<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/52cda468-3dbd-4546-880f-747025f6a713/6D954927-1312-4F69-9007-F8DEA911545B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://gigaom.com/2007/10/28/three-virtual-worlds-from-europe-worth-watching/" href="http://gigaom.com/2007/10/28/three-virtual-worlds-from-europe-worth-watching/" style="font-size: 11px;">gigaom.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gigaom.com/2007/10/28/three-virtual-worlds-from-europe-worth-watching/"><P>Even across the Atlantic, you get the same sense of a mini dot com boom in virtual worlds, and the explosion of start-ups mainly looking to capitalize on the success of Second Life on the one hand (3D, open-ended spaces for adults) or <A href="http://gigaom.com/2007/09/08/howhabbo-hotel-got-this-big/">Habbo Hotel</A> (2D, controlled environments for kids) on the other– either as would-be competitor, middleware technology provider, or third-party marketing/services firm serving the existing market.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gigaom.com/2007/10/28/three-virtual-worlds-from-europe-worth-watching/"><P><STRONG>- Papermint: MMO for hip girls</STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gigaom.com/2007/10/28/three-virtual-worlds-from-europe-worth-watching/"><P><A href="http://www.avaloop.com/sites/papermint/papermint.html">From Austrian-based Avaloop</A>, Papermint is now being localized to English, offering <A href="http://www.papermint.at/">a social world that’s been visualized with a quirky, hip flair</A>. (Think <A href="http://gigaom.com/2007/04/30/zwinky-joins-the-virtual-world-for-kids-gold-rush/">Zwinky</A> for cool kids and thanks to its look, perhaps an even larger fanbase of older players.) It was presented at VWF by lead artist <A href="http://www.avaloop.com/sites/company/team_lippe.html">Dr. Barbara Lippe</A>, who with her cerebral background, pixie looks, and blue hair, I’m hereby dubbing the Bjork of the virtual world industry.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6D954927-1312-4F69-9007-F8DEA911545B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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