This is a poorly written article. Google and Yahoo! were late to the Korean market. The US search giants focused on Japan first.
I’m catching up on some older info so there’s some articles from last week here but all relevant to Asia.
John Markoff of the New York Times has a good piece on ‘hybrid’ organizations of which Mozilla is a good example.
They’re often referred to as “social enterprises” because they pursue social missions instead of profits. But unlike most nonprofit groups, these organizations generate a sustainable source of revenue and do not rely on philanthropy. Earnings are retained and reinvested rather than being distributed to shareholders.
The new companies, like thousands of Silicon Valley start-ups before them, typically begin as small groups of intensely motivated people dedicated to the goal of building a product or service.
The best-known examples are efforts like the Mozilla Corporation, which maintains and develops the Firefox Web browser, and TechSoup, an organization that was started two decades ago to connect technology experts with nonprofit groups. It now distributes commercial software to nonprofit groups in 14 countries. (Mozilla’s mission is to preserve choice and innovation on the Internet, which it considers a social good.)
Just a quick note to those of you who are in or near Boston.
Mozilla is sponsoring the first (?) conference on Internet memes: ROFLCon.
Mozilla Partners Up With ROFLCon
A number of friends of mine, including Anil Dash, Matthew Haughey, David Weinberger, and Joshua Schachter will be speaking so I highly recommend you go. I’m sorry to miss this one.
Chris Beard, VP of Mozilla Labs, will be in Tokyo this week for two speaking engagements.
On Feb. 28th, Chris will be keynoting at ZDNet Japan’s “builder techday: open apis and beyond.” David Recordon and Tatsuhiko Miyagawa from Six Apart will be speaking about open ID and the social graph (Brad Fitzpatrick, Read/Write Web, Google code repository.) Chris will be speaking about the “open web” from Mozilla’s perspective and will probably touch upon many of the subjects Recordon will speak about but also aspects of information that we keep in the browser and how we might share that as well. I’m afraid registration for this event is already closed.
On Feb. 29th, Chris will be keynoting at the Open Source Conference (Tokyo) – Spring 2008. Registration (jp) will be closing soon so please sign up asap if you plan to attend.
Chris Beard will provide an overview of recent activities at Mozilla including information on exciting new Mozilla Labs development projects currently in the works. He will talk about his vision for the future of the Web and the role of open source in improving our online lives.
This is the first time for any presentation on Mozilla Labs projects in Japan and we’re very excited to have Chris in Tokyo. Hope to see you at either of these events.
Although not Asian, Chris Ilias saw a nice overview of Mozilla’s efforts by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, featuring Mozilla’s Toronto office as well as the Seneca College students who are working on Mozilla.
Japanese Internet media coverage of the Firefox 3 Beta 2 release.
パフォーマンスを大幅に改善「Firefox 3 Beta 2」リリース
Firefox 3.0のβ第2版が公開 – β1以降の改良箇所は900以上
Firefox 3 最新β版登場、新機能追加とパフォーマンス改善
Beta 1から約900箇所の改良が施された「Firefox」v3.0 Beta 2 日本語版が公開
Firefox 3 次期βでパフォーマンス改善、ファイナルは2008 Q2が妥当か
Mozilla，次期ブラウザ「Firefox 3」のベータ2版を公開，安定性が向上
Firefox 3 Beta 2レビュー：これは便利！な「スマートブックマーク」
(This last review covered Smart Bookmarks.)
Emumozilla-san (of the Mozilla community in Japan) blogged the release.