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I read US Republicans who are vying to lead the national party offered a mix of reactions Saturday to the decision by one candidate for the job to mail a holiday music CD including the song "Barack the Magic Negro." It seems that someone don't want to accept this fact even though Mr. Obama had the great victory in this year. His election of US president is very meaningful not only in his skin color but also democracy in the Internet. Many people helped him with online participation and campaign as like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. I remembered South Korea staked a ...

My blog has been very long silence and its rare posting will be sorry for my "thankful" readers. Although I declared restarting of blogging, I could not keep my promise. One of reasons is still to focus my Korean blog. Another is because of low attention for Korean market from global audiences. As you know, some of guys made "Open Web Asia" work group gathering Asian bloggers to write their own market such as China, Korea, Japan and others. In October, the international conference also was held in Seoul, Korea. I respects these efforts to spread Asian activities to world because ...

Although iPhone was not released in Korea till now because of Korean WIPI regulations, some of iPhone applications have been shown up in Appstore. Korean twitter, me2day's application is very excellent and fantastic developed by ias. Also Daum's tvPot - video sharing service also was released too. You can see Korean top playing video from iPhone tvPot player. The tvPot is Korean #1 video service property right now. Fortunetly Korean govenment decided to finish WIPI regulation from 1th, April 2009. Although KTF, one of telecommunications company in Korea has tried to launch iPhone with Apple, it must be delayed to April in ...

In May 2006, I made Korean Web 2.0 Logo type gathering Web 2.0 startup service in Korea from 2005 to 2006. After that, I updated some of web services in my blog, but most of them in 2007 and 2008 weren't done my blank time. I searched new web services except big portals and gathered them again. Over 70 sites were made from 2007 to 2008. Compared with Silicon Valley, it's very small. I'll make a brief introduction for most of new services with above logos. You can see first logotype in May 2006 too.

I want to introduce some of English based web service made by brilliant Korean young startup. If new startup is appeared, I'll do again with numbers. FaceWorthy FaceWorthy is a social discovery network that allows you to upload photos and gain recognition. Show your best through photos and get people to vote for you. If you collect lots of votes, you get to access special features, and may even earn money. It is not designed for shy people but here for people who are passionate about expressing themselves and communicating with others. It is for people who have healthy desire to show who ...

I was at Future of Web Apps Conference in the last week, Miami Beach. It gave the chance to hear various technical workshops and latest web application technologies and examples from famous startups such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Pownce and WorePress. It was very good time for me. Also I attended BarCamp Miami and presented "Why not Web 2.0 in Korea?" that explains no boom-up status of Web 2.0 in Korea and why you check out Korea continually. | View | Upload your own Some people already knows Naver and Cyworld, but there is no famous successful startups although Korea has ...

The Japanese Softbank Ventures's Korean subsidiary media lab has operated an incubator to nuture young companies — offering them a small seed round of capital and helping through various steps of a so-called Litmus program since August, 2007. It’s the latest in a number of incubators that have popped up with a similar structure — reflecting a convergence around a best-practices approach, perhaps. There’s Y-Combinator, Seedcamp, and Techstars. Litmus is similar to these, only has more distinct steps in the move toward launch. When Litmus team receives a business plan, they review the b-plan thoroughly to assess potential and feasibility (hence ...

Cyworld is one of very unique social network services in the world. Before Cyworld, there were a success case, ILoveSchool based on networking school alumni in 1999. So trying of new startup for SNS has been very rare. Recently there are new startup services for SNS such as LinkNow.kr, Hutory.net and People2.co.kr. I reviewed these in detail, but I couldn't find unique things compared with abroad SNS services. The Web 2.0 trend makes a duplication of ideas and innovations too such as a example of Germany. Korea is not except, Me2day and PlayTalk was on debate who copied ideas and concept ...