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| Jun 15, 2012 | Post Pedophile Scandal, Habbo Hotel Is Opening For Business Again | Sulake, the developers behind the children’s virtual world Habbo Hotel, is preparing to reopen its chatrooms once again after a week in which it was exposed for hosting inappropriate sexual content on the site, prompting the company to clos... |
| Jun 13, 2012 | Patchy Response From Sites Aimed At Kids In The Wake of Habbo Controversy | In the wake of the disturbing news that teen site Habbo Hotel had hosted illicit and inappropriate content, the response from other sites aimed at teens and younger children has been patchy at best.
Yesterday UK broadcaster Channel 4 publis... |
| May 27, 2009 | Live Video From Stockholm: TechCrunch Europe Roundtable | The TechCrunch Europe Roundtable event in Stockholm today (live video streamed below and on @TCEurope on Twitter, official hashtag is #tcen) will feature an afternoon of panel discussions and presentations followed by startup pitches and a ... |
| Jul 14, 2008 | Gaia Raises $11 Million For Its Teenage Virtual World | Gaia Online, an online world and social network aimed at teens, has raised $11 million in a Series C funding round led by Institutional Venture Partners. Since our Virtual World Roundup last summer, the site has seen impressive growth, with... |
| Jun 20, 2007 | Virtual Goods: the next big business model | This guest post is written by Susan Wu, a Principal with Charles River Ventures, where she focuses on digital media, software, and infrastructure. Susan is coproducing the Virtual Goods Summit this Friday at Stanford University – most of th... |
| May 3, 2007 | Avoiding gaffes in online news… Catering to Gen Y… Bigger than Second Life… | How not to market in online news communities
If you have an opinion, a question, or, increasingly, a product, online news communities such as Netscape, Digg and Reddit are becoming THE places to get the word out.
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| Feb 1, 2007 | Roundup: Doppelganger targets SecondLife, Draper bankrolls sex toys & more | The latest in Silicon Valley:
Doppelganger raise $5M more for virtual world focused on teens — Doppelganger is the San Francisco start-up taking aim at the teen, or MTV audience (see our earlier coverage). It launched last year with a virtu... |