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Playdom buys Metaplace, which forsook virtual worlds for social games
Fast-growing social game company Playdom has acquired Metaplace, which failed in its attempt to create a site for user-generated virtual worlds, for...
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Second Life maker Linden Lab cutting 30 percent of staff
Linden Lab, the maker of ostensibly popular virtual world Second Life, said today that it’s laying off 30 percent of its staff.
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Sulake’s Habbo virtual world for kids keeps growing at fast clip
Virtual worlds aren’t fashionable in the age of social networks. But Finnish virtual world operator Sulake reported strong growth in the first quarter...
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Woozworld raises $3M to expand virtual world for tweens
Woozworld has raised $3 million in a first round of funding for a tween-focused virtual world.
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Kontagent gets 50M users for Facebook analytics tool, raises $1.25M
Kontagent is announcing today that its Facebook viral analytics tool is being used by companies with 50 million users on the social network. It also...
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Vivaty shuts down site for user-generated virtual scenes
Vivaty announced on its site today that it will shut down its user-generated “virtual scenes” site on April 16, another victim of the malaise around...
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Secret Builders raises $2.3M to expand educational virtual world for kids
Secret Builders is announcing today that it has raised $2.3 million in funding for its online virtual world with educational games for children. In...
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Virtual world There.com shutting down March 9
There’s no there anymore. There.com, an ambitious virtual world that ran for almost seven years, plans to shut down on March 9.
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Week in review: Company-decimating soda bottles, Metaplace’s vanishing virtual worlds
Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. (Due to the holiday-shortened week, I’m including fewer posts than usual.) First, the most...
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Metaplace to shut down its site for thousands of virtual worlds
On Jan. 1, some 70,000 virtual worlds will vanish from the Internet. That’s because Metaplace, the company that made the open platform for the virtual...
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Metaplace launches audio chat in its 70,000 virtual worlds
Metaplace is launching audio chat in its user-generated virtual world platform today, letting users chat with one another in the 70,000 virtual worlds...
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Facebook game maker Playdom buys San Diego developer Metaplace
In the latest of a series of acquisitions, Mountain View social gaming startup Playdom has bought Metaplace, a San Diego game developer founded by...
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Playdom Buys Metaplace
Mountain View-based social gaming developer Playdom said Thursday that it has acquired Metaplace, a virtual worlds software firm based in San Diego....
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Metaplace Acquired by Playdom
San Diego-based Metaplace, the virtual worlds software firm started by Raph Koster and John Donham, has been acquired by social gaming firm Playdom,...
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Playdom Announces Acquisition of Metaplace
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Playdom, a leading social gaming company, announced today it has acquired Metaplace, Inc., a privately...
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Playdom Keeps The Acquisition Fun Rolling With Virtual-World Startup Metaplace
Social gaming company Playdom is definitely on an acquisition spree. Last month it bought Hive 7, this month it is Metaplace, a startup that launched...
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Social Gaming: Legit Gameplay or a Play for Your Cash?
There is a question being bandied about by people in the game industry. It effects something you do, or, if you don't, your friend, roommate, wife or...
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Glitch: Flickr’s Stewart Butterfield Explains His Ambitious Online Game
Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield and five other former Flickr employees are joined by one Digg alum, one games expert and several freelancers in...
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What’s Up With Virtual Worlds? [ANALYSIS]
From 2005 up through 2008, virtual worlds seemed like the hottest ticket in tech, but we’ve heard less about them in recent months. We imagined the...
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Metaplace To Shut Virtual Worlds Service
San Diego-based Metaplace, a developer of virtual world software, told its users Monday that it is shutting down its service, effective January 1st....
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