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		<title><![CDATA[Avatar Creator Gizmoz Merges With DAZ 3D, Raises Funding From Benchmark, Others]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2Farticle%2F419-avatar-creator-gizmoz-merges-with-daz-3d-raises-funding-from-benchmark-%2F&siteid=23&tag=contentnext]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Gizmoz, the animation company that lets people create lifelike avatars for sharing across social networks and virtual worlds, has merged with DAZ 3D, an animation technology provider, and online artists&#8217; community. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the merger comes with round of funding led by Benchmark Capital, Highway...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:01:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Eyes on Avatar as an industry seeks renewal]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://www.bnet.com/2468-13071_23-373176.html]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ The stars were out in London last week for the global premiere of Avatar , the most hotly anticipated movie of the year, which opens worldwide on Friday.The film, the latest from James Cameron, who directed the first twoTerminator  movies, has been more than 10 years in the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fox Turns To TypePad Bloggers To Hype New Movie,  'Avatar']]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2Farticle%2F419-fox-turns-to-typepad-bloggers-to-hype-new-movie-avatar%2F&siteid=23&tag=contentnext]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Twentieth Century Fox is going social to promote its upcoming film, AVATAR, by partnering with TypePad owner Six Apart, to launch branded blogs and micro-blogs. AVATAR fans can get branded themes for their blogs, as well as trailers, behind-the-scenes clips, and news updates about the film, which launches in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:00:55 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[MySpace Users To Get Avatars, Virtual Goods With Meez Integration]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2Farticle%2F419-embargo-myspace-users-get-avatars-virtual-goods-with-meez-integration-%2F&siteid=23&tag=contentnext]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Another add-on aimed at keeping MySpace&#8217;s loyal users engaged and away from Facebook: The social network is integrating teen-centric virtual world Meez into its platform, giving members the ability to create avatars, play games and party together in a 3D-virtual environment. Meez Nation runs in Java, so MySpace users...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:00:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jonathan Strietzel: Creating the "Digital You"]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/dogandpony/?p=118]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Strietzel is the Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of BigStage.com, a new digital media company that is bringing digital versions of real people to life. For those of you who've dreamed of staring in a blockbuster movie or TV show alongside their favorite actor, or perhaps you've wanted to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:21:45 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Google lets people create custom virtual realms]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO AFP &#8212; Google has rolled out a challenge to virtual world giant Second Life with free software that lets people create their own online 3D worlds that can be embedded on websites and melded with other online functions.  Lively by Google lets people place virtual "rooms" on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5811/is_200712/ai_n23796612]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[You may think one world, one life, is enough; but there is a host  of avatars in Second Life who think two is better than one. And these  Second Life avatars want to see photo exhibits, too, just like in the  real world.    You...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dilbert's Creator Wants You to Abuse Him...Tomorrow Night]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/intercom/?p=1177]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Scott Adams isn't just the man behind Dilbert. He's also an MBA from UC Berkeley, a jack of all trades (see the long list of "humiliating and low paying jobs" in his bio) and a clever self-promoter.Ã‚Â In his latest blog post, he invites us all to see him in Second...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:40:30 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Have A Job Interview In Second Life?: Choose Your Avatar Carefully]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=973429]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have a job interview in Second Life, you need to choose your avatar carefully! Your avatar can impact whether or not you get that job. A recent press release says that avatars can give potential employers clues about job candidates. Potential employers should use these clues when screening...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you find yourself wishing that some of the members of your team -- especially those that work from home, a remote location or a satellite office -- could be more tied into the workplace? The wait may be almost over thanks to a pair of 3D virtual workplaces hitting...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:58:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Keeping faith in Second Life]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200708/ai_n19481589]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO AFP &#8212; It is a Friday evening in Second Life and Beth Odets lights Shabbat candles at Temple Beit Israel, which she created in the virtual world a year and a half ago.  "Shabbat Shalom everyone!" Odets says in a typed instant message to animated figures standing...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Canada seeks digital cops to catch digital thieves]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200707/ai_n19380037]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA AFP &#8212; As criminals increasingly hijack digital technologies, police in Canada are turning to an unusual candidate pool for crime fighters: the virtual world of Second Life.  "Policing has to reflect society, and as technology becomes more pervasive in society, we have to make sure that officers we...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can Speaking Avatars Help Your Website?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=303323]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Using an avatar an animated speaking character to greet and guide visitors on your site has unique advantages and challenges. This paper will introduce you to some proven benefits and pitfalls of using speaking characters to increase personalization, conversion, site traffic and time spent on a site. The information provided...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['England' up for auction in Weblo virtual world]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200706/ai_n19298222]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO AFP &#8212; An online virtual world playfully branded "Monopoly on steroids" is offering England to the highest bidder, with the winner to be crowned king or queen.  The website Weblo.com, a reality-based virtual world launched in December of 2006 by a Montreal-based firm of the same name,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Photobucket Integrates 3D Avatar Building From Meez]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_April_24/ai_n27211572]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Leading Mainstream Avatar Service Enables 40 Million Photobucket Users to Create, Save and Share Unique Digital Personas]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Avatars in the Lab at the Media X Annual Meeting]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_April_10/ai_n27197308]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[PALO ALTO, Calif. -- "Let me show you what happens when you reverse the spatial orientation with the video input." The avatar of a Media X corporate affiliate in Japan switches the sequence of tasks specified in an estimation of facial orientation. Colleagues in Europe and Asia, also present (in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Experimental Marketing: ABN Amro Decides To Get a (Second) Life]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_km2929/is_200704/ai_n19042569]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Alexa Balogh is a scantily clad, perfectly proportioned avatar, with fiery red hair and anime-style ice-blue eyes. On a recent night she entered an ABN Amro virtual branch, looked around, downloaded a couple of brochures, and made plans to return that we Alexa Balogh is a scantily clad, perfectly proportioned...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Virtual terror strikes Second Life]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO AFP &#8212; In an explosive display, virtual-world banes now mirror the havoc of the real one as terrorists have launched a bombing campaign in Second Life.  People controlling animated avatar members of a self-proclaimed Second Life Liberation Army SLLA have set off computer-code versions of atomic bombs...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['Alien' star Weaver reunites with Cameron for new sci-fi film]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200702/ai_n18655100]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES AFP &#8212; US actress Sigourney Weaver will appear in James Cameron's sci-fi film "Avatar," the director's first fiction film since his Oscar-winning blockbuster "Titanic," industry press reported.  The big-budget film "Avatar," due out in 2009, is set on a distant planet, where a group of humans face...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Virtual world set up online for legislators in Congress]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Rep. George Miller is "in-world," he teleports between continents and flies into the room.    "And I have a waistline!" Miller joked.    That would be his "avatar," a virtual rendition of the Martinez congressman in Second Life, a three-dimensional, online world where people, represented...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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