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Good Choice for Dinner

23 Sep 2010
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I had dinner with friends from Malaysia and Jakarta startups and the menu was interesting. Too bad I don't have the balls to take a picture of the waitress. At least I had a healthy dinner, cesar salad!

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Why I Ditched Foursquare

20 Sep 2010
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I have nothing against foursquare.

Okay, that's a big lie. Actually i do have something against foursquare.

As you might know, i started using foursquare since March 2010 and now, 7 months later i decided to ditch it. No, I'm not going to delete my account for the sake of rescuing my username (typical reason) but i decided not to use it on a daily basis like i used to. Well actually i stopped using it for quite a while now, my last checkin was at a client's party in July 2010.

Several things i particularly don't like about foursquare is the significant number of noises. By noise i mean the duplicate venues and it's not by mistake, because i've seen people create venues even though the venue already exist for the sake of mayorship. When i went to foursquare and search for a venue, i will get (minimum) 5 venues referring to the same location but with a different level of details of the venue.

That's one problem, and there's more. Shocking.

Foursquare's reward system with the badges and stuff is pure genius, i give you that. It's a way to get people excited using your app and basically do whatever you want them to do, which is still cool. But a portion of users are more creative than expected, where people can cheat in order to achieve badges (which indicates just how cool the badges are). That's noise.

In fact, the badges play a big role in this noise-generating service. Somehow i, once as a user, use the service to pursue the badges, the rewards and i honestly don't care about where my friends are which is the main concept of the service itself. This is how i see foursquare now, fully distorted and distracted from its original concept. I know service like foursquare or twitter or facebook always evolve and is never the exact same service it was once planned to be. But seriously, i don't like it.

But I'm still using Koprol actively and will tell you why in a different post. Like you don't already know.

Finally, a good way to differentiate men and women. Just a joke, ladies.

19 Sep 2010
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I will feel really guilty if i keep this for myself.

credit : fika @ koprol

The Milestone

18 Sep 2010
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My best friend from college got married today, after years of dating and almost a year of preparation.

Congratz buddy, wish you a long lasting marriage and hopefully you can learn how to kiss your wife properly (geez dude!)

Consider The Giant

16 Sep 2010
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This episode of Dragon's Den is a good one, it show a problem faced by most startups but only few see it coming. In conclusion, if big players could easily adopt your feature and it kills your business, then you need a stronger positioning and differentiation factor.

Good Choice for Dinner

Why I Ditched Foursquare

Finally, a good way to differentiate men and women. Just a joke, ladies.

The Milestone

Consider The Giant

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