December 2011
2 posts
October 2011
4 posts
“When your goal is to achieve work/life balance, you’ll be constantly...”
– The Myth Of Work/Life Balance: Seven Ways To Rethink Your Approach To The Daily Grind (http://www.youngupstarts.com/2011/10/04/the-myth-of-worklife-balance-seven-ways-to-rethink-your-approach-to-the-daily-grind/)
“I suspect that if you counted the good and bad words people said during...”
– Dr. Dan Gilbert, Harvard psychologist, on how digital content analysis using statistics still needs more fine-tuning (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/science/30twitter.html)
September 2011
3 posts
“Technology, specifically the Internet, has disintermediated and disrupted entire...”
– Don Dodge — How technology productivity kills jobs (http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2011/09/how-technology-productivity-kills-jobs.html)
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
5 posts
My Ten iOS Apps
Responding to Engadget’s editorial that the new Nokia N9 phone is dead on arrival because of its MeeGo platform, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
The pattern I’ve seen for many people new to iOS is a rush to try a bunch of apps and then never use most of them again. There’s a large market for people who just want the core ten apps executed even better. I’d be happy to trade my iPhone for a...
“When you start cutting corners, customers can’t always tell. But employees...”
– Marketing to Your Own Team (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2945-marketing-to-your-own-team)
SMS use cools off →
While the telco operators are disrupting other industries (with digital content, online payment, etc.), they themselves are being disrupted by messaging apps and social network. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by this news, but I sort of was. The SMS has been such a force — but now there are so many more ways to get your voice heard by a large number of people.
The WSJ Online article linked...
May 2011
7 posts
Indonesia's Technology Black Market Here to Stay:... →
Rather than trying to block pornography on the internet (an impossible task), the Indonesian government should really be focusing more on this kind of problem.
Getting Users For Your New Startup
Great tips from founder of FuckedCompany.com
pudjam666:
The most frequently asked question I get from new entrepreneurs is, “How do I get users?”
Here’s most of what I know.
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WatchCoffee geeks, if you drink your coffee with a French press like I do, here’s a great video.
April 2011
4 posts
“Don’t worry about a tech bubble. Take advantage of it. Start a company and...”
– Don Dodge: Tech bubbles, tides, and earthquakes - What you should know
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing...”
– Calvin Coolidge
The digital economy: Jobs of the future | The... →
Excerpt from the article:
DAVID, a 34-year-old living on the east coast of the United States, is a big fan of World of Warcraft but is anxious that his heavy workload is not leaving him enough time to play, and therefore make progress, in the online game. Rather than see his friends race ahead of him, he contacts a Chinese “gaming-services retail company” which sells him some WoW gold, the...
March 2011
12 posts
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Startup Indonesia: Kurang orisinal?
Minggu lalu, Ryo Umezawa, direktur kapitalis ventura J-Seed Ventures mengulas acara Jakarta Ventures Night 2011 di blog Asiajin. Sebuah kutipan dari artikel tersebut:
[…] there were 9 [Indonesian] startup companies pitching to investor in five minutes appealing their services. The 9 companies consisted of groupon clone, foodspotting clone, foursquare/scavenger clone, facebook app games,...
“Warren Buffet famously describes the best businesses as “economic castles...”
– Search Is Google’s Castle, Everything Else Is A Moat
I never thought about it that way, but it absolutely makes sense.
Breakup Notifier | Dan Loewenherz →
I love this blog post by Dan Loewenherz. It’s an account of his experience in coming up with the idea, building, and then launching Breakup Notifier. Breakup Notifier is a Facebook app that emails you when the person of your interest changes her relationship status. Yes, it’s rather silly, but really clever at the same time. The genious of the app was widely discussed around the web...
“The lesson from Digg is crucial as Silicon Valley’s ecosystem has made it easier...”
– RIP Digg (by Sarah Lacy).
I’m truly sad to read this.
Kita butuh perbaikan SMS iklan
Tinggal di Indonesia, hampir setiap hari saya mendapat pesan SMS yang tidak saya inginkan. Sering pesan SMS ini berupa tindak penipuan (contoh: mama minta pulsa). Selain mengganggu, SMS jenis ini bersifat membahayakan. Tetapi karena jelas-jelas tidak legal, saya yakin pihak yang berwajib sedang berusaha untuk memberantas pelakunya (yeah, right).
SMS mengganggu jenis kedua adalah yang berisi...
Foursquare 3.0: Recommended Locations, New... →
Foursquare just came out with a new version on iOS. One if its best new features is “Explore” where you get recommended locations based on your and your friends’ check-in history.
For a long time, Foursquare is ONLY about check-ins and badges. They kept things fairly simple while competing check-in services started to appear, offering similar badges and stickers. Like a true...
Thanks, Trumpet Winsock
A lot of people now probably can’t imagine using a personal computer without internet WiFi. But back in 1994, with my 386 Gateway2000 desktop PC (check out the beige box in the picture), I had to install a software on top of Windows 3.1 just to be able to dial-up to get internet. That software was Trumpet Winsock.
I actually don’t remember paying for the software back then, and...
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Cara mendapat untung di internet
Pertama, maaf untuk judul artikel yang bombastis.
Ada artikel menarik dari Fortune Tech tentang akuisisi Beluga oleh Facebook. Berikut adalah kutipannya:
Under the cell phone industry’s peculiar pricing system, downloading data to your smartphone is amazingly cheap—unless the data in question happens to be a text message. In that case the price of a download jumps roughly 50,000-fold,...
Peel: A Bridge Between Your iPhone And Home... →
Peel is a new product that turns your iPhone (and Android phones) into universal remote control for your home entertainment system. You will be able to use an app on your phone to control your TV, stereo system, or cable box. I personally have gone “I wish there was an app for that” for this type of product, so I’m really happy somebody created it.
Click on the link above for...
February 2011
2 posts
Your job is going to be replaced by a smartphone...
I recently read an interesting opinion column on The New York Times titled The Experience Economy. Below is a short passage:
Jared lives a much more intellectually diverse life than [his grandfather]. He loves Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia and his iPhone apps. But many of these things are produced outside the conventional monetized economy. Most of the products are produced by people working for...
January 2011
3 posts
“It isn’t mobile that’s overwhelmingly important, it’s the app store. Until a...”
– Four Lessons From Evernote’s First Week On The Mac App Store
This is an interesting insight from Evernote. Evernote is fun to follow because they don’t use the standard formula for tech startup. For example, very little about them is “social.” There’s also that story about...
threewords.me -- Luncurkan dahulu, rencanakan...
Minggu lalu TechCrunch meliput threewords.me, sebuah situs yang mengajak teman-teman kita untuk memilih 3 kata untuk menggambarkan diri kita. threewords.me diciptakan oleh Mark Bao, murid SMU berusia 18 tahun yang tinggal di Boston, Massachusetts (USA). Ketika artikel TechCrunch tersebut diturunkan, Mark Bao sedang kebingungan karena popularitas threewords.me melonjak di luar dugaan dan server...
December 2010
8 posts
Strategi "thin edge of the wedge" →
Investor startup ternama Chris Dixon menulis artikel yang sangat menarik baru-baru ini di blognya. Artikel tersebut menerangkan strategi “thin edge of the wedge” yang banyak digunakan startup untuk menarik pengguna awal produk startup tersebut.
Kurang lebih, strateginya bisa dicontohkan seperti berikut. Masih ingat Google ketika pertama kali muncul? Waktu itu produknya cuma satu,...
“How many times did a friend with an iPhone or an EVO look up a bar or restaurant...”
– Editorial: RIM seems to be as lost as my BlackBerry — Engadget
I feel you, man. I feel you.
More than half the people in Asia and Africa are... →
This is a survey result from On Device Research. In most developing countries it’s more economically feasible to build wireless (3G) infrastructure than to lay fiber optic cables. Mobile devices are also less intimidating than PCs for internet access. They are also with you more often than not (I’m lost without my mobile phone). Both are reasons why mobile internet use will continue to...
Giga Om: Google’s Chrome OS: Dead Before Arrival? →
Wow, people are harsh on Google’s Chrome OS. I haven’t found a positive review on this product yet. Remember when people said Google Wave was ahead of it’s time? I think this time Google fell behind technology (or maybe, ironically, Google pushed Android too fast).
The decision to make Chrome OS was made in the early days of Android. Since then, Android has grown to be a juggernaut and tablet PC...
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Does the iPad need fixing?
Paul Thurrott at Supersite for Windows website (hint: the website name is a clue) has an article titled How Apple Can Fix the iPad in 2011. The title refers to the second-generation iPad estimated to arrive in 2011. Also, Thurrott obviously thinks there are a number of things wrong with the current iPad model. I have an iPad and I disagree with him.
Here is my response to some areas that...