From this acquisition, I just hope that Path won't turn into Kakao/LINE-like application, where they offer useless stickers, and try to look 'cute'.
I hope I don't ruin the joke by asking, is this a joke?
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#32It's good to know people still use Path. It sounded like a good app before mail/call spammed the shit out of almost everyone I knew.
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#33Anyone know what Daum Kakao does?
I've heard of KakaoTalk before; it's one of the most popular messaging applications in South Korea. According to Wikipedia it's used by 93% of smartphone owners in South Korea [1]. Daum Kakao is the parent company, and looks to have their fingers in a lot of generic web services pies. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KakaoTalk
Saying KakaoTalk is the most popular app in SK is a huge understatement. It's like mode of communication there, seeing the number of hours people spend on their phones.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dan, though I will continue to abide by your rules, I respectfully disagree with your choice here. Dave Morin is a public figure; I think the linked article is closer to appropriate satire than personal attack. Clarifying question: It wouldn't be appropriate to call a mocking of an individual socially marginal person a satire; but is it correct to label a satire a personal attack?
People don't cease to be persons when they become public figures.
So whose satire you allow? PG's? Obama's? Bill Gates'?
Where does that line start where you start allowing satire about people who are "public" enough?
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
People don't cease to be persons when they become public figures.
So whose satire you allow? PG's? Obama's? Bill Gates'? Where does that line start where you start allowing satire about people who are "public" enough?
I wouldn't call this satire in the first place. Part of what makes satire noble is that it isn't merely personal.
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#36The company has not been acquired, just the Path and Path Talk apps. I actually do not understand that part - what exactly does the company hope to do with Kong? How is the company supporting 40+ headcount now?
11 months ago, Path bought the TalkTo app and rebranded it to Path Talk: http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/20/path-talk-talkto/
TalkTo/Path Talk used human operators instead of advanced AI. So scaling such an app might be expensive in the long run. TalkTo's revenues were based on a "Premium" model, where users paid a small fee per month
Will the Path company pivot to another sector, as they sold both their main apps?
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've lived in Korea, my experience was you gave out phone numbers when meeting new people, KakaoTalk automatically scans new contacts and adds them to your KakaoTalk contacts and all subsequent texting and photo sharing was through KakaoTalk. I only texted one person regularly while I lived there, my boss; my boss had a KakaoTalk account but didn't use it (with me at least). I still use it, it's a very good messaging…
KakaoTalk is very well realized and really fun to use; the privacy side leaves me queasy, though. KakaoTalk conversations are known to be under government surveillance, and the KCSC is a troublesome institution in general (cf. http://opennetkorea.org/en/wp/administrative-censorship ).
Ever heard of NSA?
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#38S Korea had some surprising early social network services before myspace ( est 2003) or facebook (2004). Cyworld (est 1999) was very popular social network service until it stagnated to the point where it now has about 40 or so employees only. Afaik, pretty much anyone with a computer in S Korea had an account at one point. Btw, I'm not suggesting myspace or facebook were copycats at all.
I'm sure there's some other social network service that was launched before all of the above but just never got lucky enough to grow.
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#39Anyone know what Daum Kakao does?
I'm Korean so let me explain about the company. Daum KaKao is combined company of Daum communications & KaKao. Daum Communications is an internet company, mainly focused on internet portal service like Yahoo!. (It is second largest portal in Korea, the first is Naver) KaKao made a KaKaoTalk, which is dominant messaging app in South Korea. Naver, which is the number one internet company in Korea has both of internet p…
Very helpful. Thanks for the explanation.
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#40Anyone know what Daum Kakao does?
I'm Korean so let me explain about the company. Daum KaKao is combined company of Daum communications & KaKao. Daum Communications is an internet company, mainly focused on internet portal service like Yahoo!. (It is second largest portal in Korea, the first is Naver) KaKao made a KaKaoTalk, which is dominant messaging app in South Korea. Naver, which is the number one internet company in Korea has both of internet p…
LINE is also the main app in Thailand.
How come KaKaoTalk is dominant in Korea when Naver (LINE) is the bigger company? If you know.