Bubu is suppporting The World Summit Youth Award 2012.

CNN hero Larry King will offer a special sofa to young digital producers and content developers who use Internet or Mobiles to get into action for a better world. The candidates who will meet Mr. King at the World Congress on Information Technology in Montreal will be selected by World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) which invites digital content innovators under 30 years to enter their ICT projects and solutions in a global competition. The goal is to put United Nations Millennium Development Goals into Action.

The WSYA contest is a competition among the most committed and creative designers, producers, application developers, journalists, and writers who, by using internet and mobile applications, create digital content and applications which address the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Come and join now by clicking the link below :
http://youthaward.icnm.at/takepart

• The online or mobile project to be entered in to the contest must be initiated and executed by young people under the age of 30 (born on or after January 1, 1982) from any of the UN member states.
• Registrants to the contest must hold the intellectual property rights to the work submitted and be the legal originator of the creative product or project. They also must possess the rights to the use of music, sound or audio components used in their project.
• With the registration, contest participants accept the rules of the WSYA contest as stated in this document. Any and all legal recourse to rules, actions and conditions of the WSYA are entirely excluded.
• Submitters of a project can not become jury members in the year of submission.

Please note: Terms and conditions may be subject to change without notice. They will be published on the WSYA website.

The registration procedure
(For detailed info, please visit :http://youthaward.icnm.at/content/participation)

– The registration, including submitting the project information, must be completed online. After successful registration, participants will receive an ID number to be used in all communication concerning their submission.

– The registration procedure includes signing and transmitting of the release form to the WSYA Office. By signing the release form the submitters confirm that they are the rightful owners to the necessary rights to submit the project.

– These rights include the copyright, right for using pictures, sound or audio components

– All WSYA applicants are invited to create a project profile on the YA Friends platform to increase the exposure of their product and serve as an example to others. Winners and Runners-Up are obliged to present their project on YA Friends.

Candidates can register their most powerful e-Content until July 16th, 2012. Larry King’s sofa will be set up as part of the WCIT 2012 and a special conference track will be dedicated to give visibility and credibility to the e-Power of young people. The World Summit Youth Award Winners’ Event is going to be hosted at the 18th World Congress on Information Technology from October 22nd until October 24th, 2012.
Winners will be flown in at no cost and get the chance to connect with the leaders of the IT industry and key experts in the field of ICT for development. “Young ICT developers and content designers will get onto the global stage as people who move the world! They will not be a passive audience, but through their actions they will show the way to change the world”, says WSYA Chairman Peter A. Bruck.

Bubu Won Red Herring Global Awards 2011

Shinta Dhanuwardoyo is Receiving Red Herring 100 Asia Award

Continuing the winning from Red Herring Asia Awards, Bubu is joining the global Red Herring Awards. Gathering with competitive world class companies, Bubu was also being acknowledged as one of the award winner. Honored, this award would strengthen Bubu’s existence in global digital world where we have been already the leading digital agency in Indonesia.

BUBU.COM Won Red Herring 100 ASIA 2011 Awards

Shinta Dhanuwardoyo is Receiving Red Herring 100 Asia Award

Prior to joining international awards, BUBU.COM has been acknowledged by Red Herring as one of TOP 100 Asia most innovative companies 2011. On October 19, the Red Herring editorial team selected the Top 100 Asia most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across Asia. The Top 100 are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.

Brands Now Direct Their Followers to Social Media

By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN
Published: August 3, 2011

MARKETERS promoting their products online have followed a fairly standard arc historically, first buying digital ads and building their own Web sites in the early years of the Internet, and more recently amassing followers on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

Ritz crackers, a product of Kraft, used in-text ads to highlight its Facebook contest promotion with the television show “Glee. ”
Now, companies increasingly are running online ads that focus less on pitching their products than promoting their Facebook pages and Twitter accounts.

Sharepocalypse Now: Why Social Media Overload Means New Opportunities for Startups

August 1, 2011 by Nova Spivack

Nova Spivack has several ventures in production that focus on the real-time stream, including Bottlenose (for filtering the stream), StreamGlider (a new mobile stream delivery platform), Live Matrix (the schedule of the live web), and The Daily Dot (a new online daily newspaper about what’s trending online).

The social media landscape is changing quickly, but this change won’t be immediate, or for that matter, efficient. And that’s going to be a big problem for all of us.

I believe that Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn are fundamentally different, and thus, should not be in competition. However, I’m not sure the companies themselves see it this way. It’s likely they will continue dedicating resources to competition instead of differentiation.

And while the social media gods fight it out in the clouds above us, what will happen down here on Earth? What about all of us, the little people — the users?

Dalam rangka terus mengembangkan industri digital di Indonesia dan juga sebagai followup dari IDBYTE, Chairwoman dari Bubu Group, Shinta Witoyo Dhanuwardoyo, melakukan kunjungan ke beberapa perusahaan top teknologi digital dunia di San Fransisco dan Palo Alto, USA.

Di San Fransisco, Shinta bertemu dengan Jana Messerschmidt, Senior Director Twitter, dan beberapa petinggi Twitter lainnya. Sebelumnya dia bertemu Craig Newmark dari Craigslist.

Twitter Is Still Whistling

By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER July 19, 2011, 8:48 PM

ASPEN, Colo. — Twitter is facing a federal government investigation, competition from Google+ and the departure of two of its founders. But Dick Costolo, Twitter’s chief executive, has a message for the naysayers: the business is growing just fine.

“We’re growing faster than we’ve ever grown,” Mr. Costolo said Tuesday at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colo.

People send a billion Twitter posts every five days and 400 million people — not counting Twitter apps — visit its Web site each month, he said.

8 Crucial Elements of Startup Success

July 18 by Bill Clark 9

Bill Clark is the CEO of Microventures, a securities broker/dealer that uses crowdfunding to allow investors to invest between $1,000 and $10,000 in startups online. You can follow him on Twitter @austinbillc.

Most people understand that a high percentage of startups never make it. So what if you could give yourself a leg up on the competition? Below is a list of tips that may help your startup get to the next level. These ideas are not revolutionary, and many successful startups already have these qualities. Why not ensure yours does too?

Kompetisi Pemasaran Digital Bubu Awards v.07

Jakarta, CHIP.co.id - Kompetisi pemasaran digital Bubu Awards pada tahun ini menginjak usia yang ke-7. Kali ini, Bubu Awards diselenggarakan sebagai bagian dari seminggu digital besar yang disebut IDBYTE 2011, dimana terdiri dari pameran, lokakarya, konferensi, hingga malam penganugerahan. Acara ini berlangsung selama 4 hari berturut-turut pada tanggal 11-14 Juli 2011. Malam penganugerahan pada Bubu Awards diselenggarakan di Ballroom Ritz Carlton, Pacific Place, Jakarta (14/7).

The Beginner’s Guide to Facebook Commerce

July 15, 2011 by Jeff Ente 18

The Buzzword Breakdown Series is supported by The Network, Cisco’s technology news site. The Network features technology news, trends and information on video, collaboration, core networks, mobility, security, data, Cisco culture and social media.

Facebook’s gravitational pull of 750 million users is enough to hold digital marketers spellbound. Once they get past the sheer size, they find that Facebook also offers unique and nuanced selling opportunities amidst difficult obstacles.