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Microsoft's Mix07 is coming soon. In last Microsoft Tech Summit, Loke Uei and Clark Butler showed a demonstration of QR code with Windows Mobile to guide conference rooms in Mix07. If you participate in Mix07, you've better learn it.

Along with the announcement of Eric Schmidt in Web 2.0 Expo, Google has acquired Tonic Systems, a San Francisco and Melbourne-based company that specializes in Java based presentation creation and document conversion. It is not one of web based officeware software such as Writely, Zoho and Zimbra. Tonic has offered free PowerPoint viewer and PPT conversion tool made by Java technology. There is a few informations about Tonic Systems because Google shut down its homepage after announcement. It seems that Chris Nokleberg is a core member of Tonic system. His blog has explained Tonic's technology since first product release in ...

Google has continually magnified its influence in Korea after release of establishing Google Engineering Center. It started the first public relationship to serve Google gifts and get inquiry of interview from thousand developers in annual Korea Java developers conference in Feb. 24. Many developers stood one row in Google's booth to get interview requests. It was very popular rather than any other booths such as Sun Microsystems and IBM Korea. Google also announced Mr. Lee, Wonjin will be local head for Korean business. He is a former CEO of Adobe Korea and was also the local CEO of Macromedia Korea before ...

Interests related to OpenID has been increased in Korea. After myID.net, the first Korean OpenID provider, two providers were opened personal-driven identity service. One of them is IDpia.com by Initech that is very famous of the PKI based security company. The IDpia want to differentiate itself from other services with relationship between OpenID and real-world authentication such as mobile one-time password, personal certification with consumer credit information companies and national PKI system. The other is IDtail.com by Ahnlab that is also famous of Internet vaccine software company. Mr. Chulsoo Ahn, the founder of Anhlab has studied about venture investment in ...

After mash-up opportunity sponsored by Daum DNA and Naver OpenAPI, it will be increased raw materials for mashup food. Startup companies make their own OpenAPIs and share them to all developers. SpringNote APIs: http://dev.springnote.com/ You can add and edit your own pages in SpringNote. Me2day APIs: http://codian.springnote.com/pages/89009 You can post articles to Me2day. Lifepod APIs: http://www.lifepod.co.kr/api You can add your schedules and sharing them with each others It's an evidence to prove that many startup services think the open platform is very useful and important to gather user's data and distribute them. I hope more mash-up examples with brilliant ideas to mix them.

Tomorrow the Web 2.0 Expo will be held at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Over 50 korean people will be participated in this event. It was only three korean people in Web 2.0 Conference in 2005. How many people are interested in Web 2.0? It's incredible. After first introduction of Web2.0 in 2005, many people have started to discuss Web 2.0 through various blog communications, seminars, conferences and books. Also many it was made new start-up services introduced by this blog. Major portal companies such as Daum and Naver made user-participating services following Web 2.0 philosophy. Some people criticized Web ...

Lifepod is Ajax based calendar service such as Google Calendar developed by Mr. Kibae Shin. It targets Korean users that want to use localized personal calendar service. Its idea is not unique, but one guy just made it as his own proto-type and many bloggers have been interested in his development story. It offers ajax based address book, RSS reader, scheduling and data sync between PC and PDA. It also is possible sharing of schedules between friends added by invitations. Lifepod is based on OpenID, so Openmaru Studio started to support facilities such as web server and network infra because of ...

Another challenge for the search market was active by Naaroo.com, Attention search engine. It is based on Onnet that made Fish, a desktop RSS reader and Egloos, blog service acquired by SK Communications. It was famous to join some of early search developers, Dr. Younghoon Kim and Dr. Younghwan Cho in Korea. They participated in the development of Naver's early search engine. As you know, Naver with social and expert database has over 70% market share in search not to be broken by Google and Yahoo. After first challenge of Chutnoon, it is second one with only search engine functions. (The ...