Web 2.0 Asia

Great Blog! I am ET (my initials)and I lived in Japan (Fukuoka, and Okayama) for about 5.5 years and am now living in Honolulu, Hawaii. I travel to Japan about twice a year to visit my in-laws and love to keep my finger on the pulse of Japan and Asia in general. Keep up the good work!!

ET

Hi, Chang Won. Glad you dropped by. And I have just found the good news. Wedding blogs! That's extra cool. You two have my sincerest congratulations!!!

It was a pleasure meeting you at NILS. By the way, your description of my company finishes in an open-ended manner as the last sentence for some reason is not complete.

Personally, I enjoyed meeting the fellow VCs and entrepreneurs from Japan at NILS. I have found them open and engaging despite that I speak very little Japanese. In fact, they invited me over for a night out in downtown Sapporo where we ate very good seafood followed by a visit to a local karaoke bar with some nice booze to keep our spirit high.

Most of them spoke some level of English and were able to communicate resonably well, although from time to time, I had to rely on the translator for more clear understanding.

See some great opportunities in Japan for Pandora.tv.

Have asked my guys to check your service and if they find it
interesting, Will have someone in my office be in touch with you.

Regardless, let's keep in touch.

Michael

Thank you Oliver.

Chang, Oliver's description is 100% accurate. We're looking for a consultant to help open up the Asian market. Would you be interested in talking further?

Sincerely,

Sam Wick
Head of Business Development
±userplane, an AOL Company
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1351 Fourth Street., Suite 200
Santa Monica, CA 90401
www.userplane.com

From: Tele Dextrous [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 5:07 PM
To: "Chang W. Kim"-1.intermedia.net; Sam Wick
Subject: Introductions

Chang,

I wanted to take a moment to introduce you to Sam Wick of Userplane. Chang, Sam is head of Business Development at Userplane. They are interested in expansion outside the US into Asia and Europe and he asked me whom I knew in Asia that had their finger on the pulse of the social networking and web2.0 scene in the east and you immediately came to mind.

I don't know what you are up to these days or how busy you are but I thought I would at least open the door for you and Sam to begin a dialog. I don't need to be in the way, but I am certainly happy to lend a hand in whatever capacity it become clear I can be of value.

If either of you have any questions or problems or for some reason have trouble connecting, please let me know and I will see what I can do to help facilitate interaction and forward progress.

Sincere Regards,

Oliver Starr, SVP Biz Dev, Foldera Corp
Senior Analyst, Mobile; Guidewire Group
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Great site. Interesting tools used on the blog. Impressive in fact. May I invite you to join the Asia Social Media 2.0 network on Ning (http://asiamedia.ning.com/)? Would be truly honored if you do. Need especially someone like you who focuses on Web 2.0 in Korea and Japan. We currently have 16 members: 5 from Singapore, 3 China, 2 Malaysia, 1 Japan, 1 Korea, 1 Cambodia, 1 Filipino, 1 Indonesia, 1 Thai. Two are actually top 10 bloggers in their countries, according to Technorati stats.

nice site

I came across your blog while browsing some web2 stories. Very well written and organized I must say. I'm interested in getting your perspective on the industry's adoption of Web 2.0 Services and the ties into hardware devices (consumer as well as enterprise).

Hi,

I'm a journalist for a magazine called Digital Media. We cover digital marketing in Asia. I'm working on a story about Samsung's Uberme, and I would like to interview you for it. Could youplease contact me? My email is

Many thanks,
Hamish McKenzie

hi. is there a possibility to get in contact with you. i wanted to invite you to speak at a conference on web 2.0. my email address is . best, frank

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