various and sundry, 21 April 2008
April 21st, 2008 by Gen Kanai- MySpace Launches in South Korea: Capitalizing on Asian affinity for fancy stationery, the feature has options to personalize stamps and backgrounds to resemble different types of notebook paper.Huh? Make a website look like paper? What is this? 1994? All Asians like fancy stationary? WTF?
- Data of 10 million [Korean] people leaked on Internet: police Internet Auction Co., whose shares are largely owned by the U.S. auction site Ebay Inc., was hacked from an overseas location in early February, resulting in the loss of residential and email addresses as well as resident registration numbers of about 60 percent of its users, the police said.
- Foreign Web Giants Find Little Success in S.Korea
This is a poorly written article. Google and Yahoo! were late to the Korean market. The US search giants focused on Japan first.
- Yochai Benkler: Open-source economics: TED video, worth watching.
- Marc Andreessen Founder, Ning, Opsware, Netscape; Creator of Mosaic talks at startup school: nice to see Marc in action.
April 21st, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Talk about Asian taste for design. Even in 2002, I’m positive that for some reason, many of these “designs” did not provoke massive seizures in Asia.