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The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. One of Jiepang’s most popular location-based services (LBS), Jiepang, has made a neat infographic that breaks down some user trends. It gives a snapshot of how China’s smartphone-carryin’, LBS-lovin’ youngsters spend their time. It reveals a pretty keen engagement with brands by these users, and a good understanding of what’s hot right now. Beijing Hot-Spots Starting in Beijing, we see the hottest part of the city, in terms of check-ins, is the unassuming downtown area of ...
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Sep 13 2011
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Google Invites Indian Kids To Create A Children’s Day Doodle
Google is famous for its amazing doodles, created to celebrate scientific and artistic achievements, festivals, and historic events. The Internet giant has announced the third edition of its Doodle4Google competition, inviting Indian kids to come up with a creative doodle for the upcoming Children’s day on November 14th. If you are not familiar with Doodle4Google, it's a yearly contest conducted by Google wherein it invites students across the country, from the age of five to sixteen (i.e. first to tenth grade), to create a theme-based doodle. Nikhil Rungta, the country marketing head at Google ...
Sep 13 2011
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Loiloscope: Unique Video Editing Software From Japan, A Peek At Version 2
Loiloscope is a video editing software from Japanese start-up firm Loilo Inc, which was founded back in 2007 by two brothers, Koji and Ryutaro Sugiyama. Both worked in gaming industry, Koji for Bandai Namco and Ryutaro for Sega. Since Ryutaro was a designer he worked with a lot of video editing software, but was really frustrated with software that was available. His brother, being a programmer, created VJ software (they used to VJ in college) which eventually became the basis for Loiloscope. Some of our readers might recall that the software ...
Sep 12 2011
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Google Internet Bus Helps 1.5 Million Experience Internet For The First Time in India
Beep! Beep! Incoming... Google’s Internet bus is driving around different parts of India to educate the population about the Internet. It is currently in Bihar, and soon will visit Patna, Gaya, Bhagalpur, Darbhanga, Bihar Sharif, Arrah, Katihar, Chapra, and Purnia, according to Google India’s blog post. While many of us have the luxury of enjoying hi-speed Internet in our lives, there are many in India who aren’t so lucky. Thanks to Google’s Internet bus, folks who aren’t blessed with any kind of Internet connection could get a glimpse of how the ...
Sep 19 2011
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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Google, Baidu Celebrate With Doodles
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Both search engine giants, Google and Baidu, are celebrating the Chinese festival with doodles right smack in the middle of their homepages. Nothing can be seen on Yahoo and Bing so far. For those who don’t know what Mid-Autumn is all about, it is a holiday where folks sit together to enjoy a nice cup of tea with delicious moon cakes while looking at the full moon. The old geezers always say that the moon is the roundest and brightest today. So if you have five minutes to spare ...
Sep 12 2011
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Crowd-Sourced Gadget and Fashion News at StyleKandi.com
Malaysia-based start-up StyleKandi.com is a crowd-sourced platform where users share the latest trends in many areas of interest -- fashion, cars, tech and gadgets, and many more. The tech section caught my attention and I learned some interesting tidbits about the latest wacky gadgets through the site. Here are two that caught my eye (Apple fanboy alert, you’re forewarned): POPA - No more sucky touchscreen camera button. POPA adds a big red physical button to your iPhone for Instagram/photo-sharing lovers. Atari Arcade - An add-on that gives your iPad a joystick with arcade buttons, ...
Sep 12 2011
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Google Launches Its Very First TV Commercial in Indonesia
Last Friday Google launched its first ever TV commercial for Indonesia. Many Twitter users here reported that they watched two different versions of the ads, and indeed, you can watch both at Google Indonesia’s YouTube channel. The first one is titled Google Chrome: Blood For Life, featuring an Indonesia community named Blood For Life Indonesia. The group uses a mailing list and Twitter (@Blood4LifeID) to encourage people to transfuse their blood. Here’s the commercial. For anyone who doesn’t understand Bahasa Indonesian, here is is our translated transcript for the Blood For Life ...
Sep 9 2011
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A Solar Powered Mobile and Facebook App? Sort Of…
Watch maker Titan recently launched a new series of solar powered products, called HTSE (Hi-Tech Self Energized) watches. Like most new products, Titan needed to do some marketing to tell the world about its watch series. The campany did it in style by launching a solar powered mobile and Facebook app. Well, sort of... As the app launches, it tells users to point the camera at any light source to power the app. The app “charges” up and only loads when the power bar is full. So how does the app ...
Sep 8 2011
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7notes Converts Your Handwritten iPad Notes
At the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Tokyo today, Japanese company Metamoji gave a short presentation about its recently launched 7notes app. It’s a handwriting conversion application that despite still being very young has already reached a number of significant milestones. The iPad version was the top paid application in the Japanese App Store for a month. It’s now in the fifth spot. And the iPhone version was the second top-grossing app in the app store at one point. The new English version ranked in the top ten in 21 countries, with ...
Sep 8 2011
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Sumally: A Sexy Encyclopedia of All Things
Sumally is a growing community that connects what you love with the people you love. Its ultimate goal is to become the new generation's encyclopedia of all things. I've been using the service for less than a day, and I am already hooked. The name "Sumally" combines the two words "sum" and "all." It's where you register what you have and what you want. One of the Penn Olson editors noted that it reminded him a little gdgt.com in some respects. You can also browse through people's Sumally pages to discover other interesting ...
Sep 6 2011
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The Google Puzzle: A Crazy Browser Brain Game from Google Japan
We missed this when it initially dropped back in August, but after playing around with it a little bit this morning, I thought we’d tell you about it. In cooperation with SCRAP, Google Japan has developed a very unusual browser-based puzzle game called — wait for it — The Google Puzzle. It poses a number of challenges revolving around Google’s many services. The end goal is to save the ‘O’ which has mysteriously been trapped in a browser pop-up. Caution, there be spoilers up ahead! The first puzzle I was given involved ...
Sep 5 2011
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Why You’ll Want to Stack Your Tweets With StackRoll [INTERVIEW]
Twitter can sometimes be a difficult medium to master. Very often we want to get people’s attention, but at the same time we don’t know when is the right time to tweet a joke or a great article or a funny video. There are a number of third-party tools that can help you schedule tweets, and here in Indonesia we have one too. It's called StackRoll, and was created by Didik Wicaksono from Kualiku Apps. We interviewed him in an effort to learn more about his service. 1. StackRoll is the ...
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