Google Korea buys Korean version of Wordpress!

Google Korea buys TnC, a blogging software company who has been making blogging software similar to Wordpress. (Basically a Korean version of Wordpress).  I have personally tried their software and it is not bad to say the least.

Just like Google bought Blogspot, this might be a sign that blogging in Korea has just started.  As far as I know, South Koreans has a long history of community blogging, they have yet to develop as commercial blogs.  (Perhaps they are a little behind in that arena but don’t be fooled, South Koreans have their own “Wordpress” per-say and that’s just only one of the companies making a blog software.

Wordpress still leads and will keep leading the world’s blogging software platform but great buys like this will allow Google to re-create their own Wordpress market, starting with a beta test in South Korea. (I think they are testing the grounds before doing something similar in the U.S.)

I think this is a good move on Google’s part as their advertising network of Adsense and AdWords truly go hand-in-hand with blogging.

Even better than Google’s Blogspot deal, this TnC deal will be taking over the actual open-source blogging platform, not a website.

via mashable

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Tags: adsense, advertising network, beta test, blogging software, blogs, google, korean version, Open Source, software company, software platform, south korea, south koreans, wordpress

This entry was posted on Friday, September 12th, 2008 at 5:27 pm and is filed under Blogging, google, web2.0.
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