News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #35 3 Jul 2012 Yahoo shuts down Indonesia’s social media site Koprol Two years into acquiring Indonesia’s location-based social network site Koprol, Yahoo announces that the service will be discontinued as of 28th August. This comes as a result of Yahoo Global’s decision to lay off 2,000 employees worldwide. With a 1.5million user base, Koprol was once a strong […]
News Chinese puns on the Internet 2 Jul 2012 Welcome to the world of Chinese social media, dominated by those who were born after the 90s, and who speak a Martian language that confuses even the Martians themselves. The situation is fascinating: a 5000-year old language that is continually evolving and morphing within the Great Firewall of China. Beyond the fascination, however, brands and […]
News Five Friday Facts #34 29 Jun 2012 Facebook showing solid growth in Japan and Korea Social networking sites are seeing multifold growth in usage in many of the Asian countries. Latest figures from Nielsen/NetRatings illustrate Facebook’s reach in Japan and Korea. According to their new report, Facebook visitors surfing from their PCs in Japan amounted to around 17.2 million in May, a […]
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #34 26 Jun 2012 Jiepang buddies with Weixin Jiepang.com, China’s largest location based check-in service announced its integration with the country’s biggest social media networking site Tencent. This allows users to log in using their Tencent account giving Jiepang access to a massive 700 million user pool. Check-ins can now be synced into all of Tencent’s social networking offerings […]
News Five Friday Facts #33 22 Jun 2012 Sina Weibo begins charging premium users Yesterday, Sina Weibo launched its paid premium service for users who would like extra features such as a more personalised page, voice posts, increased security and other enhanced mobile features. The membership fee provides for 15 of such services in all. After implementing social gaming and virtual currency, Sina […]
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #33 19 Jun 2012 YouTube launches in Indonesia YouTube launched a localised site for Indonesia last week at YouTube.co.id, which is available in the local Bahasa Indonesia language. To enrich the localised site, YouTube has also partnered with some of Indonesia’s top media companies such as Kompas TV, Kompas Cybermedia, Viva Media Group and MyTrans.com. Local musicians will also be able […]
News Five Friday Facts #32 15 Jun 2012 State of the global and local Internet Greg Dale, EVP, International of comScore, gave a keynote presentation at the recent ad:tech Singapore 2012 conference on the current digital landscape in Southeast Asia, and insights into what trends are shaping the future of this market. The global Internet user today spent 1 in 5 minutes social networking, a total […]
News Top Facebook Pages in Asia, May 2012 13 Jun 2012 SocialBakers has published its latest edition of Top Facebook Pages around the world for May 2012. Here’s a selection of infographics on Singapore, Indonesia, and Pakistan. Singapore Indonesia Pakistan
News We Are Social Asia Tuesday TuneUp #32 12 Jun 2012 Social networks around the world Social media strategist Vincenzo Cosenza updates his World Map of Social Networks twice a year in June and December, and has recently published his latest June 2012 map. Noticeably, China and Russia are still holding strong against the dominance of Facebook, which is the top social network in 126 out of the […]
News The Rise of Chinese Social Media 11 Jun 2012 Here’s another round of interesting ‘social soundbites’ on the world’s most populous nation – the standout nugget for us is the finding that 95% of people living in Tier 1, 2 and 3 cities in China have registered with a social media site: Infographic courtesy of Best Free Online
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