Wednesday May 3, 2006 06:16
Naver launched Naver Blink, a social bookmark service for blog posts. Blink is based tagging, but it guides four actions to make tags to 1) like, 2) buy, 3) do something and 4) go somewhere. User can make tag to do “web 2.0 study” or buy “digital camera”. In fact, most of blog posts in [...]
Monday May 1, 2006 02:07
Welcome to the koreacrunch.com renamed my old blog of “Channy’s Web 2.0 in Korea”. This blog was my priavte blog in english because, as you know, it’s my poor english. In fact, there were small stories until Jan. Oneday Mr. Adam Kightley ask me why I didn’t update my blog. Wow, there was a reader! [...]
Saturday April 15, 2006 04:23
The Daum Blog with 2 million blogs added personal video publishing in their blog site. It freely accepts to upload a video source under 100MB and offer an unlimited streaming. So it becomes to be popular for bloggers to limit bandwidth in their hosting company and they make a second blog in Daum. Already Naver [...]
Thursday March 9, 2006 01:31
SK Communications owner of Cyworld has acquired Egloos for KRW 1.5 billion (US$1.5 million). SK Communications is subsidiary company of SK Telecom, the biggest telecommunication company in Korea. It has four services, 1) Nate.com (portal) 2) Cyword (social networking) 3) NateOn (messenger) over MSN messenger 4) Tong (web page scrapping).
Egloos is the leading independent blog [...]
Tuesday March 7, 2006 01:29
The famous korean blogging tool, Tattertools decided to go to open source. Mr. Noh, Jungseok, CEO of Tatter&Company announced GPL Lincense of Tattertools ver. 1.0.3. Tattertools has many 3rd party contributor such as developing plugin and producing theme(skin). He commented the company doesn’t have any plan to make a money for selling blog tool [...]
Thursday January 19, 2006 12:53
Flickr was famous Web 2.0 success story with tagging and sharing of photo images. The success of Flickr and Del.icio.us is originated by minor passionate users to share filtering informations. In Korea, Photo sharing is common services in various blog services. Egloos and Naver Blog also added photo log service.
There is a unique service [...]
Thursday December 8, 2005 11:58
Daum announced a news section operated by blogger’s articles in its own news site, Media Daum that is one of the top news aggregation service that most of Korean read online news.
It consists of the section for full news articles of traditional media including TV, magazines and newspapers offered by supply contract with fee and [...]
Saturday November 19, 2005 11:59
Egloos gives Blog API based on XML-RPC. Its spec is same with Blogger API and MetaWeblogAPI.
The XML-RPC url is as following:
http://rpc.egloos.com/rpc1
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