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Flickr launched new localization service with 7 languages including Korean on June 13th. It seems that was supported by Yahoo! Korea’s production team, but is it possible to return Flickr from Cyworld users?

Maybe not. Already most people has shared their photos Naver Photo as well Cyworld. Anyway I’m very glad to see korean Flickr [...]

After success of BarCamp Seoul in last year, many people requested BarCampSeoul2 again. Many people wanted to enjoy sharing of various subjects, so I cooperated with guys of Daum Foundation that is interested in NGO movement for IT culture and society.
They contacted and gathered various participators. So we had the chance to think more [...]

Naaroo.com is public on May. 15.
Naaroo.com, RSS based blog search engine was released. Many IT opinion leaders have been interested in new search engine after exit of 1noon.

Revu 2.0 on May. 14
Revu has been changed from review search to social shopping service in this upgrade. It focused on shopping recommendation based on social knowledges. [...]

Today 72 hours conversations was started between Microsoft and Web in Las Vegas. Ray Ozzie, a keynote speaker of Mix07 turned over all of his best cards of “service softwares for user experience” to be prepared. I saw all of keynote and demonstrations via 500kb live streaming in my home in Korea, and felt fresh [...]

Microsoft’s Mix07 is coming soon. In last Microsoft Tech Summit, Loke Uei and Clark Butler showed a demonstration of QR code with Windows Mobile to guide conference rooms in Mix07.

If you participate in Mix07, you’ve better learn it.

Lifepod is Ajax based calendar service such as Google Calendar developed by Mr. Kibae Shin. It targets Korean users that want to use localized personal calendar service. Its idea is not unique, but one guy just made it as his own proto-type and many bloggers have been interested in his development story.

It offers ajax [...]

Another challenge for the search market was active by Naaroo.com, Attention search engine. It is based on Onnet that made Fish, a desktop RSS reader and Egloos, blog service acquired by SK Communications.
It was famous to join some of early search developers, Dr. Younghoon Kim and Dr. Younghwan Cho in Korea. They participated in the [...]

Daum announced AdClix, the contextual advertisement system as similar with Google AdSense. It is the beta service for users of Daum Blog and independent bloggers with WordPress, Tattertools and so on. Although Daum made a strategic partnership with Google in this area, Daum did own one.

It’s very similar with Google AdSense’s system, but it [...]