If you think of ghosts as objects of fear, you may have to think a little differently about Pocong, a local Indonesian ghost. Originally a frightening urban legend about a dead man, Pocong has become very popular on social media sites amongst Indonesians, especially on Twitter and Facebook. This ‘ghost’ has more than 350,000 followers in his Twitter account, Poconggg, and he boasts over 26,000 fans on his Facebook page. That number will probably grow with news on his blog that Poconggg will publish a book, and that he will mention ...
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TechCamp Jakarta To Talk About Technology & Civil Society 2.0
The US Department of State has entered into a partnership with civil society organizations in Indonesia to hold a TechCamp conference focusing on technology as a means to empower the community. The first TechCamp was previously held in Chile, and Indonesia is the second in the series. It will then continue to Lithuania and Moldova. When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton first introduced the Civil Socielty 2.0 program on 2009, she said: “We seek to support civil society efforts worldwide because we believe that civil society helps to make communities more prosperous ...
May 17 2011
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Google and Tech Companies Fight Against New India Censorship Rule
The Indian government has issued new regulations for the censorship of online content that is causing some strong reactions in the IT industry. Some companies, including Google, are asserting their objection to the rules which they say restrict the freedom of expression and the flow of information in the country. The IT Rules 2011 issued by the Ministry of IT and Communications under Section 79 of the Indian IT Act (pdf) states that websites shall inform users not to publish any material that is "blasphemous, would incite hatred, is ethnically objectionable, ...
May 11 2011
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India and Social Media
Social media is in its infancy stage in India and is growing at a fast pace. With over 25 million Indian users, it is obvious that Facebook is reigning the social media circuit in the country, while others are also gaining steam. Twitter, Orkut, LinkedIn are all social media sites that have Indians hooked. The top three social media tools in India are as below. Statistics from Simon Kemp and Bartle Bogle Hegarty: 1. Facebook: 25 million users Popular in metros and now putting pressure on Orkut in tier 2 & tier 3 ...
May 11 2011
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Malaysia’s Facebook Fighters
Social media is a tool that can be used for many unusual purposes. But in Malaysia, one especially surprising use is the recruiting of street gang members online. For the Malaysian Minister of Home Affairs, Hishammuddin Hussein, the recent recruitment of street fighters on Facebook has become a worrisome issue. The targeted recruits are very young, most of them still secondary school students. One local newspaper reported on a Malaysian student recruited by the "36 or Satu Hati (United)" gang. He had to answer a series of questions about his street ...
May 10 2011
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5 Ways Social Media Has Impacted The Singapore General Election
As the dust settles on what many observers have been calling a watershed election, we look at how the Internet and social media have played their part in this Singapore General Election (GE). Unlike 5 years ago, where campaigning through Facebook, Twitter and podcasts were banned, the rules on Internet election advertising were relaxed in this GE, allowing communication of political messages on any conceivable new media platform. Below, we look at 5 ways on how the Internet , and social media in particular, has impacted GE 2011. 1. Social connections bring ...
May 9 2011
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Social Media in Indonesia Turns into a Creative Commons Documentary
The rapid development of social media in Indonesia, and the influence it has on people’s lives, is being made into a documentary. ICT Watch Indonesia in cooperation with Watchdoc production house has produced a non-commercial documentary movie titled @Linimas(s)a (or Timeliner(s) in English), available now in Indonesia through independent and social communities. The movie Linimas(s)a presented the role of social media in Indonesia and its impact on various movements in the country. Examples include how Twitter became one of the most crucial online platforms in spreading the news about the ...
May 2 2011
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Chinese Web Users Love Social Media – and that’s Great News for Brands
We've long known that China's hundreds of millions of web users are especially engaged with social media online - more so than users in the US - and now we have updated stats for 2011 that show how huge microblogging is becoming here. A sizeable 42% of Chinese netizens are posting to microblogs - Twitter.com clones such as Sina Weibo, Tencent Weibo, or the new Baidu Talk which I reviewed last week - during their time online. That contrasts to only 10% of Americans posting to a microblog - well, ...
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Digital, Mobile, and Social Media in India [STATS]
Earlier this month we told you about the China social media and mobile industry report prepared by Simon Kemp and the folks at Bartle Bogle Hegarty. Today he’s shared with us a similar report, this time outlining some equally insightful points on digital, mobile, and social media in India. For us, a few of the notable highlights stood out. Most notably, that India has: 791,000,000 mobile subscribers (compared with 879,000,000 in China) growth of 20,000,000 mobile subscribers every month 100,000,000 internet users 33,158,000 social media users 18,700,000 Orkut users vs 2,740,000 Twitter users The report also includes ...
Apr 30 2011
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Singapore General Election: 44,000 Social Media Updates in April
As voting day draws closer, the buzz has also gotten louder. Social analytics firm Brandtology and digital agency Tribal DDB revealed that there were 44,000 blog posts, tweets and Facebook updates in the first 26 days of April. It was a 60 percent jump in the number of social media updates as compared to March's statistics at 27,000. Out of the 44,000 social media updates, 66 percent belong to the People's Action Party (PAP) while 14 percent belong to the Worker's Party (WP). The statistics also revealed that almost half of the PAP ...
Apr 25 2011
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SalingSilang Converts Social Conversations to Useful Data in Indonesia
Indonesia is a huge social media nation and has been called "The Next Big Thing in Digital Media". If you haven't already known, in terms of number of users, Indonesia is the second largest Facebook nation and the fourth largest Twitter nation in the world. With so many status updates and tweets in the country, there's clearly a massive amount of social data that could be analyzed and turned into meaningful actions. But how can we do that? Saling Silang is the answer, at least in Enda Nasution's vision and opinion. Read ...
Apr 25 2011
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Opposition: Social Media Helps Bypass Pro-PAP Media
How did social media play a part in the Singapore General Election 2011? "A huge role," at least according to the opposition parties. AFP wrote a nice story on how social media has helped the Singapore opposition parties spread their messages across the web. Most importantly, social media has helped" bypass pro-PAP newspapers and broadcast," as described by Chee Soon Juan, secretary-general at Singapore Democratic Party. It is a strong statement and I shall leave that for discussions. Other opposition parties also echoed the same thoughts. Koh Choon Yong, the webmaster of Workers' ...
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