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 site 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.