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The integration between desktop and web has been accelerated. For example, Joost and Democracy Player offer online-based content services. They are just media player, but people started to think service. In fact, Itune was successful model for this area although there has been very long competition to become content delivery platform between Real Player and [...]

Softbank Ventures Korea invests 2 million to TagStory. TagStory is the Youtube like online video platform, but its platform is widely used by over 20 offline media company such as Chosunilbo, Seoul Sinmun, Kukminilbo, Hankerey sinmun and Segyeilbo.

Mr. Byeonhyun Woo was former reporter of Chosun-ilbo and he has made strategic partnership with old newspaper [...]

Allblog made a bombshell announcement to end stategic partnership with Naver. It has offered registered feed data to Naver search engine by a contract between Allblog and Naver. So many blogs registered in Allblog were showed in searh results in Naver. Most of them are independent blogs such as Tattertools, Wordpress and Egloos. Before offering [...]

Daum released the beta of new web search service. Until now Daum has outsourced Google’s serch engine for web search. But, mos of korean portal has various own database, so if an user query a keyword, it firstly shows search results internal database such as news, blog, image and Q&A in order. A result of [...]

Today 72 hours conversations was started between Microsoft and Web in Las Vegas. Ray Ozzie, a keynote speaker of Mix07 turned over all of his best cards of “service softwares for user experience” to be prepared. I saw all of keynote and demonstrations via 500kb live streaming in my home in Korea, and felt fresh [...]