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PopOut! Singapore: The book nerd who wowed the crowd

Posted in IT @ Work, PopOut! Singapore, Uniquely Singapore by ATT on the October 5th, 2007

Out of the five presentations at PopOut! Singapore, Bookjetty.com’s Herryanto Siatono was the one that was highly recommended by Mozilla’s Gen Kenai.

Herryanto also shared his solution on how to make online sms to mobile phones affordable to other web2.0 startups looking at offering sms services.

“The presentation I enjoyed the most was Bookjetty,” said Gen.

“I felt that Herry had a niche and create this service which extract that niche.

“This service provides a significant benefit not only to the people of Singapore, but now to everybody who like books all over the world.”

Bookjetty.com is designed as “a social network for book lovers, where users can catalog, rate, and review their books, and check the books availability in the libraries seamlessly”.


Too much backdoor entrance to Singapore National Library Board
made the board let Heeryanta accessed their system from the front.

During the Q&A session, Herryanto was asked on how he could afford to provide users with the SMS service.

The SMS service on Bookjetty.com allows users to receive SMS about details of the book, especially that of the index number of the book in the Library. The previous Web1.0 way was to either print out the details or write it on a piece of paper.

“Do you all know Twitter?” replied Herryanto.

“Twitter actually offer SMS notification free of charge.

“When Twitter released its API, the first thing I saw was a free SMS gateway. I wouldn’t be able to afford the SMS service on my own, but thanks to Twitter, Bookjetty.com now offer SMS service.”

Necessity is the mother of all of invention. In Herryanto’s Bookjetty.com, it was his ability to adapt other web services to meet the needs of his users that well appreciated by the PopOut! audience.

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  1. anon said, on October 5th, 2007 at 11:30 pm

    uh. u’re in media? they never taught you to check for spelling errors? especially in people’s names? the picture of herry has his name on the screen behind him… it’s herryanto siatono… not herryanta siatona… lol

  2. the(new)mediaslut said, on October 6th, 2007 at 12:51 am

    Thanks for highlighting the error.

    ATT did make the mistake there.. Apologies to Herry.

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  4. Herry said, on October 7th, 2007 at 10:54 pm

    MS, thanks for the review. :)

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  6. Julian said, on October 9th, 2007 at 5:18 am

    Hi,

    This is Julian from ZopIM. Nice blog you have here and I must agree, I found Herry’s presentation to be the most engaging and real among all us presenters.

    To clarify matters to your readers, ZopIM is basically a chat IM tool that is embeddable on any website (Blog, classifieds posting, etc.). Our service is free for most users and is meant for people interested in selling items or provide technical support on the website of their choice.

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    Cheers
    Julian
    Team ZopIM

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