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Thinkfree made a strategic partnership with Naver on September 28th. 2006. As you know, Thinkfree is famous web office service providers against Microsoft Office in US. Its service has focused on Java-applet based web office to substitute MS Office, but it turns to offer Ajax-based lightweight functions in this year. So Thinkfree starts to have [...]

The KLDP 10th Anniversary Free Open Source Conference was held on September, 17th in Seoul. Over 500 developers were crowded in conference hall. This year is the 10th anniversary of KLDP by having this conference, a festival to enjoy together with any FreeSoftware, OpenSource lovers.

This event had eleven session by open source expert including [...]

The Aladdin established profit-sharing affiliate program for bloggers. It’s one of the largest online bookstore in korea. Thanks to Bloggers gives money to bloggers who write book review or link to book pages. For that, it offers Book API. It’s not new and striking in affiliate program, but remarkable to focus bloggers.

The WZD.com is one of personalization portal in Korea as like Google’s personal start page service or Netvibes. It made by Wizard Works (domestic venture college students). They just introduced its beta version through its site on the 14th. September. They have offered the closed beta service since June, 2006.
It provides RSS feeds and web [...]

TagStory is the user-generated video sharing services only classified by user-tagging. It is made by UMC, a branch of Chosunilbo, one of korean famous newspapers.
It has unique characteristics 1) customizing player skins, 2) adding video advertisement so called “story-ads” and 3) offering content distribution platform of existing content owners.

It’s one of very [...]

It’s another unconference. BarCamp Seoul(in korean) will be held in Daum Communications on October 21st, in Seou, Korea. I started up an idea to launch Barcamp Seoul and some bloggers helped me. I’m very glad to make a change to meet passionate people in there.

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people [...]

The widget became the new battle field to occupy priority between Internet and desktop. Two commonly referred to type of widgets are the Yahoo! Widgets and the Dashboard widgets of Apple Macintosh. Microsoft refers to them as Gadgets both in Windows Vista and the Windows Live system. And Google has given APIs to make [...]

The Alternative Languages Festival 2006 was held in Sep. 1th~3th in Vivaldy Park during 3 days. About 200 people were joined this conference.

It’s the first korean style unconference to share informations about minor programming lanuages by korean software engineers. It included Ruby, Haskell, Mathematica, Lisp, Small Talk, Object C, J language, Io language, F#, Curl, [...]