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Naver KnowledgeIN
Naver is the largest korean portal site in Korea based on search engine, one of NHN Corp. (KOSDAQ 035420) It started from venture incubation in Samsung SDS in 1999. It was one of search engines in...
View ArticleNaver : Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Business Model
Dion Hinchcliffe got NHN’s search service, Naver.com example of Creating real business value with Web 2.0 on his ZDNet blog. …Companies using Web 2.0-style techniques for business advantage: NHN’s...
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Naver Search API
Naver, the korean largest search engine based portal started to offer their search results to RSS format. You can refer to Naver Open API sites. They offer search results of KnowledgeIN, blog, book,...
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Naver Blink
Naver launched Naver Blink, a social bookmark service for blog posts. Blink is based tagging, but it guides four actions to make tags to 1) like, 2) buy, 3) do something and 4) go somewhere. User can...
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Yahoo! learned Korea. But…
Recently Google presented own future strategy to stock analysts. Also Yahoo hosts Yahoo! Analyst Day with Semel and all of core managers of Yahoo! You can download presentation files. In summary, they...
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Naver’s Ajax based Map Service
I wrote Korea has been served the interactive map service made by ActiveX and Java applet by broadband and IE exclusive environment in my A Mashup with Google and Korean Map. Unfortunately Firefox...
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Ijji.com, NHN’s game portal in US
NHN has announced plans to launch Ijji.com, a premier Internet game destination this fall for the American market. NHN’s properties ranked #1 in Naver in search portal and Hangame in game portal in...
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NHN buys 1noon for $36.5 million
NHN announced it had bought out local search engine company 1noon for 35 billion won (36.5 million dollars). It was great news on korean IT business in yesterday. There was no acquisition examples in...
View ArticleStory Telling on the Map
Did you visit a famous place and take pictures? You had a delicious dinner in a beautiful restaurant? Or did you have a worst place to avoid it? You can make a story on map. You can make it on Cyworld...
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Naver Maps API Released
Naver Open API announced Korean Maps API. It’s first thing to offer local map by service provider in Korea. (maybe in the world?) It resembles Google Maps API by Naver Maps API overview. You can catch...
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Naver Knowledge vs. Yahoo! Answers API
Yahoo! Answers released knowledge API today for developers to access Y!A database. The Yahoo’s knowledge database has been growing in the world except korean market. Naver was first mover with typical...
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Partnership of Naver and ThinkFree
Thinkfree made a strategic partnership with Naver on September 28th. 2006. As you know, Thinkfree is famous web office service providers against Microsoft Office in US. Its service has focused on...
View ArticleNaver Blog, New UX
Naver‘s new blog service season2 was developed for ultimate freedom of customization, more specialty functions, easier channel to latest technologies. Presently, there are two main types of blogs...
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Mashup Camp! Wrap-up
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...
View ArticleAllblog disconnects to Naver
Allblog made a bombshell announcement to end stategic partnership with Naver. It has offered registered feed data to Naver search engine by a contract between Allblog and Naver. So many blogs...
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Google copied Naver
Some of Korean bloggers reported screenshots of search result bucket test Google Korea. Especially it is very similiar with search results of local competitors such as Naver and Daum. It was more...
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Naver Integrated Search
Even though Google, web search giant conquers all search world, there is exceptional country. In Korea, Naver became David against Goliath. What’s different Naver from Google and How’s different Korea...
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Daum gains 20% share in search market
Daum, the #2 largest Internet portal in Korea gains 20% share in Korean search market. As you know, Korea is one of Google failed countries against local search engine. Google is still behind others in...
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NHN earned 860 million dollars in 2008
NHN announced earning surprise of 2008 year with increasing over 30% sales and income compared with 2007. According to corporate earning presentation, the total sales in 2008 reached 8.6 hundred...
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Online Aerial, Panorama and Indoor photography
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....
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