KoreaCrunch

In May 2006, I made Korean Web 2.0 Logo type gathering Web 2.0 startup service in Korea from 2005 to 2006. After that, I updated some of web services in my blog, but most of them in 2007 and 2008 weren't done my blank time. I searched new web services except big portals and gathered them again. Over 70 sites were made from 2007 to 2008. Compared with Silicon Valley, it's very small. I'll make a brief introduction for most of new services with above logos. You can see first logotype in May 2006 too.

I was at Future of Web Apps Conference in the last week, Miami Beach. It gave the chance to hear various technical workshops and latest web application technologies and examples from famous startups such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Pownce and WorePress. It was very good time for me. Also I attended BarCamp Miami and presented "Why not Web 2.0 in Korea?" that explains no boom-up status of Web 2.0 in Korea and why you check out Korea continually. | View | Upload your own Some people already knows Naver and Cyworld, but there is no famous successful startups although Korea has ...

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 ...

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 ...

I introduced various online video sharing sites in last year. Even though Korea was developed in broadband, there were mostly payable VOD and web casting sites in Korea. The video sharing service needed high cost of network bandwidth and server systems including encoding and distribution. So most of service providers mind to enter this market. After the success of YouTube, many of service providers started to enter this area such as portal sites. Now there are two separating providers: one is the video section service of portal sites and the other is independent service providers. The former is Daum TVPot, ...

The web 2.0 boomup unerringly reached in Korea in early 2006 from Silicon Valley. It is pregnant for me as a technical issue such as open standards and open source with the participation and distributed web contents as a platform. But, many people thought it's another marketing term to sell as like dot-com bubble. So they highly criticized very expensive conference organizers and invited speakers to talk about Web 2.0. In Korea, many people web 2.0 is not new one any more because Korean web sites already have induced user-participated services such as Iloveschool (Korean Facebook), Cyworld (Korean MySpace ...

Flickr launched new localization service with 7 languages including Korean on June 13th. It seems that was supported by Yahoo! Korea's production team, but is it possible to return Flickr from Cyworld users? Maybe not. Already most people has shared their photos Naver Photo as well Cyworld. Anyway I'm very glad to see korean Flickr as an user. Skype was promoted by Auction, the branch of Ebay in Korea. Most of Korean don't know what Skype is. There are many messaging solutions in Korea such as high usages of moblie phone & SMS, instant messaging with Nateon Messenger offering free ...

I was invited and joined Seoul Digital Form on May 29-31th hosted by SBS, one of korean TV companies. This annual forum has focused on convergence traditional media and online environment. In this year, there are many leading invited speakers including Eric Schmidt and Chris Anderson. I only heard Eric and Chris's speaking but, most of them is very useful not only to Korean, but to all. You can watch VOD service in home page, but you must have user id and ActiveX plugin for playing. As following is direct links of major VOD services. (Please click left "Korean" button ...