{"id":166,"date":"2007-05-01T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.4amexpat.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2010-11-25T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T04:07:59","slug":"2bangkok-com-turns-8-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.4amexpat.com\/2bangkok-com-turns-8-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"2Bangkok.com turns 8 years old."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.4amexpat.com\/uploaded_images\/8yearsof2B-786653.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.4amexpat.com\/uploaded_images\/8yearsof2B-786651.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);\">Congratulations<\/span> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.2bangkok.com\/\">2Bangkok.com<\/a>.  After<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> 8 years<\/span> of coding away, they have finally found themselves a the forefront of news gathering blogs in Thailand. They started back when <a href=\"http:\/\/corporate.sanook.com\/eng\/index.php\">mWeb<\/a> (still using blinking text guys?) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethailand.com\/\">eThailand.com<\/a> (nice front page SQL error) were throwing money around in the dot com bubble.  Hey 2Bangkok &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/snapshot.compete.com\/ethailand.com+2bangkok.com?metric=uv\">these stats<\/a> should serve as a bit of a reward for sticking with it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/angkor.com\/cityrain\/\">Ron Morris<\/a> writes: What is 2Bangkok.com? In 1999 we were called a &#8220;portal.&#8221; Today, doing the same thing, we are called a &#8220;blog.&#8221; I have <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">no doubt that in another few years time there will be a new category to place 2Bangkok.com in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">           What 2Bangkok does is to continue to focus on news you can&#8217;t find anywhere else&#8211;politics, Thai <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">mass transit, development,  and anything interesting in the Thai world.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>Keep up the good work guys&#8230; but can we expect <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RSS_%28file_format%29\">RSS feeds<\/a> anytime soon?<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to 2Bangkok.com. 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