http://koreacrunch.com The Korean Web 2.0 update by Channy Yun Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:00:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The new startup incubator program was made by Primer Group, a entrepreneurship and business management evangelism. Also the Demoday of Primer Summer Enternship Program was held in Microsoft Korea on August 31th, 2010. This is the new entrepreneur internship of twelve teams to be interested in making new startup and ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/primer-enternship-program The HTML5 has been a famous technology by the promotion of Google and debates on Flash in iPhone between Steve Jobs and Adobe. Most of modern web browsers have supported not only HTML5 itself including new markup as like canvas, audio/video and webform but also surrounding technologies including various JavaScript ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/html5-getting-popular-in-korea Wired magazine titled cover story of "The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet.” which the Web is being sinking by a world of closed platform as like iPhone or Xbox and the users prefer dedicated platforms, designed specifically for mobile screens. Most of reaction in this story are ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/document-web-was-dead Korean President Lee, Myung-bak surprisingly debuted Twitter's world. The Blue house of Korea has own verified account @BluehouseKorea, but he didn't send a tweet himself. Today he visited online communication team and sent his tweets himself and replied to several mentions by people. He wanted to type a keyboard by himself ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/korean-president-debuted-twitter Two years ago, Google acquired a Korean startup, TNC with Textcube.com, open source based blogging platform similar with Wordpress.com. After the announcement of acquisition, there were two prospects recovering local search power with blogging service and giving synergy effects to blogger.com. But, Google noticed Textcube.com will be integrated to Blogger ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/google-textcube-goes-to-deadpool At last, half a million Apple iPhones have sold in Korea by the end of this month. The phones were an instant hit as soon as they belatedly hit the Korean market on Nov. 28, 2009 and sales remain at some 4,000 a day. The phones sold over 500,000 in ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/iphone-was-sold-half-a-million-in-korea MindTouch has developed a top 20 list of the most powerful voices in open-source, compiled using Twitter and other sources. Most of the people on the list will be of no surprise to veterans of the open-source world. Notables include Tim O'Reilly, Chris Messina and Jonathan Schwartz. But, surprisingly I ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/humbled-in-mindtouchs-top-20-list-of-open-source Before reading! There is no need to move Buzz to Twitter. After activating Buzz in Gmail, it seems almost a clone of FriendFeed. Google designed Buzz as an integrator of social streams. I guess you add just one stream FriendFeed to Buzz. Today Google released Google Buzz, the Gmail based ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/how-to-move-google-buzz-to-twitter-automatically At last, iPhone officially launched in Korea on Nov. 28th, 2009. iPhone consumers lined up at midnight to be among the first in the country to get their hands on it in front of launching event place. Hundreds of people began to stand in line from midnight in front of Jamsil ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/at-last-iphone-launched-in-korea It was globally released Windows 7, the new operation system of Microsoft On Oct. 22th. There were several funny episode to do. Linux's Celebration for Windows 7 in Japan Microsoft tried to torpedo the success of the Japan Linux Symposium by launching their Windows 7 product that same day. They even ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/funny-happenings-of-windows-7-release I have engaged Northeast Asia Open Source Software promotion Forum was formed by China, Korea and Japan governments and regional organizations for Open source software promotion. Because there were many issues of web interoperability in north east Asia, it have been hard to promote open source web browsers based on ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/web-interoperability-on-north-east-asia Daum Communications Corp. decided to give iPhone 3GS to all employees as a gift. Daum.net is 2nd internet portal site and owner of Lycos.com in US. Of course, iPhone hasn’t yet launched in South Korea. If it is released, this plan will be processed. Its plan includes 2 years guaranteed ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/daum-gives-iphone-to-all-employees BlogTalk 2009 was successfully finished with over 60 international attendees. We enjoyed good presentations from various areas as well warm weather and good meals. We're offering videos, photos and presentation for you in purpose of sharing information. Find out results Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/blogtalk2009 Presentations: http://www.slideshare.net/tag/blogtalk2009 Videos: http://www.viddler.com/explore/blogtalk/videos/ http://koreacrunch.com/archive/wrap-up-of-blogtalk-2009 I spent the whole summer making good conference, Blog Talk Asia 2009 as I posted before. On temporary retirement from office, I'm studying in Ph.D course in SNU and my lab is organizing this conference too. Fortunately many people are interested in social web and media, so good talks were proposed ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/issac-mao-and-heonho-oh-in-blogtalk According to Rankey.com, one of Korean Internet survey services, it estimates that Twitter reached 0.6 million unique visitor per month in Korea. Especially its growth is remarkable from May to July. Red line indicates me2day.net, a small Korean microblogging startup acquired by Naver in this year. In July, me2day ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/twitter-crossing-the-chasm-in-korea Google has innovated online geospatial service as like Google Maps with high quality satellite images, street view, oceanic exploration and Google Earth with 3D images and SketchUP in global scale. They were brilliant ideas and many people were impressed. But, recently Korean web service made another remarkable map services in local ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/online-aerial-panorama-indoor-photography There was big news of partnership between Yahoo! and Microsoft. After the war of acquisition between Jerry Yang and Steve Ballmer, Yahoo got new woman CEO Carol Bartz and she finished remained problems that everyone minds. Most of news media wrote Yahoo! surrendered to Microsoft and Yahoo's stock was down. ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/victory-of-yahoo-employees Asiajin updated Japanese equivalent of western web services. You may know Japan and Korean are very different from western. It's different between Japan and Korea too. I listed up them to compare with Japan and western. Leave a comment if you want to know more or think one of ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/whats-the-korean-equivalent-of-enter-foreign-web-service Lift Asia 09 and Blog Talk 2009 will be held in Jeju, Korea in one week from 15th to 18th September. I engaged in both conferences as one of supporters. Lift Asia 09 will happen on 17th and 18th. The conference will be themed "Serious Fun!" and I ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/blogtalk-and-lift-asia-in-jeju Despite of launching iPhone in world wide before 2 years, Korean people still cannot use it. The WIPI was why iphone 3g couldn’t be launched in Korea. It was closed Korean national standard - “WIPI” that must be installed in all mobile devices to personal retails. So Apple rejected this ... http://koreacrunch.com/archive/recent-iphone-stories