Hick-up

Due to a hardware problem weblin has a short downtime but is working on that to get back online soon.

More rooms for more weblins

There are weblins on many sites. The TopCloud shows only a small part. Weblins are distributed all over the web, but they also cluster on the big sites like YouTube, Friendster, Orkut, Facebook, hi5, Yahoo, Google, Hotmail and more. Sometimes you meet dozens on these sites and it is constantly growing.

There has been a special configuration for Google. If people just want to do a quick search and leave for their destination, then they just pass through and disturb the ongoing chats. Some time ago Google sites have been configured so, that weblins do not enter the Google rooms automatically. Instead, weblin shows a button, which people may press to enter the room intentionally.

But there are more and more web sites with heavy weblin usage.

These sites will increasingly be configured to put avatars into random rooms. International sites will get rooms for frequently used client languages. Later, there will be multiple rooms per language. Most sites also get a number of random rooms for all other languages.

Find technical details about the configuration here.

weblin on Arab TV

This is so cool. Despite we do not have arabic language yet, the tv station france24arabic recently broadcasted a tv-spot with weblin:

2008 METAVERSE TOUR- a video about virtual worlds

Gary Hayes made a cool Video, "2008 METAVERSE TOUR - THE SOCIAL VIRTUAL WORLD'S A STAGE". Weblin is one of the virtual worlds mentioned in his video, cool. I was really impressed by the huge number of virtual worlds already existing.
And I liked the quotes between the video snippets, I didn't know that even Shakespaere, Henry Miller and Thoreau thought about virtual worlds!
You can see a lots of different avatars, from 2D to 3D in various steps, pixelworlds and full 3D environments. Great film, thanks Gary.
via marmel

Stanford - AlwaysOn Global 250 Winners

Click the pic to have a look on the Stanford Summit archives

weblin proudly announces that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AO Global 250 Winners. Inclusion in the AO Global 250 signifies major developments in the creation of new business opportunities in the global technology industries. Weblin was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts spanning the globe, based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.
The AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Companies have been honored at the AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford on July 22-24, 2008 at Stanford University.
Weblin´s GM North America Marc Theermann was there to network and talk to a lots of impressive start-ups.

Xbox 360 comes with avatars!

Klick the screenshot to get to the full article on cnet

As Microsoft announced at E3 in LA, the Xbox 360 comes with exciting updates: "In the new version, you'll even be able to create your own avatars who can then meet up with your friend's avatars."
This is again great news, because it emphasises the global trend to virtual identity, avatars and socializing.

weblin scoring at TechCrunch UK Pitch

click the pic to read the techcrunch.uk article by Mike Butcher

It was a great evening, when the first TechCrunch Pitch! event in London took place on Thursday last week. Only a handful start-ups had the chance to present in five minutes their product and company. Jan, our CEO was one of the lucky guys to do so and he was very close to the top. In the end, WatZatSong won the pitch but weblin together with TIOTI, Amazee and Tactile CRM belongs to the Top 5 European start-ups, ranked in this evening.