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It will be held Web 2.0 Conference 2006 from Nov. 7th to 9th in Sanfrancisco, US. John Battelle, a co-founder of this announced call for LunchPad that was very popluar session in web2con 2005 that I was very impressed. As you know, there were many web 2.0 startup companies in 2006. So it was composed [...]

Yahoo! Answers released knowledge API today for developers to access Y!A database. The Yahoo’s knowledge database has been growing in the world except korean market.
Naver was first mover with typical mass in this market. Also it released Naver Knowledge API on July, 2006. But it’s not public why it only offered to own knowledge [...]

The Daum Pie is very unique service sharing photos. Someone makes a frame as like puzzle so called “Pie” for specific theme, anyone puts photo to fix in a frames. If every frames are done by people, the Pie completed. So Pie can be called a collaborative photo sharing service. Daum started this site on [...]

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YouTube opened a Korean-language version site Wednesday, joining the already jam-packed video-sharing Web service market in Korea.
The Korean YouTube site faces a daunting mission in competing against locally grown services from Daum, Pandora TV and Afreeca. Tricky censorship regulations and skeptical sentiment toward foreign Internet firms will also become a hurdle to success for [...]

David Sifry, CEO of Technorati announced analysis for the blogosphere. According to results, japanese and chinese blogs are increasing and over english blog.

But, there are not no korean part in blogosphere as measured by Technorati. David wrote that Korean blogs are not tracked by Technorati and that Korean blogs are grossly underrepresented. David explained [...]

What are korean favorite web sites rignt now? I made a chart to compare a result by four research company. Results are as following.

I will briefly introduce them by categories for each websites.
Internet Portal
Naver(Focused on search, NHN’s property), Daum(Mail, community and news), Nate/Cyworld(Social network), Yahoo! Korea(News and search), Emaps(Search), Paran(owned by KT), Dreamwiz.
E-commerce
Auction(owned by Ebay), [...]

There is another example of broadband effects in Korea. Traditional radios have depended on letters, post cards by listeners who drive a car and work in office or out. In Korea, there were unique listeners such as teenage girls studied in night. As internet users were increased, it has lost powers the conventional media such [...]

Lycos owned by korean internet portal, Daum announced new email service with 3GB storage. This is the top of email stroage in the world. In future Lycos will up the limit to 5 GB of storage. With the new LYCOS Mail, users can now email photos, videos, music files and more in one message. Big [...]