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DailySocial Launches Latest Data-Driven Corporate Innovation Platform

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We believe that data is not only the key for sustainable growth, but it’s also unique for each business. Different businesses tracks different metrics, that produces different data-sets, highlights different numbers that will give birth to different point of views. Therefore, there should be no single-formula for a winning digital transformation strategy.

Based on this premise, DailySocial’s digital transformation product team launched our newest platform that emphasizes on this digitally unique platform that turn digitally unique data sets into a digitally unique winning strategy for businesses and corporations.

We call it Data Engineering for Digitally Unique Transformation, or DANGDUT.

This platform will be focusing on the input data to ensure the output will be more optimized for one single company with all its uniqueness. We’ve been working together with CEOs, CIOs and digital transformation leadership that we call Groups of Digitally Native New Generation (GOYANG).

Today, DANGDUT opens its door for new users, so we’re inviting all GOYANG (CEOs, CIOs, and digital transformation leadership) to the platform in a few weeks time. We strongly encourage all digital leaders to join and learn about the new platform, and become the first GOYANG to use DANGDUT.

For learn more about the platform, please email to goyang@dangdut.tech.

Rolling Out Changes, Tweaks, and Improvements to DailySocial

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Hey everyone, if you’re a regular reader of DailySocial, you would have noticed that there’s been a lot of changes that we implemented on the site since late November last year. These changes are still ongoing as we are rolling out long overdue tweaks and improvements across the board. When we’re done, we expect the site to be easier to explore and deliver more value to our readers.

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The Engineers in UX

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User Experience (UX) is a term that is misunderstood too many times. It’s okay, because UX is a new term, easily turned into a hype. However, UX is not new. It has already existed since the earliest of human civilization. For instance, the UX of cooking our food 2000 years ago is different from the UX of cooking our food today. Consequently, the way we look at UX should be independent of technology. Compare firewood and microwave oven, for instance. They are actually the same products, but they are different because of the underlying technology. The users are the same (people who cook) and have the same goal (getting their food cooked).

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[DS Notes] What’s the Difference Between Tony Stark and Elon Musk? One of Them is Real

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The co-founder of PayPal is currently building a spaceship to Mars, runs an electric sports car company with a companion environmentally friendly refueling corridors across the United States, a cheaper and more efficient electricity system for homes, and is now aiming to send humans in high speed tubes across cities. Elon Musk is doing exactly what fellow PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel wishes he could get from other startup founders, something beyond the mundane and frivolous, something that changes the world. A world in which everything is efficient, affordable, and environmentally friendly is an idealistic one but Musk is making it happen.

Read about Musk on PandoDaily.

[DS Notes] Will Foursquare Finally Get it Right?

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With hundreds of partners and billions of data points, Foursquare has become the default reference for apps relying on points of interests, venues, and location in general. However, despite having raised over a hundred million dollars since its inception in 2009, the company has yet to make a meaningful revenue. CEO Dennis Crowley is adamant that the company will be profitable by the end of the year and has a plan to generate up to $20 million in revenue for 2013. However, Yelp! generated over USD 46 million in Q1 2013 alone with a much more limited roll out and a smaller user base. How does Foursquare plan to stay afloat outside of raising investment rounds?

Read all about Crowley’s vision at FastCompany.

 

[DS Notes] WhatsApp Crosses 300 Million Monthly Active Users, Adds Voice Mssaging

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WhatsApp today updated its mobile messaging app to add voice messaging capability across multiple platforms. As the most traditionalist among all mobile messaging companies, this addition is quite a leap as the company had been maintaining a comparatively limited set of features. Voice messages are recorded by holding the microphone icon on the app and gets delivered as soon as the finger is lifted. To AllThingsD, CEO Jan Koum revealed that WhatsApp now has 300 million monthly active users who share 325 million photosphere day, dominating the messaging landscape in dozens of countries.

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[DS Notes] How Does Lazada Fare Against Amazon in Southeast Asia?

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ecommerce milo took a look at how Lazada is performing in Southeast Asia and comparing that with Amazon. The American retailer has yet to fully entrench itself in Southeast Asia but it does offer a number of its services to the region. Indonesia as the largest nation in Southeast Asia has yet to enjoy what Amazon has to offer aside from being able to purchase physical books, and movies and music on discs. Regardless, the numbers show that Amazon still leads in unique visits across the region although it is dropping quickly as Lazada increases its awareness and reach. Without a proper local presence, Amazon looks set to lose Southeast Asia to Lazada while Lazada CEO Max Bittner dismisses Amazon for not being on the ground, which makes things very difficult for dealing with customer service.

[DS Notes] Bitcoin Reportedly Declared Illegal in Thailand

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Bitcoin.Co.Ltd, a Bitcoin exchange service in Thailand this morning announced that the Thai government has made Bitcoin illegal in the country. The decision came following attempts by Bitcoin.Co.Ltd to seek legal foundations to turn the digital currency into a legal one. The decision came as Bank of Thailand representatives found that existing laws in the country cannot accommodate Bitcoin due to a number of factors. The central bank has reportedly outlawed any transaction involving Bitcoin within Thailand’s borders but gave no word as to when this ban will take effect, reports Ars Technica.

[DS Notes] How Facebook Platform Became How It Is Today

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Hamish McKenzie over at Pando Daily has published an extensive story on the history of Facebook Platform and how it failed to meet its expectations and potentials through a series of inconsistent changes implemented by Zuckerberg. While initially Facebook Platform, which was launched in 2007, was set to be an ecosystem of applications and services that leverage the power and reach of the Facebook newsfeed, Zuckerberg eventually felt threatened by these third party apps and made changes over the years which prevented them from competing with Facebook’s own applications. In the end, Facebook as a company pales in comparison to Apple’s mobile application ecosystem which is worth multiple times the value of Facebook.