Twinity on BBC’s Click program – itsReal

Over the weekend, Twinity was featured in a Click episode on the BBC. You can watch the episode by choosing your preferred video format and bit rate from “The Show” section on that page. The piece on Twinity starts at about the 1 minute mark and continues for about 8 minutes. There’s also a written piece about Twinity accompanying the show.

Wouldn’t it be weird if you could create a copy of you, so there were two of you wandering around, in two places at the same time.

The piece does a good job of showing the vision of Twinity – enhancing your real life.

Jochen Hummel, Metaversum: “With Twinity you are not escaping from your life but rather you are enhancing your life. It is a platform for doing a lot of things. Some people want to stay in touch with friends and family, you can do this in Twinity.”

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It’s a social environment for meeting people, visiting galleries, or online shopping. Users are encouraged to create avatars that look just like them so they’ll be recognised, and to use their real names.

It’s also a space for virtual tourism. The realism of this platform could help you plan a trip here, or just help you get your bearings before you arrive.

It’s a fun piece to watch. Enjoy!

Check out the Click Program : http://www.bbcworldnews.com/Pages/ProgrammeMultiFeature.aspx?id=18

Remember to JOIN twinity www.twinity.com its FREE and meet up to 80,000 other Twinizens !

Twinity on BBC’s Click program – itsReal

Check out the Click Program : http://www.bbcworldnews.com/Pages/ProgrammeMultiFeature.aspx?id=18

Remember to JOIN twinity www.twinity.com its FREE and meet up to 80,000 other Twinizens !

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Over the weekend, Twinity was featured in a Click episode on the BBC. You can watch the episode by choosing your preferred video format and bit rate from “The Show” section on that page. The piece on Twinity starts at about the 1 minute mark and continues for about 8 minutes. There’s also a written piece about Twinity accompanying the show.

Wouldn’t it be weird if you could create a copy of you, so there were two of you wandering around, in two places at the same time.

The piece does a good job of showing the vision of Twinity – enhancing your real life.

Jochen Hummel, Metaversum: “With Twinity you are not escaping from your life but rather you are enhancing your life. It is a platform for doing a lot of things. Some people want to stay in touch with friends and family, you can do this in Twinity.”

…

It’s a social environment for meeting people, visiting galleries, or online shopping. Users are encouraged to create avatars that look just like them so they’ll be recognised, and to use their real names.

It’s also a space for virtual tourism. The realism of this platform could help you plan a trip here, or just help you get your bearings before you arrive.

It’s a fun piece to watch. Enjoy!

Check out the Click Program : http://www.bbcworldnews.com/Pages/ProgrammeMultiFeature.aspx?id=18

Remember to JOIN twinity www.twinity.com its FREE and meet up to 80,000 other Twinizens !

Metaversum/Twinity announce stunning partnership – itsReal

Metaversum‘s new strategic partnership with Browser Games Specialists Bigpoint – Bigpoint with more than 40 million registrations & 150,000 new registrations daily – looks to be a great new partner?

The first virtual Bigpoint presence will be opening in the online world Twinity on 2 February 2009, with plenty on offer for all Twinity members.

Berlin/Singapore, November 2008 – Metaversum from Berlin, developer and operator of the 3D online world Twinity, today announced that a comprehensive strategic partnership has been signed with browser games specialists Bigpoint ( www.bigpoint.com ). The collaboration will focus on building and marketing a virtual 3D presence for Bigpoint in Twinity. This will give Twinity members a new meeting place in virtual Berlin in which to find out more about the latest browser games from Bigpoint and take part in exclusive competitions and events. The Bigpoint presence is set to become an ideal venue for all gaming fans who want to keep up to speed with all the latest developments in the world of browser games.

For the very first time, browser games fans will be able to meet up with each other in Twinity, swap views about the latest games, or discuss new gaming strategies. They will even be able to meet up and game together in Twinity, which will boost excitement levels enormously.

Posters and other special advertising measures will be implemented at selected locations in virtual Berlin to generate awareness for the Bigpoint presence. And the official Bigpoint website will naturally also be advertising the company’s new virtual presence in Twinity.

“We love the concept behind the online world Twinity. Our virtual presence will put us in touch with a whole new target group in Twinity to introduce to our browser games. We greatly look forward to this cooperation”, commented Heiko Hubertz, CEO of Bigpoint GmbH.

“We have gained another top-class partner for our virtual world Twinity in the form of Bigpoint. This cooperation will enable us to add another facet to the strong spectrum of entertainment we already offer in Twinity”, added Dr. Mirko Caspar, CMO of Metaversum GmbH.

Register for a free twinity beta account : www.twinity.com

Five social media trends to watch out for.. Repost – Public Relationships

Audiences have become smaller – and they have more choices in a fragmented media landscape. Today, our informed customers aren’t happy to blindly consume what mainstream media is feeding them. Instead they want:

Participation

Openness

Conversation

Community

Connectedness

Real time

To get this, they are turning to

Social networks LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, Xiaonei, etc.

Microblogging Twitter, Jaiku, TaoTao, etc.

Digital content sharing sites YouTube, Flickr, Todou, etc.

Shared content creation networks Wikis, message boards and BBS like Qzone, etc.

3-D and 2-D virtual networks Second Life, HiPiHi

Collaborative publishing platforms blogs, podcasts, etc.

via Public Relationships: Five social media trends to watch out for

Video Teaser: Weekend Club in Twinity!

This video edits together the footage of Twinity’s successful Weekend Club opening party with the feeling of electronic music bliss – at least we hope you feel it, too! Join us at our weekly Weekend Club parties and get to know other nocturnal Twinizens. Dance to propulsive beats from Minimal to Electro to Techno to House! The Weekend Club showcases the ultimate in Berlin’s electronic music scene.

for thos of us in Singapore – the party starts at 2am

Star-Studded Twinity: Quantum of Solace Premiere, Weekend Club & zitty Reader’s Lounge

zitty Reader’s Lounge this Thursday! Twinity’s second installment of the zitty Reader’s Lounge presents young German author Benedict Wells. The 24-year-old, Munich-born Wells reads a passage from his debut novel, Becks letzter Sommer (Beck’s last summer). Date: Thursday, 6 November Time: 17:00 (CET), 11am (EST), 00:00 (SST) Where: zitty Redaktion Sit back, relax, and listen as Wells tells the touching story of a lovesick teacher, a freaky German-African and a musical wunderkind from Lithuania on the trip of their lives from Munich through Eastern Europe to Istanbul. Enjoy this witty, wise and skewed tale about music, love and life.

Weekend Club Opening Party! The wait is over! The virtual Weekend Club celebrates its official opening party in Twinity! The event kicks off a series of regularly scheduled parties showcasing the ultimate in Berlin’s electronic music scene. Be there when the starting gun fires this Thursday, 06 November! Date:Thursday, 6 November Time: 19:00 (CET), 1pm (EST), 02:00 (SST) Where: Weekend Club Dance through the Weekend Club to propulsive beats and chat with the Weekend crew just like in real, non-virtual Berlin! Your DJ stimulates your soul with a varied set from Minimal to Electro. Get your virtual gift: As a souvenir from this extraordinary evening, you can pick up your own Weekend-t-shirt at the party!

Twinity on the 007 Red Carpet! Twinity on the Red Carpet! At Monday evening’s real-world premiere of Quantum of Solace at Berlin’s SonyCenter, Twinity staff were in attendance at the highly anticipated red carpet ceremony and caught James Bond (aka Daniel Craig) himself on camera! Find out more in Twinity at this Wednesday’s 007 party and view the full version of Twinity’s red carpet event coverage, including interviews with Quantum director Marc Forster, Daniel Craig and Bond Girl Olga Kurylenk. Catch a sneak peek here. Date: Wednesday, 5 November Time: 18:00 (CET), 12pm (EST), 01:00 (SST) Where: CineStar Cubix This Wednesday is your last chance to get a 007 Fan Package from Twinity. Come to the party and find out if you’re licensed to win!

twinity’s Apartment Contest is back! – itsReal

twinity’s Apartment Contest is back! Participate in Twinity’s Design Your Apartment contest and win big! Submit your furnished apartment to be considered for Twinity’s next big ad campaign, featuring a stunningly designed and furnished virtual apartment by one lucky Twinizen. Get famous! One Grand Prize winner and two runner-up winners will be chosen from the entries. All winners receive globals, the coveted Golden Chair t-shirt and a special award! The Grand Prize winner’s apartment and avatar will be featured in Twinity’s next ad campaign. We’ll set up a professional virtual photo shoot in your apartment with one of Twinity’s famous staff photographers!

Grand Prize: Apartment and avatar featured in Twinity’s next ad campaign! 3000 globals, Golden Chair t-shirt & award 1st runner-up: 2500 globals, Golden Chair t-shirt & award 2nd runner-up: 2000 globals, Golden Chair t-shirt & award To enter, send an email with up to 5 screenshots of your fabulously designed apartment by 6 November to contest@twinity.com from the email address you used to register for Twinity. Don’t forget to include your username and the name of your apartment in your email.

At least one screenshot from each participant’s apartment will be displayed with teleport links in The Designer’s Club Apartment Gallery, so other Twinizens can check out your cool pad! The winners will be chosen by Metaversum staff members and announced at an awards ceremony on 11 November in The Designer’s Club. We’ll present the prizes and awards, followed by a rockin’ party where DJ Tico plays Reggaeton tunes. Viva la fiesta! So what are you waiting for? Enter today and win! PS: If you don’t already have an apartment, you can easily buy or rent a new one! Click “Places” on your toolbar and choose “Get your own place”. Give your place a name and follow the instructions to create yours!

The SLENZ Update – Twinity knowledge in land of the long white cloud New Zealand

Meanwhile Metaversum’s Twinity Beta, which entered public beta a little more than one month ago appears to be moving ahead and now already is claiming 50,000 real users.(http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/10/quick-stat-over-50000-users-in-twinity-beta.html)

With a virtual Berlin, Twinity already plans to launch a virtual London and Singapore later this year. Metaversum is also working with the government of Singapore on a mirror world project, Co-Space.

via The SLENZ Update – No 20, October 30, 2008 « Second Life Education in New Zealand

Happy Halloween in Twinity! – itsReal

Happy Halloween in Twinity! Trick or Twist? This year, Halloween is going to be one creepy, crazy twisted scene at Eleanor´s Titty Twister! Get in the Halloween spirit and dress to kill on All Hallow’s Eve. Bask in the gloomy glow of jack-o’-lantern lamps, dance all night to monster Rock´n´Roll tunes and scare the virtual hell out of each other. Look in your Gifts folder to get your free Halloween Masks and Lamps! Twinity’s Twister Halloween Party will be held at two convenient times, so Halloween fans in different time zones can enjoy the holiday spirit of tricks, mayhem and madness!

Be there if you dare…who’s up for a night of wicked treats? Where: Titty Twister Date: Friday, 31 October Time: 19:00 (CET), 1pm (EST), 02:00 (SST) AND Date: Saturday, 1 November Time: 03:00 (CET), 9pm (EST), 10:00 SST Special Halloween Treat: Find the hidden jack-o’-lanterns in Berlin and win! Become a friend of Quiz Master and send her a message explaining where they are and you can win 100 Globals per pumpkin! Happy Halloween from Twinity!

PS: Boo! Send a Halloween Gift to your Facebook friends with Twinity’s new Greetings application.

Visions of REAL Kuala Lumpur Day 3 – itsReal

Kuala Lumpur is a MASSIVE city and is Malaysia’s JEWEL capital city – the centre focus is KLCC and the Petronas Towers – below are a selection of photos from my last day of escaping Singapore. I wonder where virtual Kuala Lumpur is on Twinity’s raodmap of Metropolis cities as KL deserves a spot on Twinity’s global map !

All Photos taken with the New Nokia E66