Thursday, July 7, 2011

Yahoo! Koprol Celebrates First Birthday

Location-based Social Media, Yahoo Koprol, celebrate first anniversary by issuing a variety of new features and services. To view the website, the site www.koprol.com now comes with a user interface that is predominantly white and light green.

In view of this web, Yahoo Koprol adding new features, such as "somersault Stamp" and "somersault for Business". Koprol Service Stamp is an element of entertainment because the user can provide a seal as a new language to the user in providing the predicate other somersault.


However, users are not able to carelessly use these stamps. "There is a condition," said Co-funder Yahoo! Koprol, Satya Witoelar, in Yahoo! office in Jakarta, Thursday, July 7, 2011. For active users who've posted 250 times to get three new randomly selected stamp. The seal is then given to other users as a marker. "It's like a game to build our reputation," he said.

The Logo for Business is a service for small and medium entrepreneurs to introduce their products. Currently, said Satya, listed 3,000 companies large, medium, and small who are already using the feature. They include Universal Music Indonesia, Sony Music, 7eleven, and Burger King.


In addition to providing the look and new features in version website, Satya add Yahoo! Koprol can now be accessed via the Android phone. Users can use the mobile version by downloading the application in advance in www.koprol.com / android. "We're trying to get into the Android market," says Satya.

Satya said, since it was acquired in May 2010 Yahoo!, Yahoo! Koprol soared to 20-fold. Before the "annexed" the site from the United States, users amounted to 75 thousand people somersault. Has now reached 1.5 million members worldwide. "Some 80 percent are users of Indonesia," he said.

Yahoo! Indonesia Country Manager, Pontus Sonnerstedt, said somersault is a successful social media sites in the country. "Somersault into the community, especially for young Internet users," he said.

According Sonnerstedt, using a login Yahoo, users can simply log into your account somersault. "It's very concise, so you do not need to remember lots of usernames and passwords," he said.


To celebrate this first anniversary, Yahoo plans to hold a somersault somersault Festival as a venue for ground coffee for its members. Any user who somersault to get invited to present at the event will be held next July 13 in Jakarta, it must send their impressions while using these social media services. "We will select the 300 most interesting comments to get an invitation and attended the event Koprol Festival," says Satya.