Archive for the ‘Web2.0’ Category

Monday May 3, 2010 02:28

Google’s Textcube goes to Deadpool

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 [...]

Monday March 29, 2010 22:24

iPhone was sold half a million in Korea

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 [...]

Wednesday February 10, 2010 10:29

How to move Google Buzz to Twitter automatically?

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 [...]

Saturday October 24, 2009 03:14

Funny Happenings of Windows 7 Release

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 [...]

Friday August 7, 2009 06:57

Twitter Crossing the Chasm in Korea

According to Rankey.com, one of Korean Internet survey services, it estimates that Twitter reached 0.6 million unique visitor per month in Korea. Especially its growth is remarkable from May to July.

Red line indicates me2day.net, a small Korean microblogging startup acquired by Naver in this year. In July, me2day caught up with Twitter’s traffic. [...]

Google has innovated online geospatial service as like Google Maps with high quality satellite images, street view, oceanic exploration and Google Earth with 3D images and SketchUP in global scale. They were brilliant ideas and many people were impressed.
But, recently Korean web service made another remarkable map services in local scale. Daum and Naver invested [...]

Monday August 3, 2009 03:25

Victory of Yahoo Employees

There was big news of partnership between Yahoo! and Microsoft. After the war of acquisition between Jerry Yang and Steve Ballmer, Yahoo got new woman CEO Carol Bartz and she finished remained problems that everyone minds.

Most of news media wrote Yahoo! surrendered to Microsoft and Yahoo’s stock was down. In addtion Jason Calacanis wrote [...]

Friday June 12, 2009 21:07

How to detect company fails

I discovered very insightful experienced detection method for dying company via (http://www.infuture.kr/393 -Korean). It may be only Korean company, but I guess most of companies can be applied.

Another process is made for a process. (There is not to do any more.)
Only CEO is speaking on senior meeting. (CEO blames someone to talk.)
No one thinks about [...]