May 2010
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Indonesia: challenges post Yahoo-Koprol...
There are a couple of exciting news and coverages coming out of Indonesia in the past week. The first one is the news about Yahoo acquiring Koprol, a location based social networking service based in Jakarta. As Yahoo’s reputation has taken a lot of beatings recently, this move was largely met with skepticism by the Western press. The Indonesian tech community, however, responded with a lot...
What I learned from Foursquare's fast growth in...
Geolocation-anything is the hot new thing and when it comes to location-based social network, Foursquare is arguably the leader of the pack. Indonesia already has Asia’s largest Twitter and Facebook users and it’s the world’s largest Mig33 user base. It’s no surprise that its tech-savvy internet users take up Foursquare with the same gusto. Although there are no numbers...
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Tim Ferriss plans on spending business school...
via techcrunch.com One thing I learned today: Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek, is also an angel investor. In this short interview, he talks about changing his mind on going back to school and instead using the $120,000 tuition money to fund startup companies. It’s an interesting way of getting an education, but something that totally makes sense. He talks about being closely...