Update: SmallWorlds will be in public beta from 2pm 03/06/08. Come and check it out!
SmallWorlds was released into private beta yesterday afternoon after months of development. It’s been amazing to see this grow from nothing, into the greatest Flex application every built!
SmallWorlds features:
Built in Flex and running on top of Red5 on Amazon’s EC2 servers
Highly flexible avatar builder where you have heaps of control over face shape, facial features and it even has a dance studio where you can design you avatar’s groove
Heaps of furniture and theme packs to make your room just like home
You can fill your room with lots of great widgets/applications such as the pool table, arcade machine, YouTube TV, Flickr photos, Last.fm radio and heaps more
The beta is currently invite only, so if you’d like to get in and see it for yourself, leave a comment on this post with a valid email and I’ll send one through to you.
Update 28-02-08: The guys from Xobni have given me 30 more invites to give away. You can get one here, but be quick!
I have five invites to give away for the new Xobni plugin for Microsoft Outlook, which I will give to the first five people who leave a comment on this post. Get in quick!
Xobni (inbox spelt backwards) is a great addition to Outlook, and provides a great set of tools and metrics to help you manage your email. In my opinion there has been almost no innovation within Outlook for years, so Xobni is a real breath of fresh air. Click here to learn more.
Note: Anyone wanting a Xobni invite must provide a valid email address when posting their comment. Also, anyone who gets into the beta will have 5 more invites to give away, so if you don’t make it into the first five leave a comment here with your email address visible and hopefully one of the successful people will be nice enough to come back and invite you too
I finally gave in and put ads on my blog today. I was very reluctant at first, but now that it’s done (Google makes it very easy), I’m warming to it more and more. My goal is simply to cover the cost of running this blog, and hopefully learn a few things about web based advertising in the process. If anyone has any tips or warnings about using systems like Google Adsense, I’d love to hear about it in the comments
Also, to any fiends of mine who are likely to try and do me a favour by clicking ads every day Google tracks all of the ads clicked, and will block my account if they detect lots of clicks from the same person.
SmallWorlds is slowly starting to gain media attention as we get closer and closer to our beta release.
At the end of last year we featured in Start Up magazine as one of New Zealands Top 10 Online Startups. Unfortunately you can only read the article if you buy a hard copy of the magazine because there’s no digital copy.
Today however SmallWorlds featured in a similar article in the NZ Herald, which is the major news paper down here in New Zealand. Not a very descriptive piece, but we’re still technically under wraps at the moment
SmallWorlds was released into private beta yesterday afternoon after months of development. It’s been amazing to see this grow from nothing, into the greatest Flex application every built!
