Tag: Daum

Online Aerial, Panorama and Indoor photography

by Channy Yun on Aug.03, 2009, under Geospatial Web

Google has innovated online geospatial service as like Google Maps with high quality satellite images, street view, oceanic exploration and Google Earth with 3D images and SketchUP in global scale. They were brilliant ideas and many people were impressed. But, recently Korean web service made another remarkable map services in local scale. Daum and Naver invested many money to build these high quality service too. Aerial Photography Daum launched new map features "road view" and "sky view" on January in this year. The image of sky view is converted into high-resolution aerial photography, with the restaurant's roof, driveway and the sea becoming ...
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Youtube still struggles in Korea

by Channy Yun on Feb.06, 2009, under Business, Trends

People said Korea is a grave of famous global companies such as Wal-mart, Nokia Carrefour, Nestlé,and Google. MySpace also quits their business in here. Youtube is not exception. It was opened in one year ago with promotion of Steve Chen, co-founder of Youtube, visited Korea. During one year, Youtube seems nice growth but, it still struggles amang Korean big players. In last year, online video market was dramatically changed in Korea. Video startups such as Pandora.tv and Mncast.com have been pressed by high cost to manage servers and network traffic because of high quality video upload and download over 700kpbs. At ...
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Daum gains 20% share in search market

by Channy Yun on Feb.03, 2009, under Trends

Daum, the #2 largest Internet portal in Korea gains 20% share in Korean search market. As you know, Korea is one of Google failed countries against local search engine. Google is still behind others in Russia, the Czech Republic, Korea, China and Japan. Yandex, Seznam, Naver, Baidu and Yahoo! Japan are all the leaders in each of these nations respectively. Naver has still dominated 75% market share and reached 10 times profit compared with Daum's. According to Comscore's report, NHN was also #5 search engine in the world. But, Daum caught up Naver slowly and maintained 20% share from August, 2008. On ...
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Daum Open ID

by Channy Yun on Jul.13, 2007, under Uncategorized

Daum launched Open ID Beta service to provide Open ID account to its users in July 13th, 2007. Daum has over 56 million Hanmail accounts. Everyday most of Korean over 7 million people logged in Daum to read their email and news articles. So it is very big news to Open ID ecosystem in the world. Daum gives a type of http://openid.daum.net/myid URL format as well ones blog URL such as http://blog.daum.net/myid. Daum Open ID sites is also secures with EV SSL cetificates.
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