KoreaCrunch

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 service provider in Korea. You can think Egloos is equivalent to Typepad or Wordpress in the US. Egloos has close to 150,000 users and has approximately 10,000 posts uploaded everyday by their loyal users. Egloos is definitely a major upgrade to SK ...

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

Egloos is the leading independent blog service provider in Korea. I guess you can say Egloos is equivalent to Typepad or Wordpress.com in the US. Egloos has close to 150,000 users and has approximately 10,000 posts uploaded everyday by their loyal users. Its name came from the ice house of Eskimo, "igloo". It is the service known as "weblog" or "blog" helping people write personal diary, articles, ideas and link good sites or multimedia data to their EGLOOS. So EGLOOS means personal blog service. EGLOOS concepts are "independent" style from service company, "easy" way to handle ...