Three Rings CEO: Whirled An “Abject Failure”

By On March 8, 2010 · 1 Comment

Speaking at the Flash Gaming Summit today, Three Rings CEO Daniel James introduced himself by noting that "Whirled is at $300,000 revenue, $5 million invested. Abject failure," reports FreeToPlay.biz. Fortunately, Three Rings, developer of the much more successful Puzzle Pirates and Bang! Howdy, has more in the works. Tweet

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Microsoft Gauging Interest In Virtual Goods Options For Avatars

By On April 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Microsoft is doing consumer research surveys about potential additions to the avatar feature of its Xbox Live service and appears to be seriously considering going the virtual goods route, as reported by Kotaku. As of this writing the avatars are customizable, but the items used to do so are all free. In the new Microsoft customer [...]

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LOLapps Exits Stealth Mode, Serves 44M Per Month

By On April 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Today LOLapps officially exited stealth mode, announcing that its user-generated application tools were new serving 44 million monthly visitors. LOLapps provides technology to let users create two different types of popular Facebook apps: quizzes and virtual gift programs. The virtual gift program allows to create their own virtual gifts by uploading images and adding text, [...]

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IMVU Making At Least $1.7M Montly With User-Made Virtual Goods

By On April 13, 2009 · 4 Comments

Last week IMVU issued a statement touting IMVU as a way for creative people to generate supplemental income during the the ongoing economic downturn. IMVU is a virtual world with an emphasis on a graphical chat experience that goes the Second Life route, with the vast majority of the purchasable in-game virtual goods generated by users. IMVU [...]

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IMVU Making At Least $1.7M Montly With User-Made Virtual Goods

By On April 13, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Last week IMVU issued a statement touting IMVU as a way for creative people to generate supplemental income during the the ongoing economic downturn. IMVU is a virtual world with an emphasis on a graphical chat experience that goes the Second Life route, with the vast majority of the purchasable in-game virtual goods generated by [...]

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MySoti To Sell User-Generated Virtual Shirts In PlayStation Home

By On April 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment

T-shirt print-on-demand service MySoti is preparing to move the most popular items from its catalog of user-designed T-shirts into PlayStation's Home service. Players will be able to purchase virtual good versions of MySoti designs for their Home avatars and MySoti will give the original designer a cut of the revenue, just as the company would if [...]

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MySoti To Sell User-Generated Virtual Shirts In PlayStation Home

By On April 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment

T-shirt print-on-demand service MySoti is preparing to move the most popular items from its catalog of user-designed T-shirts into PlayStation's Home service. Players will be able to purchase virtual good versions of MySoti designs for their Home avatars and MySoti will give the original designer a cut of the revenue, just as the company would [...]

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