Author: 조민희

Founder and CEO at www.rocketpunch.com

Use HTML in phpBB – Especially for YouTube

One of the most famous free community making tools – phpBB doesn’t allow HTML code after its version 3.0.
We can use HTML code after setting several options in phpBB’s Administrator Control Panel (= ACP) in version 2.xx but it have been totally disabled to use for security reasons.

 

So we have to make our own BBCode instead of using original HTML.

(See here : BBCode guide)

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How to make own YouTube BBCode?
1. Log-in as phpBB administrator
2. Administration Control Panel > Posting > BBCode > Add a new BBCode
3. BBCode Usage

4. HTML replacement

5. Help line

 


cf. Custom BBCodes
: Please be sure not to use parameter ‘{SIMPLETEXT}’ used there. phpBB 3.0 can’t understand that. Use ‘{TEXT}’ instead. I have suffered some problem with this. 🙂

Empas testing new music search service.

Empas acquired by SK Communications (the following, SK Coms) in June 2006.

SK Coms’ corporate parent is ‘SK Telecom (the following, SKT)’ which is no.1 mobile telecommunications operator in Korea.

With it great leading power in mobile business area and endless cash flow, SKT have acquired Cyworld 2003 and egloos in 2006 and made them business group under SK Coms.

Late 2006, many people were looking forward to seeing new services launched by SK Coms next year, because they already have juicy personal database and contents with its own web service Cyworld, Egloos.(As you know Cyworld have become the biggest community service ever in Korea since 2004.)

“Cyworld had database. Now it has search engine technology to use its database. Daum and Naver should be careful.”

This was common ideas among people in Web service business area.

But it was not that impressive. Search and news services make Cyworld have more rich contents but not that rich.

 

Many people disappointed. So did I.

 

I’m envious of Cyworld’s market position because of my personal interests in personalized service.

SK Coms scarcely show its real potentials with Empas.

I heard that some technical problem raying behind merging to service but anyway neo-Cyworld in 2007 was so disappointing. 

Yesterday I found interesting an event in Cyworld(Empas) – Search music with your feeling.

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Actually Empas have launched BGM search with its open search concept in 2005 but not that successful. There was similar concept BGM search service Qbox slightly opened ‘earlier’ than Empas.

New featured music search this March have some different factors than that old one.

1. No missing BGM links.

Later Empas BGM search find some missing BGM links. Owner of Cyworld minihome usually change his or her BGM frequently but update of indexed information of Empas couldn’t follow that.

This time it seems that the search engine system successfully merged with Cyworld music database. There are no missing links in my search result.

2. Bring concept of ‘feelings’.

Cyworld have had ‘Today is..?’ feature in minihome. Users can express their feeling with certain icons.

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This time ‘collaborative filtering’ used once again to find relationship between feeling and BGM. That algorithm already has been applied in music item shop to recommend BGM to users in Cyworld. 

Since ‘feeling’ is really subjective thing, it’s not easy to make conclusion whether ‘search with feeling’ working precisely or not.

Conclusion

I think SK Coms has good tactics in there days.

There recent ‘Cyworld People’ and ‘music search with feeling’ services are well focused on their strengths – the people and personalized data.

Irrelevant to its success, I will watch carefully what’s going on this new music search service.

(Actually speaking I really love music.)

The next step of Rebi search.

Original Post : Chunk View

My former company Rebi Search has disclosed its meaningful result of search engine prototype – Chunk View.

 

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Though I don’t know exactly about detailed research process after I left Rebi, I’m sure that this Chunk view promise people different web search result (= hope) with that of former search engines include Google.

The Chunk View may improve search engine with ‘colorful understanding’ about links and website.
– Just my guess 🙂

Challenge after understanding

Original Post : A Korean microblogging service sees two of its users getting married

Me2day, just like Twitter, seems to follow the right path. The only concern I have is, compared to Twitter, Me2day’s core users could be too small in numbers because the service is only offered in Korean. In fact, that’s the same kind of limitation that works against our company as well. Which is why we should have “globalize or die” mentality

As it is mentioned widely in certain marketing theories – Purple cow, Blue Ocean and etc. – ‘different market conditions’ can give great chance to business – the ‘differentiation’.

Moreover, some ‘cultural specialties’ protect some start-ups because English base star-up teams can’t make efficient strategies to Korean market. 

(Yeh, that’s right. They may don’t need Korean market. But don’t consider that kind of views in this article.)

But anyway, small IT business market size (or user pool) in Korea gives certain limitation of growth (or chasm) to start-up ventures – this is exactly what I concern about in these days.

Globalize or die strategy is very desirable thing to Korean IT start-up teams including my company, but I’m afraid that it’s really not easy to Koreans make and maintain successful web service targeted to global market.

I learned that from my full time job – global targeted community portal.

Conclusion

We have to understand SW(+OT) of us. We have to know about ourselves first.
Though with these inevitable things people or team dreaming about great company should keep challenging to our goal.

 

‘Good to Great’

Yahoo Buzz

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Social News service just like Digg.

There are some reviews in RWW about this service

Wait, What’s Yahoo Buzz Again?
Muhammad explained in his earlier post: “Imagine if Digg had 10 times the incoming traffic, and got a percentage of ad-revenue from each of the sites that were promoted to the front page. Yahoo! Buzz does essentially that.”

Watch out Digg, Yahoo is Eating Your Lunch
Yahoo.com is the ultimate aggregator of them all. What’s more, it is precisely the holy grail that digg has been reaching for – MAINSTREAM users. While digg has been desperately trying to make itself into a mainstream social news site – and it has succeeded to a degree, as its front page now includes politics, entertainment and other non-tech stories – it hasn’t got anywhere near the punch that Yahoo.com still packs. Simply put, Yahoo.com has the audience. And now it is implementing digg features.

I really don’t like this kind of ‘me too’ service but anyway it’s really interesting that this kind of social media moving to “main stream”.

A hunter’s story

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10,000 BC

A good man draws a circle around him, and in it he cares for his family, his wife and children.

A great man draws a larger circle including his brothers, his friends, and protects them as he would his family.

But then there is the rare man who has a special destiny. His circle extends beyond boundaries to include the world of innocents who lack the will to defend themselves.

– Tic’Tic, 10,000B.C.(2008)