E-Society: My World Is Cyworld

CyWorld in the news again. A third of South Koreans use it now to integrate their lives in the digital and physical world. CyWorld is making money-- $12.5 million on sales of $110.4 million. And lots of the money comes from currency called "dotari" or acorns and is a digital money that works only in CyWorld. 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. They call the social net building phenomena "wave-riding." Anyway, look for items about CyWorld, which is coming to America in 2006 here at currentbuzz.E-Society: My World Is Cyworld:

It's the nexus of pretty much everything she does. The graphic design student posts all of her artwork and school papers on the site. She puts up photos of her friends, her family, and her parties. She keeps a daily blog there and chats with her boyfriend via the site's instant-messaging service. Here is another story on CyWorld (SK Telecomm) and Naver Blogs, a sort of rival firm in South Korea.

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