At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Metaversum will be giving a fascinating glimpse of real life in virtual Berlin with Twinity. (more…)

Here’s the latest episode of Life on Line, with an interview with me about Twinity.
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Just to let people know, if you want to catch me or learn more about Twinity, stop by BarCamp Singapore 3 tomorrow!

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.

You can find an MP3 file of my interview on 93.8 Live FM here in Singapore on box.net. The main subject of the interview was Metaversum’s involvement in Co-space.

Metaversum’s CMO Mirko Caspar will be one of the speakers at the upcoming Funding & Investment Summit Focused on Casual Online Games, MMOs & Virtual Worlds – London, 5th December. Follow that link to find out more!

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.

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.

Mirko Caspar, our CMO, will be speaking at the Visual Web convention in London. You can read more about this at the Market for Computer and Video Games site.