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Written By: darien on January 28, 2010 3 Comments

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Written By: darien on January 23, 2010 One Comment
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Written By: darien on January 20, 2010 7 Comments

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Written By: darien on December 16, 2009 83 Comments

Things have been busy, and I haven’t had the attention capacity to blog much.  I just wanted to give a really brief update on what’s been going on at YongoPal over the last month, or so.

About a month ago Jon and I invited a friend of ours, Daron Hall, to join our team as [...]

Written By: darien on November 7, 2009 6 Comments

The other day, I met an entrepreneur who came into the office to meet with Support My Web about a new project he is building.  We ended up talking, and both of us shared the projects we are working on.

His background was very interesting to me.  In the late 90’s, he had raised several [...]

Written By: darien on September 26, 2009 One Comment
YongoPal screenshots!

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So we estimate that we’re about a month from launch as of right now. By next week all of the core functionality of the site will be completely in-place, after a small re-working, and we will be left with the task of debugging the site and fleshing it out with content.

In [...]

Written By: darien on September 9, 2009 2 Comments
Finally an update!  (It’s all coming together)

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Okay, so it’s been way too long since the last YongoPal update, so I should probably fill everyone in.  A lot has happened in the last couple of months, and it’s been a bit of a roller coaster.

Almost two months ago, the developer assigned to our project abruptly quit his job and [...]

Written By: darien on June 17, 2009 2 Comments

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Just wanted to write a really brief update. Yesterday, Jon and I met with our developers for the first time since they started coding a couple of weeks back. We weren’t expecting to see much, but they actually had a lot to show for two weeks of work. Everything’s [...]

Written By: darien on June 12, 2009 No Comment
Strategic partnerships: a rubric for determining compatibility


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Early last week, I was connected with the CEO of another company that offers online English lesson services to South Korean students. The company is based in the Philippines, and their angle is to provide inexpensive ESL services by leveraging Filipino English speakers as teachers and tutors — something not [...]

Written By: darien on May 23, 2009 40 Comments
Simplicity as a radical design concept; Korea loves clutter

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I found myself chatting with my brother today about something that I think is worth a mention here. Since the beginning, we have recognized that Koreans adhere to very different conventions of web design than we are used to here. The differences make themselves obvious if you compare

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