Some highlights from the past week at Metaversum:

• The Spirit in Twinity
• And the big news from the past week, Twinity is now over 100,000 members!

Have a great weekend, and happy Lunar New Year!

Virtual Worlds News has a nice roundup of investment in virtual-worlds related companies in 2008. This includes a mention of Metaversum:

Metaversum, which received an undisclosed, multi-million Euro investment towards its mirror world, Twinity. The recurring them for the over-18 set is clear: even in a virtual world, reality is key. Whether that touch point is made through a social network and real-world friends or by mirroring the physical environment, the older we get, the more investors  expect us to shy away from fantasy–unless, of course, that’s the pure fantasy of MMOGs.

Indeed reality may be the key, as Kzero also mentioned recently.

Some highlights from the past week at Metaversum:

• The battle to rebuild London, with Twinity involved
• Time to shop!
• Seek, and ye shall find
• And the biggest highlight of the week – start looking for Twinity on your favorite social network and on YouTube!

Have a great weekend!

I’ll be speaking on a panel titled “Business in Virtual Worlds” on Tuesday, January 20 at the National University of Singapore. You can find out more about the event on the Singapore Entrepreneur blog.

It’s been a short week with holidays, so no real weekly wrap-up. One interesting note from the past week is some validation of our strategy. We wish you all the best for 2009.