By Rubina S.
ROME, Oct 7 - He wakes up to the sound of his phone ringing, thinking it's the sound of the morning alarm.
Wrong.
It is 3 a.m. when he receives an
SMS alarming him that 'Server 1' had just crashed.
Chung Guk Kim is a John Cabot
University student by day and an entrepreneur by night. After two years
of a multimedia design course and a 500-euro start-up investment from
his elder brother, Kim now owns four websites: Dundoo.com, Contactbles.com,
OnlineFlashGames.us and MyWackoSpace.com.
"MyWackoSpace.com is my masterpiece...so
far", Kim says. It's a MySpace editing site with over 20 million
page views per month, an astonishing number for a one-year-old site.
Kim is not done yet. In fact, this is only the beginning.
According to the Korean-born
19 year-old, there is a distinct disadvantage operating fledgling dot-com operations out of Rome because, he says, here "the
Internet is still in medieval times." For this reason, he hires
programmers from Ukraine, Slovenia, Scotland, India and the U.S.
Kim's latest work is a Facebook
application called PIC (pictured here) - Photo/Icon Collage, which launched last week. (Check it out here.) This application is a replica of what Dundoo offers
- the ability to upload photos and icons (in this case, images from
Facebook's albums) and place them in a collage. PIC has many competitors,
but Kim is determined that within a few months, the number of users
should place it in the Top 25 Facebook Application Directory.
There are a number of applications that enable users to insert photo grids into their Facebook profiles, but none of them are quite the same as PIC, Kim assures. Kim's application allows users to choose images that they want, whereas other applications select images at random. More unique features include: border size on each image, and border color and spacing between images.
The young entrepreneur is already beginning to work on two more websites, which he hopes to launch by early 2008. What those websites are, he won't say. You will have to wait and see.
Just as Kim was about to get out of bed to fix the server problem, he miraculously receives another SMS saying that 'Server 1' is up and running again. He sighs with relief and goes back to bed, dreading the idea of having to wake up soon for a 9 a.m. class.
Ty man . I was wandering about some of the things you presented in your blog . The fact that I see them in the big pictures help a lot .
Posted by: Raduu | September 14, 2008 at 08:40 PM