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Nate.com owner of Cyword started two beta services. One is Mini Channel, a social bookmark service similar with del.icio.us. But, it targets ordinary people who are good at pop-up based cute interfaces of Cyworld. Someone can make own mini channel and add and share bookmarks with others. Also it accepts to add a bookmark [...]

The Daum Blog with 2 million blogs added personal video publishing in their blog site. It freely accepts to upload a video source under 100MB and offer an unlimited streaming. So it becomes to be popular for bloggers to limit bandwidth in their hosting company and they make a second blog in Daum. Already Naver [...]

The Bookmarkr.net is a korean social bookmark site as like Del.icio.us. It’s personal proto-type made by imohany. He wanted to make korean based Del.icio.us and most of functions are simliar with Del.icio.us’s. The unique thing is that offer feed icon and reading windows if a bookmark includes RSS feeds such as blogs and news sites. [...]

Do you know Korean broadband effects? The broadband effect means social trends and changes originated from widely usage of broadband internet. Most of Korean exposed in this environment using Internet for social activities and communications.
SayClub (1998~1999)
The Sayclub was success chatting sites from 1998 to 2000. Many users were good at chatting services in closed communication [...]

Peter Cashmore posts Cyworld US Launches - Will It Topple MySpace? flashshot of priavate beta of Cyworld US site. Now this site is closed. Cyworld US is the American version of the popular korean social networking site simliar with MySpace or Facebook. Cyworld has opened local sites such as Cyworld China and Cyworld Japan. It’s [...]

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