marineSpace
the us marines have set up a myspace identity to reach and (surely more importantly) to recruit young souls in america.
Five months after its launch, the Marines have begun to see some solid results from their MySpace profile page, which, unlike the thousands of ones set up by bands that blast you with their music, opens with a video of Marine drill sergeants shouting orders at boot-camp recruits, who recite their credo while running through obstacle courses, shooting guns and practicing hand-to-hand combat amid images of waving American flags.
full story: Marines Totally Want To Be Your MySpace Friend — And Recruit You
this sort of practice has been evident in many social networking sites. for example, companies and celebrities set up mini-hompies in cyworld where they not only advertise their products or themselves but also run events to give away digital acorns (currency in cyworld) and etc. in a slightly different note, there was a case of fakesters in friendster, a practice that has been banned by the network since then.
on the way to uni this morning, lucy and i were talking about the war in israel and hacktivism in asia, and coincidentally the first news i got to see on my computer was about the marines on myspace. coincidence. what a sad coincidence.
July 26th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
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July 27th, 2006 at 8:57 pm
I saw my first Cyworld-URL-on-a-Brisbane-flyer today! Promoting UQKISS.
July 28th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
what a name. UQKoreanInternationalStudentsSociety :) cyworld club space is used by both groups and individuals. my friend archives his large photos in his “club” (no other club members but himself) and sometimes links to those photos from his mini-hompy.
July 29th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
Regarding my own quest to enter Cyworld, I see US Cyworld has just launched… but that’s too easy. I’ve been struggling with the registration page at JP Cyworld, but when I try to validate my email address (at least, I think that’s what I’m doing), it tells me “このメールアドレスは利用になれます”, which Babelfish translates as “This mail address is accustomed to utilization”. Maybe I need a Japanese email address, like one from yahoo.co.jp… but I’m going to think for a little longer before I take that detour.
Incidentally, I just have to share the story behind decoding the error message above, because it was a minor epic. It was presented in a little popup window, in a way which made it impossible to cut-and-paste the text from the window or its source code. So I did a screen capture, went to Wikipedia’s katakana and hiragana pages, and found everything there but the two kanji (which translate as “utilization”). For those, I googled the kana, and just eyeballed Google’s output until I found them - the logic being that similar messages probably existed somewhere in its archive. (This is, incidentally, a useful way to get help with mysterious system error messages - google them and you’ll often find a forum where someone has posted the text of the message asking for help, and clueful netizens have offered a hand.) Then I pasted everything into Babelfish… At least I didn’t have to look through the Unicode Kanji Table. ;-)
July 29th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
that unicode kanji table things looks terribly scary. i doubt i’ll ever “utilize” it… haha.
the message actually means that you CAN use that email address, or more literally, “this address can be used.” so i think it’s just telling you that yes, go ahead, since your email address seems to be valid. have you tried clicking on the submit button?
if you want to join the korean one, just click on this button and proceed; appears to be a very simple process… if you need any help, let me know :)
August 21st, 2006 at 10:23 pm
I haven’t touched Cyworld for a while, but I just want to say I found the best site in the world for learning hangul. I cannot begin to say how much I love the Korean alphabet, it’s just brilliant.
January 16th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
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