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The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. The folks over at Enovate China have come out with their 2011 Digital Lifestyles Report, dubbed "Youth Go Mobile" which focuses on China's 300 million 18 to 30-year olds, who are driving massive growth in social networking, e-commerce, social gaming, and smartphone purchasing. For the report and the accompanying infographic (below), 500 Chinese youngsters, aged from 18 to 30, were surveyed and interviewed about their digital habits and attitudes. What are some of the key findings? ...
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Aug 16 2011
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HTC Shows Off Upcoming Sina Weibo Phone, for Microblogging Addicts
HTC and Sina have today announced the fruit of their first major project together: a brand-new China-only HTC phone with baked-in Sina Weibo integration. This puts China's biggest microblogging service into the heart of the HTC Sense user interface, so that Weibo is incorporated into the FriendStream app (see below) as well as accessible by a hardware button. The HTC Weibo phone looks to be a reworked HTC Legend, with its unibody aluminium chassis, that has had its optical trackpad replaced by the Sina Weibo fast-access hard button. Unique to the phone ...
Aug 2 2011
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Indonesian President Warms Up To Social Media, But Still Some Resistance
An the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting last Tuesday, president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono stated: There is no government in the world that has all the answers to this new trend. ASEAN, too, must get into the act. We must be creative and open minded in harnessing the power of technology to promote people-to-people contact.” As we have reported previously, the president previously criticized the social media due to terrorism threats and slanderous news. But it seems he now realizes that at a broader level, the use of social media and other communication tools are ...
Aug 2 2011
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Indonesia’s Tifatul Sembiring: From Government Minister to Net Celeb
Fame is not always limited to just artists or musicians. Politicians - for better or worse - are often the center of attraction too. This is especially the case in today’s social media age, where the words and ideas of many political figures are often exposed raw to the world. Such fame has been attained by Tifatul Sembiring, the Indonesian Minister of Telecommunications and Information. Indonesia’s love/hate relationship with Tifatul is producing some interesting conversation in cyberspace recently. According to Famecount, Tifatul is ranked as number 24 on a list of ...
Jul 20 2011
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Intel Supports Indonesian Youth Conference With Twitter Campaign
As one of the sponsors of the Indonesian Youth Conference 2011, Intel Indonesia was committed to spreading inspirational stories for young people. Through the company “Warnai Hidupmu” (Color Your Life) movement on Twitter, Intel persuades its @komunitasintel followers to use PC as a productivity and creativity tool. Several days before the conference, @komunitasintel started the initiative by conducting a live Twitter interview with Yoris Sebastian, a young entrepreneur who founded Oh My Goodness Creative Consulting agency. Yoris (@yoris) shared not only his hope for young people but also his experience ...
Aug 2 2011
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Get The Right Influencer to Boost Your Brand on Social Media
There are lots of celebrity and public figures on social media platforms such as Twitter. They gain thousands of followers, and brands are keen to get them as their spokesperson. But just because someone is famous, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they will be a good ‘influencer’ online. During a series of IDBYTE workshops last week, Raditya Dika, an Indonesian bookwriter shared his experiences and tips about being a good influencer in social media. According to Dika, an influencer is a person who tweets various things to influence other people. Dika ...
Jul 19 2011
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Indonesia: A Mobile-centric Nation
At last week’s IDBTYE event in Indonesia, Andy Zain gave a speech about Indonesia’s digital habits and the success of mig33, a popular mobile networking site in Southeast Asia with 27 million users in Indonesia alone. He is the managing partner of mig33 and also the director of SkyBee Tbk., a local mobile phone company. Citing a Nielsen survey on mobile phone users in Indonesia, Zain showed how almost everyone in the country owns a mobile phone - from housewives to professionals. Some even have two or three. But in contrast, ...
Jul 19 2011
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Train Accident Victims Identified with Facebook’s Help in India
Three dead bodies were identified by their family members when their photographs were uploaded onto Facebook by a government official. The Times of India reports that the people identified were said to be missing since the recent Kalka Mail (express train) accident in India in which over 80 people died near Kanpur, a city in North India. It seems that no one had contacted the government officials claiming the bodies and so the official used Facebook, to get the bodies identified quickly by family members. It must be noted that India ...
Jul 18 2011
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Sina Weibo Rewards Its Tweeters with Badges
Today Sina rolled out badges as 'achievement awards' for users on its Weibo microblogging platform. The badges can be deliberately - or coincidentally - attained by doing something or following someone within Sina Weibo. These badges of virtual endeavor are then displayed just below your username on your Weibo page, but are also given a fancier display in your virtual trophy cabinet. My sorrowful two badges are pictured above. You can peruse your friend's badges, too, to see what they've managed to do on Weibo, and even compare how many more, or ...
Jul 18 2011
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Ben & Jerry’s Wants Singapore To Name New Ice Cream On Twitter
If you’re having trouble choosing a name for your new product, crowdsourcing one on Twitter could be your answer. There is also the added benefit of widespread discussion of your brand if you do it right on Twitter or Facebook. Ice-cream maker Ben & Jerry’s has launched a Twitter campaign, titled “Milk Us a Flavor Name,” targeting Singaporeans to help choose a name for its newly launched ice cream. To participate, follow @BenJerry_SG and tweet your suggested name with the hashtag #Benjerryflavor. The first 500 people who tweet a suggested name to ...
Jul 17 2011
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How BlackBerry Engages Indonesia Through Social Media
Update: "We don't do PR for BlackBerry in Indonesia - a different agency is retained. The Edelman Digital brief across APAC is pure social media/digital marketing and content provision, including driving all of the above," said John Kerr of Edelman. If you're a regular Penn Olson reader, you already know that RIM’s BlackBerry is huge in Indonesia. A large part of its success is due to its extensive and smart use of social media. Gerald Ang, digital head at RIM Asia, shared how BlackBerry is hitting the jackpot in Indonesia by ...
Jul 14 2011
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India Leads Asia’s Early Adopters on Google+
Google+ is gaining new users at a pretty insane rate, and Indian users are second only to the US in terms of being the keenest G+ early adopters. From a sampling of 1 million people on the site, 5.88 percent are based in India. US users dominate the site for the time being, accounting for just over 49 percent. MTV India was the first Indian brand site to spring into life on the site on June 30th. However, with Google+ gaining new devotees so quickly, it's worth noting that Google's buzzing SNS ...
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