Outblaze CEO and founder Yat Siu describes his Hong Kong-based (but global) Internet company

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Outblaze CEO and founder Yat Siu describes his Hong Kong-based (but global) Internet company

By thomascrampton ⋅ February 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

It is hard to fit the sprawling Outblaze empire into one sentence (or YouTube video), so here’s two videos and a few sentences to describe the company founded in Hong Kong by Yat Siu.

Starting life in 1998 as an email service provider for ISPs around the world (Currently 40 million users), Outblaze has branched out into everything from hosting the Sanriotown online community, the Hello Kitty MMORPG to redoing cartoons from Turner’s Cartoon network into 3D versions (see video on Dream Cortex below). In between that, they are involved in the FON wifi network, the Activ8 Worldwide online ad company and Typhoon games. (I am sure I have forgotten other key companies!)

Beyond their dayjob on the Internet, Outblaze and Yat have led advocacy on a number of online and offline causes, including the fight against Spam, Creative Commons, Open Source and generally supporting free expression on the Internet. More here.

Thanks for the tour of the company, Yat!