There News And Other Virtual World Info 

 

 

                                                           2023

 

    Two Recent Video Essays on the Metaverse: Straszfilms Looks at There.com                                                                                                             

 

                                       2012

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​ The Verge: Digital apocalypse: living through the death of virtual worlds - December 20 2012

 Common Sense Media - There.com Review - 2012

• Current.com - There.com Is Back - June 16,2012

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•                                                    2011
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• Hypergrid Business - Kitely Moves Assets To Amazon Cloud - October 11, 2011​

• ​CrunchBase: There - August 21,2011

• New World Notes - Virtual World Pioneer There Contemplating Relaunch as Subscription-Based Service for Ages 18+ - April 2011

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                                       2010

 

 

• Augmented Reality - October 12 2010​

• GDN: VIE To Have Episodic Content,Multiple Storylines - August 28 2010​

• Hyperia3D News: How Do Virtual Worlds Survive? - August 24 2010​

• Guardian.co.uk - Virtual Worlds: Is This Where Real Life Is Heading? - August 22 2010​

• Learning From Failures: IMVU Founder Will Harvey Interview - 7 Pages - Aug. 1 2010​

• Social Times - Can Unity Save 3D Worlds? - July 14 2010​

• Sony Online Entertainment - G.I.R.L: Talk With Terry Redfield CEO Of Real Life+ - July 6 2010​

• 3D Gaming Summit - April 21 2010​

• There - Info Released on The Closing - March 2010​

• Hypergrid Business: Coca-Cola Shuts Down CCMetro As There.com Closes - March 17 2010​

• MMORPG.com: There.com Forum - March 10 2010​

• Virtual Cultures: Goodbye From Artemesia In There - March 09 2010​

• Utherverse now accepting There.com Transfers - March 05 2010​

• The Escapist: There To Close Down, CEO Cites Recession - March 05 2010​

• Games Beat: Virtual World There.com Shutting Down On March 9th - March 03 2010​

• The Alphaville Herald - Game Over: There.com Virtual World Ends 03/09/10 - March 03 2010​

• Hypergrid Business: There.com To Shut Down - March 02 2010​

• Engage Digital: There.com Shutting Down On March 9 -- March 02 2010​

• Raph Koster's Website: There.com Is Closing - March 02 2010​

• CNET News: Real-World Woes Shuttering Virtual World There - March 02 2010​

• Massively: There.com Is Closing - March 02 2010​

• ​Framedin3d's Blog: There.com Commercials - February 21, 2010​

• ​SAIC buys Forterra Google Search - February 2010

• Hypergrid Business - Forterra Sells OLIVE To SAIC February 02 2010​

• The Virtual Whirl - Community Guide To Virtual Worlds - Jan. 24 2010​

• Inc. - Should You Stake Your Claim In A Virtual World?​

• Virtual World News: Forterra Lays Off Half Of Work Force Jan. 24 2010​

• There.com "Play" Video On Vimeo - January 2010

 

                                       2009

 

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• VentureBeatProfile: There.com Overview - Nov. 08 2009​

• Forterra On Veengle - Sept 30 2009​

• VentureBeat Profile: Forterra Raises $1.2M For Corporate Virtual Worlds - June 08 2009​

• Engage Digital - There.com - Bringing Branded Goods Into Virtual Worlds - May 04 2009​

• FreeMMOGamer.com: There.com - 2009​

 

                                       2008

 

 

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• Treet.Tv: Shows Tagged With There.com - 2008​

• There.com,Club Penguin Do Their Part For Charity - Dec. 2008​

• Consumerism In A Digital Universe With Michael Wilson - Oct. 2008​

• Hispanic PR Wire - There.com - New Ways For Consumers To Access Avatar Experience - Sept. 2008​

• Gawker: There.com hopes Second Life hasn’t ruined virtual worlds for everybody - Sept 03 2008​

• Digado - There.Com Beats Sluggish Linden Labs - Sept. 2008​

• Cnet News - There.com To Add Mac Support And Facebook Plugin - Sept. 2008​

• AllFaceBook - "Facing There" - A Virtual World Threat To Facebook? - Sept. 2008​

• ITNews Australia - Researchers Find Racial Bias In Virtual Worlds - Sept. 2008​ - check​

• Techwhack - Entertainment And Apparel Companies Pour Into There.com With New "Virtual Merchandise" Marketing Program - Sept. 2008​

• Mashable: Virtually There - Three Exciting New Features For There.com - Sept. 2 2008​

• Virtual Worlds Boom - And There.com Goes Mac - Aug. 2008​

• KoinUp - A Day In Your Virtual Life Machinima Contest - Francis_7 Places Second! - Aug. 2008​

• Reuters - Entertainment and Apparel Companies Pour Into There.com With New 'Virtual Merchandise'... - Aug. 2008​

• Hispanic Trending - There.com And Clothing Brand NaCo USA Partner To Reach The Growing Online Hispanic Population - June 2008​

• There Fun Times - Featured Video: Captain Cosmos - UltraAvie - The Giant Hobo - May 14 2008​

• Wired - There Turns Off Road To Nowhere - April 2008​

• The Analytic Guru - Interview with Steve Victorino - April 2008​

• Promo - Paramount Pitches Movie Clips To There.com Members - April 2008​

• SLCN.TV - Metanomics Of Second Life - There.com Marketing - Mar. 2008​

• Massively - GDC08:Building Brands In Virtual Worlds - Feb. 2008​

• Mrtopf.de Blog - Metanomics Interview With Michael Wilson - Feb. 2008​

• SLCN.TV - Metanomics Of Second Life Interview With There's CEO Michael Wilson - Feb. 2008​

• Ocregister - Virtual Laguna Beach Wins Emmy For MTV - Jan. 2008                                       

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•                                       2007

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• Mashable - There.com Gets A Curvey Coca Cola Island - Dec. 2007

• Coca-Cola Expands Online Presence Into There.com - Dec. 2007

• Wired - Dr. Phil Sticks Up For Online Game - Dec. 2007

• Coke Moves Virtual House To There.com - Dec. 2007

• Gamasutra - Q&A: Coca-Cola, There.com Team For CC Metro Online World - Dec. 2007

• Media In Canada - Coke Migrates Virtual Studio To There.com - Dec. 2007

• New York Times: Coke Promotes Itself In A New Virtual World - Dec. 7 2007

• Clickz: Coca-Cola Migrates Virtual World To There.com - Dec. 6 2007

• Game Politics.com - Dr. Phil Considers MMO Obsession. - Dec. 2007

• KZERO - There Goes CosmoGIRL - Nov. 2007

• CNet News - Virtual Worlds Conference - Differentiation from 'Second Life' - Oct. 2007

• There.com Takes CosmoGIRL! Virtual - Oct 2007

• Worlds In Motion.biz - There's CEO Michael Wilson Talks About New Funding For Trilogy  - Aug. 2007

• Virtually Blind - There.com Changes "Texture Theft" Rules, Actively Protects Users, In-World Intellectual Property - Aug. 2007

• OCRegister - There.com's Virtual World Comes To Life This Weekend - Aug. 2007

• State Of Play - Interview With Michael Wilson, There.com CEO - Aug. 2007

• ​ComputerWorld Blogs - There.com vs. Second Life - Aug. 2007

• ​​Mic to Mic:​ ​There.com + Capitol Music=Virtual Beastie Boys - June 28 2007

• Beastie Boys, Korn To Appear On There.com - June 28 2007

• DigitalMediaWire - Makena Brings Capitol Music Artists Into Virtual World There.com - June 2007

• Musematic: Metaverse Friday-There.com - June 22 2007

• Digital Hollywood Event - Jun 11 2007

• KZERO - There.com VS Second Life: Demographics - June 2007

• EMI Review - Makena Technologies And Capitol Music Group Partner To Bring Music Artists Into There.com - June 2007

• NPost - Interview: Michael Wilson CEO There.com - May 2007

• MiamiHerald.com - More Real People Leading Virtual Lives - 2007

• 3pointD.com - There.com Landowners Get Weather Controls - May 2007

• Cnet News - There.com To Add Custom Weather Patterns - May 2007

• SLBIZ - IS "There" There? - Apr. 2007

• The Second Life Herald - Virtual Worlds, Report No. 3: Half Time Score: There, 10; SL 3 - March 2007

• MTV Goes 4D With Virtual-Worlds Push - March 29 2007

• Statemaster.com: Encyclopedia - There.com - Jan. 2007

• MTV And There.com Hit The Avatar Zone - Jan. 2007

 

                                        2006

 

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• YPulse Interview: Michael Wilson, Ceo Of There.com -  Oct. 2006

• There.com, MTV launch 'Virtual Laguna Beach' - Sept 20 2006

• Gameshark - There Interview About Its Unique Online Gaming And Social Destination. - Sept. 2006

• PC Mag Review And Rating On There.com - Aug. 15 2006

• 3pointD.com - There.com Heads East - May 2006

• Virtual Worlds Review

 

                                        2005

 

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• WashingtonPost.com - Self 2.0: Article On There.com With Francis_7 - Nov. 2005

• CNET News Article On There - Sept. 2005

• Clickable Culture - In Conversation With Will Harvey - Sept. 2005

• Gamasutra - Playing Catchup: Will Harvey - Aug. 2005

• Makena Technologies Acquires There From Forterra Systems - Apr. 2005

 

                                        2004

 

 

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• Engadget: Interview With David Weekly - Former Employee Of There.com - Nov. 2004

• Orange County Register - Cyber Sociology - Oct. 2004

• Diggers Realm - There.com Reinvents Itself, Cons Investors Out Of Another 14 Million - Sept. 2004

• ​There makes in the Top 50 Website List in 2004 for Time - Aug. 2004

• Wired News - There Turns Off Road To Nowhere - Aug. 2004

• Techdirt - There.com Not There Any more - Aug. 2004

• Meet Mr. Durrett - Interview written by Howlingwolf - June 2004 - .pdf format

• GameSpot - Is There Going Nowhere? - May 2004

• Terra Nova - Not Enough Revenue, There - May 2004

• GameSpot - QA: There Founder Will Harvey - May 2004

• Clickable Culture - There Throws In The Towel - May 2004

• Gamespot - The US Army's There-based Simulation - Apr. 2004

• BBC News: US Military Creates Second Earth - Feb. 2004

 

                                        2003

 

 

• SlashDot - There Inc. - Propagating The Bad Of Society? - Nov. 2003

• Time Magazine - There's Life In There - Oct. 2003

• SlashDot - There Inc. Officially Launches Online World - Oct. 2003

• Techdirt - There.com Launches Again? - Oct. 2003

• Wired - Commerce Drives Virtual World - Aug. 2003

• Stanford University There Seminar - 2003

• G4: The Screen Savers - Leo's Pick: There - Mar. 2003

• Nike Explores Virtual Brand Placement In There.com - Jan. 2003

• Techdirt - Startup Creates A Virtual World, But Who Will Live There? - Jan. 2003

 

                                        2002

 

 

• WAXY - Going There.com - May 2002

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•                                        2001
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• There.com Archived Homepage From 2001

 

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