Yat Siu, the founder and CEO of Outblaze, has noted on his Facebook status that his online messaging and collaboration service has been bought by IBM, details are found here. I have mentioned in my Twitter before that there has been a handful of acquisitions by large corporations in Asia and US, late last year [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today, we are announcing Asia’s first workgroup for the web industry in Asia, OpenWeb.Asia. OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup is a network of premium blogs focused on the Asia web industry has launched with fifteen web, technology blogs in Asia and welcome other tech bloggers in Asia to join, much like the Web 2.0 Workgroup in the US. [...]

Why do developers and designers of websites in Asia like to open a new window for outgoing links and more importantly why do the producers and the people in charge of the web allow this to happen. Look at Yahoo! Hong Kong and Yahoo! Korea, the same is true for sites from China too Yahoo! [...]