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Michigo, restoran di Jogjakarta dengan sajian menu masakan Korea

Soal makanan, saya sebenarnya tidak terlalu memiliki selera yang khusus. Mulai dari makanan/camilan tradisional sampai dengan mungkin kategori makanan yang “ini namanya apaan, dan makannya juga bagaimana caranya nggak ngerti”.

Di Jogjakarta sendiri, muncul semakin banyak pilihan bagi mereka yang ingin melampiaskan hobi kuliner. Banyak pilihan tempat makan mulai dari yang menyediakan menu tradisional, sampai dengan sajian dengan cita rasa luar (negeri). Salah satu yang sempat beberapa kali saya lihat adalah hadirnya restoran Korea dengan nama Michigo — dengan tagline: “The Awesome Korean Food“, di daerah Jalan Colombo, tidak jauh dari kawasan Universitas Gadjah Mada dan Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.

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Cuma, walaupun sering lewat, saya malah belum pernah mampir untuk mencicipi. Sebelumnya saya pernah mencoba makan di restoran dengan label “Korean Restaurant”. Ada yang cukup cocok dengan selera lidah saya, tapi ada yang memberikan sensasi kurang cocok. Ya, maklumlah karena lidah saya bisa dikatakan lidan ndheso. :)

Belum juga sempat merasakan suasana dan menu dari Michigo yang sering saya lewati, restoran tersebut baru saja membuka gerai keduanya di Ambarrukmo Plaza Yogyakarta. Kebetulan, beberapa kali saya sempat terlibat obrolan dengan orang yang berada dibelakang hadirnya restoran ini. Dan, pada saat pembukaan gerai baru pada akhir pekan ini, saya mendapat kesempatan untuk mencicipi dan merasakan beberapa menu yang ditawarkan.

Michigo Indonesia, Ambarrukmo Plaza

Konsep (digital) self-service

Sempat saya lihat informasi di situsnya, Michigo ini menawarkan konsep self-service. Memang, konsep semacam ini mungkin belum terlalu populer (di Indonesia). Betapa tidak, konsep secara umum ketika makan di tempat makan adalah konsumen mendapatkan layanan mulai dari pemesanan, makanan sampai di meja, dan meninggalkan tempat makan. Hanya itu.

Michigo melakukan pendekatan yang sedikit berbeda. Ada sesuatu yang menarik disini. Apakah ini akan bisa berjalan? Saya sempat tanyakan, dan ternyata walaupun belum 100% bisa berjalan, tapi konsep seperti ini mulai diterima. Parameternya, lebih banyak konsumen yang akhirnya “ikut dalam permainan/aturan main ini”.

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General

So, what is the best Twitter Client?

Not exactly a Twitter client, but tool to manage social media accounts like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and more.
When I created my first Twitter account in 2006, there weren’t any applications for desktop or mobile. But, it’s 2011 and the service grows so fast. It’s around one billion tweets sent per week (according to March 2011 data). I love Twitter, and I also joined some other services. I don’t use all of them on daily basis, but more about learning how the service works, and how they’are designed. This is something I consider as something-I-like-to-do.
We are connected to each other using social media services. Many people want to be in the front row to get the latest news. They also want to know what is the latest information in the industry they’re involving with. I want to get the news shared by people I’m following on Twitter, or just to see what’s happening from my timeline.
At the same time, I want to share updates. These things seemed easy to be done. But, when it’s involving multiple social media accounts, I can be very busy. Not always, but sometime.
I have been trying and have some application installed on my gadgets — and also my MacBook Pro. I’m having Nokia N8, BlackBerry, and iPhone 4 now. Okey, don’t ask me why I need to have those gadgets. I just have them and don’t use them at the same time. But, I usually switch between those gadget — and of course, applications installed.
The thing is that not all applications works on every device I have with me, even they share similar features. Among many applications (free or paid) to manage my social media account. And these are some applications (including Twitter clients) I use — I switch between applications when I’m on my iPhone as my primary device right now.

I don’t have iPad and Android-based devices anyway. So, why bother having (too) many applications when I don’t use them all? Again, I like exploring how those things work. And, I like working on my account using its native application. For example like using Facebook for iPhone to explore Facebook, even HootSuite also works fine. Why? Switching between application is easy. Right?
I don’t have any other applications like TweetDeck, or Twitter for Mac on my Mac. For the web-based tool I sometime use HootSuite, CoTweet and Twitter website.
For the next post, I think I’ll write short reviews about those applications. From a end-user perspective. There are many tools/services that offer so many features. Probably, they works for businesses, not for personal use. Some are paid service, and some are free. When it comes into a simple question: “What is the best Twitter client?”, the answer should be simple: A client that works for you. Right?

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Foursquare is now available in Bahasa Indonesia!

I don’t use Foursqure on daily basis. If you want to have Foursquare in Bahasa Indonesia, it’s now available in Bahasa Indonesia. Foursquare team announced about some new languages for the application interface:

Today, with the launch of five more languages (Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Thai), we’re excited to announce that over 1,500,000,000 people now have access to foursquare in their mother tongue. These five new languages represent some of our fastest growing areas internationally.


If you’re using Foursquare on your iPhone, Android or BlackBerry, you can have the new languages by upgrading the applications. Also, you can have Foursquare website in more languages, including Bahasa Indonesia. Look at the language menu on the bottom page to change the language interface.

This is a good addition, and the language for the application depends on your phone settings. If you want to use Bahasa Indonesia, you need to go to your phone settings, and change your phone language.
Anyway, Twitter also made Bahasa Indonesia available for its users a month ago.
 

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When Will I Be Mayor?

When Will I Be Mayor? — Nice tools for foursquare users. “We search your foursquare history to find out how many more times you need to check in get that coveted Mayorship. We even monitor venues that you are close, and send you weekly updates on your progress!”

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Flickr Photo Upload using Gravity? This is good!

I have Gravity installed on my Nokia 5800 XM mobile phone, and so far this is one of my favorite application. If you’re not familiar with Gravity, it’s a Twitter client for S60 platform. It also support Foursquare, Facebook and also Google Reader. Very nice! It’s not free, but it’s not expensive also — I bought it for less than US$10. You only need to purchase a license once.

Today, Jan Ole Suhr (Gravity developer) tweeted an update and he put a link to his Flickr photo page. Right now, I’m using Gravity version 1.30 build 6501. Gravity already support direct photo upload to some services like Twitpic, MobyPicture, Yfrog and also img.ly. But, seeing the screenshot above, it will support Flickr also. Yes, this is good since I use Flickr. Now, waiting for an update.

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Umum

Frekuensi Menulis di Blog dan Mikroblog

Kemarin, Ivan Lanin melontarkan sebuah pertanyaan melalui akun Twitter miliknya:

Apakah mikroblog dan pemutakhiran status membuat orang jadi lbh malas menulis di blog “tradisional”? [tautan]

Gara-gara pertanyaan tersebut, saya tergoda untuk menjawab pertanyaan tersebut dengan lebih panjang, melalui sebuah entri di blog ini. Jawaban saya untuk pertanyaan tersebut melalui akun Twitter saya sepertinya terlalu singkat.

Saya tidak akan menjawab mengenai istilah blog “tradisional”, tapi pemahaman saya terhadap kata ‘tradisional’ tersebut adalah blog yang pada umumnya dikenal, sebelum mikroblog berkembang sampai dengan hari ini. Atau mungkin, ketika layanan semacam Twitter, Plurk, Facebook, Foursquare, Koprol, dan lain sebagainya menjadi sangat populer.