Tuesday July 31, 2007 14:54
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 [...]
Friday July 27, 2007 13:23
A Korean famous blogger, Danny Kim started new blog TechnoKimchi to write on digital generation in Asia especially focused on Korea young people enjoyed wired life.
His Korean blog has over 5,000 subscribers and popular to Web 2.0 mania. He studied in Cornell University and worked in Samsung SDS as a system engineer.
Recently [...]
Wednesday July 18, 2007 16:51
The Korean first meta-blog site, BlogKorea.org will be relaunched braking a gap of two years in July 17, 2007. The meta-blog site means news style-blog gateway based on blogger’s subscription and crawling of their RSS feeds. It started in 2003 and most of early bloggers registered BlogKorea.org. Its outset is concerned by many blogger [...]
Thursday July 5, 2007 21:45
Who does search the keyword of “Web 2.0″ in the world? Surprisingly it was Korean according to a result of Google Trends in 2006. Of course, South Korea and Seoul were also highly ranked in this period.
But, I thought it was bias caused by the result of rare ordinary people. (Google is just under [...]
Sunday July 1, 2007 15:11
It’s one of episodes in Seoul Digital Forum. I think SDF was very expensive conference as much as Web 2.0 Summit, but it was based on free invitation only. Chris Anderson’s speech was impressed me too, in fact I met him and heard his long tail speech in Ebay Developer Conference in last year.
But this [...]
Thursday June 28, 2007 18:52
Eric Schmidt CEO of Google gave a special speech in Seoul Digital Forum. Check out my brief coverage. After speech, one of attendance asked to him what he think about Web 3.0.
He said web 2.0 is marketing term, but he indicated there is new trends in view of web applications. His view of web applications [...]
Monday June 25, 2007 18:49
The web 2.0 boomup unerringly reached in Korea in early 2006 from Silicon Valley. It is pregnant for me as a technical issue such as open standards and open source with the participation and distributed web contents as a platform. But, many people thought it’s another marketing term to sell as like dot-com bubble. [...]
Wednesday June 20, 2007 00:16
Do you want to know Microsoft web strategy in Korea? It’s chance that The ReMIX Korea was held on June. 19th by Microsoft Korea. Remix is after event in the world sharing local experiences and results of Mix 2007 in Vegas of this year. Especially it was free for all IT industry people, so over [...]
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