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 [...]

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 their search, [...]

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 probably won’t be as [...]

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 auto install available [...]

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 to be able [...]