I recently did an interview with Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and that’s now appeared on the Business Times Online and on AsiaOneBusiness. Hope to see you in virtual Singapore!

EDITED Sep 23, 2008, 9:36PM Singapore time: Removed the link for Business Times Online, as that page has a registration requirement, and may only display the link once before putting the visitor into a registration / login process. The AsiaOneBusiness link works properly for non-registered, anonymous guest visitors.

During the past week, Twinity’s open beta continues to get a lot of attention. See the Twinity blog for more information on places that it has been mentioned or featured. For other stuff, well, it all happened behind the scenes… Stay tuned and have a great weekend!

Sadly, I missed Serious Worlds 08, but the BBC has an interesting write-up on their backstage blog.

There’s a brief mention of Twinity in there as well:

Presently there are no standards for virtual worlds interaction, for example you can’t take your Second Life avatar to visit a friend in say Twinity or in an MMOG such as WoW, although it must be said that you probably don’t want to take your Second Life avatar into World of Warcraft as they’d be annihilated pretty quickly

Obviously, interoperability is a topic that gets a lot of attention, but has no working solution yet. And as the comment points out, there are lots of areas where it wouldn’t even be suitable. But, as the Internet and 3D spaces continue to come closer and closer, I do believe there will be customer demand for it. And from our side, we’re very interested in being part of the discussion and joining the efforts.

Some highlights from the past week:

• Obviously, last week was a busy week with the opening of virtual Berlin, and Twinity entering public beta.
• This week has brought a lot of attention, much of it noted in the latest entries on the Twinity blog.
• This week also saw The Dark Knight winding down in Twinity, with a costume party of sorts

Have a great weekend!

Better late than never, again. Highlights from last week:

• The Run, Silkcharm Run machinima video
• I posted the summary of The Dark Knight coverage
• And the biggest news of the week was of course the opening of virtual Berlin, and Twinity moving into open beta

Metaversum GmbH, developer and operator of the 3D online world Twinity, today entered its public beta phase. At today’s press conference in Berlin, Berlin’s mayor Klaus Wowereit opened the virtual counterpart of Germany’s capital city Berlin in Twinity.

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A little compliment for one of our team who spoke at RailsConf Europe.

RESTful everything was the next session, that was a helpful one especially for someone like me. The speaker Ingo Weiss from twinity.com introduced a new plug-in for rails that is very useful.

Metaversum will be at online-marketing-düsseldorf this more. You can read more about it here.

To those who were looking for the regular wrap-up, I apologize. The weekly wrap-up will resume this week. Please stay tuned…