KoreaCrunch

Recently Google Korea firstly acquired TNC, the famous blog service developing company that has made Textcube (a.k.a Tattertools) similar with Wordpress case. It became buzz in a flash by many famous blogs such as Techcrunch, GigaOM, NY Times, VentureBeat, InformationWeek, The Inquisitr, Epicenter, p2pnet,  Portfolio, WebProNews, AppScout, Webware.com, Valleywag and Pulse 2.0. They have developed Tattertools as an open source software under GPL and developed and sold Tistory.com to Daum - now Tistory became one of top 20 properties in Korea. Before this acquisition, TNC are preparing Textcube.com resembling Wordpress.com. Surely its success is based on philosophy of open and ...

Tistory.com was recently launched open beta services of the customizable blog by Daum with local venture start-up Tatter & Company. Tistory is drawing keen attention as the new breed is useful in making blog-specific full-featured applications with customizing theme, free storage and free video service. Also it allows to change other domain name of users and It's almost same of Wordpress.com model of Automattic in US. Since pilot runs of the flexible blogs of Daum began late last year, roughly 7,000 users applied to subscribe to the services a week on average and the total now amounts to 40,000. Tistory won’t overwhelm ...

Softbank Ventures invests $0.15M to Tatter and Company owned Tattertools. It's the most popular blogging tool in Korea. It was released by open source and made content delivery service called Eolin.com. Also Tistory.com was opened by closed beta service with Daum. It is free hosting service using Tattertools as like wordpress.com. It was good example of collaboration between large company and start-up. Mr. Changwon Kim, an editor of Web2.0 Asia joined this company as CEO. Good Luck!

Eolin was reopened on Sep. 28th. It was closed to change new syndication platform in spring, this year. Eolin was designed for gathering from Tattertools's users. But, there were many spam posts from others. So they made intelligent filtering system against spam posts and stabilized syndication platform. It has 1.2 million normal posts from Tattertools. Eolin prepares to make a publishing APIs for other search engines. And it plans to accept articles from other tools such as wordpress as well tattertools. It will be automatic (machine) based syndication tools for bloggers.

Tistory starts closed beta services. It is blog hosting services with strategic partnership between Tattertools, a famous blog software written PHP and Daum Comminications, the largest internet portal in Korea. It's similar with MovableType on Yahoo! Web Hosting. Yahoo! also offers hosting service of WordPress. But, there is a different thing compared with Yahoo!. Tistory is free for all bloggers and offers unlimited storage for photo and video. (But, it limits 100 MB video size in time to upload it. If you upload mpeg file, there is no limit to below 100MB size.) So Tistory resembles a free blog service, WordPress.com. ...

The famous korean blogging tool, Tattertools decided to go to open source. Mr. Noh, Jungseok, CEO of Tatter&Company announced GPL Lincense of Tattertools ver. 1.0.3. Tattertools has many 3rd party contributor such as developing plugin and producing theme(skin). He commented the company doesn't have any plan to make a money for selling blog tool and wants to make a platform to brand themselves of each bloggers. This is very simlar with Wordpress.org and Automattic. In fact, this project was originated by one person and there have been many contributing users to develope it. Many korean developers are very glad to ...

The Eolin is the blog syndication service from users of Tattertools. The Tattertools offers functions of sync to Eolin whenever a blogger writes his article. A Sync includes 1) article title and permalink, 2) general tag, 3) location tag. A user of tattertools gets attention from visitors of Eolin by using sync function. Eolin will be opened all of syndication site and search engine via XML-RPC.

The Tattertools is blog management tool as like WordPress. Tatter means knitting with thread and needle and it's similar to make a blog with entry and tag. (Of course mainly it means cloth pieces) It has been developed by Mr. Jaehoon Jung from March 2004 based on LAMP(Apache+MySQL+PHP). The latest version is 0.96 as a personal package. It supports very simple theme and plugin system. Theme is only one html file, so many web designers can make it easily and share it from tattertool's user community. So there are many users over 20,000 blogs. In September 2005, ...