Web Services

Did you guys hear???
WordPress now offers 3gb of space! Yay!!!
I can finally stop looking for some web server to host my files (as long as I don’t use the 3gb soon)

This is how Cyworld probably beat all other services in Korea. First off it’s free, as long as you don’t buy “acorns” to dress up your avatars, decorate your miniroom, show originality in your story room, or change “skins” for your “minihompy.” In fact, this is exactly how Cyworld mainly makes money out of the users. They make people pay to decorate their homepages to supposedly express themselves (the word supposedly because it is more of an image you want people to see of you). On the bright side, Cyworld does not impose any limitations on file space for movies/pictures/blogs etc. You can have a homepage that looks dull, but full of content without limits.

Facebook has similar characteristics… Only that having the option to only upload 60 pictures per album seems rather… stupid… Oh, did I mention how much I despise the stupid 3rd party apps such as “superwall,” “zombie,” “Hot or not,” or “Texas Hold’em”? The good news in this area is that Facebook plans to make a link in everyone’s profile that “expands.” This basically means that 3rd party applications are hidden from your profile from others and there is a link for “extended profile” which is basically “show all the 3rd party crap.”

Social Networking

Lately, there are so many social networking sites emerging (and sadly fading away). I visited myspace in a long time and noticed how it was “dead.” No “friends” of mine use the service anymore… (despite the fact that they upgraded many parts of the service) In blogging, xanga was my first ever blog, but apparantly no one uses it anymore so it seemed useless to update it often, yet I still do. It’s more like a public posting site for Grace to read. Yet I decided to keep both xanga and myspace updated. 
In the new emerging networking sites, the main one seems to be Facebook. I liked the fact that there is finally a networking site that is US based used by all my “western friends” that offers unlimited photo space. However, with the much poking (and one should poke them back for proper manners) and different applications that seems to be flooded including useless “zombie” applications, it is annoying the heck out of me.
The one that I’m most loyal to, it seems, is Cyworld.

Cyworld, for those who don’t know is:

a South Korean web community site operated by SK Communications a subsidiary of SK Telecom. Literally translated, “Cy” can mean “cyber”, but is also a play on the Korean word for relationship, so it could also mean “relationship.” It pioneered the concept of personal virtual space in 1999. (wikipedia)
They also launched a US version which is: us.cyworld.com

Cyworld is used by a lot of Koreans to post pictures, videos, blogs/diary, and leave comments like the wall function in Facebook. For the few possible Korean readers, I hope you become my “ilchon” in my cyworld. The address (if anyone is curious -_-) is cyworld.com/nackchoon.

Anyway, what I try to say here is that I hope there is a worldwide social networking site that everyone uses so that I can communicate and keep contact with everyone that I’ve met in my life…