Mister Wong was one of the largest
Europe
Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia ...
an free
social bookmarking
Social bookmarking is an online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents. Many online bookmark management services have launched since 1996; Delicious, founded in 2003, popularized the terms "social ...
web services.
History
The website was a German
startup, established in 2006 by Kai Tietjen.
["Creating Buzz (Without Hate Mail)", Newsweek, October 27, 2007](_blank)
/ref> The service ceased operation after being sold for €2500 in October 2016.
The service was available in German, English, Russian, Chinese, Spanish and French.
Origin of name
The website extols its users to "Wong the Web!", a reference to the practice of Wonging, often employed by card counters
Card counting is a blackjack strategy used to determine whether the player or the dealer has an advantage on the next hand. Card counters are advantage players who try to overcome the casino house edge by keeping a running count of high and l ...
in Blackjack
Blackjack (formerly Black Jack and Vingt-Un) is a casino banking game. The most widely played casino banking game in the world, it uses decks of 52 cards and descends from a global family of casino banking games known as Twenty-One. This fami ...
.
Controversy
Mister Wong's original logo, depicting a "cartoonish, nerdy East Asian man", brought on protests from many Asian-Americans
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of such immigrants). Although this term had historically been used for all the indigenous peopl ...
. The website's creator subsequently issued an apology and removed the logo.A Message from the Founder, Kai Tietjen, July, 27 2007
{{webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100607112123/http://blog.mister-wong.com/a-message-from-the-founder/2007/07/27 , date=2010-06-07
See also
*
Delicious
Notes
Social bookmarking websites
German social networking websites
Internet properties established in 2006