Hojun Song thinks kids will soon ask their parents to offer them satellites, and that an open source initiative could make it more affordable and realistic than you think. He is an artist and dreamer, and he might very well achieve his goal as early as next year, sending a satellite collecting data from the cosmos and transforming it into information artists could use back on earth. He will be speaking at Lift Asia in the "Networked objects, from wifi rabbits to ubiquitous cities" session alongside Rafi Haladjian, Adrian David Cheok and Julian Bleecker.

Jake Song - a superstar yet down to earth and open Korean programmer - shared his long experience of building online worlds, first in 2D (Lineage, Ultima Online) then in 3D (Lineage 2, World of Warcraft). His talk resembled a how-to build the perfect virtual world, and my favorite slide was the one that said "try to build a weird enough world so users feel like they are somewhere else, but simple enough that people can still use common sense".

Interview of Ida Daussy, a french woman TV star in Korea. A few words about her history in Korea, her career and her opinion about the country.

Interview of Rafi Haladjian, the father of the RfiD Rabbit "Nabaztag" French version.

Olivier Mouroux, co-fondateur de Asiance.com, une agence "facilitatrice" pour vous établir en Corée et en Asie. C'est également une agence de pub digitale bien établie ici. Présence à Lift et comment s'installer ici en Corée sont les principaux thèmes de cette interview.

As Web entrepreneur (from Infonet Digital Company), Richard explains why he attended this Lift Asia 2009 conference. He also gives us some tips for successful business in Korea.

Why you should come to the Lift Asia Conference? Few words and answers of Jean-Henry, reasons to come to Lift Asia Conference...

We have many new partners this year (I'll write a roundup soon) and one of them is Hong Kong based Charged magazine who contacted us following Lift Asia. Charged shares our focus on people, calling themselves "a celebration of creativity in the mobile age [...] about the people, companies and ideas behind the profound social changes of the mobile revolution. Charged is not about the technology, the devices, the networks, or the carriers. It’s about the way we live."

We have a two page ad in the ninth issue that is visible online free here! We are really happy to see more and more journalists joining the conference from around the world! After Nepal yesterday Hong Kong today, living in internet time is sometimes fascinating :)

Check Lift09's current partners, and contact us to support the conference! We offer great possibilities starting at 5'000chf for the supporter package which consists in 2 super tickets (or 3 normal tickets) and visibility on this site for your brand!

After a lot of travel which resulted in slow blogging I have some important news regarding LIFT Asia. We have a location, a theme, a format, and partners!

^{Picture from a recent trip to Jeju University}

• JEJU
it will be Jeju. We decided to hold the conference on the island because it is really the most beautiful place there is (you will like the view on the pacific from the rest area, breath taking). It is one hour from Seoul - so we will ask you to travel a bit more - but it is worth it.

• BEYOND BORING BROWSERS
We want to have a main theme for the event, and we want to ask a simple question: what happens beyond the browser? Where will the next revolutions come from? Robots? Mobile? Ubiquitous computing? Virtual worlds? We will explore many of these fields with diverse points of views from all over the world, with a focus on Asian speakers of course. Robert Scoble, Jan Chipchase and Dan Dubno have already saved the dates and will be with us.

• FORMAT
We pushed the date one day (4-6 instead of 3-5 of Sept.) because we want to use less week-days and facilitate the life of those who will have to take some time off to attend. We will have seven sessions, an open afternoon (dedicated to workshops, discussions, demos, etc...), two evenings and time for cultural activities as there are tons of things to see on the island.

• PARTNERS
We already have five partners! The Jeju University, Jeju Knowledge Industry Promotion Agency, Daum of course, and the geneva based WattWatt and Alptic who will travel to the other side of the world with us to make the conference happen.

After a lot of travel which resulted in slow blogging I have some important news regarding LIFT Asia. We have a location, a theme, a format, and partners!

^{Picture from a recent trip to Jeju University}

• JEJU
it will be Jeju. We decided to hold the conference on the island because it is really the most beautiful place there is (you will like the view on the pacific from the rest area, breath taking). It is one hour from Seoul - so we will ask you to travel a bit more - but it is worth it.

• BEYOND BORING BROWSERS
We want to have a main theme for the event, and we want to ask a simple question: what happens beyond the browser? Where will the next revolutions come from? Robots? Mobile? Ubiquitous computing? Virtual worlds? We will explore many of these fields with diverse points of views from all over the world, with a focus on Asian speakers of course. Robert Scoble, Jan Chipchase and Dan Dubno have already saved the dates and will be with us.

• FORMAT
We pushed the date one day (4-6 instead of 3-5 of Sept.) because we want to use less week-days and facilitate the life of those who will have to take some time off to attend. We will have seven sessions, an open afternoon (dedicated to workshops, discussions, demos, etc...), two evenings and time for cultural activities as there are tons of things to see on the island.

• PARTNERS
We already have five partners! The Jeju University, Jeju Knowledge Industry Promotion Agency, Daum of course, and the geneva based WattWatt and Alptic who will travel to the other side of the world with us to make the conference happen.