Original iPhone Film Festival!
Posted on January 24, 2012 by Budi Putra in Entertainment
This is an innovative way to promote art and technology. The Original iPhone Film Festival is the very first annual film festival created exclusively for videos filmed with an iOS device – either the iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad.
Jury members, including author/creative director Jimmy Siegel, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lasse Hallstrom, NY Times columnist David Pogue, Macworld editorial director Jason Snell, Oscar-winning documentary director Cynthia Wade, Broadway producer David J. Foster, legendary cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, have viewed the submissions and selected Top 12 Finalists (three each in four categories including Music Video, Fiction, Non-fiction and Brand Film).
View and vote on your favorite video here!
Co-hosted by video site DailyMotion, the Grand Prize Winner will be announced this Thursday, January 26 at 6:00 p.m. EST during the Macworld / iWorld expo in San Francisco.
Good luck to the finalists!
ViKi debuts iPhone app!
Posted on September 26, 2011 by Budi Putra in Entertainment
International video site for world TV series and movies translated in 100+ languages by its community Viki is debuting a new iPhone app called ViKi On-The-Go [iTunes link].
The 2011 Crunchies Award winner and SXSW Accelerator Top 3 Finalist is also partnering up with Samsung to develop an Android app for the company’s tablets in Southeast Asia.
ViKi is also working on content partnerships with BBC Worldwide, Netflix and Hulu.
“I think Viki’s real power is as a content pipe sending shows to bigger players that it has unlocked from behind the language barrier,” Forbes wrote.
“The Web is so powerful today and the valuations are so high, because it is a billion-person-audience and growing. But more of them speak Chinese than English, and critical masses are developing around Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Bahasa Indonesia and other languages,” Sarah Lacy of TechCrunch added.
Currently, ViKi has more than 8.5 million unique visitors and 36 million total visits in the past month.
[Diclaimer: I am a consultant at ViKi]
How smartphone users view other users?
Posted on November 9, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
OF COURSE EVERY SMARTPHONE USER has a certain preference before deciding to buy one: its brand, look, feature, price or whatever. How do iPhone, Android and BlackBerry users see themselves and each others? Have a look at this graphic –it tries to answer those questions.
Tell me what you think: That’s true? :-D
[source: BuzzFeed]
PayPal launches new Android app
Posted on August 6, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
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 Mobile.
Mobile phone inventor using Droid and iPhone!
Posted on March 13, 2010 by Budi Putra in People
Martin Marty Cooper (born December 26, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is considered the inventor of the first handheld cellular phone. Right now, he is using Droid mostly; also mentioned iPhone; and admitted trying every cell phone out.
Cspan: What kind of cell phone do you have?
Martin Cooper: “It depends when you ask me. I, always have the latest cell phone, and I try every cell phone out, only because people like you keep asking me. Right now I’m using Droid, because I want to get some experience with the Android operating system, and I so far, have some pretty favorable results. I’ve had an iPhone, which I gave to my grandson, which he used for three months and then I had to upgrade to a better version. And I’ve tried many other phones. For my day to day conversations I actually use the Jitterbug. So I carry two phones, one very simple phone that I can flip open that has a very simple phone book and nothing else. But when I want to twitter – tweet, then, I use my Droid.”
[via Twittown]
The Steve Jobs way
Posted on January 28, 2010 by Budi Putra in People
Apple CEO Steve Jobs finally unveiled a multimedia tablet computer named the iPad, after “nearly a decade of rumors and speculation“. We could follow pros and cons arguments on the Apple’s latest device, but I think, one for sure: Steve Jobs has his own logic behind his innovations. There are some quotes from Steve Jobs about this, including:
“We do no market research. We don’t hire consultants. The only consultants I’ve ever hired in my 10 years is one firm to analyze Gateway’s retail strategy so I would not make some of the same mistakes they made [when launching Apple's retail stores]. But we never hire consultants, per se. We just want to make great products.”
“It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fooling people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t. We figure out what we want. And I think we’re pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That’s what we get paid to do.”
Good job, Mr. Jobs!
Telkomsel iPhone 3GS gets a release date?
Posted on January 4, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
My friend Aulia over at Gajeto broke a news about the most-possible release date for iPhone 3GS in Indonesia: January 20, 2010. Actually, it’s the Apple’s second attempts to conquer Indonesian market. Could Telkomsel, local operator for iPhone, deal with the market that’s already occupied with the hype of BlackBerry devices?
Late last month we saw OKEshop outlets sporting actual iPhone 3GS banners at their shops and just today, we received word from id-mac mailing list that a customer service officer at Grapari in Bandung claims that Telkomsel will finally release iPhone 3GS on January 20, 2010. Grapari is of course Telkomsel’s official retail and customer service outlet…
Hopefully with an additional two month lead time compared to their previous effort, along with nine months of experience, Telkomsel has figured out a way to avoid the disastrous 2009 campaign and start marketing iPhone 3GS properly.
Microsoft’s Bing app debuts on iPhone
Posted on December 16, 2009 by Budi Putra in Tech
Microsoft’s Bing, that recently hit 10% of market for the first time –according to comScore’s November search stats– has finally made an iPhone app. “It’s a sweet little irony, since Microsoft and Apple have been frenemies over the years,” as by Kara Swisher of All Things Digital wrote. Microsoft has released Bing apps for Windows and BlackBerry devices. The next logical step for Bing app would be the Android version.
