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In spite of how wired Korea is, Kim added that there is indeed a place for Google. “I think the Korean web industry needs a player that can, as a balancing force, provide more options to the users and help create a more open web,” he wrote.

No price has been named, but Google has made a new purchase: the Korea-based blog platform TNC, co-founder Chang Kim wrote on his blog Thursday.

TNC, founded in 2004 by Kim and Chester Roh, has created a blog software product called Textcube. An earlier TNC platform, Tistory, was sold to Korean portal Daum.

Google already owns a blogging platform, Blogger, which it purchased in 2003. From a technological standpoint, it’s not immediately clear why the company would want another one–although Kim likened his company to Blogger rival WordPress (and its parent company Automattic), the favorite of the open-source community, which could give a hint one way or the other. But more concretely, Kim wrote that this acquisition is in part to help Google get a bigger foothold in Korea.

People are more likely to abandon landing pages that load slowly, Google explained in its Inside AdWords blog.

I want to emphasize that I agree with the Google statement that people abandon pages that load too slowly.

Companies advertising on Google’s AdWords system better fine-tune their ad landing pages.

The funny thing is the entire demo could have been a complete hoax. We never saw the service in action–just a video of it placed in the gadget-saturated Akihabara district of Tokyo. It identified things like restaurants, local shops, and even products with links to user reviews, ratings, and of course buying options.

Things we still don’t know about the technology include:

-Who will be serving the advertisements attached to local shops and products

-If it’s limited to the iPhone or any device with a camera, GPS, and a fat data pipe

-What happens when things change in local areas, since the visual tags are based partially on things the technology recognizes

-When this would be available as something you’d get in the iPhone apps store

If the technology is working, objects on the touch screen get tagged in near real time. Users can then interact with those objects, making use of their handsets’ interface. In this case it was the
iPhone, so users could manage what they’re seeing into ordered lists and candy-colored floating tags that moved as they moved.

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One of the coolest things to be shown off at the TechCrunch50 conference might not ever become something any of us can use. It was a mythical technology demo from a company called Tonchidot Corporation, which showed off its “Sekai Camera” application. It uses both the camera on your phone and GPS to offer up a near real-time tag of what you’re looking at.

AT&T also announced it would add a new faster tier of service with 10Mbps downloads and 1.5Mbps uploads to its U-verse customers. U-verse is the newly upgraded network that AT&T is building to deliver TV and broadband over the same Internet connection to the home. Bundled with U-verse TV, the new, faster broadband service costs $55 a month. These subscribers also qualify to receive free Wi-Fi access.

AT&T’s move could be seen as a way to entice subscribers to bundle cell phone service with their broadband service. But it might also be an attempt to compete with other cellular providers like T-Mobile, which offers subscribers access to its more than 8,000 Wi-Fi hot spots. T-Mobile also has a service that allows its customers the ability to switch between Wi-Fi and the cell phone network while they are at home.

This means that users of the
iPhone, which has Wi-Fi built in and is exclusively sold in the U.S. for AT&T’s network, will only be able to take advantage of the free Wi-Fi offer if they happen to live in a part of the country where AT&T broadband is offered and if they subscribe to that service.

Free Wi-Fi will be offered only to AT&T broadband subscribers who subscribe to services with 1.5Mbps downloads or higher. Subscribers who only have the company’s wireless service will not be offered free Wi-Fi.

AT&T has more than 10,000 Wi-Fi hot spots in the U.S. in places like airports, McDonald’s restaurants, Barnes & Noble bookstores, coffee shops, and sporting venues. The carrier has been offering free Wi-Fi access to its higher-speed broadband customers since last year.

As a follow-up to my recent post on the WEF’s Global Competitiveness Report, I wanted to share what my colleagues at frog design, a global innovation firm, think. When we heard about a so-called innovation gap, we asked all four of our US studios what they thought. In one hour more than 50 “frogs” responded. Here’s our crowdsourced blitz survey response to the current innovation gap debate.

Read why chairs are the biggest barrier to innovation in the Fortune 500 and more.

Despite an over-abundance of media coverage about the importance of innovation in recent years, it seems the business media may not have gotten its point across. Instead of hailing innovation as The Next Big Thing, journalists and book authors now wonder if there’s an Innovation Gap in U.S. business. The September 22nd issue of BusinessWeek, “Keeping America Competitive,” is coupled with online articles like “Firing Up America’s Idea Economy” and “Can America Invent Its Way Back?.” Judy Estrin also examines flagging innovation culture in her new book, “Closing the Innovation Gap.”

I had never seen an operation like this before, which surprises me. I heard afterward that this is something that’s popular on river-rafting routes, but I’d not seen it on popular highways. And being from the San Francisco Bay Area, which is of course close to the Pacific Coast Highway, that surprised me.

And how?

This is definitely a business based on direct-mail type of response. After all, there is a steady stream of traffic, and there’s a lot of competition. Yet Cannon said he’s been doing this since 2003, so I guess he sells enough $6 CDs of digital images–as well as more expensive coffee mugs, prints, and other manifestations of peoples’ ride along the famous road–to make it worth his while.

As a result, people like Darryl Cannon of Killboy.com have proliferated. They park their cars at strategic curves in the road where they can shoot pictures of drivers coming from either direction, and then they sell the drivers–at least some of them–the pictures.

“It would be better if they wouldn’t,” he said, ever the photographer.

That’s what Cannon, his wife, and a couple of friends are doing. Full time, he said.

After he and his team finish taking their pictures–he uses a Canon 40D and has “whole pockets of” 4GB compact flash cards–they go home and laboriously sort them and post them. They organize them by date, and then by category: “Cars-Trucks,” “Motards-Dirtbikes-Trikes-Scooters-Sidecars,” “Touring Bikes,” etc.

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Cannon and others park themselves at strategic curves along the famously windy road to best capture drivers coming from either direction. They will also position a vehicle with a URL on its side so drivers can see where they can go to find their picture.

Known as “The Dragon,” the road is a longtime favorite, especially among motorcyclists, and hundreds, if not thousands, of people navigate its windy curves every day.

But it’s the extreme popularity of this stretch of US-129 with motorcyclists that makes Cannon’s business possible. These are riders who travel great distances to make their way through the Dragon, and enough of them seem to like the idea of buying a picture of themselves doing so to create a business. I suspect the same is true in other parts of the country that bikers frequent.

He said he works about 100 hours a week.

I stopped at one of the curves along the way to talk with him about what he was doing and why.

Darryl Cannon of Killboy.com takes thousands of pictures daily of drivers and motorcyclists on U.S. Route 129 on the Tennessee/North Carolina border. The road is popular, especially with motorcyclists, and Cannon and others in his company make full-time livings selling the images they take. At least three other operations do the same thing in the area.

Cannon said that plenty of people do that, some just to say hi.

He said that he routinely shoots thousands of pictures a day and sometimes, if there’s a motorcycle rally in the area, can take as many as 17,000 in one shift.

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FONTANA VILLAGE, N.C.–If you’ve got a fancy digital SLR and have been wondering how you could make money with it, I might have just the suggestion for you.

Cannon says that every day he sets up in a different place, something that’s not hard, given that this stretch of road has seemingly thousands of tight curves offering the kind of two-way vantage point he needs. He’s looking for good lighting and good background, so that he “might get a tight shot, but still get some of the background.”

For me, when I find myself being photographed without my consent, I usually make a gesture that I hope will render the picture worthless. It’s not what you think. And I guess I’m not the only one who does things with his hands.

At first, as I drove along this stretch of highway as part of Road Trip 2008, I was confused as to what was going on. But after seeing two such vehicles at corners, each of which had a URL emblazoned on the side, I figured it out: the photographers were taking pictures of the riders and drivers, and then later posting them online, hoping that people will visit their sites, see pictures of themselves on the famous road, and decide to fork over a few bucks for a high-res image.

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Video game maker Take-Two Interactive Software announced better-than-expected earnings on Thursday thanks to recording-setting sales of Grand Theft Auto IV.

Take-Two said it expects to earn 45 cents to 55 cents per share, excluding special items, on revenue of between $325 million and $375 million in its current, third fiscal quarter.

The company, which has rejected a $2 billion buyout offer from rival game maker Electronic Arts, is also having ”
formal discussions” with other parties about strategic alternatives, Chief Executive Ben Feder told Reuters.

For the second quarter ended April 30, net profit was $98.2 million, or $1.29 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $51.3 million, or 71 cents per share, in the second quarter of fiscal 2007. Sales were up more than 160 percent to $539.8 million for the period, blowing away analyst estimates of $499.1 million.

In May, Take-Two announced that the new game had raked in all-time records of $310 million on its launch day of April 29 and $500 million during its first week. The single-day figure shattered the previous record, set last September by Halo 3, of $170 million.

EA, which offered $25.74 a share for Take-Two in April, is undaunted in its takeover bid. The company recently announced another extension of its merger offer.

“The board remains committed to exploring strategic alternatives and we’re actively engaged in that process now,” Feder said. “We have had and are having formal discussions with a number of interested parties.”

Shares of Take-Two were up 34 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $27.65 in after-hours trading.