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As most of subscribers of this blog know my job in company, I'm web technical evangelist to offer Web APIs and support 3rd party developers and affiliates such as Yahoo! Developers Network and Google Code. I organized Daum Developers Night to hack APIs and make prototype using them such as widgets, plug-ins and mashups. There was a similar event, Open Hack Day. Accidentally the day is same with Google Developers Day in 10 cities of the world on May 31th. 2007. Some of Korean bloggers and reporters were invited to Mountain View and most people of Google Korea attended in Tokyo ...

After mash-up opportunity sponsored by Daum DNA and Naver OpenAPI, it will be increased raw materials for mashup food. Startup companies make their own OpenAPIs and share them to all developers. SpringNote APIs: http://dev.springnote.com/ You can add and edit your own pages in SpringNote. Me2day APIs: http://codian.springnote.com/pages/89009 You can post articles to Me2day. Lifepod APIs: http://www.lifepod.co.kr/api You can add your schedules and sharing them with each others It's an evidence to prove that many startup services think the open platform is very useful and important to gather user's data and distribute them. I hope more mash-up examples with brilliant ideas to mix them.

The Daum and Naver were co-hosted the Korea Mashup Contest 2007 that find out good services mashed by Open APIs. For unfamiliar developers about Open APIs, there was Mashup camp in Yonsei Univ., Seoul on Feb 25th and KAIST in Daejeon. on Mar. 1th. Before the noon, API developers of Daum and Naver directly instructed over 70 participators about transaction of XML-RPC, REST and parsing of RSS, JSON and XML. After lunch, there are small five project to practice mash-up coding using Daum and Naver's APIs. Most of participators enjoyed talking and coding with API developers and made a good results ...