SydsEastside Now Sharing Photos at flickr.com/motorcars/

Syd's Eastside has joined up with flickr and setup a small photo stream sharing resource at http://www.flickr.com/motorcars/.

Since the practice of showing off our used cars and trucks catalog online requires that we take some photographs of the vehicles, we have decided that instead of Copyrighting these photos and then keeping them all to ourselves, we will share them with the world. At first we were looking for our own web application to do this from one of our own websites, but preliminary trials on some of the applications available showed that most of the freeware and registered shareware open source software applications that are supposed to perform these duties are purely incapable of doing so. Almost every application we installed failed miserably (even the registered shareware we paid for a license for).

In our hunt for a manageable online photo album application, we found flickr.com, and so far it is offering us the most reliability. However, we are continuing to investigate other possible web application solutions that we can host ourselves so that we can utilize our photography to more fully promote our brands.

Although we are currently only just getting started at flickr, which is currently a Yahoo! property, I think I was able to upload a nice little assortment of cars that we have had listed for sale in our Used Autos: Cars & Trucks For Sale section of the website.

While we are still looking for a more configurable solution that we can control more fully as a web application on one of our online properties, it certainly is good to have this option available from flickr. Unfortunately, flickr.com also stifles its user creativity by limiting its membership to only 3 sets (albums) of photos each. This drastically limits the free membership's ability to categorize photos accurately. I suppose they have to do something to get members to the paid membership program, though.

I'm not sure if it will work here, but one nice feature of flickr is the ability to easily create a slideshow of your photos that you can share from your other websites. Let's see if Google will support it...



It appears to work, although I am seeing an error from the Adobe FlashPlayer 9. Perhaps there is some incompatibility issues here on the Blogger pages? For now, I'll just leave it up. If anyone has a fix for this, be sure to let me know, I would appreciate it. If the error gets too anoying I'll just put it on some other page and point a link on the blog to where I put it. ;)

Thanks!

-Syd's Eastside

Toyota Terus Pimpin Pasar Otomotif Nasional

Untuk September 2008, Toyota terus memimpin pasar otomotif nasional dengan total penjualan sebesar 17.067 unit. Dibandingkan periode yang sama pada tahun sebelumnya, penjualan meningkat sebesar 124,5%. Sedang angka kumulatif penjualan sepanjang tahun 2008 (Januari-September 2008) sebesar 155.131 unit, meningkat 142% dibandingkan periode yang sama pada tahun sebelumnya (Januari-September 2007).

Untuk kelas sedan, pada September Toyota berhasil mencatat total penjualan sebesar 2.024 unit, meningkat 164,4% dibandingkan pada periode yang sama tahun sebelumnya (2007). Di segmen mini sedan Vios berhasil membukukan angka penjualan sebesar 1.632 unit, meningkat 32,8% dibandingkan bulan sebelumnya. Meningkatnya penjualan Vios dikarenakan semakin diminatinya Vios yang didukung dengan performa yang bagus dan konsumsi bahan bakar yang irit. Toyota All New Camry juga berhasil meningkatkan angka penjualannya sebesar 10,7% dengan penjualan sebesar 270 unit.

Sedang Toyota Yaris, sebagai kendaraan anak muda, berhasil membukukan angka penjualan 1.075 unit atau meningkat sebesar 65,1% dibandingkan bulan sebelumnya. Avanza juga berhasil mencatat angka penjualan sebesar 7.830 unit, meningkat dari bulan sebelumnya yang mencatatkan penjualan sebesar 7.742 unit.

Untuk kelas komersial, di bulan September ini Toyota berhasil mencatatkan total penjualan sebesar 1.623 unit dengan produk-produk andalannya seperti Hilux dan truk Dyna yang berhasil mencatatkan kenaikan sebesar 153,1% dibandingkan periode bulan September pada tahun 2007.

“Pencapaian bulan September ini sangat menggembirakan, hasil ini terus mengukuhkan Toyota sebagai pemimpin pasar otomotif nasional. Meski tantangan kedepan semakin banyak, namun kami tetap yakin dan optimis untuk menghadapi pasar otomotif nasional kedepan serta terus memberikan kehidupan yang lebih baik dan kebahagiaan bagi semua”. papar Johnny Darmawan, Presiden Direktur PT Toyota-Astra Motor. /PR