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Press Archive 2007
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Weblin Launches Avatar Web Portal in Virtual World
BOSTON, December 18, 2008 – Weblin, the avatar-based social browsing application, released Weblin Gate, a teleporter that allows Second Life Residents to export exact replicas of their avatars for the first time into the Web. Weblin allows Web surfers to make themselves visible to other users by assigning an avatar, or “weblin” to depict a user at the bottom of every Web site.
Weblin announces Marketing Partnership with Meltingdots to launch Weblin Japan
Hamburg,Germany, November 17,2008 - Weblin today announced an agreement to form an exclusive partnership with Meltingdots, Japan’s pioneer and virtual world marketing company, to promote and market weblin to leading Japanese brands and advertisers. This new partnership will focus on leveraging Weblin’s technology and social media platform to offer next generation immersive media to the Japanese market.
Weblin Hits 1 Million Users Worldwide
Boston MA, September 9, 2008 – Weblin, the avatar-based social browsing application, announced that the company has reached 1 million unique users worldwide. weblin has been averaging more than 10,000 downloads daily. weblin allows Web surfers to make themselves visible to other users by assigning an avatar, or “weblin” to depict a user at the bottom of every Web site. weblin is available in nine languages including English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Polish and Chinese.
Fast Facts
As a user-driven product, weblin turns the power structures of free speech upside down on the Internet. With weblin, users get to decide when, where and with whom they would like to chat.
· The most popular hot spots for weblins to gather and interact are on social networking sites such as Facebook, Friendster, hi5, Orkut, Yahoo!, and YouTube.
· Weblin users are active online and surf, chat and interact with other weblins on average for more than 30 hours every month.
· In addition to the chat function, some of the most popular features of weblin include: "wousle" or the ability to express sympathy towards another user; collecting and distributing virtual gifts such as flowers; and animations such as running, waving and dancing.
Weblin Receives Innovation in Virtual Worlds for Consumers and Launches Sitekit for Web Developers at 2008 Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo
Los Angeles, CA — September 4, 2008 — Weblin, an avatar-based social browsing application, announced today that it received the Innovation in Virtual Worlds for Consumers (Adults) category at the 2008 Virtual Worlds Conference. Weblin was honored alongside other top innovators yesterday at the Virtual Worlds Conference’s inaugural awards.
Weblin (www.weblin.com) is a tool that allows Web surfers to make themselves visible to other users by assigning an avatar, or “weblin” to depict a user at the bottom of every Web site. Weblins who are on the same site at the same time can see each other, and are able to communicate in real-time. Weblin has become a leader in the rapidly growing "Layered Virtual Worlds" space with co-founder and chief technology officer, Dr. Heiner Wolf, first pioneering this technology: it was six years ago, when he first developed a virtual classroom application, where avatars were visible on Web sites, even before weblin was launched in 2007. Layered virtual worlds use the regular Web as a backdrop for their own virtual community. Weblins are able to chat, move and display a range of actions and emotions in 3D independent of the Web site they are on.
Weblin in multi-discipline sporting event Olympia weeks with athletic extras
Hamburg, August 6, 2008 – Weblin, the social software of the Hamburg company zweitgeist, will be under the influence of the most important sport event of the year in the next few weeks: accompanying the Olympic Games in Peking, weblin and its users will experience an entertaining Olympics sports meeting. In order to convey the flair of the competitions directly to the weblin community, there will be new, sporty avatars covering many Olympic disciplines, from athletes and fencers to show jumpers.
The central theme for the Olympic weeks is a quiz revolving around the games. In six languages (German, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese), Olympics fans from all over Europe can test their knowledge. The weblin quiz is an interactive element which is very popular with users, arouses ambition and urges weblins on to maximum performance. And, just as if one were participating in the real Olympic Games, gleaming medals will be awarded to the best.
Weblin Selected by AlwaysOn as an AO Global 250 Winner Recognized for game-changing technology and market value
Boston, Mass., July 18, 2008 – Weblin, a universal avatar solution that allows you to communicate on any site as you surf the Web, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AO Global 250 Winners. Inclusion in the AO Global 250 signifies major developments in the creation of new business opportunities in the global technology industries.
Weblin was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts spanning the globe, based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.
weblin lite ignites next stage! weblin lite Widget complements your own website just perfectly
Hamburg, 12. June 2008 – More innovations from zweitgeist for weblin. After
launching weblin.lite in April, the Hamburg company is now announcing the release
of the next stage, weblin.lite Widget.
weblin.lite Widget is the perfect tool to fill your own website with life and to make it more interesting to visitors. With weblin.lite Widget, all website operators, whether blogger, forum administrator or community manager, can quickly and easily make their Internet service so much more attractive. Because, in just a few simple steps, it is possible to make the website visitors visible as avatars. And this is all possible without download and is completely platform independent.
The Widget Generator is obtainable free of charge under http://lite.weblin.com.
Weblin Frees Avatars to Roam the Web New Social Browsing Application Is Registration Free
Boston, Mass., May 14, 2008 - Weblin, a universal avatar solution that allows you to communicate on any site as you surf the Web, today announced the launch of an online version of their award-winning Weblin product.
Weblin.lite (Lite.Weblin.com) is a tool that allows Web surfers to make themselves visible to other users by assigning an avatar, or “weblin” to depict a user at the bottom of a Web site. With the application, any weblins who are on the same site at the same time will see each other and be able to communicate. Weblins are able to chat, move and display a range of emotions in 3D.
Weblin.lite is an Internet-based version of Weblin, a fully functional avatar tool available for download. Unlike Weblin, Weblin.lite requires no download and registration, and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms on all Browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera. To get started, users simply visit the Weblin.lite homepage and type in the site they’d like to visit. Weblin.lite then transports them to the site and assigns an avatar that can be used to chat and interact with other weblins. A right mouse click on your weblin allows you to invite friends and visit other Web sites using Weblin.lite.
weblin gets Red Herring 100 Europe 2008 - RED HERRING REVEALS COMPANIES SELECTED FOR THE RED HERRING 100 EUROPE 2008
Malta, April 15th, 2008
Award Recognizes the 100 "Most Promising" Companies Driving the Future of Technology
Red Herring today announced that Zweitgeist with its product weblin is a recipient of the Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year.
RED HERRING REVEALS COMPANIES SELECTED AS FINALISTS FOR THE RED HERRING 100 EUROPE 2008
Malta , March 20, 2008 – Red Herring today announced that zweitgeist GmbH with its social software weblin (http://www.weblin.com) was named a Finalist of Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year.
“This year’s impressive list of submissions from companies demonstrates Europe’s
growing role as a major center of innovation in the global technology sector,” said Red Herring Editor-in-Chief Joel Dreyfuss. “The exceptional accomplishments of European technology startups and entrepreneurs are a testament to the rapid advancements being made in building the European innovation ecosystem.”
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