Archive for January, 2009

MobileMonday was invited as one of the guest speaker @ Bina Nusantara university. The seminar was held last week by BINUS Entrepreneur Center and titled “Entering Entrepreneurship Through Mobile Industries”

Along with Andy Zain, Denny Yohanes (NSN) and Budi Putra (Asia Blogging Network) were presenting. They explain three different topics on one mobile industries concept, such as “Creating Next IT Entrepreneurship Indonesia in” (Andy Zain), “Trend Mobile Blogging” (Budi Putra) and “Telecommunication Trend & Entrepreneurship Opportunity Indonesia in” (Denny Yohanes).

Delighted and honored to be there! Hope we can inspire our briliant students to tap into the exciting world of mobile opportunities.

Link:

• Bisnis Indonesia article: RI Pasar Potensial Konten Internet
• Bisnis Indonesia article: “Bisnis Konten Belum Tergarap Maksimal”

We are attending FreSh! meeting this evening. FreSh! is a very dynamic and vibrant community. Driven by THE key persons in Indonesian online world.

Today’s topic is Teknopreneur (technology entrepreneurship), which is very relevant to MobileMonday communities.

I can share a bit about what is being discussed. But first and foremost, I want to highlight is once again the potential of creative industry innovations and entrepreneurship in our beloved nation (do I need to remind you about the FireAnts?)! We met passionate colleagues there who really want to make a difference in this industry. And they DID something already, great things as well.

Bullit Sesariza (A Box), for example is starting a game company which innovates the way they reach the mass market — by creating engaging+socializing+educating games, and the way they model their business — by partnership, royalty & rental model.

Then Yoris Sebastian (OMG Consulting) founded dr.m (dokter m) – a digital music label. Changing the way Indonesians purchase their music (and on the other hand how the artists market the music and grow their fanbase).

Yoris also motivates the audience to embrace their creative side and to collaborate because these two are among the ingredients of successful innovation!

Ah, and a bit of GREAT statistics about Indonesian bloggers from the recent wordcampindonesia.com:

• wordpress.com recorded 117 million hits (daily I assume?) from 44 cities in Indonesia.
• Bahasa Indonesia is the #3 language in wordpress.com (1 & 2 are English and Spanish)
• Indonesia is #2 community in wordpress.com
• 143k signups from Indonesia in the last 6 months!

So guys, listen to the little voice in your heart. Got ideas? Let’s collaborate.

bioLocate and its FireAnts application (described as crowd-sourced real-time traffic information to help drivers and commuters in Jakarta avoid traffic jams) is nominated as one of 20 finalist in Mobile Peer Awards final in Barcelona. Yes, that’s the best 20 applications in the mobile world for 2008!

If you’re wondering what FireAnts does, please check their explanatory video and slide on their page.

FYI, on this year’s Mobile Peer Awards, MoMo Indonesia have nominated two applications for the international jury to select.

A complete list of 20 innovative start-ups selected for the final are (source MoMo Barcelona):

EARLY-STAGE STARTUPS

Addict Digital Media - Mobile Monday Buenos Aires
aka-aki networks GmbH - MobileMonday Berlin
Babajob.com - MobileMonday Bangalore
Big in Japan Inc. - MobileMonday Dallas
bioLocate - MobileMonday Jakarta
Dial2Do - MobileMonday Dublin
Fortumo - MobileMonday Estonia
Mob4Hire - MobileMonday Vancouver
Orbster GmbH - MobileMonday Munich
Oxynade - MobileMonday Brussels
Tellmewhere - MobileMonday Paris
Xumii - MobileMonday Sydney

EMERGING STARTUPS

Aradiom - MobileMonday Istanbul
fring - MobileMonday Tel Aviv
Getjar Networks - MobileMonday Lithuania
Keynetik - MobileMonday Washington DC
Mobintech A/S - MobileMonday Copenhagen
PopCatcher AB - MobileMonday Sweden
Soonr - MobileMonday Silicon Valley
Unkasoft Advergaming - MobileMonday Madrid

Congratulations for bioLocate!

If you are coming to MWC Barcelona, make sure to attend the Peer Awards event at the 16 February. The best networking event in the industry… Meet and greet the mobile industry celebrities there, personally! More information about the Peer Awards event can be found at their homepage: here.

Congratulations to PT BioLocate Indonesia with the application FIREANTS which passed the first round of MobileMonday Global Peer Awards. A total of 163 entries submitted from around the world which has now been shortlisted to 43 nominees, including the Indonesia’s bioLocate, and other heavy weight contenders such as aka-aki (Berlin), fring (TelAviv), Getjar (Lithuania), Mocospace (Boston), Nimbuzz (Amsterdam), Palringo (London), SoonR (Silicon Valley), and WorldMate (Atlanta). The jury are now sitting in to select the top 20 finalist which will be invited to do a live presentation in Barcelona on February 16, 2008 in front of international audience.

The competition for top 20 are quite tough, however I’m quite confident bioLocate can steal jury’s attention as the idea is quite unique as compare to the others. Who need more IM client? We want something new, innovative and relevant to our mobile life. And I put my vote behind bioLocate! BTW the top 20 list will be announced on January 26, 2009 (Chinese New Year!)

To Pak Dien, Pak Hindra & bioLocate team. Congratulations from MobileMonday Indonesia Team!
I am sure to see you in Barcelona!

Head here to see the annoncement : http://www.mobilepeerawards.com/