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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 ...
2007-06-25 06:49pm
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 ...
2007-06-16 06:54pm
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 ...
2007-06-06 05:05pm
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 ...
2007-06-04 07:08pm
WebAppsCon, 13 hours and 1063 People
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