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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]