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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 it's quite fun and smart application and useful to share information within Gmail. But, how to move messages of Google Buzz in public to Twitter automatically? There is a solution by Google Buzz APIs. It offered a feed for syndication, but the message was included in ...

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 booth across the street from the conference center. During a break, Linus Tobalds and Chris Schlaeger decided to make some fun of Microsoft and dragged him over there. When they arrived there, Linus was sold immediately on the product as you can see in ...

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. What happened now? As you know, Google and Facebook have very low user pools in Korea, also Twitter's has been increased slowly in tech savvy community. As like abroad trends, Korean famous actors, politician and entertainers started to join Twitter. A Korean famous figure skater, ...

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 many money to build these high quality service too. Aerial Photography Daum launched new map features "road view" and "sky view" on January in this year. The image of sky view is converted into high-resolution aerial photography, with the restaurant's roof, driveway and the sea becoming ...