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Wired magazine titled cover story of “The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet.” which the Web is being sinking by a world of closed platform as like iPhone or Xbox and the users prefer dedicated platforms, designed specifically for mobile screens.
Most of reaction in this story are “Wired is wrong” although it [...]

Korean President Lee, Myung-bak surprisingly debuted Twitter’s world. The Blue house of Korea has own verified account @BluehouseKorea, but he didn’t send a tweet himself.
Today he visited online communication team and sent his tweets himself and replied to several mentions by people. He wanted to type a keyboard by himself and enjoyed watching responses of [...]

Two years ago, Google acquired a Korean startup, TNC with Textcube.com, open source based blogging platform similar with Wordpress.com. After the announcement of acquisition, there were two prospects recovering local search power with blogging service and giving synergy effects to blogger.com.

But, Google noticed Textcube.com will be integrated to Blogger soon. Because two sites are [...]

At last, half a million Apple iPhones have sold in Korea by the end of this month. The phones were an instant hit as soon as they belatedly hit the Korean market on Nov. 28, 2009 and sales remain at some 4,000 a day. The phones sold over 500,000 in only seven countries including the [...]

MindTouch has developed a top 20 list of the most powerful voices in open-source, compiled using Twitter and other sources.
Most of the people on the list will be of no surprise to veterans of the open-source world. Notables include Tim O’Reilly, Chris Messina and Jonathan Schwartz. But, surprisingly I was listed in there as [...]

Before reading! There is no need to move Buzz to Twitter. After activating Buzz in Gmail, it seems almost a clone of FriendFeed. Google designed Buzz as an integrator of social streams. I guess you add just one stream FriendFeed to Buzz.
Today Google released Google Buzz, the Gmail based social messaging service. I think [...]

At last, iPhone officially launched in Korea on Nov. 28th, 2009. iPhone consumers lined up at midnight to be among the first in the country to get their hands on it in front of launching event place.
Hundreds of people began to stand in line from midnight in front of Jamsil Stadium in Seoul, waiting until [...]

It was globally released Windows 7, the new operation system of Microsoft On Oct. 22th. There were several funny episode to do.
Linux’s Celebration for Windows 7 in Japan
Microsoft tried to torpedo the success of the Japan Linux Symposium by launching their Windows 7 product that same day. They even had setup a big promotion [...]