Google Korea Acquires Blog Platform TNC
1 Comment Published September 12th, 2008 in South Korea. Tags: acquisition, blog, Google, South Korea, TextCube, TNC.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 […]
Google taking on Korea… again
0 Comments Published June 23rd, 2007 in South Korea. Tags: localization, South Korea, YouTube.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 […]
Cyworld US launches
0 Comments Published July 28th, 2006 in South Korea, Social Network. Tags: social network, South Korea.As reported by Techcrunch, Cyworld US has finally launched a beta site. I’ve mentioned Cyworld before here. There’s not much to say but after reading the comments on Techcrunch, it seems pretty aligned with my take. The majority of the US audience won’t find it as “cool” as the Koreans and […]
Tatertools has English version
0 Comments Published July 8th, 2006 in South Korea, Web 2.0. Tags: blog, South Korea, Tattertools, Web 2.0.Tatertools, the Korean product similar to Wordpress is out. I want to try to implement this and move my current Wordpress structure to Tattertools. We’ll see how difficult it is, it shouldn’t be but creating databases and install permissions would be a problem through my host since I installed Wordpress through an […]
Web 2.0 in Asia
4 Comments Published May 2nd, 2006 in Technology, Internet, Hong Kong, South Korea, China. Tags: Asia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Web 2.0.I’ve written a limited number of posts on Web 2.0 here, ok, only 4, but it’s a start. Just today, I was reading China Web 2.0 Review and they featured two Asia Web 2.0 development and news from Korea. They are KoreaCrunch (like TechCrunch) and Web 2.0 Asia. It is so nice […]




