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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, [...]

Naaroo.com is public on May. 15.
Naaroo.com, RSS based blog search engine was released. Many IT opinion leaders have been interested in new search engine after exit of 1noon.

Revu 2.0 on May. 14
Revu has been changed from review search to social shopping service in this upgrade. It focused on shopping recommendation based on social knowledges. [...]

Tomorrow the Web 2.0 Expo will be held at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Over 50 korean people will be participated in this event. It was only three korean people in Web 2.0 Conference in 2005. How many people are interested in Web 2.0? It’s incredible.
After first introduction of Web2.0 in 2005, many people have [...]

The 2nd. Web2.0 Korea Conference was held on Mar. 28th in Seoul following last year event. This conference was hosted by BizDeli, a expert IT conference company, so it had very traditional conference style, a lecture, a lecture and so on. So some participators blamed it’s conference 1.0 style to talk Web 2.0.

Also all [...]

The widget became the new battle field to occupy priority between Internet and desktop. Two commonly referred to type of widgets are the Yahoo! Widgets and the Dashboard widgets of Apple Macintosh. Microsoft refers to them as Gadgets both in Windows Vista and the Windows Live system. And Google has given APIs to make [...]

Update-
YouTube opened a Korean-language version site Wednesday, joining the already jam-packed video-sharing Web service market in Korea.
The Korean YouTube site faces a daunting mission in competing against locally grown services from Daum, Pandora TV and Afreeca. Tricky censorship regulations and skeptical sentiment toward foreign Internet firms will also become a hurdle to success for [...]

David Sifry, CEO of Technorati announced analysis for the blogosphere. According to results, japanese and chinese blogs are increasing and over english blog.

But, there are not no korean part in blogosphere as measured by Technorati. David wrote that Korean blogs are not tracked by Technorati and that Korean blogs are grossly underrepresented. David explained [...]

What are korean favorite web sites rignt now? I made a chart to compare a result by four research company. Results are as following.

I will briefly introduce them by categories for each websites.
Internet Portal
Naver(Focused on search, NHN’s property), Daum(Mail, community and news), Nate/Cyworld(Social network), Yahoo! Korea(News and search), Emaps(Search), Paran(owned by KT), Dreamwiz.
E-commerce
Auction(owned by Ebay), [...]