Slow Streaming, Fast Internet

Finally streaming video is coming – if you believe in Apple. “YouTube and Flip are already big players in this young space, and the logical competitive move for Apple is to make personal media deliverable and accessible anytime, anywhere. That means in the next few years, we’re likely to see video cameras with live-streaming software [...]

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Korea 2.0 – The Internet Galapagos?

What’s happening in South Korea 2.0 in 2009? “Ten years ago, Korea was an innovation powerhouse in the web industry – The country was filled with entrepreneurship and was churning out some of the most interesting web services before any other countries did. But these days Korea-born innovations are hard to come by. On the [...]

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Virtual Clothes to E-pets

Profit from virtual money: “Asians spend an estimated $5 billion a year on virtual purchases via websites such as Qzone, Cyworld in South Korea and mobile-phone based network Gree in Japan, according to Plus Eight Star. That’s about 80 percent of the global market for virtual products, it says.” (China Daily) Status-orientated: “East Asian societies [...]

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