As usual, highlights from the past week at Metaversum:

• The Yumondo community grew from 900 to over 1300
• We kicked off (no pun intended) our table soccer tournament
• A couple of other really big pieces of news, which I can’t go into just yet. Suffice it to say, we’ll look back at this week as one that really set the company on a great path!

Thanks again for all your support, and we wish you all a great weekend!

Another day, another 100. Seems like strong growth for a closed beta.

By now, you’re probably getting a bit bored of seeing me posting Yumondo membership statistics all the time. But I do it for a reason – for us, it’s something to celebrate. We see every new member sign-up as validation for the concept. And we truly believe in the network effect. With each new member, with each new place, event or item, Yumondo becomes that much more valuable to all the community members. So contribute and help the members around you and around the world. They’ll help you in return. And if there is anything we can do to make the experience easier and more enjoyable for you, please let us know. (cross-posted on the Yumondo blog)

Thanks to all those who applied for the web developer jobs. We’ve now filled those. But don’t worry – there are still great opportunities to join the Metaversum team. Please check out our company page by clicking on the About link above.

It’s a big day for us. Today, Yumondo reached crossed 1000 members. While this number isn’t on the order of magnitude that you may see with MySpace, Facebook and the like, to us at Metaversum and to the Yumondo team, it tells a powerful story. When we see such demand to join the site, during a closed beta, it tells us that we’re on to something, and that we’ve started building a platform that our members enjoy, appreciate and really benefit from! (cross-posted at the Yumondo blog)

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Another day, another 100 members on Yumondo! Thanks again to all those who are helping to make Yumondo a success. Keep it going! (cross-posted on the Yumondo blog)

It’s been another great week for us at Metaversum. Some highlights of the week:

• Yumondo membership growing from 600 to close to 900.
• The Metaversum office warming party!
• Some new team members joined Metaversum this week, helping us to reach out more and more to the international members of our community.
• The Force Sunrise team is really making a positive social impact with their Realeaf efforts. We’re all proud of that and are working with them to get out an important message about doing what we can to offset any environmental impact of our use of computers and the Internet.

Thanks for being a part of our community, and we at Metaversum wish you all a great weekend! Come back after the weekend and share with us what you’ve been up to!

First, thanks to all who braved the weather to come to our office warming party last night! The weather at least lasted long enough for most to arrive, get a little look around, maybe grab some food and then get to shelter. Oh, and thanks to the event people who also kept the food and drink going until the rain just made it impossible, and then improvised a new location inside to keep serving.

For those who missed it, we had a good crowd, and we hope that you all enjoyed the food, beverages and our brief presentation. Jochen started the presentation with a little overview of Metaversum the company, then Mirko gave a bit more insight on Yumondo, and Gerrit talked very briefly about Force Sunrise and what that side of the house is working on. We gave a little sneak peek of our virtual world, and we even unveiled its name, Twinity. I’m not going to spill details here too much. You had to be there to get the insider’s scoop.

You can see pictures from the event over on Yumondo.