google SVP of Chrome and Apps, Sundar Pichai, hates files and file management. In fact, he was the one who killed the original Google Drive project, dubbed GDrive, several [...]
Over 24 hours and Eight Projects Later, Jakarta’s International Space Apps Challenge Winners Announced
TweetAfter a grueling 24 hours, the winners of Jakarta’s International Space Apps Challenge were announced at @america on Sunday. Eight teams and individuals had presented on stage at the venue including one participant who flew in from Singapore. While some had remarked that the challenges had been particularly difficult, they pressed on and sought assistance [...]
Twitter is Putting Patents Back in the Hands of Inventors
TweetAmid these massive patent battles being fought among technology companies in the US and across the world, Twitter aims to disrupt the field by introducing a patent agreement that would place the authority over the patents it has claims to to its own employees instead. A wide adoption of this policy would have a wide-ranging [...]
Is There a Need to Reboot Koprol?
TweetIt’s been over a week since Yahoo laid off 2000 of its employees globally and we also saw that it dismantled the Koprol team along with it. The Indonesian engineers had been working on various other Yahoo products aside from Koprol and they were casualties of an effort to make the company more efficient. It [...]
Jakarta Heats Up for International Space Apps Challenge
Tweet DailySocial, in collaboration with the Embassy of the United States in Indonesia and with American cultural center @america, are holding International Space Apps Challenge on April 21-22. The Space Apps Challenge is an event for software developers to come up with programs or applications that solve particular challenges and tasks that may help NASA [...]
So long Kops, thanks for all the umm… rols?
TweetTalk about being hit by lightning. On Tuesday night I was told that the Koprol team at Yahoo! had been building what was going to be Koprol 2.0, a major reimagining of Koprol. The six month work had delivered something that would have been a much better product. It was going to be a leaner [...]
Yahoo! Koprol to Relaunch In May, Refocuses on Neighborhoods
TweetDailySocial made our way downtown Wednesday morning to Yahoo Indonesia’s offices at Sentra Senayan II to take a sneak peak at what the people there were up to. Hours earlier came news that Sunnyvale is going to wield the axe this week over 2000 employees across the globe. A massive layoff is coming. The mood [...]
Coming Soon to Ubud: Hubud, A Community Working Space