Engage Digital Wrap-Up For The Week Of April 23, 2011

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Welcome to the Engage Digital Wrap-Up for the week of April 23, 2011. The Wrap-Up is where Engage Digital spotlights stories that we didn’t get to cover individually, but still make for interesting reading about the business of user engagement. Avatar Reality Appoints Tetris Popularizer Henk Rogers As CEO: Blue Mars Mobile developer Avatar Reality [...]

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Moshi Monsters Magazine Sells Out

By On April 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Mind Candy has announced that the inaugural issue of the Moshi Monsters Magazine has sold out its entire initial print run of 80,000 copies. Mind Candy says these sales “dwarf” the circulation of competing magazines and indicate the strength of the Moshi Monsters brand. The Moshi Monsters virtual world serves over 40 million registered users [...]

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Funtactix Announces New Boyz: The WORLD

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Funtactix has announced its next virtual world project, New Boyz: The WORLD, based on the Warner Music Group hip-hop duo New Boyz. The virtual world, built on Funtactix’s The WORLD engine, will include a music-driven online gaming and digital merchandise platform. Funtactix says that New Boyz: The WORLD will be the first music-based virtual world [...]

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Layered Virtual World Weblin Plans Relaunch

By On April 19, 2011 · 1 Comment

Virtual world Weblin is in the process of relaunching after its closure two years ago. Weblin is a layered virtual world that integrates avatars and social interaction into the process of browsing Web pages. At its peak, Weblin served over 3 million users with 170,000 users logging in weekly and had plans to launch a [...]

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Engage Digital Wrap-Up For The Week Of April 16, 2011

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Welcome to the Engage Digital Wrap-Up for the week of April 16, 2011. The Wrap-Up is where Engage Digital spotlights stories that we didn’t get to cover individually, but still make for interesting reading about the business of user engagement. Android Snags Sprint For Direct Carrier Billing. Now Verizon’s The Only Major U.S. Carrier Left: [...]

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IMVU Raises $112K With Virtual Goods Group Buying

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Virtual world IMVU announced that it generated over $112,000 in revenue off of a single test of a group buying offer for virtual currency. The offer, called the IMVU Crew-pon, gave users 72 hours to commit to spending $99 USD in exchange for 200,000 IMVU credits. This wasa a 50% discount that let users save [...]

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Frenzoo Announces Android, iOS Clients

By On April 11, 2011 · 1 Comment

Web-based virtual world Frenzoo has announced plans to develop clients for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. Frenzoo is powered by the Unity engine and plans to leverage Unity’s cross-platform features to help build its initial mobile client apps as well as a Flash-based release for the upcoming Flash Player with 3D acceleration supported [...]

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Engage Digital Wrap-Up For The Week Of April 9, 2011

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Welcome to the Engage Digital Wrap-Up for the week of April 9, 2011. The Wrap-Up is where Engage Digital spotlights stories that we didn’t get to cover individually, but still make for interesting reading about the business of user engagement. 700,000 Join World Of Tanks Beta: Wargaming.net announced that over 700,000 players participated in the [...]

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Stardoll Turns 5, Serves Over 100M Users

By On April 6, 2011 · 1 Comment

Virtual world Stardoll turned 5 today, now serving over 100 million registered users. Based in Sweden, Stardoll claims to be the world’s largest online community for girls who love fashion.  Stardoll evolved from an earlier Website called Paperdoll Heaven, designed to serve paper doll enthusiasts. As the site grew, it relaunched in 2006 as Stardoll [...]

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Woozworld Partners With Crisp Thinking

By On April 5, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Virtual world Woozworld has integrated Crisp Thinking‘s NetModerator community management platform. The automated platform will now operate in Woozworld’s bilingual community alongside human moderators. Woozworld is a virtual world for tweens that supports over 1 million user profiles and 3.8 million avatars globally. Crisp Thinking can automatically moderate in multiple languages and can help online [...]

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