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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 Window Media Player. What's different Itune and Windows Media Player? The player platform is not a necessary and sufficient condition but just requirement. Now users want to watch all of media files in online, desktop and other person via peer-to-peer. Integrations of them is essential under ...

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 to produce copyrighted video contents by news reporters. He emphasized there are many problems such as a pornography, infringe the copyright and privacy. in domestic video services over twenty providers. But TagStory.com started copyrighted video embedding in news articles of online news site.

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 of Allblog, Naver's blog search was limited to own blogs. But, Allblog often complained the low ranking rather than Naver's own blogs in search result. They thought it's result of artificial editing by Naver and often claimed these problems. But, Naver's reaction was not transparent and ...

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 web search is almost final section in screen and most of users cannot recognize its existence. Only Naver has own search robots crawling web sites and offered search service in Korea. Daum's new challenge seems that they want to get independent technologies for search engine. ...

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 changes of Microsoft again after Microsoft Tech Summit in the last month. The most remarkable thing is that you could see both Windows and Mac OS X as well Firefox and Safari in almost of demonstrations. It seems that Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 Beta was very ...