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Evernote releases a completely revamped Android app.

Wed, 16 May 2012 10:10:56 +0700

Evernote releases a completely revamped Android app.

Aviary releases SDK for Windows Phone

Wed, 16 May 2012 08:28:58 +0700

Photo editing company Aviary has released a development kit for Windows Phone for other apps to use as their image editor of choice. As Windows Phone is still in its early period, Aviary hopes to become the leading partner for photo apps on the platform. The free SDK allows all sorts of applications to add photo editing components without having to build it themselves. As GeekWire noted, third party Twitter app Rowi is among the first to adopt Aviary. It also offers SDK for iOS and Android. Aviary recently replaced Piknik as the image editor for Flickr users.

"I can’t think of a good reason why iOS users can’t specify third-party apps to be their default web..."

Wed, 16 May 2012 08:20:49 +0700

“I can’t think of a good reason why iOS users can’t specify third-party apps to be their default web browser (or email client, or calendar)”

- John Gruber

Yahoo! circa 2006 felt amazing. We had the pieces and people to demolish Facebook. Fumbling every...

Wed, 16 May 2012 08:17:29 +0700

Yahoo! circa 2006 felt amazing. We had the pieces and people to demolish Facebook. Fumbling every single thing since takes special talent.
— Les Orchard (@lmorchard) May 15, 2012

Indosat customers hit 52 million, Rp672 billion revenue from data

Wed, 16 May 2012 08:05:00 +0700

Indosat customers hit 52 million, Rp672 billion revenue from data:

Tuesday had brought major milestones to Indosat, Indonesia’s second largest mobile telco by customer base. Following the appointment of veteran telco executive Erik Meijer as the commercial director or chief commercial officer, the company launched its iPhone 4S bundling program yesterday and announced that it now has 52 million customers within its networks. This amounts to a 14 percent rise over the same period last year. According to Tempo Interaktif, this means the company has 21.7 percent of the cellular market in Indonesia. With Rp4 trillion in cellular revenue, Rp672 billion came from data services, a 13.7 percent year on year increase. On the other hand, profits were down 96 percent to Rp 16.7 billion compared to the same quarter last year as it looks to sell its towers away.

"By the time we were looking at Flickr, Yahoo was getting the shit kicked out of it by Google. The..."

Wed, 16 May 2012 07:41:29 +0700

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By the time we were looking at Flickr, Yahoo was getting the shit kicked out of it by Google. The race was on to find other areas of search where we could build a commanding lead.

That is the reason we bought Flickr—not the community. We didn’t give a shit about that. The theory behind buying Flickr was not to increase social connections, it was to monetize the image index. It was totally not about social communities or social networking. It was certainly nothing to do with the users.

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- Unnamed Yahoo executive quoted by Mat Honan

How Yahoo killed Flickr and lost the Internet

Wed, 16 May 2012 07:39:00 +0700

How Yahoo killed Flickr and lost the Internet:

Gizmodo’s Mat Honan takes a detailed and powerful look at how Flickr went from a feature of another project to an internet powerhouse before succumbing to become a curiosity caught up in corporate quagmire.

In 2005, Flickr had far and away the best social connection and discovery tools on the Internet. Remember, back then Facebook was still very much a fledgling service, one that didn’t even let you upload pictures other than the one in your profile. Yahoo, meanwhile, had existing internal social products, like Address Book and Messenger. Social was clearly the future. What Yahoo wanted, however, wasn’t the future. It was to re-fight an old battle from the past. It was to beat Google.

Bloomberg has all your Apple WWDC rumors in one page

Tue, 15 May 2012 23:58:39 +0700

Bloomberg has all your Apple WWDC rumors in one page:

Thinner, lighter, faster, sharper, SSD-powered, retina display, redesigned MacBook Pro? Check.
More iCloud apps? Check
Mountain Lion release? Check.
iPhone in October? Check.
Retina Display iMacs? Oh.
New Apple television? Hmmm… well, almost all the rumors.

YouTube video views are falling. Don’t worry though,...

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:03:02 +0700

YouTube video views are falling. Don’t worry though, because that’s exactly what they wanted. Why? Because they’re aiming for longer video views instead of more. YouTube has been working on getting people to watch longer videos and it seems to be working.

Groupon gets a sitcom on CBS

Tue, 15 May 2012 15:58:35 +0700

Groupon gets a sitcom on CBS:

Seriously. WTF?

“twentysomething best friends, Evan and Rob, [who] move from their hometown of Bloomington, Indiana, to Los Angeles to begin their exciting new lives working at Groupon. Evan is having trouble breaking his old slothful habits and rather than go out after work to explore L.A. and meet new people, prefers to play online poker with his buddies back home. Rob has different plans and is determined to drag Evan, kicking and screaming, along with him.”

Popular Mac QuickTime plugin Perian to be discontinued

Tue, 15 May 2012 15:54:44 +0700

Until now, if your Mac isn’t loaded with the Perian plugin for QuickTime, you’d have difficulties in playing many of the popular video formats used across the web. After six years however, it’s coming to an end. The developers behind Perian are calling it quits and will be sending the source code to GitHub or Google Code for others to play with. They are recommending MPlayer, VLC and Niceplayer as alternatives for when Perian stops working. There’s no guarantee that Perian will work with the upcoming OS X Mountain Lion, but for now, It still works with OS X Lion.

So long Perian.

Twitter announces weekly email digest.

Tue, 15 May 2012 15:41:30 +0700

Twitter announces weekly email digest.

Photo and video sharing coming to iCloud and iOS 6?

Tue, 15 May 2012 15:32:09 +0700

Photo and video sharing coming to iCloud and iOS 6?:

As the competition in the cloud heats up, Apple is rumored to be preparing a major upgrade to its popular iCloud service. After languishing for over a decade under various monikers and collection of services, Apple may have just hit the right notes with iCloud. At the moment iCloud offers an email service, a cloud-based contacts list, mobile and desktop instant messaging, photo synchronization, device backup and locator, and a storage service for applications. iCloud members get 5GB of free space with paid options for additional space.

Following a leak last week of a web based reminder and notes apps on the beta site of iCloud, more services are said to be coming to iCloud, which is expected to be part of the upcoming iOS 6 announcements at WWDC in June. The Wall Street Journal reports that iCloud will feature photo and video sharing services that could put it in competition with sites such as Flickr, Facebook, 500px and others.

If Linkedin had been invented in the ’80s

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:47:21 +0700

If Linkedin had been invented in the ’80s

Microsoft presents BizSpark Startup Night, Tuesday, May 15 Walid...

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:42:16 +0700

Microsoft presents BizSpark Startup Night, Tuesday, May 15

Walid Abu-Hadba, Corporate Vice President of Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE) Group of Microsoft Corp. will be at @america on Tuesday night to talk about upcoming Microsoft software and how startups can take advantage of its software development tools. He will also deliver insights from startups who have participated in the BizSpark program.

Box: The Path From Arrington’s Backyard To A Billion Dollar Business

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:07:00 +0700

Box: The Path From Arrington’s Backyard To A Billion Dollar Business:

Box can be considered an old hand in the field of cloud storage. It has its roots in a research paper written in 2004 by Aaron Levie, co-founder of Box, who thought about storing files online so people can have their files wherever they go instead of having to email them to themselves or carry storage drives everywhere. Though the idea wasn’t revolutionary and far from new, back then few companies were doing what they were doing and most had not gained enough traction.

While Box began as a consumer product and nearly stayed that way, as soon as Box turned its attention to enterprise solution, it blossomed. TechCrunch’s Leena Rao has the full story on how Box became as big as it is today, competing with the likes of Apple, Microsoft, and Google in less than a decade.

Steve Wozniak sees Mark Zuckerberg as a combination of himself and Steve Jobs

Mon, 14 May 2012 14:50:29 +0700

Steve Wozniak sees Mark Zuckerberg as a combination of himself and Steve Jobs:

In an interview with Bloomberg TV in Sydney, Apple co-founder and chief scientist for Fusion-io Steve Wozniak answered questions about the Facebook IPO and what he thinks of Mark Zuckerberg. According to Woz, as he’s commonly known, he sees Zuckerberg as more of a combination of himself and Steve Jobs. He said, “I was thankful to have a partnership with Steve Jobs and I see Mark Zuckerberg closer to the combination of us.”

He also said that he would invest in Facebook regardless of its share price noting that it would be a good investment for someone looking to make money.

Steve Wozniak on BloombergTV

Mon, 14 May 2012 14:43:00 +0700

Steve Wozniak on BloombergTV

Slashdot, SourceForge, may be up for sale

Mon, 14 May 2012 10:51:54 +0700

Slashdot, SourceForge, may be up for sale:

Geeknet, Inc. (Nasdaq:GKNT), the online network for the global geek community, today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the Company and its advisors to explore strategic alternatives with respect to its online media business, including the SourceForge, Slashdot and Freecode websites. The Company and its advisors will evaluate a range of options to maximize shareholder value, including, but not limited to, a potential sale of the Company’s online media business, investing additional capital to expand the online media business, or other possible transactions involving the online media business.

Is one million users a big deal these days?

Mon, 14 May 2012 10:38:00 +0700

Is one million users a big deal these days?:

The answer to that question depends on what you get out of that million. If it’s a million paid users from which the company or the service can derive regular revenue, of course! If it’s a million users for a free service, what do you get out of it aside from eyeballs for ads and an increasing bandwidth bill? Even the term “active users” can be scrutinized these days.

Suhail Doshi, CEO of analytics startup Mixpanel:

You should pay attention to what their definition of ‘active’ even means,” he said. For instance, the number of users who are active on a service within a month could be swayed by a single day’s big spike in usage. “An average rolling daily active is far more indicative

That is of course when seen from a Silicon Valley point of view. How about Indonesian startups who generally struggle to gain even 100k users within one quarter?