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Thursday, July 20, 2006

GOOGLE'S UNKNOWN ARTIST... DENNIS HWANG

Our friend, Dennis, gets some pub on CNN:

Google's unknown artist has huge following
Dennis Hwang may be the most famous unknown artist in the world -- his work doesn't hang in galleries or museums, but it's been viewed hundreds of millions of times.

I wouldn't say Dennis isn't so unknown. I heard he has a cult following in South Korea :)

posted by Bernard @ 12:54 PM

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

"NBA TRADE VALUE INDEX"

If you love basketball, you gotta read this. Bill Simmons writes another classic piece for his column at ESPN. One of the several great lines in the article:

"Instead, they overpaid for Wallace and gave away Chandler for a washed-up P.J. Brown and a draft bust that New Orleans was trying to dump? I don't get it. This is like Paramount Pictures signing William H. Macy to a four-picture, $60 million deal -- sure, he's a great actor, but that doesn't mean you pay him like a superstar."

posted by Bernard @ 8:55 AM

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Monday, July 17, 2006

A FEW MORE GOOD LINKS

My good friend's brother, Louis Hau, became a media beat reporter for Forbes. I met Lou several years ago when he was the Dow Jones bureau chief in Seoul. Great guy. Here is his first article for Forbes, "Dan Rather Has Left The Building"

A couple really old post from Tom Evslin. I like almost everything he blogs about, so I should just repost all his posts here :)

"You Always Bet the Company"

"Iraq: Plan B"

posted by Bernard @ 11:27 PM

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CATCHING UP... OLDIES BUT GOODIES

Just putting up links of interest that I bookmarked over the last few weeks of non-blogging.

SixApart's Anil Dash has a good post here, "Making Something Meaningful"

Andrew Keen's interview of Tony Perkins.

"Consumer-Product Blogs Spark a Web Empire"

From The NY Times, "Growing Wikipedia Refines Its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy"

From Claudia Rosett, "Zarqawi Death is an Important U.S. Victory"

South, Film, Politics... "Deadly Politics on Film"

"Web 2.0's numbskull factor"

"Enterprise 2.0"

posted by Bernard @ 11:17 PM

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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

NHN LAUNCHES U.S. ONLINE GAMING SITE

On July 7th, NHN Corp, which is the leading casual online gaming company in the world, launched its U.S. presence with its ijji.com site, but today was my first visit. NHN and its Hangame division were always one of the few South Korean video game companies I thought had the elements to be successful in the U.S. and elsewhere outside of Asia, so it will be interesting to see how they do and if my intuition was correct.

I also blogged about NHN Corp a while back ("WHY IS GOOGLE GETTING WHIPPED IN SOUTH KOREA BY NHN?") on their history and other business, which is a search portal and technology site that is dominating the South Korean market. This was spurred on by a BusinessWeek article that you can check out here. Just to let you know NHN was my client when I worked at a Hong Kong-based boutique investment bank several years ago.

Anyway, check out ijji.com and let me know what you think. I heard they will come out of beta in a couple months.

posted by Bernard @ 2:56 AM

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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

IT'S ALIVE! ALIVE!

I don't believe I haven't blogged at my Blogger blog in three weeks. I've been just swamped with work as most of you know, and Christine and I have been busy with a recent move into the burbs.  Two weeks ago we moved out of San Francisco and down into Palo Alto. We're still unpacking boxes since last week we were on a family trip with my parents and younger brother and his family.

Now we'll save about 2 hours each day since we don't have to do the long commute from SF down to Mountain View for Christine and Palo Alto for myself. Anyway, sorry for not keeping up with this blog. Hopefully I can regain my readership over the next few weeks.

(posted this over at my GoingOn blog by using its one-to-many publishing feature)

posted by Bernard @ 9:32 AM

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