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I was at Future of Web Apps Conference in the last week, Miami Beach. It gave the chance to hear various technical workshops and latest web application technologies and examples from famous startups such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Pownce and WorePress. It was very good time for me.

Also I attended BarCamp Miami and presented “Why not Web 2.0 in Korea?” that explains no boom-up status of Web 2.0 in Korea and why you check out Korea continually.

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Some people already knows Naver and Cyworld, but there is no famous successful startups although Korea has the highest broadband network and most wired people. You can see my presentation in slideshare.net too.

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On Mix 08 keynote stage, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked about the latest Microsoft issues with Guy Kawasaki. Guy asked sixteen questions to Steve. After asking to shout “web” developers from one guy, Steve Ballmer screamed three times of “web developers”.

Guy’s questions for Steve Ballmer

1. Huge footprint on the consumer Web - what are you doing with it? Yahoo?
2. How will you win against Google?
3. Why are you still at Microsoft after all these years? Bill’s called it a day…
4. Sliverlight downloads progress?
5. Advertising?
6. What’s the current status with the EU?
7. What does the post-Bill Gates MS look like?
8. MS in too many businesses - have you lost focus?
9. Corp agility. Is MS the new IBM?
10. What is your social networking strategy?
11. What is Facebook really work?
12. Are you warried that Apple’s gaining share?
13. Next version of Windows underwheliming?
14. IE vs. Firefoix?
15. Live strategy - what is it?
16. Mobile. What’s MS’s iPhone?

You can see answers of Cnet and BetaNews’s live article.

update. Baller gives an action for Macbook Air.

Kawasaki pointed out that most people don’t have a choice and get it when they buy a PC. Ballmer then reached and grabbed Kawasaki’s MacBook Air out of an envelope. “Is this running Vista?” he asked. Kawasaki said that it wasn’t. The two then debated the merits of the machine.

“Don’t you want a machine this light?” Kawasaki asked, with Ballmer saying his Toshiba laptop weighs less. “That thing is missing half the features,” Ballmer said, referring to the MacBook. “Where’s the DVD drive?”

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IE8 was hot issue. There is first demonstration for IE8 in Mix08 with new things eight.

1. CSS 2.1: Web Standards

2. CSS Certification: passing Acid 2 Test

3. Performance : JavaScript

4. HTML 5 : Ajax navigation, offline supporting.

5. Developer Tools: HTML, CSS, Script debugging

6. Activities : Contextual search and web utility e.g Ebay on IE8

7. WebSlices - clipping web contents with simple makrup.

8. IE8 beta 1 is now rock! IE8 download after keynote.

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I’m in front of keynote stage of Mix08. Enjoy song! In 10 minutes, you can enjoy keynote in streaming. Have a interesting times!

How about check about Flickr photos and blog posts.

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