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Cyworld is one of very unique social network services in the world. Before Cyworld, there were a success case, ILoveSchool based on networking school alumni in 1999. So trying of new startup for SNS has been very rare. Recently there are new startup services for SNS such as LinkNow.kr, Hutory.net and People2.co.kr. I reviewed these in detail, but I couldn't find unique things compared with abroad SNS services. The Web 2.0 trend makes a duplication of ideas and innovations too such as a example of Germany. Korea is not except, Me2day and PlayTalk was on debate who copied ideas and concept ...

In Korean bloggosphere, two similar sites become popular at the same time. They are Me2day.net and Playtalk.net that represent the social micro-blogging such as Jaiku.com and Twitter.com. It's very simple whereas most of blogging tools have somehow complex. After registration through Open ID or email address, you can start microblogging with one or two sentence. It doesn't permit photos, quotation and long text except link and comments. One can use this as like a tool for time-based diary. Also, it offers social networking to add friends and comment with one sentence too. So many users can give a comment to new user ...

This article was written by PRAK. Mar.gar.in(pronounced as margarine) was launched in 26th November, 2006. As you can easily imagine by its hacked domain name, it has little something to do with the del.icio.us. The mar.gar.in claims that it starts as a Korean-version del.icio.us, aspiring to be koreanized del.icio.us and the ultimate social bookmarking for Korean at the end of the day. Language barrier has made Korean web sphere somewhat segregated from the rest of the world, and Korea has developed its own web world, comprised of Korean web pages, and distinct Korean web culture. Early attempts to transplant US business ...

New2.0 is a newly launched Korean social news website with an emphasis on in-depth conversation functionality and mutual respected atmosphere. Its style and user-interface resembles Digg.com. But, it only allows for people over 15 years old to register in it and summit a news and write a comment to keep the level of conversation between users. News2.0 does not want to cover provocative contents at all. As like other social news websites, news stories and web links are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. In Korea, it has been delivered full ...