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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 fans who miss old friend. In 2004, the number of registered bloggers is over 3000 and there were the latest new article by unique bloggers. It was different from foreign blog search engine such as Technorati or IceRocket. Even though all of them are based ...

Allblog made a bombshell announcement to end stategic partnership with Naver. It has offered registered feed data to Naver search engine by a contract between Allblog and Naver. So many blogs registered in Allblog were showed in searh results in Naver. Most of them are independent blogs such as Tattertools, Wordpress and Egloos. Before offering of Allblog, Naver's blog search was limited to own blogs. But, Allblog often complained the low ranking rather than Naver's own blogs in search result. They thought it's result of artificial editing by Naver and often claimed these problems. But, Naver's reaction was not transparent and ...

Altos Ventures in Silicon Valley invested Blogcocktail Inc. that runs Allblog.net which provides search and community service for bloggers in Korea. The Altos got 10% stocks paying 0.5 million dollars. Pandora.TV, a leading video sharing service already was invested by Altos Ventures in 2005.

The Allblog is the korean meta blog site. It's simliar with Technorati based on blogger's subscription model. But, Allblog treats a blog entry as like news article so it looks like newspaper site. As you know, Technorati is based on blog search services. Allblog offer various good functions for bloggers. 1) signboard: one promotes own short thought and story within 10 words. 2) Popular entry: you can see top ten papular entry in realtime within 2 hours and yesterday. 3) Podcast: you can hear only podcast feed from Medialog menu. Also you can see korean tags, korean ...