Archive for August, 2006

Thursday August 3, 2006 12:39

Naver Maps API Released

Naver Open API announced Korean Maps API. It’s first thing to offer local map by service provider in Korea. (maybe in the world?) It resembles Google Maps API by Naver Maps API overview.

You can catch an mouse event and add controls such as zoom in/out, save button and annotation etc. A source of map images [...]

Thursday August 3, 2006 11:58

Story Telling on the Map

Did you visit a famous place and take pictures? You had a delicious dinner in a beautiful restaurant? Or did you have a worst place to avoid it?
You can make a story on map. You can make it on Cyworld Map Story that can mark own minihompy’s story and photo to specific places. The [...]

Tuesday August 1, 2006 11:04

Cyworld Attaks MySpace

Business 2.0 wrote a strange success story of Cyworld and matching with MySpace in US by Erick Schonfeld in a printed version of August.
South Korea’s most successful social network, a strange blend of Blogger, Flickr, and videogame-like avatars, brings in about $300,000 a day.Now it’s launching a U.S version. Should MySpace be worried?
It covers [...]

Tuesday August 1, 2006 05:40

Techcrunched: Cyworld and Yahoo! Korea Webzari

Techcrunch reported the launch of Cyworld US and Webzari, visualization service of blogs. The “Zari” means asterism in Korean. It firstly introduced Yahoo! Korea. I’m very glad to see korean web service in Techcrunch.
Some of comments for Cyworld US was negative. But, I think now american teenagers are very similar with old korean’s teenagers [...]

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