Archive for October, 2006
Previously mentioned about FON launching in HK(failed attempts) but this time, it’s set, a time and place has been chosen, for good. No really, it’s set. When: Wednesday, November 1, 2006 Where: Club 97, 9 Lan Kwai Fong, Central, Hong Kong What time: 6:00 pm Learn more about FON and maybe get some free stuff. [...]
Props for Xiaonei
Comments Written by angus October 25th, 2006 . Tags: China, M&A, Web 2.0, xiaonei.Xiaonei the Facebook clone has been acquired by Oak Pacific Interactive. The price was never disclosed by it’s nowhere near the Youtube/Google deal and it’s nowhere near the rumored deal between Yahoo and Facebook. I am pretty sure that the deal wasn’t even near the deal between News Corp and Myspace. I’d be surprised if [...]
Learn Mandarin, web 2.0 style.
Comments Written by angus October 10th, 2006 . Tags: China-8, Education, foreign-language, Hong Kong, Web 2.0.There is another new site to learn the Mandarin language, along with Chinesepod (I wrote about it earlier). This one is China-8. I think online education business model is the way to go. China-8 has gone all out and built a web OS for their service, it’s cool concept but is it necessary (I am [...]
Web startup meetup
Comments Written by angus October 6th, 2006 . Tags: entrepreneur, Hong Kong, meetup, Web 2.0.I managed to organize a small gathering for the web startups and entrepreneurs here in Hong Kong, that included aNobii, EditGrid, Bullpoo, Edwyn Chan, Mingles Tsoi. It was my fault for not posting beforehand to include the others entrepreneurs/web startups here in HK. It was a last minute setup and luckily almost everyone I contacted [...]



