Comments on: Virtual World Hangouts: So Many To Choose From

By: Business News Research » Massively Me Working on Kiwi Heroes, A Socially Responsible Virtual World for Children

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:04:28 +0000

[...] virtual worlds and online games have a proven track record of major success. TechCrunch analyzed several of the most popular virtual worlds last August. Club Penguin sold to Disney for $350 [...]

By: Massively Me Working on Kiwi Heroes, A Socially Responsible Virtual World for Children

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:06:14 +0000

By: Emerging Technologies for use in Real World and Second Life « Rescuepinklady’s Weblog

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:52:29 +0000

[...] http://www.techcrunch.com/2007.....oose-from/ A compendium of many available virtual worlds [...]

By: RocketOn Gets $5 M For Embeddable Virtual Kids World

RocketOn Gets $5 M For Embeddable Virtual Kids World — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:39:58 +0000

[...] Their widget strategy strikes me as odd because it flies in the face of the safety centered walled gardens other kid oriented sites have built to keep kids safe (Club Penguin, Webkinz, and others). [...]

By: Mads Gorm Larsen

Mads Gorm Larsen — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:50:55 +0000

Virtual Worlds…

It is difficult to understand the possibilities in virtual worlds, especially if you do not personally use them. But we are beginning to see online worlds, that people use in much the same way as Usenet and bulletin-boards where used in the days of e…..

By: Blogue marketing interactif de l’AMM-PCM » Blog Archive » Comparatif des univers virtuels

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:35:45 +0000

[...] Excellent tableau comparatif de plusieurs univers virtuels chez Techcrunch.com. [...]

By: Mookie

Mookie — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:16:24 +0000

Xivio.com Launched in April 2006 is a world for pre-teens to teens and has multimedia capabilties. The immersion is greater than cyworld as the chat is rendering 3D in flash in realtime, and there is an object based economy and scenes that allow for realtime interaction and chat. Users can design what they call a Hompy (homepage) that has videos, pics, and music . Theres a content ratings system to handle material for those underage too.

http://www.xivio.com

They’re releasing a big update soon after being in beta for over a year and never advertising.

By: lu ao

lu ao — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:42:42 +0000

a virtual world for chinese kids has just launched too.
http://www.bb-bb.cn

By: Who Wants to Buy a Virtual World?

Who Wants to Buy a Virtual World? — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:20:55 +0000

[...] out our recent roundup of virtual worlds for information about the competitors in this [...]

By: Cantell Imsorry

Cantell Imsorry — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:08:30 +0000

Vmk.com is better than anything I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WWWWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Puzzled

Puzzled — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:49:15 +0000

i can’t believe you guys left out puzzlepirates.com. one of the top MMOs according to this:

http://gigaom.com/2007/06/13/t.....ular-mmos/

By: V

***V*** — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:56:07 +0000

I’m curious to know. If people are afraid of getting rejected in this world, what happens 10, 20 years when these “virtual” worlds become so real that we’re afraid of getting rejected in them?

By: thinks

thinks — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:37:30 +0000

Why Club Penguin matters……

You probably heard already, but Disney bought Club Penguin last week. Venture Beat has an impressive write up about it (tip o’ the hat to Morgan Webb via Fred Wilson for the link). I briefly profiled social networks for tweens a while back and t…

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:58:28 +0000

Gaming is taking a new level, I can’t wait to see some new ideas for these Virtual Worlds come out, SecondLife is one of my favourites, but I have always wanted to run my own “Habbo Hotel” style site, just aimed at more mature visitors ;p

By: » Techcrunch comparison table of online virtual worlds Librarian Kathryn Likes This

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:07:12 +0000

[...] Virtual World Hangouts: So Many To Choose From [...]

By: oniitm55

oniitm55 — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:52:03 +0000

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By: cube3

cube3 — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:48:43 +0000

come on down–”in?” to the Lounge….
SKYBAR LOUNGE that is;)

http://www.starbasec3.com

Spamming multiple Virtual Worlds..;)

By: Kevin Kim

Kevin Kim — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:36:41 +0000

This is really cool discussion.
One of the thing that I know is, Mabinogi (http://www.mabinogi.com) which is currently available in Korea, Japan, china and Taiwan.
I’ve heard they are preparing English version for this summer for Xbox.
Some people said this is a role playing game but to me it is more like virtual hangout world.
Most players are doing nothing but chatting or performing concert in front of other players.
You can see these performances at Youtube.com by typing the keyword “Mabinogi”.

By: JasonKey

JasonKey — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:26:24 +0000

“Ya, I have belonged to http://www.flashflashrevolution.com now for 3 years and I love it. There is nothing like it on the net.”

By: James Webb

James Webb — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:23:28 +0000

It’s amazing how large some of these sites have become. We run FlashFlashRevolution, inc and now have over 1,300,000 registered members. We cater to the rhythm and music gaming crowd and as such have solidified our position as the #1 Rhythm gaming social network. What is odd is that we never intended to dive into social networking, it came to us.

Cheers,

James

By: Sing Cho

Sing Cho — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:13:03 +0000

Great chart and great posts.
I have visited many of the sites listed here….

My favorites (for different reasons):
http://www.hipihi.com 8/10
http://www.nicktropolis.com 6/10
http://citypixel.com 7/10
http://activeworlds.com 6/10

I didn’t mention secondlife which is my favorite as everyone knows them….

By: Gang Lu

Gang Lu — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:53:43 +0000

my opinion, if we are talking about the second SecondLife, you have to mention HiPiHi. It is Chinese only right now and also in the close test stage. But it is growing very fast in China and rumor says HiPiHi has the plan to launch japanese and english version. more information can be found http://www.hipihi.com/index_english.html and http://www.mobinode.com/index.php?s=hipihi

By: Nick Jacobs

Nick Jacobs — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:24:38 +0000

A few of many that are not mentioned:

3B.net
Nicktropolis.com
vmk.com (disney)

And some of those numbers ARE pretty mainstream. Not mainstream to whom? Your grandad? Maybe you mean a master one like Myspace?
Perhaps the level of immersion mean that’s less likely.

By: Larry Press

Larry Press — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:55:59 +0000

Thanks for the comparative chart!

I linked to it in a blog post at:
http://cis471.blogspot.com/200.....rtual.html

By: Rod Recker

Rod Recker — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:53:33 +0000

My kids are big into Nicktropolis from Viacom: http://www.nicktropolis.com. It seems more “produced” than some of the others like Webkinz. Their home page claims 4.5 million “citizens”.

The big issue I see is how many can they participate in? Right now they have 3 - Webkinz, Club Penguin, and Nicktropolis. We limit their computer time so they have to choose where they want to go. It seems like they have more fun on Nicktropolis but are compelled to return to Webkinz to “feed” their pets.