The inaugural Open Web Asia conference in Seoul, South Korea was a success, we had around 300 people show up. For those who couldn’t make it, you missed some great insights and chances to network with the speakers, entrepreneurs and other attendees. We hope to provide slides on Open Web Asia conference through support partner [...]

My friend, Chang who is the author at Web 2.0 Asia, our fearless leader of the Open Web Asia Conference (Register NOW!)and the CEO of TNC, Tatter and Company and company that runs the Korean blogging platform Textcube. As reported by Chang himself, they have been acquired by Google Korea. I am pretty surprised by [...]

Open Web Asia 2008 Conference will hit Asia on October 14, 2008 in Seoul, South Korea and held at the Sheraton Grande Walkerhill. This year, the organizing team made up of members of the OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup and other prominent entrepreneurs, thinkers, and bloggers has teamed up with the 9th World Knowledge Forum to launch the [...]

Last week, I had the pleasure to have met Chang Kim, CEO of TextCube, formerly Tattertools (think of them as the WordPress for Korea) and editor at Web20Asia. Apart from being a busy CEO Chang also finds time to initiate and lead the first ever Asian Web conference. I will also dedicate part of my [...]

Google really has their sights set on Korea and will not let go. First their failure to succeed a few years back, then the establishment of a R&D center earlier in the year. Whether they succeed this time around remains to be seen, but now, they are going to try it, not with their search, [...]