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Dailylicious Recap This Week

Let's start recap Dailylicious and DailySocial this week, since last week there was a national holiday, Lebaran, this recap is a summary of various news and information received by the DailySocial editors for two weeks, which we share on Dailylicious and write on DailySocial.

First information about media or publishing online, still related to similar news in recap two weeks ago, in connection with the dismissal of Jack Shafer from Slate. This time the article was written by Jeff Bercovici at Forbes.com. Jeff said that there are two options in producing the product/content online, which is cheap or expensive, if you choose an expensive one then you should niche and with the demographics that advertisers want to target, such as technology or business. More can be seen via the link this.

Next there is interesting article from TheNextWeb about why the entrepreneur foreign (startup founder of the Ycombinator program) chooses to run startup they are there. Some of the points include, access to mentors, a very supportive entrepreneurial ecosystem where in addition to having interest the same, the people there are not afraid of failure and have passion the same one.

Still a little related to YCombinator, this time Paul Graham proposed a pledge on patents. Of course, this patent problem is a serious problem faced by consumers startup, Paul proposes a Patent Pledge to protect startup and foster innovation. He proposed that, "No first use of software patents against companies with less than 25 people." Information can be read via the link this.

You must know Instagram right? Following There are 3 interesting comments from founder Instagram, Kevin Systrom on Justin Bieber, Facebook and Android. His statement about Android also raised various comments, especially for Android users that they will soon enjoy this service on their phones. DailySocial also has a bit of information about Instagram for Android since August 15th, from interview article with Shinta Dhanuwardoyo who visited Silicon Valley.

Now let's see what information is written on DailySocial. Towards the end of the year holidays, Multiply held a program for sellers by waiving the transaction fees charged when using e-commerce platforms Multiply.

Some information related to startups/developers, Palembang now have a communitystartup, named MusTech which is taken from the name of the Musi river. Then there is announcement of the DevStart competition who have announced 10 finalists, two main winners will be selected which will be announced next week. Then there was the announcement from East Ventures Alpha, a 100-day incubation program for investors startup managed by East Ventures. They announce a list of 6 participants in the incubation program. And information from SparxUp Awards 2011, registration for early bird will be closed 18 September 2011, while 'normal' registration will be closed on 2 October 2011, complete information can be checked HERE.

Now there is information from Google, Yahoo! and Foursquare. There are two information from Google, The first is about AdMob users having to move their accounts to AdSense Mobile, and The second is a Google TV advertisement for Indonesia that has started showing on TV. For Foursquare, they announced additional language facilities new to Update their apps and web, including support for Indonesian.

As for Yahoo! there's 'hot' news where their CEO, Carol Bartz finally got fired and now Yahoo! looking for a new CEO. Regarding this, there is a little joke comment on Dailylicious, what is it, please check the link this. ;)

Before getting into the final information on Dailylicious, there is also news from XL, now you can buy Zynga Credits using XL prepaid and news from .id domain management which will be handled by GMO Registry. Then the final two pieces of information in Dailylicious this time are, The first is about the news we got from Twitter about Capex Bakrie Tel which reached $50 million for broadband and Smartfren which plans to bundle the iPad. And lastly is information about Twitter client most popular in Indonesia, although this information has appeared since July, but it is still interesting to observe, what applications are used the most? You can see it via the link this.

As usual, at the end of the recap, we share some opinion articles and CEO Corner that appeared on DailySocial. The first one Aulia wrote was about Why We Still Use Key Generator Tools For Internet Banking? Then there is guest post from Razi Talib about Looking for a True Technologist. Rama wrote about API for startup while I myself wrote about One Way to Face the Competition which I compiled based on Kevin Rose's video interview with Dennis Crowley.

Then the article CEO Corner this time DailySocial interviewed Saumil Nanavati, founder and CEO of Chalkboard. In closing, there are interview video DailySocial with co-founder and CEO of SoybeanSoft, the company game from Yogyakarta who recently received funding from East Ventures.

Thus the recap this time, you can go to the respective links for complete information and see you in the next recap.

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