Listening and engaging with the community is more important than ever. Social media tools allows them to freely discuss your brand openly. We have seen reports that social media spending by large brands have increased year over year since 2008 in the US. In Hong Kong, engaging the community is probably the last thing on [...]

2007 is history and this post is better late than never. It’s been quite a year in the web community in Hong Kong. We saw an increase in the number of web startups early and in the middle of the year. First ever BarCamp was held. Jeremiah Owyang helped inject more life into the web [...]

Having seen the success of the previous community gathering (via blogs/flickr), it’s great to know that there is a growing community in Hong Kong. Within each community, there are multiple groups who hold their own gatherings regularly. You have the bloggers, the internet marketers, internet professionals and web entrepreneurs as groups that hold their own [...]

Darizi is a social network specifically for those who are planning their big day and want to share that important day with friends, family and strangers. Unlike most of the other startups profiled here, Darizi is made to capture users in Hong Kong and China. Darizi offers a complete guide and a place to plan [...]

Just a couple months after the last gathering, we’ve again brought Hong Kong’s web 2.0 entrepreneurs away from their makeshift offices/bedrooms/cubby holes to EditGrid’s luxurious office space. Along with the previous startups, I brought in some of the recently discovered/profiled startups into the mix. It was very satisfying to see the number of startups discovered [...]