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I was at Future of Web Apps Conference in the last week, Miami Beach. It gave the chance to hear various technical workshops and latest web application technologies and examples from famous startups such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Pownce and WorePress. It was very good time for me. Also I attended BarCamp Miami and presented "Why not Web 2.0 in Korea?" that explains no boom-up status of Web 2.0 in Korea and why you check out Korea continually. | View | Upload your own Some people already knows Naver and Cyworld, but there is no famous successful startups although Korea has ...

On Mix 08 keynote stage, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked about the latest Microsoft issues with Guy Kawasaki. Guy asked sixteen questions to Steve. After asking to shout "web" developers from one guy, Steve Ballmer screamed three times of "web developers". Guy's questions for Steve Ballmer 1. Huge footprint on the consumer Web - what are you doing with it? Yahoo? 2. How will you win against Google? 3. Why are you still at Microsoft after all these years? Bill's called it a day... 4. Sliverlight downloads progress? 5. Advertising? 6. What's the current status with the EU? 7. What does the post-Bill Gates MS look like? 8. MS ...

IE8 was hot issue. There is first demonstration for IE8 in Mix08 with new things eight. 1. CSS 2.1: Web Standards 2. CSS Certification: passing Acid 2 Test 3. Performance : JavaScript 4. HTML 5 : Ajax navigation, offline supporting. 5. Developer Tools: HTML, CSS, Script debugging 6. Activities : Contextual search and web utility e.g Ebay on IE8 7. WebSlices - clipping web contents with simple makrup. 8. IE8 beta 1 is now rock! IE8 download after keynote.