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	Cyworld - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been reported that as much as 90 percent of South Koreans in their 20s[1] and 25 percent of the total population of South Korea[2] are registered users of Cyworld, and as of September 2005, daily unique visitors are about 20 million.
		Cyworld uses its own virtual currency called “Dotori,” or “Acorn.” One acorn costs 100 won, approximately USD $0.10.
		Cyworld's daily revenue from selling "acorns" is estimated to be around USD $300,000, as of September 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cyworld (741 words)

	Koreans cybertrip to a tailor-made world - Breaking - Technology - theage.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cyworld has 13 million residents and visitors, more than a quarter of the country's population.
		In Cyworld an address is a "minihompy", which is short for mini homepage or, between friends, simply a "hompy".
		"Cyworld has been a trendsetter, spawning a new internet culture in the personal media era, and its success was natural, not accidental," he wrote in The Korea Times in February.
	theage.com.au /articles/2005/05/06/1115092684512.html?oneclick=true (787 words)

	Online social network scores hit in South Korea: Internet News from The Industry Standard
		Cyworld, which SK acquired in August 2003, is simple: Users can create a free Web page and then buy templates, graphics, background wallpaper, music and animated characters to decorate it.
		Cyworld users also give them to friends, a phenomenon noticed during traditional Korean holidays, and retailers such as Shinsegae's Emart -- Korea's equivalent of Wal-Mart -- have cleverly offered acorns as a bonus for a certain purchase amounts.
		Cyworld has cued in on several inclinations of Korean consumers, said Song Sauk-hun, a principal analyst with Gartner, in Seoul.
	www.thestandard.com /internetnews/001303.php (798 words)

	Cyworld Rides on `Korean Wave' to Tap Asia - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		Cyworld advanced one step more from standard blogs by uniquely interconnecting personal homepages, prompting users to form a network with their friends or colleagues.
		Currently, Cyworld is a must-have site for young Koreans who usually spend hours a day decorating their home pages or scrolling through others’ to forge new networks.
		Cyworld is undoubtedly the best-looking, most feature-filled blog network on the planet.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=23481 (646 words)

	Pop-up ad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cyworld is one of the largest Korean communities on the web, with approximately 11 million users.
		The home page itself, however, is technically a pop-up as it is less than the size of a typical browser window (a so-called mini hompy, or miniature home page).
		After Windows XP SP2 was released, there was a flurry of activity as Cyworld changed its front page to explain to its 11 million users (nearly a quarter of the population) how to get past the pop-up blocker.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pop-up_ad (1175 words)

	Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Cyworld
		90% of all cyber-hip folks in Korea have a Cyworld account and though their numbers have gone down since their peak of mid-last year, they’re still way out ahead and are moving to Chna and Japan.
		I have a cyworld account now, www.cyworld.com/teacher_ice but i would like to have an english version too… any help would be much appreciated.
		They all keep on showing off their cyworld’s and they’re korean and i’m not korean but obviously i can’t get a korean on there’s that ID thing you have to have if you’re from korea.
	blog.broadbandmechanics.com /2005/05/cyworld (1035 words)

	WN: Wired News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cyworld uses real names for users' pages, so if people meet at a party, it's increasingly likely they'll swap Cyworld addresses, not phone numbers.
		Cyworld "has brought the country closer together, (helping users find) old friends and (stay) close to the friends you've got," said Shin.
		Cyworld U.S. is slated to launch in early 2006, said Kim.
	www.wired.com /news/avantgo/story/0,2278,68361-,00.html (649 words)

	Stefan Hayden » Blog Archive » Chris Pirillo, Cyworld and social networking -- Graphic Artist, Technophile, ...
		I had never watched The Screen Savers on Tech TV as I was sans digital cable and so the reason the show stuck out was the focus on emergent web technology and the delightful banter between him and Ponzi.
		Recently he interviewed Rick Kim from Cyworld which is a web service from Korea that has really taken off and seem to have 90% of Korea in the palm of their hand.
		Cyworld really is revolutionary in it’s inclusion of elements from other places.
	www.stefanhayden.com /blog/2005/07/14/chris-pirillo-cyworld-and-social-networking (852 words)

	(iverson's) currentbuzz: E-Society: My World Is Cyworld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		CyWorld is making money-- $12.5 million on sales of $110.4 million.
		Social networking pervades CyWorld-- if you see a site you like, you can ask to become someone's "cyberbuddy" and if they say "yes" then you can use artifacts from their site, like a background or theme music, on your site.
		Here is another story on CyWorld (SK Telecomm) and Naver Blogs, a sort of rival firm in South Korea.
	nexus.colum.edu /user/iverson/2005/09/e-society-my-world-is-cyworld.html (320 words)

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		Cyworld rooms are mini virtual rooms where users can seek places outside of the home to congregate and socialize (www.cyworld.com).
		The success of Cyworld has spawned imitators in Japan and China, as well as within Korea itself.
		People read the messages to see what type of a person you are. My Cyworld pages are restricted to people that I consider my "first-degree friends," and so do most of my friends.
	nextnextbigthing.com /news_letters/cyworld.htm (580 words)

	ZDNet Korea...SNS by Cyworld Korea hits Jackpot!
		Cyworld's blogs (known as mini-homepys) focused more on providing corners like family photo uploads, scraps, resource gathering, guest registrar which are used 90% of the time over publishing.
		Cyworld was already named as top innovative internet Service Company by Frost & Sullivan (Market Analysis Co.) in May 2005, which helped Cyworld appeared as a top leader to global market in this sector of industry.
		Cyworld is planning to open beta service to U.S. market in April this year.
	www.zdnet.co.kr /etc/eyeon/internet/0,39036962,39145258,00.htm (1009 words)

	Companies & Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cyworld is South Korea's largest personal homepage services company and has over 17 million users in South Korea alone.
		Even though an internet firm doesn't need physical presence, a base in the of the country would help it localise content and target the market better, besides increasing the number of internet advertisements, which helps in building a brand image.
		Cyworld may also offer software development contracts for its ongoing expansion plans to various companies in the country.
	www.business-standard.com /common/storypage.php?storyflag=y&leftnm=lmnu1&leftindx=1&lselect=1&chklogin=N&autono=211005 (313 words)

	UsageWatch.org: How many people publish, read or contribute to blogs? 2.0
		The Cyworld form of blogging has reached 79% adoption among young people in their 20s and 30s (source SK Communication); and 90% adoption among young people in their 20s (source researcher KoreanClick).
		When we think that unique identification is required to subscribe to Cyworld and that Cyworld is the largest, but not the unique, blog platform in South Korea, we get a sense of how widespread blogging is among South Koreans.
		Cyworld was acquired by SK Communications and incorporated with Nate.com.
	www.usagewatch.org /2005/01/how_many_people_2.html (447 words)

	GigaOM : » Will Cyworld Stop MySpace Juggernaut?
		Cyworld promises to be anathema to hardcore geeks because of its rather blatant commercialism.
		Cyworld is absolutely right in that it’s about expression, particularly for that age group.
		Cyworld hasn’t worked anywhere but Korea (their Chinese and Japanese launches didn’t go over real big), and those are cultures much more similar to Korea’s culture.
	gigaom.com /2006/04/16/will-cyworld-stop-myspace-juggernaut (1199 words)

	Conclusion
		I also showed how the usage of Cyworld is one of the many things dividing the younger generation from the older generation.
		However, Cyworld is to be held solely responsible for the increased narcissism, materialism, and distance from the older generation of South Korean adolescents; change within a developing country is inevitable.
		I am not trying to prove that Cyworld is the sole causing factor for these negative outcomes, I am proving that there is a correlation between them.
	clee920.bol.ucla.edu /conclusion.html (360 words)

	Mashable* » Cyworld US Launches - Will It Topple MySpace?
		Unsurprisingly, this has turned Cyworld into an enviable money-making machine - in September 2005, BusinessWeek reported that the company was making “$12.5 million on sales of $110.4 million”.
		Judging by the information on the site, Cyworld US will be virtually the same as the original Cyworld - the mini-hompy has become a “mini-room”, but the premise remains the same.
		What’s more, by targeting the youngest possible demographic, Cyworld has a good excuse to keep the system closed (it could claim to be protecting its young users from the outside world).
	mashable.com /2006/03/30/cyworld-us-will-it-topple-myspace (1888 words)

	Internet Futures: How The UK Nearly Had Its Own Cyworld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When I read a description of the Korean community site Cyworld in Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs blog I was amazed - because the main concept is almost identical with one that our company proposed to the UK broadcaster Granada.
		The only difference is that Cyworld makes about £100,000 revenue per day and Granada never focused on building a community.
		They would be able to decorate their home and use it for their e-mail, address book, calendar etc. Socialising could take place in pubs, just like in the soaps.
	www.broadbandstars.co.uk /2005/05/cyworld.html (582 words)

	AsiaMedia :: Story, Print Version
		Goh's upstart "mini-homepi," as they are called by Cyworld fans, is posed to rival that of Park Geun-hye, chairwoman of the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP).
		On the other hand, her fancy Cyworld homepage is more focused on showing her personality, and emotional parts that include stories about her family, serving as a channel for intimate relationships with Internet users, or netizens.
		Proving her affection for the Cyworld site, Park turned on the monitor of her computer shortly after returning from a trip to Beijing last week.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /print.asp?parentid=25356 (731 words)

	Cyworld - Search for People
		On the main web page (not your cyworld popup page) you can manage your friends list and find people.
		Here is where you can use a check box to control if they appear on the drop down list on your cyworld "friends" list.
		Basically, if someone sends you an invitation you'll get an email and the next time you login to cyworld you'll get a popup saying so-and-so invited you to be a "friends" list, and do you want to accept them.
	www.jayfraser.com /cyworld/search.htm (542 words)

	CyWorld - A Virtual World with 6 Million Inhabitants - Digital-Lifestyles.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cyworld was founded in 2001 and toodled along for a few years with a number of keen fans, but its popularity exploded when SK Telecom bought it.
		Subscribers to Cyworld, meet, decorate their homes, wander about a bit, listen to music, accessorise and invite friends over for parties — just what young trendy avatars like to do.
		Cyworld's currency is the Acorn — Acorns are used to buy music for your virtual gatherings, furniture and accessories to keep you at the height of avatar fashion.
	www.digital-lifestyles.info /display_page.asp?section=cm&id=1158 (504 words)

	Communities Dominate Brands: CyWorld launching in America
		CyWorld is probably the most advanced converged service around broadband internet, 3G mobile telecoms, videogaming and music.
		CyWorld has its own currency, the Dotori (ie "acorn") and the trade of virtual goods and services in CyWorld is already over 300,000 USD worth of Dotoris per day.
		CyWorld is already used by a third of all Koreans.
	communities-dominate.blogs.com /brands/2006/03/cyworld_launchi.html (864 words)

	Cyworld offers quick pay !
		It may be used for payment of all Cyworld financial services, such as incorporation fees, management fees and other international financial activities.
		Cyworld Business Centre offers a wide range of services including company financial services, as well as domiciliation and registration office services, also full management and administrative services for international trade and investment.
		Cyworld Business Centre is now offering a payment option for its clients that is fast, secure and economical.
	www.comed.net /qp_main.htm (2156 words)

	What a Difference an Hour Makes
		Now, I am aware that there are a ton of social networks out there, and for all their popularity, they aren't setting financial analysts on fire -- figuratively speaking.
		Cyworld, however, seems to be hotter than a fresh bowl of yuk gae jang: "According to the service, Cyworld jumped from 10 million to 13 million users in 2004.
		Members personalize their minihompy with virtual objects they purchase from Cyworld, and enhance it with up to 10 tracks of background music they can buy and play for visitors.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/08/AR2005080800493_pf.html (1369 words)

	(iverson's) currentbuzz: Cyworld USA acting like Brigadoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cyworld USA was up and you sign up for the beta.
		The discussion notes that it has a huge potential to make money, but Mashable speculates that it will target a demographic younger than MySpace or Facebook.
		As I noted about Cyworld when I saw a demo at their headquarters in South Korea, they charge for everything--that is any of customization.
	nexus.colum.edu /user/iverson/2006/04/cyworld-usa-acting-like-brigadoon.html (236 words)

	cyworld: RSS News from PLAZOO, the search engine for news feeds and rss.
		New York Times (03/02/06) P. 4 Onishi, Norimitsu After successfully bringing broadband connectivity to 72 percent of all households in the last five years, making it the most wired country in the world, South Korea is now mobilizing its scientists and business leaders to develop robots that can integrate ...
		Tomi Ahonen writes about CyWorld as it launches in the US: CyWorld is probably the most advanced converged service around broadband internet, 3G mobile telecoms, videogaming and music.
		Not only is Korea the only country where 72 percent of households have a high-speed Internet connection and 17 million people are joined by their membership in the Cyworld online community, it also has ambitions to make robots part of the household, the New York Times reported on Sunday.
	www.plazoo.com /search/cyworld.htm (458 words)

	Smart Mobs: Come and see me in my hompy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cyworld's main feature is a blog-like "mini hompy," short for mini homepage.
		What differenciates Cyworld is the "mini rooms" that users can customize with items, arcade games or music they buy with "acorns" --they cost 100 won (9 cents) each-- from a cyber shop.
		Cyworld is making about 150 million won a day from acorn sales.
	www.smartmobs.com /archive/2004/10/01/come_and_see_me.html (248 words)

	Terra Nova: Korea: Synthetic Currency Now Sold in Stores
		In Cyworld, you can set up avatars who interact with your visitors.
		SK Communications which owns Cyworld announced that gift cards for Dotori (acorns) are selling in stores on March 14.
		Apr 8, 2005 9:29:04 AM The amazing thing about Cyworld is that it has become more than a "blog" - not unlike widespread popularity of Starcraft that transcends traditional "gamer" realm - it has become the calling card for many people both old and young.
	terranova.blogs.com /terra_nova/2005/04/korea_synthetic.html (697 words)

	Interview with Rick Kim of Cyworld (Weekly Broadcast) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Further punctuating this, around 90% of 24-29 year olds are using a service called Cyworld, which has more traction than blogging.
		What makes all this fascinating is the way Cyworld has captured the attention of Koreans to the tune of $200k per day.
		Chris talks to Rick Kim from Cyworld about the Korean version of their service and what they might have in store for the U.S. market in the very near future.
	www.thechrispirilloshow.com /help/20050712_interview_with_rick_kim_of_cyworld.phtml (240 words)

	Google seeking Korean users
		Further, cyworld is grabbing the most eyeball nowadays and Nate.
		I've written a posts on cyworld mini-homepy before and how lycos(daum) Circles effort is the US adaptations of the mini-homepy model.
		its the pop-up mini-hompy that is the meat and bones of cyworld.
	www.webmasterworld.com /forum32/901.htm (1789 words)

	kangmi \| í™ˆí”¼
		My wife has a cyworld that I have no idea why she would do that when I can install any script she wants - photo album, blog, comments whatever.
		Then I realised that a greater number of new friends in Singapore who are interested in all things Korean had set up Hompy at Cyworld, so I ended up setting up a Hompy because they don't know how to leave messages at Yahoo Blog.
		Koreans in general are quite nerdy, and sure, Cyworld fits right into that (hmmm...more nerdy than having a store of web scripts for every occasion?).
	www.kangmi.org /index/weblog/comments/1522 (1467 words)

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