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Hello fellow avatars, we just took myrl down while we deploy the new release and start doing some tests on it. If you still want to access your account in the next few days please visit alpha.myrl.com and join the test, but wear your helmets, it’s going to be a proper construction site

Back in 2006, Gary Hayes wrote this excellent analysis about the tools Second Life has to offer to produce inworld Alternate Reality Games. Working now at Myrl on a concept which shares some ideas with this, we thought it was worthwhile share it here…  Ok the title sounds a little ’space cadet’ and paradoxical but bear [...]

Myrl is pleased to announce that will be collaborating with Virtual Worlds Management to bring you to Virtual Worlds London, the conference and expo focussed on virtual worlds and 3D Web, to take place October 20-21, 2008 at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, a beautiful venue right across the street from Westminster Abbey. Amongst the [...]

Four weeks away from the Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo in LA. (We’re going to be there for the week, so if you want to meet up ping us.) The second annual Virtual Worlds Expo takes place September 3-4, 2008, at The Los Angeles Convention Center. Virtual Worlds Expo - www.VirtualWorldsExpo.com - is the premier event for businesses [...]

Private beta invites have been suspended two weeks ago as we’re working on the new Myrl release. We will start inviting again as soon as the new release is live. We’re working hard to make this happen by next week, so for now we can only thank you for your patience and work harder. We’ll [...]

We’ve been interviewed for Events Review/Meeting Review about virtual worlds, Top Story of the Day… But what I’m really loving is the pic caption: “Life changing: D’Orazio’s virtual avatar… and friend” LOL. Apart from this, on both magazines there’s an interesting debate going on about virtual worlds, events and marketing, check it out

Online the new issue of 2L Italia magazine with many interesting articles and a nice feature for Myrl. Download the new issue here (unfortunately it’s only for italioids, sorry!)  http://www.2litaliaworld.it/?p=119

This is a mission for virtual explorers: start a journey across worlds to discover the huge vastity of the Metaverse. This is the first of a series of missions with the goal of mapping the new virtual geography. Content Creation Worlds will guide you through some of the platforms that allow users to create content [...]

New version of the universe graph by Nic Mitham, segmented by sector and genre: Socialising, Casual Gaming, Mirror Worlds, Roleplay, Toys, Education, Fashion, Music, Content creation, Tv/films/books, Sport, Misc.While most of the sectors seems to be quite crowded, interestingly enough the only apparently untapped is the Music sector. That’s probably due to the fact that music [...]

Nice coverage for Myrl in the latest issue of Converging Media. The article is about the growing integration between virtual worlds and the web.. here’s an excerpt: ”Paul Jackson, an analyst at Forrester, warns that interest in virtual worlds has waned since Second Life consistently made the headlines last year and says that it’s “time to move to version 2.0,” where [...]