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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The SpringNote is wiki style compatible semantic WYSIWYG editor.
Most of HTML editors expressed just style such as bold, italic and heading. But, it can save a note to XHTML basic 1.1 format.

So the Springnote can make really semantic and well-formed contents. It supports moinmoin syntax and transfers from Wiki to XHTML format in [...]

In Korean bloggosphere, two similar sites become popular at the same time. They are Me2day.net and Playtalk.net that represent the social micro-blogging such as Jaiku.com and Twitter.com. It’s very simple whereas most of blogging tools have somehow complex.
After registration through Open ID or email address, you can start microblogging with one or two sentence. It [...]

The MyID.net is first OpenID service in Korea. You can freely make OpenID without using abroad service. It’s first prototype of Openmaru Studio that was invested by NCSoft, the Korean famous online game “Lineage” company.
The Openmaru studio was started with famous developers from Ajax and Open Source community and product manager from Daum, [...]