'open web asia'에 해당되는 글 7건
- 2008/10/15 Open Web Asia '08: Behind the Scenes (2)
- 2008/10/14 Open Web Asia Prep Meeting (1)
- 2008/10/10 What the Internet means to me
- 2008/10/03 Jason Calacanis and Loic LeMeur talk about Open Web Asia '08
- 2008/09/23 Power of tools. Does it apply to Asian work culture?
- 2008/09/12 Breaking News: Google buys TNC (and Tattertools/Textcube) (2)
- 2008/08/26 Open Web Asia '08 Is Here!!!
So, I just got back from Open Web Asia '08. In few words, it was just fantastic, amazing, unbelievable, exciting, and purely awesome. There was lots of excitement everywhere. People were just happy to talk about the Web in Asia and what they think they should do next and stuff. It was just full of hope, possibilities, and forward-looking perspectives.
Again, I just got back and it's like 2:30 in the morning right now and I'm pretty much dying to go to sleep now. So I'll probably have to the real blogging stuff tomorrow when I'm less exhausted and more awake. But as a gift, I'm posting up some pictures I took today. The first picture was taken while I was on the way to the conference and crossing the Han river. The second was taken during the panel. The last 3 are from the networking dinner party afterwards. Pictures were taken with my cellphone camera, so the quality is so so at best.
Thank you very much for you all you interests and efforts to put a conference like this together. To my knowledge, this is the first truly "pan-Asian" Web conference in years and it seemed like everyone's been waiting for this for a LONG time.
But, till the next post, good night :)
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So, after months of preparation, we finally got together, to prepare even more for tomorrow. Most of the speakers and organizers were present at the meeting. Like many other conferences, it just feels really good to see those whom you only see online in real person!
For example, Gang Lu and I have been talking for over 2 years and we met for the first time today. Jason Calacanis, whom I sadly didn't get to meet in my last visit to SF in April, was such a great guy, as expected. I was able to hear many great stories from him and I was lucky enough to be able to offer him some insight as well. Andreas turned out to be one of the coolest and the most entertaining guys I've ever met. Loic was just as energizing as I envisioned him to be. What's cool is that guys knew about Korea a lot more than I thought. Tyler, in particular, enjoyed the "Stuff Korean Moms Like" blog, which is very rare to see unless you have that kind of Korean mom. :)
Honestly, one of the concerns I had for this group was that we wouldn't be too friendly and the conference would be too "corporate" and not-as-fun. But today, meeting with everyone simply blew away all of my worries. The group bonding was amazing and people were just friendly to one another and quick to greet each other.
We have a good number of registrants and are expecting a great day tomorrow. I'll do my best to live-blog from the conference tomorrow. Oh, don't forget that I'm one of the speakers as well. Should I go nuts and try to live-blog while on the panel? :)
If you want to follow the conference on twitter, http://twitter.com/openwebasia is it.
See you all tomorrow!
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I pulled both of my hamstrings last week and my legs aren't feeling that great; so I stayed home all day today; and I worked all day. I had my Springnote stuff going on one side, Open Web Asia prep on the other, on top of all my blogs.
Here's the thing. I was home all day and I probably talked to something like 100 people, either through Skype, MSN messenger, Google Talk, email, blog comments, Springnote, Facebook, phone, SMS, and the list goes on. And I think I'm actually more tired than physically working in office with 10 teammates. Oh, and the people I talked to today are in L.A., New York, Boston, Tokyo, Beijing, Singapore, London, and Seoul.
This is what the Internet means to me. It's got some ontological and existential meaning in it. The Internet gives my existence a meaning. It proves that I'm alive to those that are in different time zones.
Like in the cartoon above, sometimes it puzzles me. I just wanna ask the person on the other side, whether on messenger or blog comments, "how can you be so sure that the person you're talking to is the person you think you're talking to?" Of course, it's possible to deceive someone even if you physically meet him or her; but the Internet makes it even more difficult to detect.
I believe that the online and offline realities must come together some time soon. This should be applied to collaboration as well. Communicating in non-physical space never can be as effective or rich in meaning as face-to-face communications, but we've just gotta find a better way for this.
The latest report in Korea says 99.9% of teens use the Intenret and something like 98.7% of those in their 30's. The way we communicate with and find meaning in each other is completely changing. We actually might be getting dumber. But, it's just the way it is.
How will this new technology be mixed with the Asian spirit and values, which have always valued harmony and co-existence over individualism and independence. Surely, you'll get a better picture at this at Open Web Asia next week.
This post isn't necesesarily about the digital generation in Korea, but the ever changing landscape in humanity in general, I guess. Or, I'm just very tired and don't really know what I'm talking about. ;)
So, with that, good night, folks!
Jason Calacanis and Loic LeMeur talk about Open Web Asia '08
Morever, we were lucky enough to catch up with two of our awesome speakers: Jason Calacanis, the fonder of Weblogs Inc. and Mahalo, and Loic LeMeur, the founder of Seesmic. Of course, they're not "Asian", but they give such great insight into the Web in Asia and what this conference can offer you. :)
I know it's kind of late, but if you're genuinely interested in Asia, don't miss out. The conference isn't the only goodie. Think about whom you can meet in person there. The speakers, me, Chang Kim, and many other Open Web Asia Workgroup members!
Oh, by the way, I becamse a speaker at the conference again. I don't think I'm quite at the same level as other speakers, so I'm just grateful and honored to be up there. I'll be talking about collaboration in Asia through the Web.
So, watch the videos below and click on the register button right away. (You can also register onsite on the conference day as well) Hope to see you all there soon :)
Power of tools. Does it apply to Asian work culture?
How do I keep up with all the ever-changing information, news and knowledge, and tasks I need to finish? Most of them through online tools. I use a great number of web applications every day. Starting with Google products (gmail, calendar, reader, analytics, feedburner), I go into other amazing services like Springnote (which I mentioned in the last post) and RememberTheMilk. Tistory is a hosted blogging service which runs on top of Textcube (which I introduced here). TechnoKimchi blog itself runs on Tistory. Not to mention services like Meebo. My life often revolves around staying inside Firefox (sometimes inside Chrome and IE, too ^^) Of course, having ubiquitous networks in Korea is always a great help to me.
One interesting finding about the relationship between tools and productivity is that it doesn't seem to matter as much at workplaces in Asia. Productivity is always measured, but the measure doesn't necessarily mean we're really productive and efficient. They're just numbers. When I was working at Samsung, many of co-workers took 30-40 min long coffee or smoke breaks, not counting lunch breaks. This is a common scene around Korea and we're known to work more than anybody else!
Springnote, for example, is an amazing service. The reason I'm doing global marketing for Springnote is quite simple: I fell in love with the product and decided to become a voice for it myself. It's got some cool edges over other products, like being the only application combining personal note-taking with wikis to full-extent and 2 GB of free file storage. If you're a college student, hey, this is the place to be, right?
But the scene in Korea is a little bit different. Despite the efficiency and productivity presented by Springnote, when college students have group projects, I've witnessed that they would sometimes create a Cyworld Club (a community site) and manually keep up with each other's contact info, manage schedules (just in pure text formats) and share files as attachments. Given Cyworld clubs allow you to attach files only up to 5 MB each, which is too small for many files you need to share, they sign up for other file-hosting services, actually paying real money. And everything I just mentioned can be done in Springnote so easily and for free. (Of course, Springnote has been doing exceptionally well in Korea!)
So in Korea, you can't find a single "tool" service that's done well beside Springnote. At the same time, when it comes down communities and content, it's gone crazy. The best part of Korean news articles and blogs? Comments. Comments are so important in Korean society now that those comments are changing the laws and the way TV programs are structured.
This is very important as many Web companies from the West are trying to move into the Asian market. It doesn't work the same way. Web 2.0 is about social, right? Remember that Asia has always been about social for centuries, or even millennia.
Next time you design a Web service for Asia, add even more "social" flavor to it. Let people talk, participate, contribute, and "be da man". If you still can't get it, come to the Open Web Asia conference; the topic of the conference is "Social Web in Asia" :)
Breaking News: Google buys TNC (and Tattertools/Textcube)
Two Google stories in a row on TechnoKimchi. This one is just as big as the Chrome news to me. And to Korean bloggers.
Google Korea announced just hours ago that it acquired TNC(short for "Tatter and Company"). TNC is the company behind the blogging platform Textcube, formerly known as Tattertools. Basically Textcube is the Korean version of Wordpress. The most popular blogging platform. It also recently launched a hosting service named Textcube Dot Com, which combines the best of blogging and SNS.
Google's acquisition of TNC has lots of implications. This one not only marks the very first acquisition of any company by Google Korea but also implies its strong will for playing with Naver and Daum in the Korean market despite Google Korea's official title "R&D Center."
But here's the reason why this is so important: Korean Web 2.0 startup market has been dead for a while. There's simply no "exit". Startup Web companies can't generate revenues, can't go IPO, can't be sold. No exit. Period. Thus, no innovation.
TNC has been one of the most famous Web 2.0 startups in Korea. And it was finally sold to none other than Google!!! Bloggers are going quite nuts, obviously.
Chang Kim mentioned once on his blog the lack of innovation in Korea. Saddened by the current state of (lack of) innovation in the Korean Web industry, he's been working hard on Open Web Asia and other things, hoping Korea would be a better place for Web innovations.
And guess what? He's the star today! Chang is actually one of the co-CEOs of TNC and soon, he'll be working as a Google employee, probably in charge of Textcube. Congratulations, chang!!!
Starting from tomorrow, we're going to the biggest holiday season of the year: Chuseok. And this is perfect (and good) news to know as we go into holidays. Of course, there's much to be discussed about the deal and I'm not sure how active Google has been in terms of acquiring local startups in different parts of Asia. But for now, I'm just happy that a great startup company has found a great acquirer.
What do you guys think of the acquisition?
More: Chang Kim himself wrote a post on the deal. Go check it out. You can tell how excited he is :)
In the beginning Chang W. Kim created the idea. The idea was "hey, there's something big happening with the Web in Asia. Let's gather together and talk about it."
So those with interests started talking about it and planning for an event. The idea grew bigger and bigger even to be associated with one of the largest business conferences in Asia: World Knowledge Forum. It's Open Web Asia '08!
Open Web Asia '08 will be a very unique opporunity for you. There's no other "Asian Web" conference. But, you know, as I've been saying time after time on TechnoKimchi, we really gotta notice special things happening out here. And let's talk about it!
We got a great lineup of speakers and some fun/social events prepared as well. You can see more details about the conference on Web 2.0 Asia and on the homepage. For media purpose, you can also download the press release (PDF version) here. Just for your information, I'm scraping the basic info about the conference below. ("scraping" means copying and pasting in Korean :) )
I'm thoroughly convinced that you're gonna love this conference. Don't forget to visit the registration page if you're interested!
disclaimer: I'm one of the organizers for the event :)
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Gain insight into the current state and future potential of the Asian web.
October 14, 2008 | Sheraton Grande Walkerhill, Seoul, Korea
in association with the 9th World Knowledge Forum
Conference theme: The Social Web
Social
has been a game changing development of the internet industry and the
social web is an area where Asia has its own strength and vibrancy.
Asian countries have a distinct internet cultures and market players,
so informative and educational cross-country comparisons can be made.
What is Open Web Asia?
The first truly pan-Asia web technology event. A one day conference with carefully crafted speeches and panels featuring thought leaders and doers of Asia 2.0.
Why attend?
The gathering of thinkers and doers from Asia and beyond is a unique opportunity to learn about Asia's most astonishing web successes and best practices from online communities, e-commerce, mobile web ecosystems and more! This will also provide unique intelligence on approaching the booming Asian markets.
Not only that, plenty of networking opportunities offer the potential for valuable connections with both Asian and Western web industry movers and shakers.
Who should attend?
Technology executives, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists and anyone looking looking to learn from or with a stake in the development of the web industry in Asia.
Confirmed speakers
Confirmed speakers include some of the most experienced and knowledgeable people from the Asian
internet industry and a selection of business leaders and thinkers from outside the region.
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