A friend of mine pointed out a cool site recently: Viikii.net --a sharing translation and subtitling platform for streaming video. Now everyone could help the world to understand and enjoy different language videos; just use the Viikii system and start translating and creating subtitles for that. Their community keeps growing and growing. A brilliant idea, right? The Viikii blog writes: ViiKii can be a break-through, imagine how you could watch all the fun videos out there in the world,...

See the full gallery on posterousIndonesian Ministry of Communications and Informations started to block porn sites (check-out the list here) today, but apparently it blocks ads, too. For instance, eBay' and Google Adsense's banners got blocked. Weird.[All images from @sigantengkalem] Permalink | Leave a comment  » ...

The micro-blogging service Twitter just announced a cool way for mobile users to quickly start following certain tweets —even if they don't have a Twitter account! It is a smart move to get more people trying Twitter. Anyone in the US can receive Tweets on their phone even if they haven’t signed up for Twitter. This is a simple way for people to get information they care about in real-time. For example, let’s say you want to get Tweets from New York City’s office of em...

The following is Top Search Results for budiputra.com according to Alexa: haiti relief, motorola milestone, motorola dext, milestone motorola, nexus one, iphone telkomsel, google singapore, skype,  hotmail, google hk. For me, it means that I should keep blogging about technology (mostly about gadgets) and, if possible, related to Asia. Thanks Alexa, and my site's readers, for giving me this clear directions! Permalink | Leave a comment  » ...

Skype, the Internet telephony company with has 560 million registered users (biggger than Facebook's so far!), announced that it has filed a Form S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $100 million. Skype’s decision to go public is a result of the company turning into a cash machine. It currently has 560 million registered users and about 124 million of them are active on monthly basis, while about 8.1 million of them are mont...

I am currently using Seesmic for Android -- that's a nice app for Twitter though, but TweetDeck for Android is also worth trying... Can't wait to get this on my Droid! To get straight to the point, we're nearing completion of Android TweetDeck and we've really been pushing the limits of what Android can do. Hence we will be opening up a public beta testing period this week for some serious device testing. But before all that happens I wanted to briefly explain what Android TweetDeck means to ...

PayPal announces the latest version of the PayPal mobile app for Android. Just like its iPhone version, the app also uses bump technology that allow you to simply tap two phones together to send money. This app is free and and available now in the Android Market. "Split the check is another great feature, which lets you automatically calculate the total cost of a bill and then collect money directly from friends when out to dinner," according to Laura Chambers, senior director of PayPal Mob...

Rama Mamuaya (@rampok) pointed out a billion dollar company in Silicon Valley founded by Indonesian couple in 1995. Marvell, the company's name, is an American producer of storage, communications and consumer semiconductor products, ships over 250 million chips per quarter and currently has more than 5000 employees. Permalink | Leave a comment  » ...

A new approach called IP-Influence found that Indonesian filmmaker Joko Anwar (@jokoanwar) is one of Twitter's most influential handles. The study suggests that getting their links retweeted is much more crucial than popularity --in term of number of followers, for instance. According to this study, the following is Twitter's most influential accounts: @mashable, @jokoanwar, @google, @aplusk, @syfy, @smashingmag, @michellemalkin,@theonion, @rww, @breakingnews "A unique analysis of influence ...

Got noticed this morning that Posterous site is down due to a denial of service (DoS) attack, then got an email from Posterous telling some instructions since I am one of Posterous' custom domain users. Then I tried to follow the instructions --it works well! My budiputra.com is back! Thanks Posterous, good job! We're contacting you because you are using a custom domain for your Posterous site which means your site remains under attack and may still be inaccessible.If your site uses a custom...

Gizmodo asks: One of my favorite and most-used iPhone apps is Apple's Remote app. It lets me remotely control iTunes, which is streaming to my living room stereo via an Airport Express. But why hasn't it been updated in over 8 months? Sachin, a good friend of the app's coder, answers: Yes, the Remote app is due for an update. But here's why it hasn't been updated: the person who wrote it is busy working on other things. Yes, the person, not the team (He's a good friend of mine). Apple doesn't...

Former exec Dan Moloney --who left Motorola in February-- is coming back as President of Motorola Mobility. That's obvious that Motorola is ready to fight against other mobile vendors, thanks to Motorola Droid debut. (via Business Insider) Permalink | Leave a comment  » ...

The United States, France, Belgium and Luxembourg pay the most expensive data plan for the iPad worldwide, while Singapore and Hong Kong could enjoy the cheapest data rates. If American users, for instance, should pay USD15 for 250 MB, or USD25 for 2 GB per month to enjoy the iPad, a Singaporean can get a GB of data just for 51 cents![via Wired.com] Permalink | Leave a comment  » ...

Tim Berners-Lee is the primary inventor of the World Wide Web, making his first proposal on it in March 1989. He wrote the original Web software in 1990 and made it available on the Internet in 1991. Web architect David Galbraith wrote to Berners-Lee, looking for the exact location where the Web was invented. "The reason I’m interested in this is that recognizing the exact places involved in the birth of the web is a celebration of knowledge itself rather than belief, opinion or allegiance...

Yeah, I am a long-time Nokia fan. Since the beginning of 2000, as a tech journalist (then blogger), I witnessed how all Nokia portfolios rolled-out here in Indonesia. But frankly speaking, Nokia seems a bit slow in addressing user needs, particularly smart-phone enthusiasts. A bit disappointed on this, I must say. When Apple comes up with the shiny iPhone, RIM's BlackBerry invades the business segment, and Google's Android hits the stores, Nokia still thinks its Symbian OS was just fine. The...

I am and my colleague Jimmi Kembaren having business trip in Surabaya, East Java. Yesterday, we visitted AsianPlus office. AsianPlus is a weekly entertaintment tabloid focuses on Korean, Japanese, Chinese celebrities news and gossip. AsianPlus is one of our content partners for Yahoo! Indonesia OMG! - entertainment channel that's just launched on June 9. Today, we plan to visit another partner: KapanLagi in Malang. AsianPlus and KapanLagi are the only partners office located outside Jakarta. ...

Gossip Cop interviewed Harvey Levin, TMZ’s executive producer. On June 25, 2009, his team broke the worldwide exclusive news of Michael Jackson’s shocking death. June 25, 2009 started off as an ordinary day in the L.A. offices of TMZ.In fact, when TMZ got its first tip at around 1 p.m. PST that Michael Jackson was being taken to the hospital, “it was not that alarming,” recalls Harvey Levin, explaining the singer had “been taken to the hospital many times before” for non-life thre...

Columbia Pictures just released the very first teaser trailer for The Social Network, aka "the Facebook" movie. Directed by David Fincher, written by Aaron Sorkin and Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg, the movie will hit theaters this October.What do you think of this upcoming movie? Will it be the box office? Permalink | Leave a comment  » ...

I'm not an Apple user, but I am a big fan of Steve Jobs, the man behind the world's coolest company. Like others, I always impressed by what he did and contributed to the tech world. The company's products always become cultural "lingua franca". Check-out the link below in order to know what does it mean and how to achieve it. http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/147/apple-nation.html Permalink | Leave a comment  » ...

Yes, I am a big fan of Techmeme, a tech news aggregator, that arranges all of top news links into a single, easy-to-scan page. For me, it's a compelling news resource. Following this success, the company just released Mediagazer. It has similar concept and format like Techmeme, but just for media related news. Smart move. The media business is in tumult: from the production side to the distribution side, new technologies are upending the industry. Keeping up with these changes is time-consumi...

No wonder if The 2010 FIFA World Cup is becoming the most popular event in Web history. The official FIFA World Cup website is currently receiving as many page views as Facebook, the event itself gets "3,000 tweets per second" and Univision.com's live streaming generates 16 million page views.[via RWW] Permalink | Leave a comment  » ...

TechCrunch's piece on how Indonesians' startups companies keep struggling and growing. One for sure, according to the article, Indonesia is absolutely unique among other countries --in term of the nature of start-ups companies. And their expectations. What is the Biggest Challenge Indonesian Web Entrepreneurs Face? Surprisingly, no one I asked said capital or exits. The relative lack of big, lucrative coding jobs from the multinationals like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft and the lack of venture...

Never before has a social media website played such a central role in a conflict, informing even as it amplified the hate on both sides. [via The Globe and Mail] Permalink | Leave a comment  » ...

Just noticed that there are two Indonesian names involved on Iron Man 2: Andre Surya and Nurul Arif! Andre Surya himself is a productive digital artist, check-out this list. (via @greatindonesia) Permalink | Leave a comment  » ...

Indonesian Twitter users are not only becoming a powerful Trending Topic-generator but also could play another role: a social watchdog, according to this story. That's about a minister who recently spotted driving his car in a dedicated bus lane in Jakarta. Permalink | Leave a comment  » ...

Happy Free Comic Book Day for all comic fans anywhere! "One of the goals of Free Comic Book Day is to entice new readers into the comic book fold by giving them free issues/samples of a variety of different series and genres, in the hope that something will catch their eye and turn them on to comics reading..." Do we have any event or activity related to this today in Indonesia today? Please kindly share here. [via thepoc.net Permalink | Leave a comment  » ...

Android-based TV software will be announced at a developer event in May, according to WSJ. Permalink | Leave a comment  » ...

TV is still in the game and no need to worry about the online media's threats, thanks to the nature and business model itself. (via @gfulgoni) Permalink | Leave a comment  » ...

It's just the matter of time that global venture capitalists will be coming to Indonesia and agressively hunting any potential startups. At the moment, they consider Singapore as the entry point to penetrate the country's market, as tech blogger Rama Mamuaya noted.For Indonesian startups, just prepare yourself with unique service, content or application --which be able to draw users or communities to come or use it. Yes, you've got it right: Create the crowd and money will follow! What else? Y...

Just arrived at the Soekarno Hatta airport safely last night, thanks God -- finally I returned back to Jakarta after three days stranded in Frankfurt (well, I have a hotel, instead of waiting and sleeping at the airport...). On Monday afternoon, around 5 pm, the good news has come: Lufthansa will resume flight operations partially, thanks to Twitter. I checked-out the list, and my LH 778 flight listed as one of a few operating flights! Yay! Frankly speaking, I still didn't believe it until...