sendokgarpu.com

I congratulate sendokgarpu for its achievement in Bubu Web Competition and also its new framework and design. Especially on design, personally I found it stunning.

At first, sendokgarpu was intended to provide information about fine dining and night entertainment in Jakarta, and it still though. However most of its contents right now are about dining review and user dining experiences. Only few entertainment agenda left in event section. As info and guidance for finding where and what to eat, sendokgarpu still far away from the famous “jalansutera” mailing list by Bondan’s and friends. As an application for update review, promotion, events and restaurant database, this site is promising. They do still need an agressive activation scenario anyhow.

In term of web 2.0, the sendokgarpu team are prepare to launch it’s social networking feature. I suggest they consider to benefit from open platform offering such as sharing API and open id (open id).

fupei.com

For 5 years of community establishment, Fupei proves that they don’t get dead by competing abroad social networking application like friendster, myspace, and facebook. Acknoledgement of passion and determination shall goes to couple Sanny and Linda, who start fupei from scratch.

Even though the idea of social networking rather generic, they prove that fupei can compete on Indonesian internet users. Of course it costed them a lot providing resources to maintain hundred thousands hits per week. Due to fast growing usage, Fupei definitely need to meet angels.

Fupei offers tons of feature to its users that probably is the ultimate thing compare to other local social networking. Various section from photo album to games are there to satisfy internet relationship users, somewhat beat other competitor in terms of comprehensiveness. But still they lose most in building awareness.

For next step, I assume they lookup for what’s on in web 2.0. For this I would suggest Sanny and his team to think about the essence of “sharing” in the open platform framework. Facebook and its thousand applications or the openid platform are two referrence for start. For those who has thick pocket, please be aware that Fupei could be your opportunity.