Google Buzz, Blackberry Launcher for AdaDiskon.com

At first we were a bit reluctant to add another profile for AdaDiskon in addition to our Twitter page and Facebook page. But we can see how Google Buzz can be very beneficial for us.

One huge advantage that Google buzz has over Twitter is that Google Buzz immediately hits mainstream, whereas twitter had to go through early adopters phase initially like most of technology companies. Currently our Google Buzz is linked to our twitter account.

To support our new mobile version of AdaDiskon.com at http://m.adadiskon.com we have build a Blackberry Launcher, you can download it by going to the mobile site and finding the blackberry launcher link or by pointing your blackberry browser to http://bit.ly/c2i1ax

And don’t forget that we do have a facebook and twitter page too.

-AdaDiskon Team

Kompas.com Content Partnership and Recent Updates.

An important news to start the first work day of 2010! We are happy to announce that AdaDiskon.com is now officially Kompas.com’s content partner for all deals, discounts, and promotional news. This content partnership means that all of our content may be published via Kompas.com. For a media company of just six months old, we are really proud to have already been recognized as the leading and trusted news source for your shopping needs by Kompas, one of the biggest media company in Indonesia

It is no doubt that 2009 had been such an exciting year for AdaDiskon.com, we beta launched mid last year and did many changes to the site to test out what would serve our visitors and community best. We realized that feedbacks from our partner merchants and most importantly our users are essential in improving the site.

If you noticed, we recently did a few changes to our site. We went back to our commenting system, we made signing up easier, grouped credit card promotions together, as well as doing a little facelift to our site. Please do sign up so that you will never miss any great deals from our partner merchants.

Last but not least, We are deeply humbled by our followers on twitter, thank you so much for all the feedbacks, RT’s, all the follow Fridays, all the recommendations as well as sharing to us deals that we might not know yet. We never imagined that we could have reached over 5000 followers before the end of 2009!! Thanks so much for making us the leading Deal-Sharing website in Indonesia!

We can’t thank you enough for all the interesting pictures and the useful information sent. Thank you for all your support and stay tune for more exciting update for 2010!

Warm Regards,

Aswin Utomo

Director

AdaDiskon.com

We Just Improved our Search Bar

Live search and A Retweet Button.

We’ve been working really hard to always improve AdaDiskon.com. We never liked the idea of adding new features just for the sake of adding one. But through analysis on our user behaviour, we decided to implement Live Search to our search bar and replaced our “Share on Twitter” to a ReTweet Button at our article and promo page.

Since our search bar is increasingly used by you, our visitors, we decided that it is time to implement live search to it. Now users when they type at our large search bar, will get suggestions and if they do choose one of them, will go directly to the suggested page whether it will be a company profile, promo or articles. It works similar to facebook’s and Google’s search bar.

Over time, we will be improving this but we are really happy with the result and we do hope that this will be a huge improvement to our user experience. Finding bargains easier and faster is always our main focus!.

Another improvement for our twitter users is that we kicked out our old “Share to Twitter” link and replaced it to a Retweet button. This button will automatically put “RT @AdaDiskon …..” so that you don’t have to. Just in case in you're on the web and want to ReTweet our article or prom

We’re really happy with the improvements and hope that you do too. Please email us at feedback@adadiskon.com if you have any feedbacks on the website or any of this improvements. Stay tuned for more updates for AdaDiskon.com

Thanks,

-AdaDiskon Team.

100 unique visitors and up to 345 page views per hour + a few more sales this week.

AdaDiskon.com had a record number of visitor count last week!, it reaches up to 100 unique visitors and up to 345 page views per hour, awesome statistics considering we just enabled user submission two weeks ago. If you visited the website last week, you might notice that it was a bit slow because of the load.

We'd like thank our volunteers for becoming our early adopters and submitting all those deals to our site. Thanks frances, atanatalie, rumman, and many more. Make sure you add them to your favorite users and catch the latest deals from them.

After all the midnight sales last week (senayan city, mal taman anggrek,, emporium, etc), there are still more sales this week such as Bank Danamon Event, Nike's Sale at Pondok Indah Mall, and many more.

Thank you to everyone who gave me feedbacks so we can keep on improving the website. We are also going to be releasing another development release real soon.

Stay tuned for more updates!.

-Aswin

We Have Enabled User Deal Submissions!

It’s been three months since we beta launched (June 2009) and feedback to us has been really good. We have taken an especially great interest in feedback regarding adding and editing promotions from our partner stores/merchants. This is an effort for us to determine what the best approach is to when we open this ability for our users.

We are really happy to have finally enabled our users to submit deals to our website. We always wanted to make AdaDiskon.com to be a place where users share information about deals and promotions, and of course to be the number one destination for bargain hunters in Indonesia.

Simply login to your user account to start sharing! Please do send us an email to feedback@adadiskon.com if you have any comments regarding deal submission process, is it too difficult?, is it not clear? or if there is anything that we can do to improve the process.

For example, I have personally submitted a Bank Mega Fashion Sale. I found super nice deals earlier this year at the same event.

Happy Sharing and Hunting!

-Aswin Utomo

American Tourister, Charles & Keith, and Pedro

Just a few recaps on business memberships update. American Tourister, Charles & Keith, and Pedro have joined AdaDiskon.com these past two weeks.

American Tourister, a Samsonite brand have joined us in an effort to increase it's online marketing effort. Be on the lookout for regular promotions from this merchant at AdaDiskon.com.

American Tourister has been made possible to make its presence in Indonesia following the joint venture agreement signed between PT Mitra Adiperkasa Tbk. (MAP) and Samsonite Corporation.

Charles & Keith, a very popular brand for the ladies here in Indonesia, since I never seen any of their stores empty ever, have also joined AdaDiskon.com.

In case you missed it, They just had an "End of Season Sale Save up to 90% off".




Pedro, also a very popular brand for both male and female footwear and accessories, is now a business member at AdaDiskon.com. Be in the lookout for Pedro's promotions and sale events too.

They just had their "Summer Sale Save up to 70% off" as well.

Did you miss any of these sale events?. be the first one to know in the future when these brands or all other brands in AdaDiskon.com is having a sale event by signing up at AdaDiskon.com and make sure you favorited these brands so that you will never miss their events and promotions anymore.

New Feature and AdaDiskon.com Status

Finally it's the weekend and I can finally push out the newest release of adadiskon.com. Some bugs are fixed, some new informations are added and more importantly, a new feature!.

Recommendation System.

This is a very simple recommendation system to give more power to the user, you!, to decide and let your friends know that you recommend this promo and article.


This box is located on your right hand side of promo pages and article pages. Let us know whether or not you like the promo and article by recommending it to your friends!.


This recommendation will show up at your friends news feed as shown on the left


We also changed our "Newest Comment" section to "Newest Activity" at our homepage to reflect more about the most recent activity on our website. All the most recent recommendation will show up there too.

What does this new feature mean to all our users?. We can now, not only see what our friends recommend to us, we can also sort and see what is the most recommended promos in AdaDiskon.com at the category pages.

Status

Other than that, it's been just over a month that we have launched AdaDiskon.com and I can say that our growth is Great!. We are close to averaging 200 unique IP visits per day and we have achieved this in just a month!.

Stay tuned for new updates from us. I can say that we have so much more exciting things in plan for you in the near future.

Thanks,

-Aswin Utomo