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.