Visiting Yahoo! Indonesia OMG partners

I am and my colleague Jimmi Kembaren having business trip in Surabaya, East Java. Yesterday, we visitted AsianPlus office. AsianPlus is a weekly entertaintment tabloid focuses on Korean, Japanese, Chinese celebrities news and gossip. AsianPlus is one of our content partners for Yahoo! Indonesia OMG! - entertainment channel that's just launched on June 9.

Today, we plan to visit another partner: KapanLagi in Malang. AsianPlus and KapanLagi are the only partners office located outside Jakarta. Other partners including Vivanews, Okezone, Cek & Ricek, Antara and Tempo Interaktif.

OMG (http://omg.yahoo.com) is Yahoo! Entertaintment channel, originally launched on U.S. market. Yahoo! Indonesia OMG! offers entertainment and celebrity news, photos and blogs. For its international celebrity news, Yahoo! Indonesia OMG tries to emphasize on Asian stars news, photos and gossip.

News portals are top online news sources

A recent study found that people prefer news portals —like Yahoo News, Google News, AOL — as their main online news sources rather than the online edition of major news outlets like CNN, CBS, and the New York Times.

[via Search Engine Land]

Video: Happy 15th birthday, Yahoo!

Check out this studio jingle for Yahoo!'s 15th anniversary from www.lovejingles.com [via YPH]

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Yahoo, Bing better than Google for #iPad image search reveals

With so much excitement around the device, the disappointing part is that though a week has passed since we saw the first iPad unit, Google Images still has no clue about the existence of this Apple device.

[via Labnol]

     

Okay, so Facebook a major news site now ?

 

Facebook is now the fourth largest source of traffic to news and media sites, according to data crunched by Hitwise. "I always knew it would happen, but not this quickly," my friend Alan Soon wrote.

Updates on Yahoo! Meme: New popular page, dashboard

Yahoo! Meme just updated and tweaked some features as below:

- a new popular page with more content and options! (Yep, finding the best reposts of all time is now wonderfully uncomplicated). 
- the omnipresent dashboard (now you can post from anywhere inside meme!). 
- dozens of design and interface tweaks and changes (find all the changes, we'll give you a bone).

[Disclosure: I am working at Yahoo!]

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