Apr 8, 2011
Yahoo Southeast Asia appears to have developed a rather successful formula for mixing old-style journalism with new media. ComScore ranks the portal as number one for news in four of five Southeast Asian markets. The key to this success has been reach and diversity of content, according to the site’s managing editor, Alan Soon. I
Mar 28, 2011
This infographic and below video were created by students of Michael Netzley at Singapore Management University. Nice work, @hicais, @mavechan, @sugerine and @trixiayong! Any of you interested in a summer internship at Ogilvy? Send me an email. More from Netzley’s students can be seen on the class wiki.
Mar 15, 2011
Indonesia is now the source of 15 percent of the world’s Tweets, coming in third place globally behind the US and Brazil, according to the below recent analysis by Saling Silang. Indonesia’s Tweets peak on Thursdays, but weekends are highly active……On weekends, Indonesians send out more Tweets per person than at any other time during
Feb 24, 2011
With mobile phones coming to Indonesia before everyone had landlines, Southeast Asia’s most populous nation leapfrogged into the mobile era. By 2005 only a quarter of Indonesian homes had landlines, while mobile penetration stood at 20 percent. Now, five years later, more than half the population has mobile phones and the number of landlines has
Jan 26, 2011
Thanks to Wikileaks (via the Guardian) here’s a cable from the US Embassy in Jakarta describing and justifying their US$100k investment in a Facebook and other social media ahead of Obama’s visit. Interesting to see how they position it. The US Embassy in Jakarta built a fanbase on Facebook larger than the US State Department
May 31, 2010
Bahasa Indonesian is now the 5th largest language on Facebook. Tiny compared to English and Spanish, but the only Asia-Pacific country to make the top 10, according to Inside Facebook.
Apr 19, 2010
The US Embassy in Jakarta built a fanbase on Facebook larger than the US State Department and larger than all US Embassies combined, according to the man behind the site. The effort has been driven by Tristram Perry and his team out of the Jakarta embassy, Surabaya and Medan. Tristram agreed to take a few
Jan 10, 2010
Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation, has been a contrarian market for smartphones. It is one of the few markets worldwide where the Blackberry beats the iPhone as a consumer smartphone. Generally, the Blackberry is seen more as a device that companies issue to their employees, while iPhone is the one that people choose
Jul 11, 2009
UPDATE: I just added a related posting on iPhone vs Blackberry in Indonesia. Jeremy Wagstaff says Friendster faces a mass defection over to Facebook in Indonesia. Why? According to Jeremy, it is a simple formula: Cheap BlackBerries smuggled in without import duties that cost a few hundred dollars and just US$17 per month for unlimited
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...
