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Vivaty announced today on its blog that it had added new features including pet dogs, avatar customization, and social scenes. The pets seem fairly basic, though fun additions to rooms. Social scenes are pre-set themes for users to develop beyond...

Just Leap In doesn't let you quite do that, but it's close. After downloading an 8.8MB (26.6MB installed) plugin. In a startup spotlight at Mashable, the company balances that against improved graphics and physics relative to other Web-based worlds. Like...

Just got an e-mail from the editor of our National Capital’s primary newsletter.  She ran an article about me and my business (as well as the school I went to) in today’s edition of the newspaper. Virtual assistance business becomes successful reality for young Ottawa entrepreneur Louise Rachlis,

Two days -- two shows, two cities and two trains which left at dawn. Wow... What a rush. What I picked up from the Channel Partners (Boston) and SpeechTek (New York) shows is  the communications market and the call center market are doing well, based on what companies in the space tell me.

If things seem a little bit “faster” around here today, there is a good reason for that. Over this past weekend I moved this site, as well as all of the others I have worked on, to a brand-new VPS provided by Layered Technologies.

I hope this is ok to share. If not, I apologize in advance! One of my brands, Hearthsong, has a sweepstakes to win a grand prize of a $15,000.00 college scholarship (along with other great prizes) to celebrate our 25th anniversary. It runs through December 31, 2008. You don't have to be an affiliate, and no purchase is necessary.

Sears launched an ambitious back-to-school campaign last month across seven different youth virtual worlds and avatar sites. It's a shotgun approach that seems to be working out well. Sears CMO Richard Gerstein told me earlier this month that "Within the...

Worlds.com and Paid, which announced a partnership earlier this month, are beginning their collaboration on an integrated world and fansite for Darryl “DMC” McDaniels of Run-DMC fame. Run-DMC was a previous client of Paid, and McDaniels joined Worlds last month....

OK now, is she creepy or what? Emily, a resident of the Uncanny Valley, was created by Image Metrics, the same company that created the graphics for the game Grand Theft Auto. Read more about it (or "her") at the Times Online. I wonder if they've tried this technique with any body parts besides the face...

Hi, I had a problem with some database running in a W2K3 virtual machine under W2K8 Hyper-V. The database kept growing until it was 15 GB when it should have been around 1 GB. I had to expand the dynamic VHD to 18 GB to store the database. Now the database bug is solved and it is back to 500 MB.