100,000 Sign-ups in 1 Week

September 2nd, 2010

Thank you, Indonesia! Koprol is experiencing amazing growth. 106,750 new users in a 7 day span, and daily signups are still increasing.

Daily signups on Koprol

This growth is caused by our huge campaign all over Indonesia, that includes the Pintu Ungu online campaign 2 weeks ago, and the Yahoo! Koprol ad on major television stations since last week. And we're not done yet.

Expect more growth from a new Nexian phone campaign that was just officially announced today on a full page ad on Kompas. Yup, Nexian launched NX-821 that includes a custom Koprol app and a free CD from Nidji!

Nexian phone with Koprol

Four times more active

Signups are great, but even better is activity. People are not just signing up on Koprol, but also using it a lot! We got so much active users on Koprol that some of you may experience slowness yesterday (Wednesday).

Yes, we went over capacity. Sorry!

Fortunately it's OK now. Our devteam worked overtime and did some magic to improve the codes and restore stability. We will soon get more servers too :)

To show how overloaded we are, look at the growth chart below. Daily unique users multiplied 4 times compared to just couple of weeks ago.

Active unique users on Koprol

Keep it up, Indonesia. More people on Koprol, more fun we'll have :)

Koprol meetups

Akses Koprol di Telkomsel: 1 Bulan Gratis!

August 30th, 2010

Dapatkan 1 bulan gratis akses Yahoo! Koprol di Telkomsel!

Ya betul, kita sudah siapkan paket harian, mingguan dan bulanan. Tapi khusus untuk masa promosi ini anda bisa main Koprol di ponsel anda gratis selama sebulan. Langsung daftar dari nomor Telkomsel anda, dengan cara:

Tekan *252*1#

Catatan:

  • Hanya untuk penggunaan pertama (hanya satu kali per nomor)
  • Tidak berlaku bila menggunakan Opera Mini. Gunakan native browser.
  • Tidak berlaku di browser Android
  • Tidak berlaku bersama paket data lain
  • Hanya berlaku bila menggunakan APN Telkomsel
  • Keterangan lain lihat di situs Telkomsel

Pemenang Bangga Indonesia

August 27th, 2010

Terimakasih buat Koprollers yang sudah ikut meramaikan 17 Agustusan a'la Yahoo! Koprol dengan berpose dengan Bendera.

bangga

Berikut ini kami pilih 5 pemenang:

Abang Doel
abangdoel

Gorgaleonardo
gorgaleonardo

Wiwik Setyorini
wiwiksetyorini

M Hamzah
hamz

Romy Rombenk
romyrombeng

Kami akan hubungi langsung mengenai pengambilan hadiah.

500+ Koprollers Buka Bersama Serentak

August 23rd, 2010

Acara kopi darat dan buka bersama serentak berlangsung sukses!

Kemarin sore (22 Agustus), lebih dari 500 koproller berkumpul di 17 kota untuk kopi darat, berkenalan, berlomba dalam games seru untuk mendapatkan suvenir dari Yahoo! Koprol, dan bahkan melakukan Skype conference.

Mulai dari 50 peserta di Jogja, 50 di Bintaro, 40 di Makassar, sampai yang terbesar di Taman Menteng yang melebihi 100 peserta. Juga di Bali, Balikpapan, Semarang, Lamongan, Samarinda, Bandung, Bogor, Depok, Malang, Palembang, Bekas, Surabaya, dengan total lebih dari 500 peserta.

Hebatnya, acara besar ini inisiatif dari komunitas Koprol, diprakarsa oleh gegepoweranger, jiahaha dan admin masing2 komunitas seperti: Daengkops, Kodrat, Kops Minor, siKodok, Robokops, Sekkops, Kopijos, Psikopat, Kopstel, InfoJajan, Matador, Kopstar, Kokoban, Hima_kops, Kopdar_Loenpia, B_Kops, The Batick, Gaptek, Tim_ceria, Koper, Koject, nojako, kopilampung, sukoco, kophography, Laksan, KopSert, KopDarMini, KopdarTepian.

Salut atas suksesnya acara yang sepenuhnya dari komunitas. Go koprollers!

Koprol Buka Puasa Serentak, Minggu 22 Agustus 2010

August 20th, 2010

Atas inisiatif teman-teman di Komunitas Koprol, akan diselenggarakan "Buka Puasa Bersama Serentak" pada Hari Minggu Sore 22 Agustus 2010 di berbagai kota di Indonesia. Sebagian pada gambar dibawah ini adalah nama komunitas, admin di Koprol dan lokasi tempat berbuka dan jamnya.

Tetapi diluar list ini nggak menutup kemungkinan buat teman-teman yang ingin menyelenggarakan buka bersama untuk ikut berpartisipasi meramaikan kebersamaan Buka Puasa Serentak ini. Caranya?

1. Check-in di lokasi terdekat kamu di Koprol dan lihat siapa saja teman-teman di sekitarmu, say "hai"

2. Janjian buka puasa bersama di Hari Minggu sore 22 Agustus 2010, kemudian bisa beramai-ramai posting di koprol

Selamat menunaikan Ibadah Puasa di Bulan Suci Ramadhan. Selamat dan sukses buat acara 22 Agustus nanti.

Dirgahayu! Koprol Rayakan HUT RI dengan versi Bahasa Indonesia

August 17th, 2010

BERANI dengan KESUCIAN. Merdeka!

Seperti biasa, Koprol merayakan Hari Kemerdekaan Indonesia dengan meluncurkan fitur baru. Tahun lalu kami perkenalkan banyak, antara lain integrasi Twitter, halaman publik, kemampuan menambah 'place', notifikasi email, dll.

Kali ini, 17 Agustus 2010, Koprol meluncurkan pilihan interface, eh antarmuka, dalam Bahasa Indonesia! Ini adalah fitur baru yang sangat dinantikan banyak orang. Tidak hanya diminta oleh anggota Koprol, tapi sudah lama ditanyakan terus oleh blogger dan pengguna media sosial lain. Yes, you ;)

Koprol versi Bahasa Indonesia tersedia di situs versi desktop, versi mobile, dan juga aplikasi Java ME yang baru saja diluncurkan.

Ganti bahasa di versi desktop:

Ganti bahasa di versi mobile:

Pengerjaan fitur bahasa ini sangat terbantu oleh tenaga baru tim Koprol dan juga ahli bahasa di Yahoo!. Dengan adanya sarana multi bahasa, jangan kaget bila Koprol akan tersedia juga dalam bahasa lainnya. Dimulai dengan 2 bahasa di Asia Tenggara (silakan tebak).

Mari rayakan Hari Proklamasi ini dengan mencoba Koprol versi Bahasa Indonesia. Dan sekalian ikuti ajakan @banggaindonesia untuk meramaikan 17-an ala Koprol dengan memposting foto bertema HUT RI. Siapa tahu anda bisa menangkan suvenir dari Yahoo! Koprol.

Selamat Hari Kemerdekaan dari tim Koprol!

14 profesional kebangsaan Indonesia dan masih bertambah tiap minggu

Celebrate Indonesian Independence Day with Yahoo! Koprol

August 16th, 2010

Let's celebrate 17 August 2010 with Yahoo! Koprol

Check in at Koprol and post a photo that shows your pride of Indonesia! Show your creativity and win prizes from Yahoo! Koprol. Read the criteria:

  1. Add account: @banggaindonesia as your friend on Koprol
  2. Check in to a specific place (don't just check in to country)
  3. Post a photo of your best pose, and include the national flag in the picture
  4. Post on 17-18 August 2010 and mention @banggaindonesia in your post
  5. Yahoo! & Koprol will decide the winner based on creativity and photographic quality
  6. Winners will be announced on Friday, 20 August 2010

Take your best shot and show your pride!

Questions? Ask @banggaindonesia

Koprol Java ME app available for download!

August 11th, 2010

Koprol is for everyone. For any mobile internet users. Not just smartphone owners. Koprol has been available on mobile web since the start, and today we are releasing a mobile app for the most popular platform: Java ME (formerly known as J2ME). It is also one of the top requests from our users.

Download Koprol's Java ME app now at koprol.com/download

Note: not all devices can detect location! If you're lucky, your device lets the Koprol app guess your location. If not, you can always use 'Search' and type your location.

Try it out! Hope you enjoy it.

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BlackBerry app updated!

Good news for users of the top smartphone in Koprol. We have updated our successful BlackBerry app with new notification, updated navigation, better location detection, and lots of little fixes. Plus it now works on Storm too.

Download Koprol's BlackBerry app now at koprol.com/blackberry

Note for Storm: If the application does not respond, try going to Options > Applications > Context menu > Enable Compatibility Mode

Are you a Kurator?

July 31st, 2010

Koprollers, we’re happy to introduce our biggest feature in the last few months. You’ve been able to suggest new places into Koprol, and wait for our approval. Now you can approve them yourself! Yes, we are giving the power to manage Koprol’s places to special users called Kurators.

Koprol is about verified places
Adding places is easy, but we don’t want to give you duplicates and bogus venues. We want valid places so it's easier to discover people around you. Now when places are being added, the Kurators collectively verify and edit them. This ensures you get better choice of places to check in to. What's fun, on each new place you can see who is responsible for creating and approving it.

Sample place page: hey, who approved this?

Become a Kurator
Anyone can be a Kurator. All you need to do is add new places and get enough of them approved by current Kurators. Once you reach a certain threshold you automatically become a Kurator and be able to verify new places. If you are successful at verifying, eventually you'll get to the next level and be able to edit the map and information of those new places.

Sample verification page: so is this a valid place?

Secret Formula
Users have different levels of privileges based on a secret algorithm that studies the quality of their activities like adding places, verifying places, writing reviews, etc. Those who get approved a lot and verify correctly will get more access to editing. Meanwhile, people who add invalid places and verify incorrectly will eventually be demoted down. The algorithm will be tweaked from week to week to get the best formula and award your contributions.

Add any place in the world!
One more good news. We used to have only 200 cities in Koprol, right? Well now you can add to any city in the world. Thanks to Yahoo! Geo Technologies, you can find millions of places in the world, including specific neighborhoods, and add specific venues.

Discover new & interesting places
The combination of Yahoo! Geo Technologies and our Kurator system is another big step in the direction of our mission to help people discover and share interesting places in the world. Go try it now! Search a place on Koprol. If we don’t have it you will see an ‘Add New Place’ button. Get enough places approved and you can be a Kurator :)

To learn more about Kurator, ask @kurator

Koprol is Hiring: Operations Engineer

June 13th, 2010

Yes, Koprol is in hiring mode! While receiving applications for developer positions and community manager position we are also looking for an operations engineer / service engineer / system admin.

Read the details below then quickly send your resume to jobs@koprol.com

The Yahoo! Apps Service Engineering team is looking for a highly motivated and experienced engineer possessing experience in working with large scale production deployments with good development skills in building monitoring, diagnostic and troubleshooting tools.

The position entails

  • working on the reliability, scalability and performance aspects of distributed applications
  • working with large scale production deployments of thousands of servers
  • building tools to manage, monitor and trouble shoot large scale networks

Skills & Experience

To be successful, you must have 5+ years of experience with the following skills:

  • operating systems (FreeBSD or similar forms of Unix)
  • Perl and UNIX scripting
  • understanding of DNS, NFS, TCP/IP and other internet protocols
  • very good understanding of Mysql DB’s
  • experience in application level troubleshooting and monitoring
  • knowledge of tools like Netcool or Nagios would be a plus
  • excellent problem solving skills
  • excellent communication skill

BSCS or equivalent is required.