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YouTube movies and its challenges in Indonesia

YouTube is adding more than 3,000 mainstream movies for users to rent starting on Monday, along with the millions of free user-created videos the popular website is best known for. -- Excerpt from Reuters

Hundreds of movies are available for free in addition to the popular one. But the challenge for Indonesia is the availability and (definitely) capacity of internet bandwidth to accommodate huge numbers of users trying to access those movies. 

Several things I have in mind
1. Creating a local mirror as for Indonesian users would be able to access those movies without consuming huge bandwidth, especially to overseas server
2. Developing specific digital entertainment which not only offer movies but instead local entertainment covering movies, music, dance, wayang, etc that could be act as business activities as usual and gateway for promoting Indonesian tourism activities.

With huge numbers of internet users in Indonesia, the market is already in place. 

Anyone interested?

TweetStats, your tweets' behavior

I've been wondering on how my Twitter account looks like - in number. To be precise: my tweeting behavior. It would be interesting to know this fact. Brett (@BrettMcGuire) has shown a useful web tool, TweetStats, on his post for this purpose. All you need to do is entering your twitter account and let TweetStats does its magic. 

Check out my monthly tweets! It is Fun!

Monthlytweet

Removing Microsoft Silverlight on your Mac

I've been dealing with removing Microsoft Silverlight for sometime and I really think that I should write it down because there's no "easy" way to completely remove Silverlight on my Mac.

So, this is how you remove Microsoft Silverlight on your Mac - under Snow Leopard

1. Remove the Plugin in ~/Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/Silverlight.plugin
2. Remove Silverlight folder in ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Silverlight
3. Remove the receipts (try using Command + F, type "silverlight") in ~/var/db/receipts

That should do it.

The Dogs of War: Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft

it’s hard to grasp the breathtaking scale of the epic war between Microsoft, Google and Apple. Billions upon billions of dollars. Entire industries at stake. This is the board. These are the pieces
Excerpt from Wired.com.

I like this: "And for Google, all roads lead to the internet, and the internet is synonymous with Google".

Google Buzz surpasses 9 million posts and comments

according to Google, its Buzz service already has over 9 million posts and comments. Remember, this is a service that launched on Tuesday, meaning that it’s getting over 160,000 comments and posts per hour. That’s a staggering, staggering number
Excerpt from Mashable.

Forget about the number. I think the success of Google Buzz lies within the GMail. First, you don't need to leave your mailbox to Buzz. Second, Google Buzz went viral in Twitter, getting the attention of every person in twitterverse. Third, it's simply another mail client, to "replace" GMail, that keeps your contact that enable you to go Buzz instantly.