{"id":8155,"date":"2010-04-22T23:54:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T14:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=8155"},"modified":"2010-04-22T23:54:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T14:54:13","slug":"cyber-agent-america-launches-facebook-app-of-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/cyber-agent-america-launches-facebook-app-of-metaverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Agent America Launches Facebook App Of Metaverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/CyberAgentAmerica_logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8158\" title=\"Logo of Cyber Agent America\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/CyberAgentAmerica_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn Tuesday, Tokyo-based <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.cyberagent.co.jp\/ir_e\/\">Cyber Agent<\/a>&#8216;s subsidiary in Silicon Valley, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberagentamerica.com\/\">Cyber Agent America<\/a> launched a metaverse called <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/playcomicworld\/\">Comic World<\/a> as a Facebook app basically targeting international users.\u00a0\u00a0 In the app, you can dress up your own avatar with clothing you&#8217;ve purchased with a virtual money called ComicCash.\u00a0\u00a0 The user account for Comic World is compatible with that for <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/ninjatrick\/\">Ninja Trick<\/a> which is a war game and has been introduced last May on Facebook as well.\u00a0\u00a0 The company expects one million users will join Comic World by the end of this year.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ComicWorld_screenshot1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8159\" title=\"ComicWorld Screenshot 1\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ComicWorld_screenshot1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ComicWorld_screenshot2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8160\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"ComicWorld Screenshot 2\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ComicWorld_screenshot2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMeanwhile, last month the company launched <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/amebapico\/\">Ameba Pico<\/a>(see <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/09\/cyberagent-exports-social-avatar-community-to-english-ameba-pico\/\">this Asiajin story<\/a> for more) on Facebook, the Americanized version of Japanese popular virtual avatar service called <a href=\"http:\/\/pigg.ameba.jp\/\">Ameba Pigg[J]<\/a>, more than 500,000 users have joined the service in a month.\u00a0\u00a0 Recently they started running a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberagent.co.jp\/news\/cm\/\">TV commercial[J]<\/a> campaign in Japan for promoting Ameba Pigg.\u00a0\u00a0 As for Ameba Pigg, more than 8.5 million users have joined the service as of April 11th.<br \/>\n<strong>See Also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/24\/virtual-world-ameba-pigg-to-go-english-next-spring-in-americanized-version\/\">Virtual world Ameba Pigg to go English next spring in Americanized version<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.playcomicgames.com\/blog\/375\/here-comes-comicgames-and-comicworld\">Comic Games Blog: Here comes ComicGames and ComicWorld!! (Cyber Agent America&#8217;s official blog)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Tokyo-based Cyber Agent&#8216;s subsidiary in Silicon Valley, Cyber Agent America launched a metaverse called Comic World as a Facebook app basically targeting international users.\u00a0\u00a0 In the app, you can dress up your own avatar with clothing you&#8217;ve purchased with a virtual money called ComicCash.\u00a0\u00a0 The user account for Comic World is compatible with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/cyber-agent-america-launches-facebook-app-of-metaverse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cyber Agent America Launches Facebook App Of Metaverse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,23,37],"tags":[207,208,715,803,804,2615],"class_list":["post-8155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-new-service","category-usa","tag-ameba-pico","tag-ameba-pigg","tag-comic-world","tag-cyber-agent","tag-cyber-agent-america","tag-ninja-trick","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}