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The WZD.com is one of personalization portal in Korea as like Google's personal start page service or Netvibes. It made by Wizard Works (domestic venture college students). They just introduced its beta version through its site on the 14th. September. They have offered the closed beta service since June, 2006. It provides RSS feeds and web widget and the widget search provides seven different search engines from Google, Naver, Daum etc. When comparing MS live.com only offering its MSN search and Google with its Google search only the wzd.com clearly shows distinct advantage over other sites. Especially Wizard works pointed out ...

Was not failed personalization? It's in fashion interactive personalization services with Ajax and RSS feeds. In past, the portal based personalization was closed and aggregated informations in portal. But, a new thing is opened. There are many kinds of services such as Netvibes, Google Ig, MSN Live (aka, Start.com) and My Yahoo!. Yozmn Yozmn is a personalization home page that can be added and mixed of various contents such as news, audio, video and search from RSS feeds. Yozmn means "right now" or "nowadays" in Korean. A front page can be resized and reordered each item by Ajax functions. It gives ...

Nate.com owner of Cyword started two beta services. One is Mini Channel, a social bookmark service similar with del.icio.us. But, it targets ordinary people who are good at pop-up based cute interfaces of Cyworld. Someone can make own mini channel and add and share bookmarks with others. Also it accepts to add a bookmark to other's channel. Mini channel is categorized and distributed by channel's index not tag, so a reputation of a channel owner is more important to judge a value of informations. The other is My Nate, personalized page similar with Windows Live. It is possible to do ...