Linden Lab Target Global Growth

In a recent interview with Ian Lamont of The Industry Standard, Linden Lab’s CEO, Mark Kingdon, said that the company is targeting growth in France, Germany, Spain, Brazil, and Japan.
Said Kingdon, “In Japan, we have someone on the ground that helps with communications and partner relationships. We don’t in Germany because that can be served [...]

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Mind Candy’s Moshi Monsters Make Money

Mind Candy is a  British media and entertainment company that specializes in puzzle games. In 2007, the team began developing Moshi Monsters, a virtual world with pet monsters. It has now introduced a new membership system earlier this month to add to its current free-to-play option. Membership adds a variety of premium benefits, including the [...]

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Life On Line Goes Live: Virtual TV for the Virtual World

Social networks, games, shopping, dating, music, news and much more. Life On Line, a TV show about internet living.

Life-On-Line …… Spread the word!

Starting February 15th 2008, this TV talk show is about how we spend our lives online – how we stay in touch, how we work and play, how we are entertained [...]

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SL on VL Now Available In 3D!

By clicking on the button above, you can enter the world of ExitReality and stop by my new 3D-version of this blog – which turns out to be a beach house!
You need to download and install the ExitReality software. Then you can come see the new house and wander around.

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Alcoa Works With ExitReality To Create Virtual World

Alcoa, a global leader in the aluminum industry with over 90,000 employees in 34 countries, is committed to excellence and innovation.
As part of that commitment, Alcoa is working with 3D web platform provider ExitReality to improve communications, productivity, research and innovation for many of its global activities.
To enhance collaboration and communication, virtualisation within Alcoa has [...]

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Virtual Worlds Score $600 Million In Funding

Whether virtual worlds have been expanding of contracting in 2008, some venture capital companies have been willing to take the risk – to the tune of $594 million. IN a report released January 19th, 2009, Virtual Worlds Management found that 63 companies have received funding ranging from $500K (Worlds.com)  to $70 million (Trion World Network).
According [...]

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Compensation for World of Warcraft™ Downtime?

Read the opening two paragraphs from the new site, YouPlayorWePay.com and see if you feel the pain too.
“Are you a fan of World of Warcraft™ (Who Isn’t!?)
Are you sick of waiting hours upon hours in queues?
Feeling angry about unexpected outages and laggy game play?
Wish you could be compensated when you can’t play?
“Welcome to the world’s [...]

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Girl Ambition: Virtual World for the Post-Barbie Tween?

So you’re a tweenie girl who wants to move on from BarbieGirls world but you’re not ready for the all out lust and violence of Second Life™. Well, Girlambition.com, a new site for tween girls, debuted on 15th January, 2009, opening up a new world of online possibilities to the age group. Girl Ambition was [...]

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Nurien Secures $10 Million in Venture Capital

Using the NVIDIA PhysX engine to great effect in their promo clips, South Korean software developers, Nurien, have gathered over %10 million in venture funding to further develop their virtual world.  Over the past year, Nurien have been demonstating some stunning video clips, but no final product just yet.

The funder are  [...]

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There.com and Book Launch Tie In

Makena Technologies, creator of the social virtual world There.com, today announced that two new books will be promoted in-world through a live book reading and meet and greet later this month. Sarah Mlynowski, the Random House author of the hit teen book series Magic in Manhattan, will appear in-world on January 13 to promote the [...]

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