Why I post so often about Cyworld....

They have the eyeballs, and the right eyeballs. I will repeat my critique based on my visit to their headquarters in Seoul--users have to buy everything in the "world." That seems like the over 30s would go for that and some of younger teens, but the solid gamers and other Open Source and "modder" users will want to be able to tweak avatars, backgrounds, and such. We will see how the English version fares. It is online but in a closed beta test now. Wired News: Koreans Find Secret Cybersauce: "According to the service, Cyworld jumped from 10 million to 13 million users in 2004. A quarter of the country's 48.2 million people have signed up, including 90 percent of the 24- to 29-year-old age group, the company claims."

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