2011 will be over in just a few hours, last year was an exciting year for digital, internet, web, mobile and startup scene in Indonesia. In addition to appearing new startup, the year 2011 also marked with several falls of startup and slowly-moving startup.
In this article I want to give a brief overview of some of the interesting things that happened during 2011 in the world of technology, especially startup, and try to propose 4 + 1 predictions that will happen in 2012.
Tahun 2011 akan segera berakhir dalam beberapa jam lagi, tahun kemarin adalah tahun yang menarik bagi perkembangan dunia digital, internet, web dan mobile khususnya yang berhubungan dengan startup. Selain muncul startup baru, tahun 2011 juga ditandai dengan bergugurannya beberapa startup serta startup yang bergerak lambat.
Dalam tulisan kali ini saya ingin mencoba untuk mengulas secara singkat tentang beberapa hal yang menarik yang terjadi selama tahun 2011 di dunia teknologi khususnya startup dan mencoba untuk mengajukan 4 + 1 prediksi yang akan terjadi di tahun 2012.
In a cloud computing seminar, Mr Francis Lee from Joyent said there are a number of myths about cloud computing. The myths that made people and companies are still reluctant to switch the old model to data centre cloud computing services. Education about cloud computing is absolutely necessary to know what are the advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing. Indonesia in 2012, As I predicted, will be year where people would want to know more about cloud technologies, including try the service directly.
One certain thing is, by diverting resources to the cloud doesn’t mean the data owner can relax and not interfere if there are things that are not working (ie: crashes, hacked) with cloud service providers. At the initial of contract, service providers must have discussed with clients to design the system environment for obtaining optimal results. This is the proof of the cloud service providers’ seriousness in order to help us dealing with the change of resources from the system owned by the company.
Here are some myths of cloud computing that are mentioned Mr by Francis Lee and how it actually happens in the real world:
Malang is a very unique city. A part of being a fairly well-known city, judging by the non-tech people, almost all Malangnese are fanatics about their favourite football team, Arema. Malang also has many talents (in IT and Non IT) which have passion to build a startup.
The rise of Stasion,a startup community in this city,made us understand that the startup from the city is no arguably cool. Some of them also had won the event on SparxUp Awards 2011, INAICTA 2011, Indigo Fellowship 2011, and so on.
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This morning I accidentally read a Tweet from Fachry Bafadal, one of the ambassadors of Blaast who retweet the information about Blaast services availability for common users.
Feeling curious, I downloaded Blaast application while looking for some additional information. Other information that I found came from Ziyad, someone that i know as a local software engineer who works for Blaast. He announced that today Blaast has soft-launched and opens their services for those who are interested trying a variety of applications in their ecosystems.
Blaast, a cloud computing platform on mobile device, has been active in Indonesia at least since May 2011. Even though the headquarter is in Finland, Blaast chose Indonesia as the first place to launch their services. One of the main reasons is because the opportunity of feature phone is pretty big here.
Kota Malang memang sebuah kota yang sangat unik. Selain menjadi kota yang cukup terkenal, kalau melihat sisi non teknologi orang-orang dari kota ini yang hampir semuanya fanatik dengan tim sepakbola kesayangan mereka yaitu Arema. Kota Malang juga banyak memiliki talenta (dibidang IT maupun Non IT) yang memiliki passion untuk membangun sebuah startup.
Munculnya komunitas startup di kota ini yaitu Stasion, membuat kami mengerti startup dari kota ini bisa dibilang keren, beberapa dari mereka juga pernah memenangkan ajang seperti SparxUp Awards 2011, INAICTA 2011, Indigo Fellowship 2011, dsb.
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Apps Foundry has announced USD 1 million (approximately IDR 7 billion) funding from Gobi Partners and Mitsui Global Investments (MGI) in order to develop leading applications, Scoop, who would become prominent iPad e-reader in Indonesia. Apps Foundry is an Indonesian developer based in Singapore leading by Mr Willson Cuaca who is also a partner in East Ventures.
Scoop has consistently been in the top 10 largest income applications in iTunes App Store Indonesia up until now. In just 1 year, Scoop have achieved a lot. Scoop application has been downloaded from the App Store more than 120k times and it has delivered 700 thousand digital magazines to iPad users. Many have claimed that 70% from the magazines available in Indonesia has joined Scoop and sold a digital version in Scoop’s newsstand.
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Dalam sebuah seminar tentang cloud computing, Francis Lee dari Joyent menyebutkan ada sejumlah mitos yang melingkupi cloud computing. Mitos-mitos inilah yang membuat orang-orang ataupun perusahaan masih enggan untuk berpindah dari model data center lama ke layanan cloud computing. Edukasi tentang cloud computing mutlak diperlukan untuk mengetahui apa saja kelebihan dan kekurangan cloud computing. Tahun 2012 seperti yang saya prediksikan di Indonesia akan menjadi tahun di mana orang akan ingin tahu lebih banyak tentang teknologi cloud, termasuk mencoba layanan tersebut secara langsung.
Satu hal yang pasti, dengan mengalihkan sumber daya ke teknologi cloud bukan berarti pemilik data bisa ongkang-ongkang kaki dan lepas tangan jika ada hal-hal yang tidak diinginkan (misalnya: crash, hacked) terjadi dengan penyedia layanan cloud-nya. Penyedia layanan cloud yang baik pasti dari awal kontrak akan mengajak klien untuk duduk bareng mendesain environment sistem untuk mendapatkan hasil yang optimal. Ini merupakan bukti awal keseriusan penyedia layanan cloud untuk secara sungguh-sungguh membantu kita mengurusi alih sumber daya terhadap seluruh sistem komputer yang dimiliki perusahaan.
Amidst of tight competitions of “daily deals” program like now, we all know that the main source of discounts for customers is credit card offers. AdaDiskon is a comprehensive service to inform it via website, but unfortunately they don’t have mobile application even though you can access it via mobile web. Sometimes ago, we had reviewed mobile application that provides this information, Jagoan. Jagoan had won the BlackBerry Developer Contest in 2009 but it was closed at the beginning of this year.
Gilkor now comes to assist you by finding discounts through various credit card providers. Web version of Gilkor has been available since the beginning of the year, but recently they have launched BlackBerry and Android application. Both platforms need a very moderate mobile device because the application is based on text and images only.
On Monday December 20th 2011, Telkom Bandung Indonesia has officially launched Bandung Digital Valley (BDV) which is located in the R & D Centre of PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) at Jl. Gegerkalong Hilir 47, Bandung 40152.
From the release that I’ve received the official explanation of the BDV concept is a bridge between the technopreneur or application developer with a market or industry which has a role as an absorber or a user application. BANDUNG VALLEY DIGITAL will position themselvesas a central resource (resource pool) for the open nodes or hubs which can be a part or get permissions to a variety of applications that are ready to be developed.
BDV physical form is an approximately 1200m2 area for the 100 developers or technopreneur, private, companies or institutions that wish to utilize various free facilities. Users should do the registration process as well as giving proposals that later on would be selected . As per information from Telkom, they has provided IDR 50 billion fund as initial funding for the next three years in addition to the existing facilities in order to support the BDV.
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