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NHN has announced plans to launch Ijji.com, a premier Internet game destination this fall for the American market. NHN's properties ranked #1 in Naver in search portal and

Fon Korea launched in Jun. 10th in Korea. FON is the largest WiFi community in the world, open to anyone who wishes to unite and connect to the Internet for free from any corner of the world without cables. It's very significant warning for most of broadband providers in Korea. As you know, there are many wireless access point in home and work as well as you can catch them in any streets in Seoul. Fon Korea also announced to sell Buffalo WHR-G54S enabled Fon firmware for 5 dollars with limit of 1,000. Korean bloggers congratulates Fon Korea Blog to launch ...

Was not failed personalization? It's in fashion interactive personalization services with Ajax and RSS feeds. In past, the portal based personalization was closed and aggregated informations in portal. But, a new thing is opened. There are many kinds of services such as Netvibes, Google Ig, MSN Live (aka, Start.com) and My Yahoo!. Yozmn Yozmn is a personalization home page that can be added and mixed of various contents such as news, audio, video and search from RSS feeds. Yozmn means "right now" or "nowadays" in Korean. A front page can be resized and reordered each item by Ajax functions. It gives ...

Naver launched Naver Blink, a social bookmark service for blog posts. Blink is based tagging, but it guides four actions to make tags to 1) like, 2) buy, 3) do something and 4) go somewhere. User can make tag to do "web 2.0 study" or buy "digital camera". In fact, most of blog posts in korea were not tagged. So it will be helpful to categorize and find a blog posts. It opens to all blogger not limit to Naver's blog. If you are a blogger, you can add your post to blink's tag via trackback such as http://blink.naver.com/1038351/tb. It's ...

Nate.com owner of Cyword started two beta services. One is Mini Channel, a social bookmark service similar with del.icio.us. But, it targets ordinary people who are good at pop-up based cute interfaces of Cyworld. Someone can make own mini channel and add and share bookmarks with others. Also it accepts to add a bookmark to other's channel. Mini channel is categorized and distributed by channel's index not tag, so a reputation of a channel owner is more important to judge a value of informations. The other is My Nate, personalized page similar with Windows Live. It is possible to do ...

The Daum Blog with 2 million blogs added personal video publishing in their blog site. It freely accepts to upload a video source under 100MB and offer an unlimited streaming. So it becomes to be popular for bloggers to limit bandwidth in their hosting company and they make a second blog in Daum. Already Naver Blog with 6.5 million blogs started videolog, but it's based on Windows Media, but Daum has licensed the On2 Flix Engine. This technology agreement enables Daum.net to integrate a powerful video encoding solution for creating high-quality video content for Macromedia's® Flash® Player 8 from Adobe. ...

The Bookmarkr.net is a korean social bookmark site as like Del.icio.us. It's personal proto-type made by imohany. He wanted to make korean based Del.icio.us and most of functions are simliar with Del.icio.us's. The unique thing is that offer feed icon and reading windows if a bookmark includes RSS feeds such as blogs and news sites. It's very useful to read the latest article of bookmarking sites.

RevU is a review search service based on online reputation. As we rely on the review content by others, whether they are experts or ordinary people, finding good reviews are very useful while we're shopping. The problem is how to decide of who review is more informative or credible. RevU is providing an innovative way to show the review list based on the reviewers' reputation. It means the search result is indexed based on review writer's online reputation using reviewers past performance and users evaluation by participations. Opinity AP is utilizing its RepScore, patent-pending technology to decide people's ...