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Cyworld, the South Korean-born social network, has opened its U.S. site into “public beta,” meaning anyone can now access the site and create those lovable “minihomes” and “minirooms” that have captured more than a third of the Korean population (see screen shots of the U.S. site below.)
Like MySpace’s web pages, U.S. Cyworld users are able [...]

Indians listening to FM radio on their mobile phones can now watch visuals while listening to their favorite Bollywood songs, as Nokia, Hewlett Packard, local station Radio Mirchi and mobile operator Hutch have launched a new service called ‘Visual Radio.’
The service, which will initially launch in Delhi, will let users buy concert tickets, video clips, [...]

As part of the on-going trend of big money VC rounds, broadband-over-wireline company, Current Communications raised another $130 million, this time from General Electric, TXU and Sensus Metering Systems. The company in 2005 had received about $100 million from Google, Earthlink and Goldman Sachs.
The latest funding news was dug-up by Wired News. Current, currently provides [...]

Live from Mountain View – This morning I got an email invitation welcoming me to try out Google’s Mountain View WiFi network as one of the trusted testers. I’m not sure if it was a random invite or not, after writing a bit about Google’s Mountain View plans, but I felt like a lucky golden [...]

We just chatted with Meebo co-founder Seth Sternberg and he told us that he just closed a deal with Netvibes to create a Meebo module for fully integrated IM access within the Netvibes site. The Netvibes blog has some screen shot here and more info on the functions. Seth had no comment on the financials [...]