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The 5th Tweetup : Seoul Space Fever

I've announced the 5th tweetup just 2 days before the date, so I thought it'll be a smallest tweetup we've ever had.

But turns out, it became the best party ever.(in party-wise) in courtesy of Richard Min, Who has set almost whole things up.

We had an amazing DJ, a basketball lucky draw, (a signed ball from David Lee, NBA's Korea country manager) and nice food. Richard has a great network, so that he could call all those people (20 people attended) in 2 day. He says he could fill the place if we announced it 2 weeks ago. :)

And we also had best girls/attendees ratio. ;) A special thing was there were only Koreans or half-Koreans this time. I wish others in TwitterSeoul community could attend. I promise that I'll announce earlier next time!

Here are a few photos and video of that day. Please add ones if you have.

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Posted February 25, 2010
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What I was missing about the iPad

I finally watched the whole iPad announcing keynote yesterday, and realized something different.

Have you figured out what Steve Jobs emphasized most? It was not the hardware technology, it was not the gorgeous iWorks software or the iBook, it was the prize.

The prize starts from $499, And it is a breakthough. They seemed to put all of the efforts to reach down to that prize. And that's the main reason why the iPad is missing all the features we expected. (I mean hardware-wise)

What that means? The ACCESSIVILITY. iPad is not for the people like you and me. (You know what I mean by that) It's for the people who doesn't own a laptop maybe, or who doesn't do anything except surfing the web, playing games, watching videos or listening to music, even if they own a laptop or a pc. Steve Jobs already gave each of them a very attractive device which they "have to own" because it's a "phone", and made them to learn how to use it, and he finally revealed a device in front of their faces which is just right for them. They don't ever need to learn how to use it. 

See, the iPad sales will be higher than we thinking. And we tech geeks
and developers will have more chances to make people to live a fun and better life, with the device.

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Posted January 29, 2010
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Amazing birthday presents

Sam Kang, one of my best friends, bought me these from US for the birthday presents. An Apple Remote and the book "Pixar Way". The 2 things I love most, Apple and Pixar. :)

Thank you Sam, you know what I'm crazy about!

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Posted January 28, 2010
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My first impression of Apple iPad

Now, finally the Apple tablet has been released. It's officially called "iPad" (the name is also being a target of sarcasm)


The hype was really huge, and I also was one of the victims, so a lot of people may have disappointed by the real product. And it's true, It was not as huge as I thought. But as I'm watching many informations about it, I feel it's very reasonable and very Apple-ish.
I was disappointed by the lack of camera also, but it would not be reasonable if it had. it'll be good for a video chat, but no one will take pictures or videos with an 10-inch device.

However, apps for iPad will have a lot of advantages, You can do even more than iPhone apps with a big screen. There will make many other new business models I think.
And this is just a start. This new product will make a new industry. iPad is the first tablet device which has the OS specialized only for touch interface like iPhone, so in my opinion, after a few years touch-based device will be main stream and iPad may be the start of the era.

But I still wonder. will someone be carrying iPhone, iPad, and a MacBook together? iPad cannot alternative iPhone or MacBook yet, so we should be watching how high will the sales go up. But you know, it's Apple. it's very pretty and attractive.

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Posted January 27, 2010
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Jessica's wedding

               
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Posted January 16, 2010
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A small tweetup at Gangnam tonight

Hi everyone, I've got to say first, happy new year! :)

As a new year's event, there's a small tweetup on Gangnam tonight. (5th January 2010)

@nikc and @minka, Twitter friends who came to Korea for a few weeks from Adelaide Australia, want to meet Seoul tweeples and know about stuff in Korea. :)

They are running the company Freerange Future.

So if you're interested in running a company, about Australia, or just want to enjoy talking around, Please come and join us!

WHEN : 7:40pm, 5th January 2010
WHERE : Espresso Public at Gangnam (near subway station gate no.7) (refer this blog post)
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If you want to join us, please leave a comment here or reply to my Twitter(@seanchoe), whatever you can contact me.
You can also contact me via email (sean@seanchoe.com). It'll be pushed to my phone right away. You can send me your numbers or I can reply mine.

Attendees (so far) ----------------
@seanchoe
@nikc
@minka
@steveohan
@gnimsh
@sean_choi
@youngdoo

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Posted January 4, 2010
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Avatar : an epic for minorities

(Note : no spoilers ahead. but If you are sensitive about leaking the story before watching a movie, I recommend you to read this after you watch the movie.)

As I've been looking forward the movie Avatar for a few months, I've been worrying at the same time that what if I disappointed because I expected about it too much.

And after I watched the movie, if you are worrying about same thing as me, I can tell you. No need to worry at all.
I don't know about you who are reading this, but for me, the movie Avatar was the best entertaining movie ever in my entire life. Seriously, this movie just blew away my mind.

Avatar is truly a buzz these days. Many people are saying about its stunning 3D computer graphics. It was really fantastic, but I want to weigh more to the movie's ideas.
The story is about a paraplegic ex-marine (Jake Sully) being committed to the unique mission called "Avatar", which is transplanting his personality into a alien body and putting into the it's tribe. This movie has many factors I concern about and like. nature, adventure, and a interest in minorities are them. Jake Sully is a minority in human society because he is a disabled. and he became an alien as well after he tried to join the Navis(alien tribe). But he slowly gain their trust, and becomes one of them.

There was one line in the movie which came through my mind. Quaritch (a villian, sort of.) says to Jake "Do you think you're one of them? There's no way you can be." (maybe not correct) Jake's in the alien's body, but theoretically he can't be one of them. And if he go back to human life, It may not be worth living. I've always been thinking about the pain of minorities like foreigners, aliens, Korean-Americans, and so forth. They are always wanting to join one of the tribes, but basically they can't be neither sides. This movie is letting us to take care of that kind of people in our society.

And this movie also lets us to dream. The planet Pandora is no where can exist on earth. Director James Cameron create a new world and made it feel like real by cutting edge 3D graphics. Watching movies are always like dreaming. Good movies make it feel like more real, but as the line in Avatar, sooner or later though, you always have to wake up. And we go back to boring life.

This movie is like awesome dream so that I want to watch it on and on. And that's what I'm wanting to do in my life as well. Giving people good dreams, good hope. 

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Posted December 27, 2009
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Starting Google Technology User Groups in Seoul

On early November this year, I've seen a tweet by Mickey Kim, a Korean Googler and also a great Tweeple. (@mickeyk)

It's in Korean, and the link is here.

http://twitter.com/mickeyk/status/5223858611

It says "There is at least 1 GTUG in every country in Asia, but not in Korea. I hope someone take the initiative. Anyone who's interested on Google's technology can make it."

GTUG is a acronym of "Google Technology User Groups". GTUGs are "user groups for people who are interested in Google's developer technology", according to the official GTUGs web site. it's here.

http://www.gtugs.org/

And there's a slide explaining the GTUG I made for the first Seoul GTUG meet-up.

And this YouTube video interviewing the GTUG founders will help you to understand GTUG.

So, I applied as an organizer of Seoul GTUG right away. Why? maybe because I'm the type of guy who are desperate to take the initiative. :)

And then I've got the reply from Stephanie Liu (@stephliu), Who's in charge of managing the GTUGs around the world in Google. She asked if it's ok to co-organize the GTUG with "Brian Lee", who applied at the same time as me. So I talked with Brain, and said ok.

So the Seoul GTUG started on 11st, November. Brian and I've been preparing the first event for a month, and finally announce it to open on 19th December.

We had the event at Google Korea office. Google employees helped as so kindly to managing the event. I appreciate it so much.

The first event was very active and energetic. over 90 people applied, and 64 people attended. I could feel that many developers on Korea were eager to this kind of communities. There were not many developer communities in Korea so far, and I think it'll be good if this Seoul GTUG could be a game changer of developer environment in Korea.

Though the subjects are too widely scoped and some people felt that there was no specific point on the event, I think it's a good start. We'll take the feed back and try to make the better event next time.

Here's some pictures of the event.

http://picasaweb.google.com/seanwchoe/SeoulGTUG

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Posted December 25, 2009
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Tha gloves for iPhone

My friend got this gloves and I'm so envy about it!!

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Posted December 19, 2009
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We are opening the Twitter Seoul holiday party!

After the last tweetup on October, I arranged the next one now before Chistmas.

Here's the official post for the tweetup!

http://twitterseoul.posterous.com/please-join-the-twitter-seoul-holiday-party

It'll a holiday party this time! :) By great courtesy of Richard (@richardmin), We could arrange a nice place we can talk, eat, drink, and even play bowling too!

I'm so excited about this party. Please join us and let's have fun together!

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Posted December 16, 2009
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