Exploring our planet and beyond in an exciting, positive and interactive way is an experience The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks Virtual World promises to deliver end 2009.
) November 2, 2009 -- The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks Virtual World has been creating waves on the internet, attracting tens of thousands of fans from over 130 countries worldwide despite being some months away from launch. Today, it opens its doors for Beta.
The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks
The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks Virtual World transports players on a breathtaking tour of today's world, as well as back through the past into history and forward into the future.
) June 30, 2009 -- Poptropica, the Web's fastest growing virtual world for kids, has entered Quantcast.com's list of top 300 Web sites, based on monthly visitors. Less than two years old, the safe online environment for fun and learning recently secured the 274th slot on the online audience measurement firm's list. Poptropica users have created more than 120 million online characters who explore and learn on the site's nine virtual islands.
) May 9, 2009 -- The company that touched the hearts of children and ignited their imagination with In My Pocket™, the popular soft-and-cuddly line of pocket-sized pets, is now unveiling a brand new virtual world! Pocketville® is a place where your favorite In My Pocket™ pets come alive online, bringing to kids a safe and interactive world filled with fun and games. With engaging and educational new features like collecting pets, safe places for chatting with other Pocketville® pet owners, fun environments to explore, and over 1,000 dress up combinations for your pet, kids will have a whole new medium to interact with the pets they adore!
Elf Island this week announced its third GoodQuest, challenging kids around the world to help kids protect these endangered animals through a partnership with Polar Bears International.
) June 29, 2009 -- Picture this. Eight year old Juan sits in front of the computer in the Internet café near his home in Bogotá, Columbia. He concentrates deeply as he records his first song in English. The sound must be perfect and the pronunciation correct, because he invited his cyber friends to his concert later. On the other side of the world in Luxor in Egypt, six year old Mustafa logs into Mingoville World from his dad's computer in the corner of the living room. Excited, he prepares for the concert he'll attend with his friend Juan, knowing afterwards they will chill out, talk, and drink seawater in the Mingoville café.
Cricket Bookie is a fun virtual betting app on social networks that allows you to predict and bet virtual cash on everything unpredictable and exciting about real cricket matches.
Cricket Bookie is a fun virtual betting app on social networks that allows you to predict and bet virtual cash on everything unpredictable and exciting about real cricket matches.
) September 30, 2009 -- WanderTot.com is the place to go for the latest family travel deals, the best places to travel with kids, the funniest family vacation stories and the most helpful tips for traveling with kids.
Grandview Design has announced plans to develop a light or personal use version of their popular virtual tour software.
Grandview Design current interactive virtual tour software is available only through contract services with the company, however the new software will be an out of the box alternative to the full service package.
While the new software will require users to obtain their own panoramic photography, it will give them full capability to recreate the fully immersive virtual tour environment themselves. At the click of a few buttons, anyone from anywhere and with any level of web expertise, will be able to assemble an interactive masterpiece.
) January 13, 2009 -- Horseland™, a popular online virtual pet community, has announced a revamped website that now includes an interactive 3D world with customizable horses and avatars.
Horseland is an imaginative online game where you can customize an avatar and ride your horse with friends around 3D interactive world.
Non-profit Virtual Helping Hands is proud to celebrate the launch of Max, the Virtual Guidedog in Second Life. Max allows the blind and sight-impaired to travel and participate freely in Second Life.
Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has launched -Harris Virtual World,- an unprecedented experience that allows broadcast customers around the globe to engage with Harris in a three-dimensional online environment.
) March 10, 2009 -- Two top publishers - one print and one digital - have joined forces to create Big Nate Island, a new online quest that will excite kids all over the world. Family Education Network, the publisher of Funbrain.com and Poptropica, and United Media, the syndicator of Big Nate, recently launched the island on the Web's fastest growing virtual world dedicated solely to publishing for kids.
) November 24, 2008 -- Do kids know best? Does it take a fresh, personal look at things to make a quantum leap in the level of experience? Every marketer wants to know the answer to these questions and The Fashion Fantasy Game is preparing to find out.
) October 3, 2009 -- Parents magazine and Parents.com have just launched iPlay'n Learn, a unique new iPhone application for kids that features fun quizzes and flash cards for babies, toddlers and children. Each of the activities of the interactive iPhone App for kids keeps preschoolers laughing while learning about letters, numbers, colors and shapes. Audio messages and exciting animations such as exploding fireworks, chugging trains, and skyward-bound rocket ships keep kids engaged and deliver positive reinforcement, helping moms and dads raise happy, healthy kids,
Elf Island has listened to its community by creating an “economic stimulus package” that helps Elf Islanders save money while instilling social responsibility and doing Good in the real world.
) December 4, 2008 -- SecretBuilders, a Silicon valley startup, today announced the launch of Secretbuilders.com, a virtual world with an emphasis on creativity and historical adventure for children 6 to 14 years old.On SecretBuilders, children are exposed to stories and concepts from the arts and humanities as they interact and play among fictional and historical characters including Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Galileo and Socrates.
The Mango Lounge section of children's website SecretBuilders.
) September 15, 2008 -- Super Fun Science has just launched its new website, which bridges the gap between the classroom and the home in a fun way by allowing students to learn more about kids science from their own home computer.
Super Fun Science (www.superfunscience.com) realized that kids science lessons were often taught in a way that was not fun for students. Because of that, children have not been able to learn at the rate that was expected of them. That has led to low self esteem, and many children have thought that the subject was too difficult to master.
) October 1, 2009 -- Delivering on its promise to help moms and dads raise happy, healthy kids, Parents Magazine has just launched a unique new iPhone application. The Parents iPlay 'n Learn features fun quizzes, tracing programs, and flash cards for babies, toddlers, and kids. Each of the activities of the interactive iPhone App keeps preschool children laughing while learning about letters, numbers, colors and shapes. Audio messages and exciting animations such as exploding fireworks, chugging trains, and skyward-bound rocket ships keep kids engaged and deliver positive reinforcement.
) July 1, 2009 -- WildTangent, the leading online game publisher and vertical ad network, today announced it has added one of the world's most popular and successful children's virtual worlds in history - Club Penguin - to its growing catalog of casual and core online and downloadable games.
The move provides direct access to Club Penguin for the tens of millions of consumers who own PCs or laptops from Dell, HP, Acer, Toshiba or Lenovo, which all come pre-loaded with the WildTangent ORB game service.
) October 1, 2009 -- Delivering on its promise to help moms and dads raise happy, healthy kids, Parents Magazine has just launched a unique new iPhone application. The Parents iPlay 'n Learn features fun quizzes, tracing programs, and flash cards for babies, toddlers, and kids. Each of the activities of the interactive iPhone App keeps preschool children laughing while learning about letters, numbers, colors and shapes. Audio messages and exciting animations such as exploding fireworks, chugging trains, and skyward-bound rocket ships keep kids engaged and deliver positive reinforcement.
Botts Brewery, LLC, is the only virtual brewery in the world that brews ideas and clothing designs. The virtual brewery creates custom beer labels based on real-world beers. They create custom labels based on the ever-popular Colorado and other geographic locations, sports, careers, current world events. All with a healthy dose of fun.
) September 11, 2009 -- ProjectExplorer.org can add another stamp to their virtual passport. The creative team behind ProjectExplorer.org's online global travel adventures has won a 2009 Parents' Choice Gold Award for Outstanding Web Programming.
ProjectExplorer.org producers Jenny M Buccos and Ilana Fayerman
Founded in 2003, ProjectExplorer.org hosts over 160 free films aimed at cultivating cross-cultural understanding among students.
Tots to Teens: A Parent Guide to Virtual Worlds is a new, 'must have' directory of over 300 virtual worlds, online games plus kid-friendly portals to thousands more web-based destinations for kids from preschool to high-school and is now available free from OneClickMoms.com, singular sites for savvy moms...and dads. (PRWeb May 7, 2009)
) November 23, 2008 -- More and more companies are becoming globally distributed and the number of employees telecommuting is on the rise. While the benefits of working remotely are clear, employees often complain that they don't feel connected to their co-workers or company. But now with the arrival of the Meetsee Virtual Office, which has just entered public beta testing, companies can connect their distributed workforce. Meetsee makes it easy for co-workers to communicate, share files, collaborate on documents, and get to know each other in virtual offices and meeting rooms.
) October 7, 2009 -- meetMoi, the leading mobile dating company in the United States and one of the first to utilize location-based technology, has released virtual gifting as a new opportunity for user-to-user interaction as well as revenue generation. As companies in the mobile dating sector face the challenge of an increasingly savvy userbase hungry for new and exciting features, meetMoi is rising to the task. In addition to traditional messaging, users are able to send virtual gifts without the common cumbersome step of purchasing virtual currency first.
I work for GEM Lifestyle( http://weplay.gemlifestyle.com ). The Company is building a 3D Virtual World on Internet called GEM Island( http://weplay.gemisland.com ) with many attractions.
The first grant competition for an online virtual world project that serves the community and contributes to student learning will be held, also online, at Second Life on December 4, 7 pm central time, according to the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Foundation and the University of Texas. Four student teams from a UT course called "Working in a Virtual World" will vie for the prestigious Carter Academic Service Entrepreneur grant, with a prize of $1,000 to implement the winning project and certificates for students signed by President Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Carter. The winning project will be the most innovative way for students to serve the community online in the virtual world Second Life. (PRWeb Dec 4, 2008)
RocketOn, Inc., a venture-funded startup located in South San Francisco, is rolling out its virtual world platform by embedding virtual worlds on partner sites. RocketOn's partners range from comedy, music and game sites to community networking sites and college magazines. (PRWeb Feb 4, 2009)
) December 23, 2008 -- Virtual Edge 2009, the Summit on Virtual Events, Virtual Communities and Virtual Marketing announced it has opened its general Call for Speakers on December 23. Virtual Edge 2009 will be held April 29-30, 2009, in Santa Clara, California.
) October 1, 2008 - PNC Bank, a member of The PNC Financial Services, Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) has introduced "Wallet World: The Virtual Adventures of Kash & Flo," a new online game.
Singapore Metaversum GmbH has announced that it plans to build virtual replicas of real metropolises in the 3D online world Twinity. Berlin will be the first virtual city that Twinity members can enter and explore, with other international metropolises set to follow.
This is the first time that Germany's capital has been rendered true-to-scale within a virtual world, thus enabling its members to directly interact with the city. Visit virtual galleries, make new friends in caf and bars, or go on a virtual shopping trip these are only a few of the many things to discover in Twinity.
During the current private beta phase, Twinity enables its members to create unique avatars, and move into and style virtual apartments anywhere in the world.
