Quora is a Q&A site that has been gaining popularity recently. The site is founded by Adam D’Angelo, former CTO of Facebook and Charlie Cheever. Quora’s been noted for high quality answers and a user base that includes many power players in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. Have a question about Twitter? Well, Evan Williams might… Continue Reading

While Twitter has gotten the vast majority of the media hype and mindshare in Korea, Facebook is quietly beginning to claim its position in the market. In June of 2010, Mark Zuckerberg hinted there were around a million Facebook users in Korea. An article at GreyReview claims Facebook had around 1.45 million Korean users in… Continue Reading

Recently, we covered Kakao Talk as the must have smartphone app in the Korean market. They’ve grown tremendously since they launched their product a mere 9 months ago and now, they’re expanding. In the job posting listed on their official blog, Kakao states they have reached over 4 million users since launch. While the iPhone… Continue Reading

Twitter has gained enormous popularity in South Korea but one homegrown challenger named me2day has managed to hold its own. me2day was purchased by Naver, the top portal in South Korea and has been growing like gangbusters ever since. In March of this year, me2day announced surpassing 1 million registered users. When I ran into… Continue Reading

There is probably one “must have” iPhone app in Korea and that app is Kakao Talk. Available for both iPhone and Android, Kakao Talk allows users to send and receive messages, photos and videos in place of SMS and MMS messages. There are numerous competitors in this field but Kakao has clearly risen to the… Continue Reading