fun times! this is pretty big milestones for me personally and my hat is off to the kdudes and yahoo! http://dailysocial.net/en/2010/11/16/6-months-and-1-million-users-koprol-beats-multiply-and-friendster-by-pageviews/ http://dailysocial.net/2010/11/09/koprol-akan-segera-rilis-api/ http://e27.sg/2010/11/15/koprol-hits-one-milion-users-and-is-number-three-most-active-social-network-site-in-indonesia/ http://www.koprolblog.com/2010/11/3rd/ Read more – ‘All Koprol’.
Gotta take it while u can. Today Koprol was on TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/09/southeast-asia-one-thing-yahoo-has-done-well-tctv/ Awesome. Thanks Sarah! If you want to see more about SparxUp – go here: http://www.sparxup.com/ More on Indonesia scene: http://dailysocial.net/ My slides from SparxUp: http://www.slideshare.net/dreampipe/sparxup Podcast on Asia : http://thisweekinasia.net/2010/11/this-week-in-asia-episode-74-the-indonesia-internet-juggernaut/ long live Koprol! Read more – ‘My 7 minutes…’.
Been a crazy couple of days and a few more busy ones to go. Been at the Sparxup event which has been awesome. Just check out Sarah Lacy over at TechCrunch for all the latest coverage. I presented during the morning session and if you are interested my deck can be found here. Monday we [...] Read more – ‘Indo Indo Indo!’.
Lots of talk of Singapore these days. Been here over a year and the buzz keeps growing but the bark is still louder than the bite. I first wrote about Sing here – Musings on Singapore… Most of what I said there still applies I think. Sure – the economy is cooking and sing dollar [...] Read more – ‘Oh Singapore!’.
Just wrapped up another TWIA – check this video! We should have another one this week with some special guests from Indonesia! This week in Indo and then off to Bkk for Barcamp. This is one of the biggest in the region! After Barcamp back to Singers and then maybe KL, Indo and possibly China. [...] Read more – ‘Much to do!’.
After the Tech Venture conference I did an interview with a sing based newspaper – should hit soon – the interview was talking about the rise of Asia. More and more people talk about this since the US is in trouble, Europe is in the doldrums and Asia is kicking along. The question is asked [...] Read more – ‘This is how the Asian Companies are Expanding…’.
Been crazy busy folks and have been neglecting my blog a bit. Sucks. A ton going on. Spent some time with Mike Walsh and even created some content for his Tomorrow Network. That was fun! Then been working on something that is a huge first for me. We made a TV commercial for Koprol. The [...] Read more – ‘The best TWIA episode yet!’.
So much going on. It is nuts. Big week at Koprol with our Kurator launch! Of course lot of other stuff coming! Lots of press for TWIA and then I get my mention in TC thanks to Serkan. Props dude! Then a few days with THE Mike Walsh researching his new book and our own [...] Read more – ‘Another crazy week in the can!’.
http://dailysocial.net/2010/07/23/koprol-kerjasama-dengan-nexian/ http://www.e27.sg/2010/07/23/koprol-could-cut-distribution-deal-with-nexian/ I guess if I get followed into Apple today people must think I am cutting a deal with Jobs? Read more – ‘I guess I am being followed!’.
We had a huge Yahoo! event over the weekend in Jakarta. Yahoo!, Nokia, and Adidas sponsored a big charity event that timed with our launch of OMG and the World Cup event. We got up early to have some futsal matches, watch a live filming of Dahsyat, and then gave away some money to a [...] Read more – ‘DAHSYAT time!’.
http://www.e27.sg/2010/06/10/highest-ios-penetration-found-in-singapore-indonesia-among-the-lowest/: Singapore with it’s tiny 4 million population has 402,992 iPhones, 76575 iPod Touch and 1,453 iPad’s totaling 480,950 iOS devices. Contrast that to its counterpart, Android devices total up to 32,918. While considering the fact that, iPhone had a head-start in the Singapore market for a year before the first Android device was released, [...] Read more – ‘June 20, 2010’.
Since I am in Singapore I figured it was time to respond to the Koprol community and facilitate a meetup (kopup). I talked to Meng Wong over at hackerspaceSG and they were happy to let us use the space. You can see the details on upcoming.org. This is non-structured and just a chance to put [...] Read more – ‘Koprol (kopup) Meetup in Singapore’.
Back in Jakarta – got a product to get cranking on! Seems Indonesia is getting tons of press – some warranted and some not. There is a lot of action here but time to deliver. In other news I will be joining TWIA as a full timer. Awesome – I am totally stoked about this. [...] Read more – ‘So much going on!’.
Well – this is what I have been working on for the past few months with my good friend and co-worker Shanan. My first M&A deal at Yahoo! but also the first of its kind in places like Indonesia. Pretty sure this is the first time one of the big internet companies has bought an [...] Read more – ‘The secret is out! (Yahoo! buys Koprol)’.
Been a roving madman lately. Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, back to Singapore and now in KL. Some events and stuff to be aware of. Today and tomorrow is BarCamp KL – http://barcamp.my/blog/ In Vietnam we were on a MSFT .Net tour showing Yahoo! integration. See some of that here (Go Jimmi): http://www.slideshare.net/kembaren/openidoauth-and-yql-with-net http://yqldemo.codeplex.com/ Next big thing [...] Read more – ‘Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Singapore and now Kuala Lumpur’.
I blog cause I love to write. Simple as that. I may never make a living from it but I will keep at it since I enjoy it. I wrote this post about some experiences in Indonesia and now it is on the Yahoo! blog in Bahasa Indonesia. And now this on the YDN blog. [...] Read more – ‘Wishing I was a writer…’.
Indonesian version It all started simply enough when I asked Pontus, Yahoo’s! head of Indonesia, if he had any judges he would like to suggest for Yahoo’s! first Open Hack Day in Southeast Asia which would take place in Jakarta. Pontus mentioned Johar Alam – founder of IDC Indonesia. To get a sense of how [...] Read more – ‘Johar and the IDC’s freedom of expression…’.
Just coming back from the US – yes I froze my ass off – I am always surprised when I see the media playing up some cool idea that they think is novel or even innovative. Yes – the US is home to the googles, apples and 4squares but the US is not always the [...] Read more – ‘The US continually showing how behind the times it is…’.
The goal was to get to all my countries before the end of the year – tough to do any thoughtful 2010 planning without getting to the places you are making plans for. Check my TripIt for stats. Going from no-flying to flying means I am a peon on Star Alliance again and hoping to [...] Read more – ‘SEA tour mostly over…’.
