Korea I Net

I-Net (Cyworld)

Company: I-Net
Foreign-language name: Cyworld
Headquarters location: Korea
Founded in: 1999
Scope of business: network information service
Operations team: SK Communications

I-Net (Cyworld) is Korea's largest community site, which provides wired and wireless Internet communication platform as the core, to the Internet and cell phone users, including diaries, photo albums, forums, graffiti, mail and other Internet services. Different from virtual online community, it stressed reality, and provides a variety of tools to interact with others, thus ending the past blogs, friends, alumni, BBS communities, such as limitation of a single display and Exchange.

In June 2005, the Korea officially logged China I network (http://www.Cyworld.com.CN), bring a set of personalized space to Chinese Internet users and social networking in a networked home.

I-Net (Cyworld) is Korea's largest community site, which provides wired and wireless Internet communication platform as the core, to the Internet and cell phone users, including diaries, photo albums, forums, graffiti, mail and other Internet services. Different from virtual Web community, its emphasis on real, and provides a variety of tools to interact with others, emerging from previous blog, friends, alumni, BBS community, limitations of single display and Exchange.

Basic functions of the Web site

The community site will be integrated with a computer, PDA, cell phone and other terminal information sharing mode provides a templated personal page, as a registered user with combination of blogs and social network services. In July this year, I network for China to introduce wireless service, this service in Korea is one of its main income.
Observers believe that social networking service caters to people hoping to the network expand their aspirations of the communicative scope of work and life, and blog has the potential to become popular, such as network service. It is reported that the I-Net are working hard to blog and SNS (social networking service) integration. Blog (blog), RSS (aggregated content services) and SNS (social networking service) is considered to be on the Internet in recent years tremendous prospects in the emerging concept.

Social value of the site

China Internet expert Zhao Tingchao said in a single model of Internet service, users need to register many sites to meet different needs.
According to the introduction, I-Net is committed to changing this situation, blogs, friends, alumni and the BBS community, integration of multiple services.
But analysts believe that this consolidation features to attract users to a blog also will encounter new difficulties: because of the blog feature distracted, unable to focus on things.
Emergence of new concepts of enclosure movement triggered a new round of China's Internet, despite emerging technology for Chinese netizens, fresh, but Korea model can be successfully applied to the Chinese market, success in persuading the Chinese Internet users will pay for the SNS service, everything is uncertain.

Provide services

I-Net is real, healthy and stylish personality home page space. Here are mini-Wo-to show themselves; there's unlimited capacity photo album-wonderful life can be saved per day; here and friends exchanging emotions, greeting each other ... ... In today's pace of life stress, here are your best networking platform for maintaining relationships.