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 ...
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Wikileaks Cables Reveal China Upset By US Embassy’s Twitter Account
Back in June of 2009, Twitter was still unblocked in China. So when the US Embassy decided to release its own reports on the quality of Beijing's air, Twitter seemed like a natural option. @BeijingAir was born. The service is familiar to almost all foreign residents in Beijing because it includes information about small particles in the air (PM 2.5) that can be very harmful to your health and is updated hourly. Official Chinese statistics are publicly updated less frequently, and do not include PM 2.5 readings. According to a ...
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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 ...
Sep 1 2011
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OnSay iPhone App Lets You Call Twitter Friends For Free
While many of us use Skype for our internet phone calls, one application in Japan is aspiring to provide an alternative, one that taps into your network of friends on Twitter. OnSay is an iOS application jointly developed by Life2Bits Inc, utari Inc, and Project Zero that lets you make VoIP calls to your your favorite ‘Tweeps.’ I gave it a quick test run last night, but unfortunately there weren’t any people in my network using it, so I couldn’t really call anyone. But I got in touch with Taka Katayama ...
Aug 29 2011
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Eid Greetings Made Easy on Twitter With Ucap.in
On Christmas or on any other holiday, people love to send greetings to friends and family. It’s the same for Eid, a Muslim celebration, which is just two days away. But traditional greeting cards might be troublesome as most offices in Muslim countries are already closed a few days before Eid, and that includes post offices. Surely there must be some way that technology can solve this problem, right? That’s where Ucap comes in. The newly launched service is a Twitter app that allows people to easily send e-cards over popular ...
Aug 24 2011
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INFOGRAPHIC: Social Media in India
The Infographic of the Day series visually expresses important stories from Asia and the world of technology. We've seen rise of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter globally. India is one of the most prominent countries on social networks, despite the fact that only 8.5 percent of the population has access to the Internet. Facebook has 31 million Indian users making it the third largest country on Facebook after the USA and Indonesia. It has around 13 million Indian users on Twitter. For more great information on how Facebook and Twitter are ...
Aug 23 2011
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96% of All Page Views in China are Local – Just 4% Away From North Korea
A researcher at Harvard University has calculated that “96 percent of all page views in China are to web sites hosted within China.” This points to both a thriving web scene in China - where you can shop on Taobao whilst watching videos on Youku - but also to the extent of web controls in the country. Harvard fellow Hal Roberts - who specializes in internet filtering circumvention, web surveillance, and hack attacks - came up with the number by combining Google AdPlanner’s list of page views on China’s top 250 ...
Aug 22 2011
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Consumers in Southeast Asia Are More Influenced By Social Media Ads
As social media turns into the Internet's new playground, brands and products are flocking there en masse in an effort to catch customers. And according to Nielsen's latest study, consumers in the Southeast Asia region are highly influenced by such online advertisements, especially when ads are displayed on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The study reveals 73 percent are 'highly' or 'somewhat' influenced by ads in social media. The rate jumps to 80 percent if social context is factored in, showing who has liked or followed the advertised brand. (See ...
Aug 18 2011
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VIVAnews Offers iPad 2, More Prizes, In Blogging Competition
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 ...
Aug 17 2011
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Companies Try to Keep Up with Social Media Boom in India
With social media being the new mode of marketing, every company - be it a startup or a multi-national - is trying to woo the Indian public through social media campaigns on Facebook and Twitter. Some of them have even created dedicated social media sites, in an effort to generate buzz. This perhaps is the most challenging time for social media managers across the country, but it also represents a great opportunity as 32.6 million Indians are reported to be on Facebook at present. These users are mostly young people who, ...
Aug 15 2011
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Tiffany on Twitter: Indonesian High School Girl Has Over 50k Followers
We're all familiar with stories of sudden fame on the Internet, especially on YouTube where overnight sensations like Indonesia's viral Bollywood cop are a common occurance. But as we've pointed out before, Indonesia is big on Twitter too, creating more than just a few trending topics over the past year. But as for individual users, there are few that have more than 10,000 followers. With that in mind, we were eager to speak with Tiffanny William, a high school girl who has more than 50,000 followers! 1. Can you introduce yourself to our readers? I am Tiffany ...
Aug 11 2011
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TEPCO Opens 25 Location-specific Twitter Accounts For Blackout Alerts
In the wake of the March 11th earthquake and tsunami, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) had to implement rolling blackouts due to the damage that was caused. For many people in Eastern Japan, myself included, it was often difficult during that time to find out when your zone would be subject to a planned power outage. In order to remedy this moving forward, it seems TEPCO has enlisted the help of Twitter to get notifications to the public in a timely manner. It has established 25 different Twitter accounts, each ...
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