Indonesian Blogshares

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Wiki Tutorial Blogshares

Terima kasih buat Doddi Sudartha yang telah menyiapkan wiki untuk tutorial Blogshares bahasa Indonesia. Mari kita isi.

Monday, June 20, 2005

Lomba Bikin Logo [ID] Blogshares

#319 - Logo Design for [ID]
[ID] is a brand new evolving community for fellow blogshares enthusiasts from Indonesia.

The group URL can be found here:
http://id-blogshares.blogspot.com/

I am sponsoring a mission to create a new logo for this group. All submissions can be put in a website (please give the URL) and/or send it by email with attachment to tedsta[at]gmail[dot]com.

Purpose:
* To create a logo for [ID] group which will be used for the website, mailing list, individual Blogshares profiles of [ID] group members, blogs of [ID] group members, etc. This is not an exhaustive list

Guidance:
* The logo must be identifiable directly to the [ID] group.
* The logo must be original work of the submitter.
* The logo must not exploit or offend anyone's sex, race, religion, morality, culture, nor be salacious or pornographic.

Submission format:
* High resolution in a .jpg, .jpeg, .gif or .png format, preferrably in various sizes to acommodate for different usage
* Your Blogshares [ID] number
* Design Description of the logo
* The URL, is submitted through URL, please send an email too to tedsta[at]gmail[dot]com with the attachment.
* If submitted by email, to tedsta[at]gmail[dot]com, with attachment

Judging Criteria:
* Creativity
* Versatility
* Ability of the logo to project the attributes of [ID] group
* Good graphic design
* Create an overall positive impression
* Be fast to download especially using 56k modem!

[the logo might be voted by members of [ID] group as a way to determine its popularity among [ID] members but not a deterministic judging criteria; conflict of interests from submissions by [ID] group members will be appropriately mitigated]

Submission deadline:
30th July 2005

Copyright assignment:
[ID] group will acquire ownership of the winning logo by assignment of copyright, and the winning designer will disclaim any trademarks and without limitation all other rights related to the design, including but not limited to the use of the logo by [ID] group and its members.

By submitting a logo for entry in the competition, the designer acknowledges that he/she is the person that made the logo and is its rightful owner. The designer also certifies that the logo does not infringe upon the rights of any third party and that it does not violate any copyright.

What you will get:

Overall Winner: 70% of the pot plus B$75b
Runner up: 20% of the pot plus B$50b
Third place: 10% of the pot plus B$25b

Every entry will automatically* receive 75 chips.

*chips will be awarded only if the entry meet designs objective.

Let's get creative!!

* Special thanks to [ID] charly silaban (BS id 28887) for personal contribution to this mission
For others who are willing to contribute to this collaborative project, please pm me

Sponsored by: [ID] tedsta

Saturday, June 04, 2005

Never Ending Generosity

I don't remember exactly how I got involved in this very, very addicting game called Blogshares. But it has been fun. Maybe it was started from a posting in id-gmail. I would have been playing "normally" if Enda haven't give me some stocks to play with. But then another, shocking event happened. I read Laila's page stating that she will give five billion Blogshares dollars to every newbies. Whaaat? I didn't believe it initially. But I said to myself that I have nothing to loose. So I put a sell order on one of my cheapest stock I have, set its price to 5M B$, send a PM to Laila regarding that, and wait, and wait, very nervously.

Then the most wanted answer came, and I got a first taste of Blogshares $ million. A huge jump from initial B$ 500 every new player got. But what to do with this much of "money"? This stage is very shaky. I bought ideas, created artefacts, and blindly trying to follow rich players' way. Of course without much success in gaining thousandfolds valuation in the shortest time.

So, treasure hunt continues. Then I know that chips can be sold around 25 million B$ each. Chip hunting period started. Again, Laila help me much when she created her personal mission to collect 700.000 chips. She is willing to buy chips at above market rate: 35 million B$ each. But unfortunately, I use an ISP which utilize transparent HTTP proxy which use round robin. This invalidates some of my industry moderations which if was succeed will reward me more chips per item I moderated than voting (which in turn will be moderated).

More fun is guaranteed when you have friends to play along with. But then, I'm in the middle of an internal battle: to continue playing as a normal member, with transaction limitations; or became premium member, which will allow unlimited transactions daily. To be a premium member, we, Indonesians, can't do easily because we can't use PayPal. Alternatively we can trade 18.000 chips for premium membership. But collecting 18.000 chips takes time. So when Laila created a mission which will give 10 winners free upgrades to premium membership, I got another urge to try premium.

Well, this part will contain my 'review' to Laila's blog, if you can call this a review. It seems that Laila got several jumps, which might make her rather unprepared of Blogshares antiques (like PRDs and HTOs, especially on top blogs). Or is it others were rather unprepared of Laila's increasing valuation?

But what impressed me most is Laila's never ending generosity. She had given back much more than she received initially. Remember 35 million B$/chip? 5 billion for 1 share? Those make newbies entry much more easier to bridge a huge disparity (B$ 500 newbie vs 1 quadrillion richest player). She was not stopped at that, but also spread her "wealth" to real world through Save The Children. Very good examples. A game can be much more than just having fun.

Thanks Laila.