#koprol

bought Koprol, a location-based social networking site based in Indonesia. There were even plans to also bring Koprol to the Philippines and this was during the time when social check-in services like FourSquare was just starting to become popular. early this year prompted the company to lay off thousands of employees and that includes some developers in South East Asia (specifically the ones involved with Koprol). In a blog post at the Koprol blog today, the team officially announced that the service will be discontinued by August 28 this year. The Koprol acquisition was sign of hope to a lot of developers in the region since it gave the impression that Yahoo! I'm still amazed at how this Indonesian site, Koprol, could get bought by a global internet giant like Yahoo! I think we also need something like Koprol in the Philippines. A lot of people are already using either FourSquare or Gowalla aside from the usual services like Twitter and Facebook but a home-brewed social networking site should give the Philippines some air-time in the global internet scene (like how Indonesia got its 15 minutes of the spotlight with Koprol). Read more in our articles including "Yahoo! axes Koprol just 2 years after buying it" and "Does the Philippines need a Koprol?".