Korean Wedding Planning

 

New post on In Yeon - our wedding blog about our recent trip to Korea and some of the wedding planning details. I found it very interesting since I don't know anything about traditional Korean wedding or about wedding planning in general. 

Happy Lunar New Year!

Today is the Korean Lunar New Year so we posted about it over on our wedding blog. It is the year of the white tiger, which only comes around every 60 years. This is extremely good luck and we are so happy that we will be married this year. Feel free to post a comment about what good luck you expect in 2010.

http://www.roryandjamie.com/happy-korean-lunar-new-year/

Search Party: When Google Goes Social!

There is a lot of anticipation for Google's announcement tomorrow of some sort of social media service. Techmeme's money is on a Twitter-Killer type application that will integrate with the GChat interface, as eplained by The Business Insider. The Wall Street Journal pitts them against Facebook. And a good post at Scobleizer explains why Google could outdo all social networks, even the obscure ethnocentric ones that have a lot of innovative features.

But do we really need more? To be honest, I would be happier with some sort of social media integration into the Google search results. The world of search is shifting to the live-stream but isn't there also value in the reverse by allowing people to comment and share search results? Already we have social ranking and comment systems in Google search (see pic) and of course Digg, Stumbleupon and similar but could we not take it a bit further? What if comments made on the post/article could also be expanded into the Google search? I'm sure there are a million other great examples of how search can be improved by social media elements. I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

I personally don't need another social network. I have my big, public soap box platforms and a few niche hobbyist ones as well. Any more and I will start to explode. Whatever Google comes out with tomorrow, I will be interested and will try and hopefully it will integrate well with stuff I'm already doing. Maybe it will stick and add value to my life. I just don't think it will be killing Twitter or Facebook anytime soon.

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Meet the parents (Korean version)

Rory and I were recently in Korea to meet her parents, eat lots of strange foods and plan for our wedding in May. It was a great trip and we will be sharing the details over at our wedding blog. We've also uploaded all our photos. Check them out!

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