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The Daum Pie is very unique service sharing photos. Someone makes a frame as like puzzle so called “Pie” for specific theme, anyone puts photo to fix in a frames. If every frames are done by people, the Pie completed. So Pie can be called a collaborative photo sharing service. Daum started this site on [...]

Lycos owned by korean internet portal, Daum announced new email service with 3GB storage. This is the top of email stroage in the world. In future Lycos will up the limit to 5 GB of storage. With the new LYCOS Mail, users can now email photos, videos, music files and more in one message. Big [...]

Tistory starts closed beta services. It is blog hosting services with strategic partnership between Tattertools, a famous blog software written PHP and Daum Comminications, the largest internet portal in Korea. It’s similar with MovableType on Yahoo! Web Hosting. Yahoo! also offers hosting service of WordPress. But, there is a different thing compared with Yahoo!. Tistory [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Daum released unofficial open api for blog users. It is currently implemented for XML-RPC and all XML-RPC requests should go to the following URI: http://blog.daum.net/_blog/XMLRPC.do. It’s not compatible with Blogger API or MetaWeb API, but it offers many functions for blogging.
Method lists
daum.blog.newPost.execute
daum.blog.editPost.execute
daum.blog.newComment.execute
daum.blog.newTrackback.execute
daum.blog.newPosts.execute
You can refer to http://blog.daum.net/flowerguy/1415795

Ajax givies rich experiences for users using web applications. There are many examples including Gmail, Google Maps, Google Suggests and others.
There is first case of Ajax in Korea. It is the adress book of Hanmail service in Daum. This project finished in July 2005. You can see screen cast for Ajax operation [...]

The Daum RSS.net is first korean web based RSS reader services offered by Daum Communications (KOSDAQ 035720, owner of Lycos.com). Unfortunately only daum user can access its homepage. Screenshot it as following.

The RSS.net offers same functions with Bloglines and is easy to read rss feeds. But, there are some controversy about copyright in [...]