Hey readers, it always makes me sad to admit that I can no longer to post a self-defined thoroughly review of the Web startups that I came across due to my heavy workload. I’ve some Web projects that fall behind schedule, and I need more time to focus on fighting with Python and Perl scripting languages. Sorry!

The number of emerging startups are huge, not to mention the sites coming from China, Japan, Israel, India, and Southeast Asia. I guess it’s about time to go for a change of direction of TagEdge. From this moment on, TagEdge will be a Web 2.0 resource, and all the Web 2.0 sites to be profiled here are short, and tend to be link-oriented or link centric. Hopefully you’ll read less, and spend more time go to the sites and play around with the sites. Unless the sites are based in China or Japan (in Mandarin or Japanese), then I’ll explain more on the post.

In my understanding, write less is more difficult to write more, or long sentences, especially for a Chinese educated guy like me. Friends that close to me knew that I only learn English when I went back to college and earned my first degree few years ago.

This will be the transition of TagEdge, as well as myself. This year 2008 in general has been a very, very difficult year for me. And here, I personally apologize to you all for the change of the post style.

Dear Readers,

February 7 is the New Year day for all the Chinese worldwide. I hereby wish you & your family a Happy and Prosperous New Year. Gong Xi! Gong Xi!

Best Wishes,

Kenny Lee

TagEdge’s hosting provider Media Temple is undergoing a hardware upgrade on Saturday, December 8, 2007 between 10:30PM and 12:00AM PST (one-and-a-half hour). During this time, access to TagEdge might not be available.

Any inconvenient caused is much regretted.

I just found the recent TagEdge’s posts have been copied without proper attribution, as shown in the below. While I worked as a Program Coordinator for some postgraduate programs some times ago, for this kind of behavior, it is a serious plagiarism and it’s more than enough for a Business School to take action on a student. However, now I serve as an author for TagEdge, I can’t do much about it.

TechCrunch, a blog that I respect and religiously read every day, among some several other technology blogs, has posted a post pertaining to this issue. They called it spam blogs, or splogs, that indiscriminately take entire posts from other blogs and present them as their own.

Take a look on the below picture, they even don’t mention from which Website they syndicated my content and the images, neither with my TagEdge’s links on there nor any acknowledgement of the source of the posts. The only difference is the actual date of the posts that I posted in comparison to this splog.

I rather enjoy reading a blog that I find the mastery of language of the author was poor but the content was originally written by the author herself (since my English grammar also not good). However, I definitely will not visit this kind of splogs.

For those who have experienced difficulty in accessing this technology blog some hours ago, I am very sorry. TagEdge currently is hosted on the Media Temple Grid Server, and there was a very important data center maintenance from November 30th 2007 9:30 PM to December 1st 3:00AM which affected customers, including TagEdge that hosted on Cluster.1. I should post an announcement to all of you in prior to this maintenance.

Sorry for any inconvenient caused.

Today TagEdge.com is one year old. I moved all my content from kennylee.wordpress.com to TagEdge on November 20, 2006. Over the last year, many things happened to me. This technology blog has seen me through unemployed times, working as a freelance Web designer, and then a shift to Web programming as well as worked with a team provide IT consultation. When I started it last year (few days after my birthday, I am very sure of this), I thought of writing the reviews of some good startups from South-East Asian countries, but now the startups that I covered in this blog almost all the regions except Latin America. Sorry about the shift of the focus.

In fact, I really enjoyed writing about the Internet startups that I came across everyday. There are many startups, new things happened everyday, and one thing that I know is I don’t have enough time to post all the reviews of such startups, as TagEdge still considered as my part-time gig. From now on, I hope to increase the volume of my postings and am looking forward to another year or more of technology postings.

Anyway, thanks for reading, whether you are with me for exactly one year, or just a couple of days.

If you notice the sidebar, there’s a feedcount on this blog as TagEdge is using FeedBurner to power the RSS feed. What is RSS? RSS is an XML based format for syndicating Web content and being widely used on the news provider sites and blogging engines. I knew some of the readers that frequently visit this blog have subscribed to TagEdge RSS, and I’m still waiting for FeedBurner to fetch the latest number of my readers. Click on the feedcount will bring you to my TagEdge RSS and you can subscribe to this blog through some RSS newsreader software packages.

By the way, I really appreciate that you subscribed to this blog whether I had FeedBurner or not. Thank you.

Today it’s exactly one year since I started blogging on the Web. If you read my archive posts, I started my blogging journey by using kennylee.wordpress.com, and move all the posts on that site to TagEdge.com on November 20. Thus, the first anniversary of this blog will fall on November 20, and not today.

In fact, I’m very happy that today marks a one-year of my blogging adventure. Writing the review on new startup is not easy and managing a blog is even more difficult but it is often a great deal of fun. Month after month I saw the traffic of this blog grow. I also received a lot of emails, and sorry if I didn’t cover the startup that you mentioned in the email. Moreover, my resources on the new startups are growing and now I’m tracking more than 2,000 startups every week. Most important, my emotions are ebullient everyday.

Finally, thank you. I am grateful to each one of you that read this blog.