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Nate, Naver (NHN), and even Yahoo Korea have started launching some so-called Web 2.0 format services. The most interestingone called "BLINK" service (like blog...its just the word "web" and "link" put together).
Nate launched their blink service last month and NHN just launched last week. Yahoo has been running "hub" search for a while now (I think I posted about that)...but its since evolved since I checked and seems to fall under this same reshaping towards Web 2.0 type formats (HUB search beta is now in the prime spot at Yahoo Korea).
I haven't really used much it yet, but visually its a feast for sure. Blink is basically like a tag cloud on tons of steriods and very much just focused on community and blogs. An open(esque) format smells of more controlled wiki (using very fancy proprietary modules and features of the portals of course). Blink pages allow users to put ANY web site (regardless of format or location) together in group of links (again, looking like a tag cloud here).
Apparently in only one week since launch at Naver, 120,000 blog posting in almost 10,000 blink pages were created.
that's not bad at all. I don't imagine this curbing off too considering Naver has over 6 million unique registered blogs/gers.
some of the portal big wigs are already making claims of this being the new leading Web trend-- saying that its a much more reliable and relevant results than search engines.
Personalize portals have been growing fast here under the same notions.... think Personalized Google... only with 239048230489032 more features and it actually looks good.
but that's another story.
Blink and mini-portals are definitely going to be worth keeping track of. And with all the interest in China nowadays, people are beginning more and more to see Korea as nice test bed or benchmark. About bloody time!
Web 2.0 starts here.
so sayeth GrendelKhan{TSU}
How do these BLINK sites differ from the MySpace-type sites you talked about before? Are they complementary? Can they be integrated?
some of the portal big wigs are already making claims of this being the new leading Web trend-- saying that its a much more reliable and relevant results than search engines.
