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ABN Goes Mobile

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Asia Blog Network (ABN) has published a cooperation with PT Arunti Indonesia. The collaboration allows the ABN readers to access information through SMS. “The new feature enables our readers and bloggers to be updated with recent information wherever they are,” stated Budi Putra, the CEO of ABN. “This facility needs no registration, because of its nature as pull-SMS. The information is only sent upon direct request,” continued Janto Djojo, as the Managing Director of PT Arunti Indonesia.PT Arunti Indonesia is a company that provides mobile information services through pull-SMS system. Its center is in Singapore. But it starts its operation in Indonesia and gets ready to be ABN’s business partner.

In the first phase of the collaboration, Indonesian SMS users can access news from My Sport and My Film channels. The request is simple. User needs only to send a keyword by SMS to short-digit number: 9456. The keywords provided at present are: LigaIndonesia@ABN, LigaSpanyol@ABN, LigaItalia@ABN, FilmKorea@ABN, and FilmMandarin@ABN.

“For example, when we’re curious about anything regarding the Indonesian team in Asia Cup, we can just send the keyword LigaIndonesia@ABN to 9456,” said Budi.

In this first phase, only Telkomsel’s and Indosat’s GSM customers could use the service (Kartu Halo, Simpati, Kartu As, Matrix, Mentari, IM3). The service needs no registration or other kind of membership. User will be charged with normal SMS tariff only. No premium SMS charge!

AdSense Now Supporting Bahasa Indonesia

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

Nanda Firdausi reported promptly about Google AdSense supporting Bahasa Indonesia now, formally announced today. This is a great news for Indonesia blogger. Even AdSense is not specific to blog, it has hot market on blog’s pages.

Jeanie Santoso exposed some cool facts about Indonesia. I personally would like to suggest her (and of course Google!) to amplify this snowball effect to previous week news regarding Jakarta as one of four Asia’s cities under The Blog Belt.

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Indians lead craze for music videos in Asia

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Indians are the movie and television-driven music consumers in Asia, or even, in the world. Personally, I enjoyed Indian musics and knew their pop stars through the country’s movies and television drama.

Indians are the most passionate, television-driven music consumers in Asia, according to the Branded, MTV and Synovate Music Matters survey - on music habits and attitudes of young urban Asians- released at the 2007 Music Matters Asia Pacific Forum in Hong Kong.

Of the Indian urban consumer respondents, the survey reveals, 67 per cent watch music videos on television almost every day, and 22 per cent watch them two to three times a week, the highest rates in Asia. Regionally, 33 per cent of consumers watch music videos almost every day and 25 per cent watch them two to three times a week.

[Source: Rediff]

Four blogging countries in Asia

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Interesting that Asia has four representatives for Blogging Countries in the world: Jakarta, Beijing, Mumbai and Singapore. So, congratulations for Asia!

Read Ikhlasul Amal’s posting on Blogging Tips blog.

Onno W. Purbo Blogging

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Well, this morning breaking news came: Onno W. Purbo will go blogging on Asia Blogging Network. Budi Putra confirmed about the deal and this time we welcome Onno W Purbo for two reasons.

But wait…

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Join our community!

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

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Folks we are trying to form ABN community and one of efforts is setting up an MyBlogLog account. MyBlogLog’s ABN community members can interact and communicate each others, while we can posses “the live database” of our community members.

MyBlogLog community member is one of the best ways to track our community members (besides through comment forums on our whole blogs at ABN, off course).

You can join ABN community by entering our pages at http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/AsiaBlogging/

Welcome!

All Malaysia.info blog

Monday, June 18th, 2007

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This is an interesting blog from our neighbor Malaysia. The country’s bloggers can blog anything here, and can also participate in what is called a blogging contest.

It’s one of good model of community blogs. Let’s take a look!

The AllMalaysian Bloggers Project (AMBP) is an undertaking of the folks behind the AllMalaysia.info website, all of whom believe strongly in the freedom of speech. The objective of this little project is to gather ALL Malaysian blogs under one umbrella site from which (potential) readers can find the various blogs by theme.

Blog launched: Indonesian Minister of Agriculture

Monday, June 18th, 2007

We’re extremely happy to report that the blog of Anton Apriyantono, currently Indonesian Minister of Agriculture, has been launched!

Two members of the AsiaBlogging.com’s team have been involved since the beginning of the project. We hope that Mr. Anton will find blog to be a very useful medium for his communication needs.
Welcome to the blogosphere!

ABN blogger reports from Nokia Connection 2007, CommunicAsia 2007

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

There are two big ICT events will be held in Singapore this week: Nokia Connection 2007 (18 June 2007, Monday, Raffles City Convention Centre) and CommunicAsia 2007 (19-22 June 2007, Tuesday to Friday, Singapore Expo).

I’ve just arrived here today, and tomorrow will start to attend these interesting events.

An annual event to showcase the latest from Nokia, Nokia Connection is an opportunity to experience the future of design and technological innovation.

Spread over a total of eight halls, CommunicAsia — alongside EnterpriseIT, BroadcastAsia, and InteractiveDME — will see the gathering of over 2,400 companies as they come together to demonstrate the transforming powers of digital technologies.

Sure, I will blog about these event for AsiaBlogging.com, especially for Bahasa Indonesia-based blog, InfoGadget and english-blog, Gimme Gizmos.

So, don’t miss it! :-)

P.S. Don’t forget to read my special post on Nokia’s blog.

AsiaBlogging in eLifeStyle

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

In its e-Lifestyle programme, today MetroTV discussed AsiaBlogging.com, as the “umbrella for Asian bloggers.” The host, Roy Suryo started by briefly describing the blogging trends in Indonesia and the launching of AsiaBloggging.com. Then he interviewed Budi Putra as the CEO of AsiaBlogging.com, and Isyana Artharini as one of the author of AsiaBlogging.com.

As an observer of Indonesian Internet and media, Roy asked whether AsiaBlogging would take back Internet from currently running Web 2.0 to previous state with centralised content. Budi responded by explaining that AsiaBlogging is still focused on blogs: personal journalism and opinion. It is organised, but it shows different taste and style with mainstream media. Answering Roy, Budi also told two conditions for a writer to join Asia Blogging: must love writing, and must choose a specific theme to write. “Writing for money” type of writer is not suggested to join AsiaBlogging.

Talking to Isyana, Roy questioned the motivation for a writer to join AsiaBlogging. Isyana told that she loves writing, and she sees the opportunity for writers to improve and to grow by joining AsiaBlogging: the system, the community, the chance to grow, etc. She said that after join AsiaBlogging, she keeps her focus only for writing, neglecting all technical aspects etc.

Roy also mentioned that AsiaBlogging is the first initiative in Asia for its kind, and fourth in the world. Concluding the programme, Budi said that AsiaBlogging just opened the opportunity. He’s expecting better authors to join and develop AsiaBlogging together, and better system to be applied.

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