Koprol, or now known as Yahoo! Koprol, a social networking based on the locationdesignated for the cities in Indonesia. Tell the location of fellow users somersaultsomersault and fellow users that are connecting the same place. Social network useslocation-based methods. Here the user can be mobile phones such as GPS (GlobalPositioning System) without the application of GPS from the phone itself. Koprolprovides a number of options where users can check in at that location. Once logged in, here the user can see who the other members who were in the same location.
In Indonesia the cities that have been able to enjoy this application is Jakarta, Bali,Bandung, Surabaya, Surakarta, Surabaya, Yogyakarta, Semarang, Surakarta,Bengkulu, Medan, Banda Aceh, Palembang, Makassar, Balikpapan, Cirebon,Papua, as well as overseas such as Singapore, Houston, Indianapolis.

Koprol word chosen as the name of Satya Witoelar creation of social networking,Dawn Budiprasetya, and Daniel Armanto mean rolling people who later interpreted by them as a transfer from one place to another place. This is considered in accordance with the target user is someone who somersault that mobile.

In July 2008, originated from the usual web 2.0, and then developed by a teamsomersault somersault into something else. There is also the team somersault in question is Satya Witoelar as design and community, Dawn Budiprasetyo asProduction Director, and Daniel Armanto as engineering manager. Initially the project of social networking is just for fun projects are worked by three men.Unexpectedly, the welcome given by the community is very great. It can be seenfrom the number of users reaching somersault approximately 80,000 people afterthe birth year and a half somersault. It is also surprising SkyEight which is softwaredevelopment company, where Satya Witoelar, Dawn Budiprasetyo, and DanielArmanto joined. Finally in February 2009 Logo was launched by PT SkyEightIndonesia. The idea for this somersault itself is a composite concept of socialnetworking sites like Lifestream emerging models such as Twitter, Plurk systemssuch comments, and location systems like Brightkite. Koprol use technology specifications ubuntu 8.04, apache2, passenger 2.2.1, Ruby Enterprise Edition20090421, rails 2.3.2, and MySQL 5 on its server. Shaped like microbloggingemerging lately. Microblog in brief is the simplest form of a blog that allows for internet users who are traveling to still be able to write brief text updates are usually less than 200 characters and publish it. www.koprol.com