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 [...]

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 between the old site and this new [...]

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. [...]

Update: Sign up by using the wiki! Here is some good news for the startups here. Jeremiah Owyang from PodTech in Silicon Valley will be in town the week of Sept 16-21, 2007. For anyone who is unfamiliar with Jeremiah, he is a web strategist and a social media guru and is well known in [...]

Roompage is another Web 2.0 startup in Hong Kong. According to them, Roompage is the next generation of homepage application and their goal is to help users integrate their content and presenting them in a personalized way. Roompage was founded by an ex-Googler, Ken Law, along with 2 of his friends. From first glance, it [...]