Wired magazine titled cover story of “The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet.” which the Web is being sinking by a world of closed platform as like iPhone or Xbox and the users prefer dedicated platforms, designed specifically for mobile screens.

Most of reaction in this story are “Wired is wrong” although it is just prediction. (Wired’s prescient was wrong in the past.). I want to argue this issue in several aspects and give my opinion in recent change in the Web world.

The Web goes Less Bandwidth
Especially it gave an extreme example of traffic chart that the Web has been declined because of video and p2p. As BoingBoing and NewYork Times indicated, the chart itself is misleading and is not proof of its argument.

The Web was always killed by another applications in terms of network traffic as like the push service, PointCast in early stage web, the streaming service, Real Player and Napster in mid-stage web and finally Skype and BitTorrent in right now.

As the Wired pointed out, the Web transferred the document based information written by HTML (CSS, Javascript and Images) over HTTP(80) protocol. It means its data is very small compared with compete applications. In recent, less data pieces have been transfered by Ajax technology, of course, user-generated videos were embeded as like Youtube and HTML5 video.

Chris Anderson is famous person, the creator of “Long tail” with the interesting chart presentation. But, in this case, it seems to be wrong.

Google is not the Web

Its main argument is the moving trend of ’semiclosed’ platforms and business from the web: “This is not a trivial distinction. Over the past few years, one of the most important shifts in the digital world has been the move from the wide-open Web to semiclosed platforms that use the Internet for transport but not the browser for display.” in debate of Chris Anderson, Tim O’relly and John Battelle.

Certainly, there was such a trend to closed platform from Facebook to iTunes, as Chris said, which are ruled by Terms of Service and invisible to Google’s crawlers. But, most of the Web were always invisible and Google was a slave of internet potal sites in the early web. In the past, the internet portals as like Yahoo, Lycos and MSN gathered all of contents and ruled the Web.

Google’s success story was based on lots of the information diffusion by the users as like blogs, wikis and crowd-sourcing of links(PageRank) and keyword based searching intention in aspects of the business. Google’s fail is not dead of the Web.

Application vs. Document
Before the Web 2.0 era, the Open APIs of eBay, Amazon and Google were mostly closed to be offered only to contracted 3rd parties. In now, most of Data APIs are open in the Web protocol and makes the rich applications from desktop to mobile. As I said, Ajax technology enabled the data web based on user interactions. It means transactions of traditional Web documents has been decreased and frankly JSON is winner of the Web.

In 2007, Eric Schmidt already pointed out Web 3.0 will be “applications that are pieced together” - with the characteristics that the apps are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the apps can run on any device (PC or mobile), the apps are very fast and very customizable, and are distributed virally (social networks, email, etc).

From Facebook to iTunes, most of the contents still delivered by Web framework either HTML or JSON and either web browsers or iPhone app (Over 80% iPhone apps are hybrid to the web contents).

The innovation was also made by Web browser vendors, which they made WHATWG in 2004 against W3C’s document Web and devoted to HTML5 for the smart web application. We still used the Web browser in iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry and Android in the more rich Web environment.

In terms of technical aspects, the web framework was changed from MVC(model-view-controller) framework to transfer HTML documents composed of HTML, CSS and Javascript to user agent.

In HTML5 Era, the web application can be installed in user agent and communicate with the server for data pieces by Ajax and Web Socket.

It means actually Document Web was dead, but Web application will be long live.

Money: Sell or Broking
People said traditional business models are only two things: selling goods or broking it. Chris indicated the money left from the Web and followed AppStore, but Tim responded there still has been advertisement, eCommerce and subscription models in the opened Web.

Twitter sells user’s tweets to search engines and Facebook earned money from advertisement. Google will establish “Web Store” soon as well as iPhone users buy hybrid web apps in AppStore. I thinks Chris’s “Internet is long live” is right under Web framework in both technical and business aspects.

Diffusion or Concentration
In my viewpoint, the Web has been cyclic changes between diffusion and concentration as like Oscillating Universe Theory. It’s similar with Tim’s opinion “Open or Closed”. But. it’s little different in organic process of the Web itself.

Early web was born in diffusional properties with hyperlink of the document. Most of informations were distributed in global web servers. It means finding information is very hard and internet portals were raised in reaction. But, they concentrated all of Web contents in closed “CMS” in their platform. Another reactions are blog, wiki, video and Open APIs based web platforms (and ecosystem) in so called Web 2.0 in five years.

Chris’s argument is another reaction of concentration trends of sharing information in nowadays. But, I predict to reach a height of the diffusion trend by HTML5, mobile web and social media in five years. In next? It’s your turn.

Korean President Lee, Myung-bak surprisingly debuted Twitter’s world. The Blue house of Korea has own verified account @BluehouseKorea, but he didn’t send a tweet himself.

Today he visited online communication team and sent his tweets himself and replied to several mentions by people. He wanted to type a keyboard by himself and enjoyed watching responses of people.

Some people told “Don’t tell a lie. Are you real?”, he replied “don’t suspect me. If it’s fake, it’ll be headline news” and uploaded a photo of him on tweeting.

Korean Twitter users are growing and reached over 100 millions. According to analysis of the tweet production, Japan is now No. 2, at 18 percent, while Indonesia has 10 percent of daily messages and South Korea has 2 percent.

Actually Presidential tweeting is not rare. In case of President Obama, he admitted in November 2009 that he had “never used Twitter”, which came as a disappoint to avid Twitterers–and his more than 3 million followers on Twitter.

But, he has sent his first Tweet on January 18, during a visit to the American Red Cross headquarters in D.C., the President finally posted his first Twitter update. Also Russian President Medvedev sendt his first tweet on @kremlinrussia_e at Twitter HQ in his U.S visiting on January. As well as, ex-Prime Minister Hatoyama was famous of Japanese Twitter top position.

Presidents seems to like Twitter to allow to contact with people directly whether it’s communication gesture or not.

Two years ago, Google acquired a Korean startup, TNC with Textcube.com, open source based blogging platform similar with Wordpress.com. After the announcement of acquisition, there were two prospects recovering local search power with blogging service and giving synergy effects to blogger.com.

But, Google noticed Textcube.com will be integrated to Blogger soon. Because two sites are completely different, in fact, it means that Textcube.com will be closed and user’s data must be migrated to Blogger.com.

Textcube.com was popular growing blogger platform and had many alpha bloggers in Korea. So there were over 200 comments and trackbacks and most of them were negative to Google’s unfaithful direction.

We have made innovative functions of Textcube.com and tried to move them to Blogger. For example, we played important part to make Blogger Template Desinger…. It is good example to contribute Blogger’s innovation and we want to offer efficient and useful services by concentrating on Blogger only… For smooth intergration, a new registartion of Textcube.com is closed in right now.

In fact, I guessed Textcube will be Google’s dead ducks as like Dodgeball, Jaiku and Zingku. But, many alpha bloggers supported Google’s decision and Textcube’s internalization because its platform is very excellent. Now they were disappointed and move to another services. (Actually Daum’s Tistory supports TTXML format and Textcube users can move their data to Tistory.)

It became another proof that Google is not successful to grow social communication and content-generating after buying services. The Web is not only composed by “information”, which it has been made by human and “communication” called by the media power is one of important part of Web. I think it is the most weak point of Google.

At last, half a million Apple iPhones have sold in Korea by the end of this month. The phones were an instant hit as soon as they belatedly hit the Korean market on Nov. 28, 2009 and sales remain at some 4,000 a day. The phones sold over 500,000 in only seven countries including the US, Germany, France and Japan. Apple is reportedly surprised at how fast the iPhone is selling in Korea.

People believes iPhone sales will slow down with the launch of new smartphones like Samsung’s Android Phone but still expects the total number sold to reach 1 million this year. Because many people are waiting for new iPhone 4G device in June.

Ironically Safari users in Korea were increased about 10 times compared with 6 month before. The most Korean online news service, Media Daum reported web browser share: IE6 57.1%(-7.8%), IE8 21.2%(+12.9%), IE7 16.8%(-3.01%), Safari 2.54%(+2.15%), Mozilla Firefox 1.2%(+0.01%) and Google Chrome 0.96%(+0.34%). The number of Safari users caught up with Firefox’s and it became #2 web browser in Korea.

The move comes amid brewing competition between Google and NHN, Korea’s top internet search service, in the fast-growing mobile market in iPhones and Android phones. The government telecom regulator is considering requiring other handset makers and mobile operators to add Korean search services as options other than Google. Google is overshadowed by NHN’s Naver in the Korean market but is poised to catch up in the mobile arena on the back of the popularity of smartphones featuring it as the default search engine.

In addition, the government plans to adopt standard software to enable required security measures on iPhone and Android phone for mobile banking services. However, critics claim that the decision to pick a specific technology to control transactions over different mobile platforms is an ill-advised move, as it may eventually expose mobile users to a similar, shaky security environment experienced by computer users in the Microsoft-dominated desktop world.

MindTouch has developed a top 20 list of the most powerful voices in open-source, compiled using Twitter and other sources.

Most of the people on the list will be of no surprise to veterans of the open-source world. Notables include Tim O’Reilly, Chris Messina and Jonathan Schwartz. But, surprisingly I was listed in there as rank of 17th.

In fact, it doesn’t mean that I’m the 17th famous person in open source industry. This survey is more about broadcast capability and less about influence and MindTouch already published the most influential in Open Source 2009 back in October. I think the individuals in the list carry a big megaphone and spread words with regular sharing information.

As a local person, I didn’t give an impact in the global world, but my effort has focused on Korean web industry based on the sprites of open source and open web with Mozilla’s mission. I humbled to be included in this list and thank you for my subscribers of over 1,000 in Koreacrunch and over 28,000 in Channy’s Blog as well as over 4,900 Twitter followers.

Before reading! There is no need to move Buzz to Twitter. After activating Buzz in Gmail, it seems almost a clone of FriendFeed. Google designed Buzz as an integrator of social streams. I guess you add just one stream FriendFeed to Buzz.

Today Google released Google Buzz, the Gmail based social messaging service. I think it’s quite fun and smart application and useful to share information within Gmail. But, how to move messages of Google Buzz in public to Twitter automatically?

There is a solution by Google Buzz APIs. It offered a feed for syndication, but the message was included in content area. So I made new RSS feed using a Yahoo! Pipes to transfer them to FriendFeed or Twitter. If you wan to do and have Google profile, the account of FriendFeed and Twitter, you can do this by as following steps.

1. Make a your new feed
You can go my pipe of Google Buzz Stream and input your Google account of your Buzz. If you click “Get as RSS”, you may get new RSS feed as a format of http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=d72af57d3ed302585a00bd9b67e850d6&_render=rss&id=googleid.

2. Add Custom RSS into FriendFeed
You can add Buzz messages to your FriendFeed stream by setting Custom RSS in services preference. If you do that, you can see Buzz messages in your FriendFeed.

3. Add Twitter publishing in FriendFeed
If you want to Buzz messages to publish into Twitter, you can add CustomRSS of Buzz in Advanced Twitter Settings.

Of course, Google Buzz is not limited in 140 characters, but you can show your status from Google to Twitter easily using open standards technology. Enjoy Google Buzz!

At last, iPhone officially launched in Korea on Nov. 28th, 2009. iPhone consumers lined up at midnight to be among the first in the country to get their hands on it in front of launching event place.

Hundreds of people began to stand in line from midnight in front of Jamsil Stadium in Seoul, waiting until 2 p.m. to get their iPhones — made available only to 1,000 people who raffled online for early purchases.

Some 60,000 people who made online preorders over the past week will have their iPhones delivered starting Saturday, said KT, South Korea’s second largest mobile carrier.

KT is so far the only mobile carrier in the country to clinch a deal with Apple to sell iPhones and related mobile services.

iPhones will be available to other buyers at KT shops starting Dec. 1th, the mobile carrier said. The 32-gigabyte iPhone 3GS costs US$341 for customers who subscribe with a monthly service fee of US$38 with 500MB data and 200 min free calling plan. Of course various optional plan were offered too.

As followings are pictures of scenes in launching day.

It was globally released Windows 7, the new operation system of Microsoft On Oct. 22th. There were several funny episode to do.

Linux’s Celebration for Windows 7 in Japan
Microsoft tried to torpedo the success of the Japan Linux Symposium by launching their Windows 7 product that same day. They even had setup a big promotion booth across the street from the conference center.

During a break, Linus Tobalds and Chris Schlaeger decided to make some fun of Microsoft and dragged him over there. When they arrived there, Linus was sold immediately on the product as you can see in the picture. At least that’s what the sales guy thought. He obviously had no idea who he was dealing with. But in the end Linus surprisingly did not buy a copy. Wise man!

Korean 777 Bloggers got promotional Window 7
In Korea, there was Windows 7 release party with 777 bloggers hosted by Microsoft Korea. Many bloggers requested to join there because it promised to give free Windows7 Ultimate. Most of bloggers thought “Windows 7″ box for sale.

But, it is just promotional Disc. written in not for resale and also 32bit only English version.

It was honest good, but got feeling of deceived.

Windows 7 Whopper with 7 patties
The Windows 7 Whopper consist of seven stacked beef patties that measure over 5 inches in height, and the whole thing costs an appropriate ¥777 (or $8.55). It’s available for seven days only, completing the run of sevens.

There was popular news on top of Techmeme, but it’s hard to eat it despite of employee Microsoft Japan.

Still demo ghost in Japan?
On demonstration of Windows 7 touch function, Windows 7 was frozen. There’s no need for a translation here. A fail this epic speaks for itself and brings back fond memories of the classic Windows 98 fail. Enjoy. The laughs from the TV hosts are the best part IMHO.

Some people replied the monitor is made in China, but it’s still on demo ghost of the classic Windows 98 fail in Japan.

Windows 7 launched on Macbook Pro?
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was on NBC Today Show that is a morning news and entertainment program that airs on NBC, a big TV network here) to unveil “>Windows 7 on MacBook Pro in the background.

Adobe Photoshop is common marketing language in global as well as China.

Anyway, congratulation Windows 7 release!