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The Cyworld, now the largest social network service by SK Communications unveiled a test version of its new Web service, called “C2.” The move comes as major domestic portals launch upgraded Internet services that cater to the new web environment. The portals Naver and Daum have also been adding new features to their blog services i.e. Naver Blog Season 2 and Daum's Tistory.com Cyworld is not adding features or revamping its design, but letting people create more Web sites through the same account. Cyworld is now based on a real-name system, which people have used to create networks with ...

Did you visit a famous place and take pictures? You had a delicious dinner in a beautiful restaurant? Or did you have a worst place to avoid it? You can make a story on map. You can make it on Cyworld Map Story that can mark own minihompy's story and photo to specific places. The Cyworld Map is Ajax-based service to offer interactive behaviors as like Naver Maps. This is similar with Platial or WayFaring to mark own places based on Google Maps. But, it links stories by various people and can share them. There are similar function in Wingbus, ...

Business 2.0 wrote a strange success story of Cyworld and matching with MySpace in US by Erick Schonfeld in a printed version of August. South Korea's most successful social network, a strange blend of Blogger, Flickr, and videogame-like avatars, brings in about $300,000 a day.Now it's launching a U.S version. Should MySpace be worried? It covers this story with 6 pages about history, status and global business of Cyworld. As following is a comparison chart between Cyworld and MySpace. Business 2.0 shows three successful ideas for Cyworld as followings: Idea 22 Give customers their own virtual space, and then charge them to decorate ...

Techcrunch reported the launch of Cyworld US and Webzari, visualization service of blogs. The "Zari" means asterism in Korean. It firstly introduced Yahoo! Korea. I'm very glad to see korean web service in Techcrunch. Some of comments for Cyworld US was negative. But, I think now american teenagers are very similar with old korean's teenagers firstly being good at broadband network. In past, many old man in web2con in 2005 were suprised at stories in teenager session. (A girl paid $30 per month to change her phone bells.) Most of them don't use MySpace and cannot understand why teenagers do ...