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This year
The International Virtual Observatory Alliance
The International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) was formed in June 2002 with a mission to "facilitate the international coordination and collaboration necessary for the development and deployment of the tools, systems and organizational structures necessary to enable the international utilization of astronomical archives as an integrated and interoperating virtual observatory." The IVOA now comprises 17 VO projects from Armenia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Membership is open to other national and international projects according to the IVOA Guidelines for Participation.
Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media
In light of emerging forms of software, interfaces, cultures of uses, and media practices associated with mobile media, this collection investigates the various ways in which mobile media is developing in different cultural, linguistic, social, and national settings. We consider the promises and politics of mobile media and its role in the dynamic social and gender relations configured in the boundaries between public and private spheres. In turn, the contributors revise the cultural and technological politics of mobiles. The collection is genuinely interdisciplinary, as well as international in its range, with contributors and studies from China, Japan, Korea, Italy, Norway, France, Belgium, Britain, and Australia.
Mozilla in Asia » Blog Archive » Is the enemy of my enemy my friend?
This would be unheard of anywhere else in the world where Google and Yahoo are the fiercest of competitors. However in Korea, where Naver is the market leader (75% market share), and Daum second, Google and Yahoo are not relevant for most Korean web users (with perhaps the exception of Flickr, which is available in Hangul, and YouTube.)
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2008
Inhabitat » MVRDV Designs Gwanggyo Green Power Center
Je me demande toujours si les architectures font des études de durabilité et d'évolution. Le matériau organique se joue souvent des contrainte sdu béton, cela peut donner des choses intéressantes.Rotterdam-based architects MVRDV recently won the Gwanggyo City Centre Competition with their design of this incredible new city just south of Seoul, South Korea. Envisioned as a verdant acropolis of organic ‘hill’ structures, the proposed complex is a fully self-sufficient city for up to 77,000 inhabitants.
david nunan - presentations
Cyworld Packs Up From U.S., Retreats to Korea - GigaOM
La confirmation du mythe du marché asiatique… il faut vraiment que j'écrive un article là dessus.Cyworld, the South Korean social network that launched in the U.S. with a splashy party in 2006 has packed up its bags and left the U.S. market. The social network, backed by SK Telecom, will layoff its entire U.S. staff and will continue to operate the English-language site from South Korea. The service really didn’t get any traction. Its localization efforts were mediocre at best. I bet other smaller marginal social networks meet the same fate.
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | N Korea 'develops special noodle'
au lieu de résoudre le manque de bouffe, tu coupes la faim.North Korean scientists have developed a new kind of noodle that delays feelings of hunger, a Japan-based pro-Pyongyang newspaper has reported.
Japan Pictures
slimy but interesting
検索エンジンの舞台裏 » 記事 » Google Korea “一足お先に「ユニバーサル検索」”
2007
European Commission seeks mandate to negotiate major new international anti- counterfeiting pact - EUROPA - Rapid - Communiques de presse
I'm here to save Japan Economy
The number of Chinese visitors to Japan has increased by over 20 percent almost every year since 2003, when the national government's Visit Japan campaign began. In 2003, of Japan's 5.21 million visitors, about 449,000, or just under 9 percent, were Chinese. By 2010, when the grand total is expected to reach the goal of 10 million (it is on target, having hit 7.33 million last year), 1.99 million are expected to be Chinese. China's share will have more than doubled to about 20 percent in just seven years — making it second only to Korea, whose share of 27 percent will have remained more or less stable since 2003.
