http://www.852signal.com Broadcasting Web 2.0 and next generation web activities in Hong Kong and Asia 香港 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:41:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As some of you may have noticed in the Events section, Barcamp Hong Kong 2008 will be held this Saturday, September 06, 2008. This second Barcamp will be hosted at Turner International Asia Pacific. We are expecting the crowd to exceed last year's turnout (~100) and last year's event at ... http://www.852signal.com/2008/09/01/barcamp-hong-kong-2008-this-saturday-sept-06/ 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 ... http://www.852signal.com/2008/08/13/announcing-open-web-asia-2008-conference/ Muecs is another social network coming out from Hong Kong. According to their website, Muecs can be used to keep track of contents and activities from other popular web site services, which include; Digg, Youtube, del.icio.us and Flickr, to name a few and share and discuss them amongst friends. ... http://www.852signal.com/2008/08/13/muecs-social-network-with-your-own-marketplace/ Just last week, during the start of the Beijing Olympics frenzy, Zendesk launched their Chinese version of their help desk service. Tackling the Chinese market with a Western product can be challenging and I'd see Zendesk will see its fair share of those challenges, much like other services we've ... http://www.852signal.com/2008/08/11/zendesk-launches-chinese-version-of-their-online-help-desk/ Justin.tv is reaching out to users in Asia, specifically China (Hong Kong included) and Taiwan. According to Justin's post in their blog, they just released a Traditional and Simplified Chinese version. However, it's appears to be a straight translation of the English version, which may work in Hong ... http://www.852signal.com/2008/07/14/justintv-now-available-in-chinese-traditional-and-simplified/ Harbork is a new social network from Hong Kong. It is currently in private beta and they demo-ed it to the crowd at the Startup Hong Kong event couple weeks ago. The idea behind this is allowing their users to monetize for the traffic that is generated from the ... http://www.852signal.com/2008/07/07/harbork-make-money/ While Hong Kong has started to take on the idea of Barcamp unconferences, Singapore is initiating these events all year round. On top of Barcamps there, Entrepreneur 27 Singapore has been hosting their own unconferences for five yearstimes in two years now. This year's event will be on ... http://www.852signal.com/2008/07/06/entrepreneur-27-singapore-unconference/ This is news, two local startups rebranding themselves with new names this month. First it was Bullpoo, with changing to Duedee. Now, Lifesterblog, the local blog host that makes a good alternative to Yahoo! Hong Kong's basic blog platform, renaming themselves to Youblog.cc. You won't notice much differences ... http://www.852signal.com/2008/07/02/youblog-the-new-lifesterblog/ We all know the 3G iPhone will be a hit, I've waited knowing they had plans to release a 3G version after the launch of the 2G version. In Hong Kong, the sole provider, 3 Hong Kong, is taking advantage of this and have jacked up the prices. ... http://www.852signal.com/2008/06/30/3-hong-kong-doubles-the-price-of-3g-iphones/ Zendesk is a Copenhagen-based startup focused on helping companies put focus on their customer service. It's not all based in Europe as they have presence in Hong Kong where business development is stationed, developers and designers are from different parts of the world, including US, Sweden, Ukraine, Bulgaria ... http://www.852signal.com/2008/06/23/zendesk-serve-your-customers-better/