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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 ...

Business 2.0 wrote an article "The future is in South Korea" that introduced Cyworld story succeeded by broadband infrastructure including PC bang and maturing game industry. South Korea has become the world's best laboratory for broadband services - and a place to look to for answers on how the Internet business may evolve....Cyworld, for example, is a social network owned by a subsidiary of SK Telecom, the country's largest wireless provider. To an American eye, the Cyworld service looks like a mixture of some of the hottest US properties: it's MySpace meets Flickr and Blogger and AIM and Second Life. Users ...

Peter Cashmore posts Cyworld US Launches - Will It Topple MySpace? flashshot of priavate beta of Cyworld US site. Now this site is closed. Cyworld US is the American version of the popular korean social networking site simliar with MySpace or Facebook. Cyworld has opened local sites such as Cyworld China and Cyworld Japan. It's same interface of korean version. You can see also pop-up based mini window including various functions via Mashable's screenshot. Peter thought it will be very popular among pre-teens and teens, but there are many users including teenager, housewives and university students. It's not first korean popular ...

SK Communications owner of Cyworld has acquired Egloos for KRW 1.5 billion (US$1.5 million). SK Communications is subsidiary company of SK Telecom, the biggest telecommunication company in Korea. It has four services, 1) Nate.com (portal) 2) Cyword (social networking) 3) NateOn (messenger) over MSN messenger 4) Tong (web page scrapping). Egloos is the leading independent blog service provider in Korea. You can think Egloos is equivalent to Typepad or Wordpress in the US. Egloos has close to 150,000 users and has approximately 10,000 posts uploaded everyday by their loyal users. Egloos is definitely a major upgrade to SK ...

Cyworld is a South Korean web community site operated by SK Communications, a subsidiary of SK Telecom. Literally translated, "Cyworld" means "relationship world." (via Wikipedia) Members cultivate on- and off-line relationships by forming "first-degree" buddy relationships with each other through a service called "minihompy," which encompasses a photo gallery, message board, guestbook and personal bulletin board. A user can link his/her minihompy to another user's minihompy to form a buddy relationship. It has been reported that as much as 90 percent of South Koreans in their 20s are registered users of Cyworld, and as of September 2005, daily unique visitors ...