Archive for the ‘Web2.0’ Category

Thursday April 23, 2009 01:58

Feedmil, the longtail blog feed search

I’m also heavy RSS reader with over 200 feeds and it’s hard to track many famous blogs. Strangely I found sometimes that good blogs were hidden with no influence and rare good qualified posting. So I added them and instead removed newspaper-like blogs that publish many articles per day to keep proper numbers RSS feeds [...]

Friday February 6, 2009 13:30

Youtube still struggles in Korea

People said Korea is a grave of famous global companies such as Wal-mart, Nokia Carrefour, Nestlé,and Google. MySpace also quits their business in here.
Youtube is not exception. It was opened in one year ago with promotion of Steve Chen, co-founder of Youtube, visited Korea. During one year, Youtube seems nice growth but, it still struggles [...]

Wednesday February 4, 2009 21:14

NHN earned 860 million dollars in 2008

NHN announced earning surprise of 2008 year with increasing over 30% sales and income compared with 2007. According to corporate earning presentation, the total sales in 2008 reached 8.6 hundred million US dollars and net income did 2.6 hundred million US dollars. It was just discounted because of weaken Korean won.

2008
2007
Amount Increased
Rate(%)

Sales
1,208,126,638
920,208,853
287,917,785
31.29

Operating Income
491,174,801
389,491,413
101,683,388
26.11

Net profit [...]

Wednesday February 4, 2009 18:01

Myspace closes Korean version

Myspace Korean version officially will be closed in Feb. 18th. According to news media, Korean branch was managed by Fox Interactive, but it will be shut down in Korea too.

Myspace was launched Korean version in very enthusiastically in Apr. 15th, 2008. Chris DeWolfe, Myspace CEO who was visiting Korea, delivered a keynote at several [...]

Monday December 29, 2008 06:53

Barack Obama vs. Roh, Moohyun

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 [...]

Sunday December 21, 2008 04:25

Low attention for Asian web 2.0 blogs

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 [...]

Thursday December 18, 2008 23:58

Korean Applications in iPhone Appstore

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 [...]

Wednesday October 1, 2008 04:05

Korean Web 2.0 Logotype 2

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 [...]