Get Famous?
With no intention to be narcissism, in this posting I want to share about being covered by several local media.
Within the last one month, my company, DyCode, and me, Andri Yadi, were suddenly quite famous in a good way. Either being interviewed by some journalists (even a journalist from Washington Post, check the story here), or being published on several newspapers and online media. It's all triggered by winning a business solution innovation contest called iMULAi on Feb 26, 2007 ago (You can refer to this posting about the event details). After that day, many IT and non IT-related newspapers and online media published some news about the iMULAi event and off course the winners, including DyCode. Quite sometime after that booming, two journalists from Seputar Indonesia newspaper and PC Media, came to DyCode office to cover story about DyCode and PORTMAP, the iMULAi award-winning business solution.
All this time I've collected some links to online news those published about iMULAi & DyCode. Sorry for publishing these old stories, I just have time now. Here they are:
detikinet.com - Tiga Inovator Juarai iMulai
http://www.detikinet.com/index.php/detik.read/tahun/2008/bulan/02/tgl/26/time/143715/idnews/900217/idkanal/319
detikinet.com - Tiga Juara iMulai Diharapkan 'Bersatu'
http://www.detikinet.com/index.php/detik.read/tahun/2008/bulan/02/tgl/26/time/160007/idnews/900308/idkanal/319
Kompas Tekno - Tiga Pengembang Software Menangkan Hibah Rp1 Miliar
http://www.kompas.com/tekno/read.php?cnt=.xml.2008.02.26.15072592&channel=1&mn=114&idx=114
Kompas Tekno - Memupuk Bibit-bibit Raksasa Software
http://www.kompas.com/tekno/read.php?cnt=.xml.2008.02.29.23125852&channel=7&mn=115&idx=115
KompasTV - Berita Bisnis Aplikasi Inovatif Karya Anak Negeri
http://tv.kompas.com/berita/bisnis/aplikasi_inovatif_karya_anak_negeri_.html
Republika Online - Tiga Lembaga Juarai Kompetisi iMULAi
http://www.republika.co.id/online_detail.asp?id=324967&kat_id=23
Antara News - Microsoft Indonesia dan SENADA Umumkan Tiga Pemenang Kompetisi iMulai
http://www.antara.co.id/arc/2008/2/26/microsoft-indonesia-dan-senada-umumkan-tiga-pemenang-kompetisi-imulai/
Bisnis Indonesia Online - iMulai pilih 3 pemenang
http://web.bisnis.com/edisi-cetak/edisi-harian/teknologi-informasi/1id46057.html
Media Indonesia Online - Microsoft Indonesia Umumkan Tiga Pemenang Kompetisi iMULAi
http://www.mediaindonesia.com/berita.asp?id=160752
Innovation at the Frontier - Microsoft Indonesia Announced The First Three Winner of iMULAi Competition
http://innovationfrontier.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html
Biskom - Tiga Aplikasi Inovatif Menangkan Kompetisi iMulai
http://www.biskom.web.id/2008/02/27/tiga-aplikasi-inovatif-menangkan-kompetisi-imulai.bwi/
BinaISV.net - Pemenang iMULAi
http://binaisv.net/blogs/sample_weblog/archive/2008/02/27/pemenang-imulai.aspx
Harian Terbit - Microsoft Umumkan Tiga pemenang iMULAi
http://www.harianterbit.com/artikel/info/artikel.php?aid=39147
Indonesian Circle - Dycode Cominfotech Menang Kompetisi iMulai
http://indocir.com/id/dycode_cominfotech_menang_kompetisi_imulai
Indocommit.com - Dycode Bidik Pelindo
http://indocommit.com/indexpage.html?menu=29&idnews=7186&kid=0
Hopefully all those links are still live. Please check those out.
Koran SINDO
Seputar Indonesia newspaper or also known as Koran SINDO also write about DyCode and publish the article on March 12, 2008, at page 30, Techno category.
Here is the article capture. You can get the full page in PDF format at: http://dycode.com/files/folders/corporate/entry108.aspx
Two Full Pages on DUIT! Magazine
Surprisingly, 5 days ago I'm told that an entrepreneur-related magazine called DUIT! published an article about me and DyCode on its March - April 2008 edition. The article is two full pages length and contains quite complete story about DyCode and me, with two color photos depicted me being standing charmingly :) and receiving iMULAi award. Don't be laugh with the magazine name, it's a famous entrepreneur and franchise-related magazine. With no intention to promote the magazine, please buy it and read the story :) I my self buy three of it.
Just in case you don't believe what I say, here are some photos:
Magazine Cover
As you can see, the magazine said I'm a success young rebel. I'm a young rebel? well, yes I'm still 25 years old and have trouble with following rules. Success? not really, many more things to achieve.
Table of content
The article can be found at page 80, continued to page 82. To whom it may concern, please don't get upset with the article's title. Honestly, I don't know why the title is like that. I never imply something like that. I'd like to confirm that it's not entirely true. More precisely, Microsoft Indonesia does use our service to build their developer online communities like binaisv.net, wss-id.org, etc (thx to Reza for his great works while he's in DyCode), KOPASSUS Profile Management System, and hopefully more to come :), not Microsoft as a whole or Microsoft Corporation.
Page 80 - What a good looking guy, right :P Maybe someday I will change my carrier to be a model :) so narcissistic
Page 82 - Handshaking and taking picture with some big guys :)
Generally, the story in this magazine is good and complete, although there're things not really true. Anyway, thanks so much to DUIT! Magazine and the journalist for writing a good article and to the photographer for taking some nice photos :)
To close this posting, I want to say that how happy and proud I am for what we've done. I've never been at this point in my entire life. Being graduated *** laude or other achievements are nothing compared to this famous thing. A year ago, I personally, DyCoders, and DyCode itself were nobody. Now, well...I think we're quite somebody, even still not as famous as Bill Gate or Steve Jobs :) but it is not that impossible to be like them, right?
One thing for sure, this famous thing won't make us big headed and forget who we are. We'll keep fighting, dynamic, early technology adopting, and innovative. Hopefully, more things we can do in the future and more great news from us. Just stay tune :)
Many thanks to everybody that has been very supportive to us all this time and makes all these things possible.
Please don't consider this posting as a narcissistic story, but consider it to be some kind of trigger. No matter how small we are, we still can do and be something great.