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IMVU Lands $9M

Avatars are hot. I’ve got ’em in SecondLife, Yahoo Chat, not to mention a few for bulletin board posting. Yahoo chat avatars are the easiest to create but you can’t do much with them, they just stand there. However, I love the audibles. Flirting,...

Location Based Flirting

SiliconBeat writes about Geovector, which puts a compass sensor in your cell phone, letting you point at places to retrieve information, read reviews, initiate calls and more. This is incredible stuff, although it’s available only in Japan for the time being....

Know My Music, Know Me

I’ve been playing around with Last.fm, the popular music recommendation engine. The service reads the list of songs I play in iTunes and creates a profile used by Last.fm to recommend other people and music I may like based on what I’ve been listening to....

Married over VOIP

This is sure to be a first. According to CNET, Wiriadi Sutrisno works as a physiotherapist in California, and Rita Sri Mutiara Dewi is from the Indonesian city of Bandung. “We’ve exchanged photos, chat almost daily and often call each other, but...