Web 2.0

Indonesia’s web 2.0 services

Indonesia has moves forward beyond blogosphere: the country already enters the new world, called web 2.0 services. Several user-generated content services already launched, and the country’s community responded to them enthusiastically.
Check-out my CNET Asia tech post on web 2.0

Me, Myself and Blogging

Please allow me to talk about myself on this occasion. I already decided to quit from my existing job as a journalist with Tempo, Indonesia’s most respected general affairs magazine, and turn independent writer and full-time blogger.
Beyond my expectations, news of my departure hit the country’s blogosphere and got a lot of positive responses from […]

How the Fatih Syuhud Way plays

Every world has its own star. So it also goes for the world of Indonesia’s blogosphere. I would undoubtedly pick A. Fatih Syuhud, a researcher-turn-blogger, to be an Indonesian top blogger. This guy has made a significant achievement: Inspiring and encouraging many Indonesian bloggers to blog.
He is now accomplishing his PhD program on Islamic Studies […]

Indonesia’s software ready to compete big boys

Stop your daily routine of opening, closing and changing from one application to another, for e-mail, browser, instant messaging, agenda, address book, word processing, spreadsheet, video conferencing, multimedia chat rooms and many more. Just use one application that does it all.
Yes, this is a tool that has everything. By using Indline you can create multimedia […]

Oggix.com, a shoutbox made in Indonesia

Do you want to leave a quick message on the Weblog without any form of login or user registration? Use a useful and colorful feature like shoutbox.
A shoutbox, saybox, tagboard or chatterbox is a chat-like feature that allows people to quickly leave instant messages on the Weblog or Web site.
As I browsed anywhere, one of […]

Hell, yeah! No regrets to being a veteran blogger

He gave me his popular book, No Regrets: Reflections of a Presidential Spokesman, last week in his office. The book had been published by Equinox Publishing four years ago.
What a pleasant surprise then to find on the inside page, along with his autograph, that he had written: “To Budi Putra, who made me a blogger. […]

All the president’s men’s blogs

Indonesian blogosphere received good news last weekend. Another Indonesian Minister had started blogging.
Yusuf Ansy’ari, Indonesian State Minister for Public Housing, had just started his own blog. His most recent posts were about the passing of his mother and a certain topic on housing policy.
This is the second Indonesian Minister to have started blogging, after Juwono […]

Fast growing of Indonesian Wikipedia

Wikipedia Indonesia has become Asia’s third fastest-growing of local version of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, after Japan and China. As of today, Bahasa Indonesia’s version of Wikipedia generated 31,072 articles, while the Japanese edition extends to 250,900 items and the Chinese have achieved 86,319 posts.
Closest to Bahasa Indonesia’s debut are other Asian nation languages such […]