Archive for June, 2007

Friday June 29, 2007 13:25

Hanmail Express reveals

Hanmail Express revealed Ajax-based rich applications such as Outlook Express in Webappscon. Hanmail is Daum’s web mail service launched in 1997 against Hotmail of MSN. Now most of Korean over 95% have its account and a number of total account is over 54 millions in 2007 and has over 70% market share even though Naver [...]

Thursday June 28, 2007 18:52

Eric Schmidt’s Web 3.0

Eric Schmidt CEO of Google gave a special speech in Seoul Digital Forum. Check out my brief coverage. After speech, one of attendance asked to him what he think about Web 3.0.
He said web 2.0 is marketing term, but he indicated there is new trends in view of web applications. His view of web applications [...]

Monday June 25, 2007 18:49

WebAppsCon, 13 hours and 1063 People

The web 2.0 boomup unerringly reached in Korea in early 2006 from Silicon Valley. It is pregnant for me as a technical issue such as open standards and open source with the participation and distributed web contents as a platform. But, many people thought it’s another marketing term to sell as like dot-com bubble. [...]

Wednesday June 20, 2007 00:16

ReMIX Korea

Do you want to know Microsoft web strategy in Korea? It’s chance that The ReMIX Korea was held on June. 19th by Microsoft Korea. Remix is after event in the world sharing local experiences and results of Mix 2007 in Vegas of this year. Especially it was free for all IT industry people, so over [...]

Saturday June 16, 2007 18:54

Flickr and Skype in Korean

Flickr launched new localization service with 7 languages including Korean on June 13th. It seems that was supported by Yahoo! Korea’s production team, but is it possible to return Flickr from Cyworld users?

Maybe not. Already most people has shared their photos Naver Photo as well Cyworld. Anyway I’m very glad to see korean Flickr [...]

Wednesday June 6, 2007 17:05

VODs of Seoul Digital Forum

I was invited and joined Seoul Digital Form on May 29-31th hosted by SBS, one of korean TV companies. This annual forum has focused on convergence traditional media and online environment.
In this year, there are many leading invited speakers including Eric Schmidt and Chris Anderson. I only heard Eric and Chris’s speaking but, [...]

Tuesday June 5, 2007 16:13

BarCamp Seoul2

After success of BarCamp Seoul in last year, many people requested BarCampSeoul2 again. Many people wanted to enjoy sharing of various subjects, so I cooperated with guys of Daum Foundation that is interested in NGO movement for IT culture and society.
They contacted and gathered various participators. So we had the chance to think more [...]

Monday June 4, 2007 19:08

Upgrade Season for Web 2.0 Startups

Naaroo.com is public on May. 15.
Naaroo.com, RSS based blog search engine was released. Many IT opinion leaders have been interested in new search engine after exit of 1noon.

Revu 2.0 on May. 14
Revu has been changed from review search to social shopping service in this upgrade. It focused on shopping recommendation based on social knowledges. [...]

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