Want to win a free iPad 2 as a result of your blogging? One Indonesian site is making that offer. News portal VIVAnews.com has partnered with telco giant XL Axiata to run a blogging competition called GoVlog. After a simple registration, anyone can join the competition; your blog posts must be shared on Vlog, VIVAnews’ blog portal, to be eligible. The competition is divided into two categories: Ramadan, and general. Blog posts for either category need to be unique and funny for a chance to win. There’s a social media aspect ...
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LinkedIn Today: An Alternative Way To Follow Our Asia Tech Stories
There are over 200 publications on LinkedIn Today and we’re happy to announce that Penn-Olson.com is one of them. We’ve been live on the site since late last week and we’re seeing some of our readers already connecting with us on LinkedIn Today. If you’re an avid LinkedIn user and reader of our blog, head over there to give us a follow. Our team thanks you in advance. Just for your information, here’s a video by LinkedIn which will give you some tips on how to use LinkedIn Today efficiently and effectively. Other ...
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Amprokan Blogger 2011: An Event for Environmentalist Bloggers
There are thousands of bloggers throughout Indonesia. Some of them organize offline events such as Pesta Blogger, whose name changed to ON-OFF this year. As if it's not enough to accommodate all bloggers, there's also a similar event named Amprokan Blogger 2011. The event will be held on September 17th and 18th with the theme "Blogger Membudayakan Kecerdasan Ekologis" (in English, Blogger Cultivating Ecological Intelligence). It was chosen in order to develop environmental awareness among bloggers. And just like last year, the Bekasi Blogger Community is cooperating with local authorities to organize the ...
Aug 16 2011
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Peneroka: An Online Magazine from Budi Putra
The former country editor of Yahoo Indonesia has revealed his latest project: an online magazine named Peneroka. This, as Budi Putra wrote earlier on his personal blog, will be a blog with several writers or contributors. He partnered with Jimmi Kembaren, who is also a former Yahoo employee to work on the project. Budi is responsible for the content while Jimmi handles the product. Peneroka is an Indonesian word meaning "pioneer." It was designed as an online magazine with feature articles on technology and science, business and finance, media, lifestyle and entertainment, culture and ...
Aug 10 2011
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Let’s Welcome TechCrunch to China!
We’ve been hearing rumors for a while, but now it’s finally official - TechCrunch has announced its China master plan. The U.S.-based tech blog is going to enter China in two ways: (1) It will hold a DISRUPT conference in Beijing and (2) it will establish Chinese and English tech blogs in the country. If this isn’t the best evidence that tech and entrepreneurship in China and Asia is booming, then I don’t know what other evidence you need. It’s awesome news for Asia’s tech ecosystem that one of the big ...
Aug 7 2011
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CEO of SUP Media Shares More About Livejournal.sg
Annelies van den Belt, CEO of SUP Media, the Russian parent company of Livejournal.sg, was in Singapore last week for the official launch of Livejournal.sg - a dedicated site for LiveJournal users in Singapore. In short, the new site aims to build a convenient one-stop blogshop community in Singapore — a community for LiveJournal users, powered by LiveJournal users. The blogshop phenomenon in Singapore started at least 5 to 6 years ago but only now has LiveJournal has started to enter this market. Every month, Singapore generates a whopping 30 million pageviews ...
Aug 5 2011
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LiveJournal.sg Officially Launched, Here Are Some Screenshots!
LiveJournal.sg has officially launched in Singapore, as the press conference just ended a couple of hours ago. As most of our readers know, Tickled Media is the managing partner for LiveJournal in Singapore. In a nutshell the new LiveJournal.sg site is more localized for its Singapore audience, and you might be surprised to hear that some of its user stats are pretty remarkable. Annelies van den Belt, the CEO of SUP Media, revealed that in Singapore there are currently 500,000 registered users and these bloggers/shoppers generate a whopping 30 million page ...
Aug 1 2011
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Uniqpost Brings Daily Dose of Unique Posts [INTERVIEW]
As the saying goes "Content is the king," and blogs in Indonesia are providing exactly that recently. We have previously written about Uniknya, a blog start-up which focuses on presenting unique content to netizens. Today we're going to look at another: Uniqpost. We set up an email interview with co-founder Dimaz Maulana to find out more about the story behind the blog and how it is doing right now. 1. Can you tell us how Uniqpost was founded? I founded Uniqpost because I love to write. I wanted to write a novel or fiction book, but ...
Jul 27 2011
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India’s Top Online Influencers [INFOGRAPHIC]
Who are India’s top online influencers? There are several different types of metrics to help us figure out who, but Edelman has recently introduced two new influencer measurement tools for the public: BlogLevel and TweetLevel. As the names suggest, each of these tools can measure your blog and Twitter influence, respectively. We tried Blog level and it’s pretty simple to use. Just key in your blog URL and the report is generated. Easy as that. We scored 63.3 in influence which is pretty decent, at least according to Edelman’s report. For ...
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idblogNetwork Talks About The Blogosphere in Indonesia
idblogNetwork is one of the largest blog ad networks that helps brands promote their products through its 4,800 bloggers in Indonesia. What’s most impressive is that the blog network became profitable within three months since its launch, an achievement that most start-ups struggle to reach. Since idblogNetwork works with bloggers on a daily basis, we took time to talk to Kukuh TW, co-founder and CTO at idblogNetwork to understand Indonesia’s blogosphere. Active - offline and online In general, Kukuh says that the Indonesian blogosphere is pretty dynamic - both online and offline. Indonesian ...
Jul 5 2011
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Chinese Red-Light Blogger Caught Red-Handed
Blogging is a common way to share things online. But unfortunately for him, Lin Chenglong is one blogger who shared a little too much. Instead of blogging about travel experiences, food, or technology, Lin Chenglong prefers to blog about his experience at “barber shops,” - the shady ones, if you know what I mean. In China, small-scale brothels are often disguised as barber shops. Lin started visiting these barber shops at age 17 and eventually got addicted. In March 2009, he started a personal blog to share his experiences at these ...
Jun 29 2011
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Blogging Contest for Indonesian Students To Promote Tourism
Pariaman city government in Indonesia is holding a blogging contest for students to celebrate the city's ninth anniversary. All junior and senior high school students in the area can enter the contest through their schools before July 5. Inevitably, all blogs that are submitted to the competition must stick to a specific theme : "Pariaman City As the Islamic Tourist Destination". Given that Indonesia has a majority Muslim population - especially in Pariaman - and that this seaside town needs more tourism income, this theme didn't come as a surprise. The city ...
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