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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 has invaded this market with its weapon of search power. Anyway rich interface is not new one because Google, Yahoo! and MSN already showed Ajax based mail services. But, it's first time implementation in Korea. The most important thing is user experiences in Ajax based web ...

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 are very simple, easy, everywhere virus groups to treat all of data. Some people said Web 3.0 is completion of semantic web (automated intelligence by computers), but I think web is very cultural resources made by human, so the next web is the cultural-hybrid web ...

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. So they highly criticized very expensive conference organizers and invited speakers to talk about Web 2.0. In Korea, many people web 2.0 is not new one any more because Korean web sites already have induced user-participated services such as Iloveschool (Korean Facebook), Cyworld (Korean MySpace ...

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 800 people was attended this event. This event is very similar format with MIX 07 to avoid formal type. It gave various program such as talk show, panel discussion and meetup of attendance with speaker The main agenda of this event was Microsoft Sliverlight too. Mr. ...

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 as an user. Skype was promoted by Auction, the branch of Ebay in Korea. Most of Korean don't know what Skype is. There are many messaging solutions in Korea such as high usages of moblie phone & SMS, instant messaging with Nateon Messenger offering free ...

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, most of them is very useful not only to Korean, but to all. You can watch VOD service in home page, but you must have user id and ActiveX plugin for playing. As following is direct links of major VOD services. (Please click left "Korean" button ...

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 cultural theme as well as technical subjects. In this camp, over 70 people were joined in Daum HQ on Saturday, June 1th. It covered Web 2.0 services and technology including OpenID and Open APIs, the business model for search and video service, UGC copyright and legal ...

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. New features are peer communication, recommendation and feedback for popular items and sharing of picklist and wishlist. Olalog Beta 2 on May. 23 Olalog started closed beta 2 service too. It added friends group managing based on face matching and detecting and photo sharing ...