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As followings are my article on SpreadFirefox.com Get Firefox Sticker Event over 1,000 people in one day. I visited Mozilla Office in my US trip for Where 2.0 and EbayDevcon. Paul gave me a roll of new firefox sticker as a gift. A number of sticker is about 1,000 pieces. I thought that half of them had better be given to earnest people in community. So I wrote this event in bulletin board of http://forums.mozilla.or.kr. When I waked in the morning of next day, I was very surprised to see requests. What happen? It's over 1000 people. (It's only about 2,000 people ...

I went to a business trip in US from Jun. 10th to Jun. 15th, 2006. This trip is for attending 5th Ebay Developers Conference in Las Vegas and Where 2.0 Conference in San Jose. Ebay Developers Conference I'm technical evangelist in Daum Communications owned Lycos.com. We have a platform strategy in communications, contents and commerce. We have number one properties in each area in Korea. It's similar with Ebay. I wanted to learn Ebay's developer support system and feel real scenes in spot. I was impressed for Ebay's developers to greet participators with loud applause when we enter a conference place in ...

Welcome to the koreacrunch.com renamed my old blog of "Channy's Web 2.0 in Korea". This blog was my priavte blog in english because, as you know, it's my poor english. In fact, there were small stories until Jan. Oneday Mr. Adam Kightley ask me why I didn't update my blog. Wow, there was a reader! I was very impressed for his comment. I am very happy to hear that you will write something in English again soon. I know it can be hard work to write in another language, so I am very grateful for any effort you make. I ...

The Korea Post Office decided to support Firefox on internet banking and started the developement project of XPCOM based internet banking system with Hyundai Information Technolgy, the famous system integration company in Korea. This project will finished in November from July and supported by KIPA's OSS Center. Most of country have used standard SSL protocol for internet banking. But, it have been used the plugin based internet banking (especially active-x plugin) in Korea. In past there were no web browsers for 128 bit encryption except Opera 3.5 for international users when Korea started internet banking services in 1998. It ...

It was held W3c Korea Workshop in ETRI Daejeon, Korea in June 26, 2005. This workshop was focused on web standard and it's application. Channy Yun from Daum Communication R&D Center has given a presentation on W3C trend and Korea. He described the current situation of Korean web and emphasized the importance of complying with the web standards. Korea has confronted with rapid development of internet industrialization which caused application development based on the web without referring W3C specifications. People's major concern was on cost and efficiency rather than web for everybody. This caused rapid spread of plug-ins which is ...