JogjaHub.com: A Database For Geeks In Yogyakarta

After i wrote about the location-based network service t4nya.com, I decided to join a Facebook Group called PPP that is basically a “meeting point” for the founders of t4nya.com. To my surprise, some of Yogyakarta’s old school geeks already joined the group. And apparently these old school tech-entrepreneurs founded a new tech hub for Yogyakarta they call Jogjahub.

From the press release I received, Jogjahub is basically a solution for the non-existent ecosystem for tech businesses in Yogyakarta, including the problem of the supply-demand for IT human resource. Talent search, skill development and to build a portal for them to gather round is the core competence for JogjaHub. Yogyakarta’s reputation as the City of Scholar has produced lots of talented engineers, a huge potential for Indonesia’s future in technology.

People from Yogyakarta has a reputation for being very low profile. Even though they have a major skill compared to other people in the region, their behavior of keeping things slow and low prevents them from growing. “That’s why we decided to build Jogjahub for people outside of Yogyakarta to know about tech people inside Yogyakarta”, said Saga Iqranegara, one of the co-founder.

Being a tech-only portal, Jogjahub is targeting programmers, designers, marketers, bloggers, accountants, digital entrepreneurs and investors. It’s not just another tech community, but rather a blend and suplements for existing communities such as Bancakan, PPP, JogjaIT, CahAndong and other tech communities in Yogyakarta. The main objective is create interaction between members that can spark the tech business ecosystem in the city.

When I write this blog post, Jogjahub only has 26 members in its alpha version and no promotional efforts has been made. But I hope with the support from its technical founders and community, Jogjahub can be a stable system and get out of its alpha version soon enough.

So, fellow developers in Yogyakarta can try out this service and who knows, Jogjahub can make its mark to help grow the tech business in Yogyakarta.

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Another Location Based Social Network from Yogyakarta

Dailysocial readers must know the local location based social services such as Yahoo! Koprol, Urbanesia, and Personaflag, for Yogya, beside Personaflag there is another location based social service called t4nya.com.

This one social media is quite interesting, has a slight difference from the others and a little bit unique. The first approach is mark a favorite location and then user can add photos, give score and comment to the place they’ve visited before, able to find places, location and new relations.

It’s quiet interesting from UI and UX side and also user friendly. The users have been given the privilege to add important places or their own favorite location on the map. It’s easy to add places and the funny icons display in each category made me comfortable in using t4nya.com. Even though it’s still in beta version, t4nya.com is such an addictive social service.

For users the registration process is very simple, you don’t need to fill in a registration form, simply login with your Facebook account. It’s also easy to add favorite places or important places with photos include in it, captions and comments on the site is very easy in t4nya.com. After the above process, users can also share their activities to Facebook and Twitter.

But when we visit t4nya.com there aren’t many people using this service yet. But some of the important or favorite places had already been add, especially in Yogyakarta, whether it’s a vacation spot, restaurant, and other places. Like other local service, t4nya.com also facilitate users to search or review places that their interested on.

When trying to add more places in t4nya.com, the process is quite simple. Giving name, give a description, giving a tag on a certain location, giving location a category and put a marker on a location. But the given category from the service is still limited. I try to add a place called HackerSpaceYK in t4nya.com, in just a matter of minutes. Unlike Yahoo! Koprol, a few months ago there was an ‘incident’ experienced by colleagues in Bandung.

Too bad, currently t4nya.com can only be access from the web, right now the mobile web and mobile app is still under development. Just like their explanation in their official blog, t4nya.com needs all the critics and suggestion for their references so they can develop their service and fix all the bugs. For suggestion and critics can be send from their feedback form or comment in this article.

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