Comments on: TechCrunch40 Session 8: Entertainment for All Ages

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All About : TechCrunch40 « turutosiya’s Weblog — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:21:45 +0000

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By: Becks

Becks — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:42:37 +0000

uhh… is that a nipple peaking through her fingers? Shame on you Duncan!

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:26:28 +0000

Most of the judges liked WooMe best - I agreed. It was by far the most impressive company in this group - very impressive and I agree that people will use the speed session platform well beyond dating.

By: Learn PHP

Learn PHP — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:14:44 +0000

I wonder how long the buzz for community/social networking is gonna lots. With so many new good startups entering the market share, it is going to be a tough market in coming years.

By: M.

M. — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:04:32 +0000

I expected a lot more from Areae (worst name ever; thank god they changed it)

Areae is the company’s name.

Metaplace is the product’s name.

By: Artie

Artie — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:22:35 +0000

Flowplay is pretty cool and I am going to look into it further, but while we are on the topic of virtual worlds, has anyone had a chance to look at http://www.citypixel.com lately? Very interesting stuff going on there.

By: Pops

Pops — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:23:39 +0000

You can’t write “Ahhh…breasts.” on blog. Some people here might find it very offensive. You can ask anyone in upper class or middle class families.
It’s like saying “N” word to blacks.

Anyways, I never seen an wealthy actor say “Ahhh…breasts” on TV. I remember how NBC reject howard stern for saying such word like “b*tch, breast, penis, etc”.

By: Derek Johnson

Derek Johnson — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:33:47 +0000

Don’t really understand the Metaplace thing. Who is the intended audience? Is it a toolkit for developers to build virtual worlds (mostly in 2D and 2.5D a la Habbo, Cyworld, Gaia) or is it a gathering place and community for end-users or both? Frankly, I expected a lot more from Areae (worst name ever; thank god they changed it) given all of Ralph’s posturing over the past year. Disappointed….

By: Angelo

Angelo — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:17:45 +0000

Lots of talk from the panel about Zivity’s success being a given. One thing they never made clear was: what’s the motivation to vote (and hence everyone in the chain getting paid)?

I was impressed by WooMe, mainly because of the huge potential for users to start using the site in totally new, unintended ways.

By: M.

M. — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:27:17 +0000

Whoops!

It’s not their parked page…

Areae, Inc. only registered areae.net, metaplace.com, and metaplace.org

By: Somewhat Frank

Somewhat Frank — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:24:35 +0000

Metaplace Wigetized Virtual World Launches…

Metaplace, a company founded by San Diego-based Areae, has just launched a virtual world that can be embedded on the Web via a flash-based client widget. Every world is indexed, tagged and rated by users on the Metaplace portal, so virtual worlds in th…

By: Word Hugger

Word Hugger — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:17:52 +0000

Areae must be loving all the money it is making from that parked page being featured. Whoops!

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:15:12 +0000

By the way, BOTH links for Areae are wrong. The crunchbase link tries to go to metaplace instead of areae, and the Areae site link tries to hit .com instead of .net.