Social networks like Facebook (www.facebook.com) and Twitter (www.twitter.com) are the planet’s latest online epidemic, but it bears further watching as to whether increasing questions over privacy will eventually return to stunt their growth.
And the debate over how to manage sensitive data in a social-networking era has now arrived in Korea, where Internet companies are seen scrambling to leap on the social media bandwagon.
At the center of controversy is Daum (www.daum.net), the country’s second most popular website behind Naver (www.naver.com), which recently unveiled ``Social Web,’’ a specialized search service for postings on social networking services Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Naver’s Me2Day. (source...koreatimes)
