Tag: Blog

Restart of blogging

by Channy Yun on Sep.28, 2008, under Uncategorized

It's almost one and a half years to stop blogging Koreacrunch.com. There was no special reason to do that and just wanted to focus on my job of open APIs evangelism for Daum's 3rd party developers and writing my Korean blog with over 6,000 readers. I guess you may get informations from Web2.0 Asia and Technokimchi.com. I decided to restart blogging with new prospects not to cover only Korean news that treats less important relatively. I regretted topics were limited in myself in this blog. There have been my own thoughts about global IT news, but I didn't treated them. Also ...
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TechnoKimchi gears up.

by Channy Yun on Jul.27, 2007, under Web2.0

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 he took decisive action to quit his job and swings to full time blogger after his brave journey. He wrote why he starts new blog as followings: But, here's what's important. The gap between the young generation in East and West is closing. The reason is ...
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BlogKorea.org relaunched

by Channy Yun on Jul.18, 2007, under Profile

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 ...
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Allblog disconnects to Naver

by Channy Yun on May.09, 2007, under Uncategorized

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 ...
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Naaroo, Attention Search

by Channy Yun on Apr.08, 2007, under Profile

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 development of Naver's early search engine. As you know, Naver with social and expert database has over 70% market share in search not to be broken by Google and Yahoo. After first challenge of Chutnoon, it is second one with only search engine functions. (The ...
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Why Japanese is strong in Technorati?

by Channy Yun on Apr.07, 2007, under Uncategorized

David Sifry reported the latest statistics for global blogosphere in April, 2007. He has announced the collection result based on Technorati in every quarter. In this report, the top language of blog posts was japanese. In terms of blog posts by language, Japanese retakes the top spot from our last report, with 37% (up from 33%) of the posts followed closely by English at 36% (down from 39%). Additionally there was movement in the middle of the top 10 languages, highlighted by Italian overtaking Spanish for the number four spot. It seems as if japanese is the top of blogosphere in the ...
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Me2day and Playtalk, Social Microblogging

by Channy Yun on Mar.10, 2007, under Profile

In Korean bloggosphere, two smiliar sites become popular at the sametime. They is 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 sentense. It doesn't permit photos, quotation and long text except link and comments. One can use this as like a tool for time-based diary. Also, it offers social networking to add friends and comment with one sentence too. So many users can give a comment to new user who ...
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Naver Blog, New UX

by Channy Yun on Jan.07, 2007, under Uncategorized

Naver's new blog service season2 was developed for ultimate freedom of customization, more specialty functions, easier channel to latest technologies. Presently, there are two main types of blogs available. A web-based hosted blogging service and an installed blog using tool such program like Tattertools and WordPress. When using the web provided blog service, users are limited only to features it provides. Naturally, active bloggers prefer for more ease of use and flexibility, apt to go with blogtool programs over using blog sites. As following is teaser advertisement for Naver Blog Season 2. You can say that Naver's season2 is a web-based blog service ...
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