Fun Radio launched yesterday a new « virtual spaces » service thanks to Yoowalk Embed feature.

Visit L’Espace Fun Radio Yoowalk here.

We are very proud to be adopted by this awesome radio station, one of the biggest in France on teenage audience.

Walk around and chat on their website while listening to the Dancefloor Sound !

L’Association des Services Internet Communautaires announced today that it welcomes Yoowalk as a new member.
L’ASIC counts about 20 members, French leaders in community services.

With this association, Yoowalk will contribute to the various debates regarding the future of the Internet in France and in Europe.

Read the press release here (in French):

Yoowalk joins ASIC-05-11-2009

Update: The press release on l’ASIC’s website

Here is the press release to explain our V2 and the new Embed service.

Yoowalk V2 and Embed

To announce and explain Yoowalk V2 and the new embed feature, Actifin – the leading communication agency – organizes our press conferences. Of course they will happen directly on their website, in their embedded room…
- In French, on Monday 26th, 11:00 Paris time,
- In French, on Monday 26th, 15:00 Paris time,
- In English, on Wednesday 28th, 17:00 Paris time, 16:00 London, noon New York, 9AM San Francisco, midnight Shanghai
To attend a conference, click on this link: www.actifin.fr/conference

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Pour annoncer et expliquer Yoowalk V2 et la nouvelle fonctionnalité d’embed de room, Actifin, notre agence de communication, organise nos conférences de presse. Bien sûr ces conférences auront lieu directement sur leur site, dans leur salle embeddée…
- En Français, lundi 26, 11:00 heure de Paris
- En Français, lundi 26, 15:00 heure de Paris
- En Anglais, mercredi 28, 17:00 à Paris, 16:00 à Londres, midi à New York, 9:00 à San Francisco, minuit à Shanghaï
Pour assister à une conférence, cliquez sur ce lien: www.actifin.fr/conference

Nous espérons vous y voir nombreux!

Today we are proud to announce that we have opened our second major version of Yoowalk.
You will discover a new and easier way to navigate the content, find interesting places to visit, meet people online.
We hope you enjoy it and will give us lots of feedback for us to improve.

The major release is the possibility that we offer now to embed any chat room on any webpage.
As a webpage editor, you can now embed a 3D chat room for free on your site!
Invite your web users to chat with each other and with you directly on your website.

To view examples, visit Le Turf Café or Best3Dchat.

We hope to see lots of rooms out there on the Internet, and be able to chat with you guys everywhere on the web!

We told you we were preparing something big…

Here comes the very first Yoowalk room embedded over the Internet:

We chose Fantasy Chick’s one as a tribute. She knows…

Wait and see more news coming about this new EMBED feature.

There has been a debate in Yoowalk about a new feature that we are testing, which consists in Tweeting part of the public chat that takes place in some rooms.

We believe that chat’s great benefit is to be live. Real-time. You really talk to some real person somewhere around the world.

But chat’s biggest drawback is volatility. What you say is then lost forever…

So, we think it can be a good idea to keep track of some conversations. And Twitter, with its worldwide success, is a perfect tool for that. In order to test this idea, and make sure that it makes sense, we have created a few Twitter accounts where anyone can follow what is being said. Among them:

• My room: xavier_YR
• JVS’s room: jvs_YR
• The walksite Yoowalk (at the entry corner): Yoowalk_YW

When we thought we had sorted out most of the bugs, and it could be interesting for some users, we asked Derringer if he was interested, and then created his account: Derringer_YR

At her request, we also created an account for Candyland, one of Cad Berry/ Fantasychick’s rooms: cadberry_YR

It is still a test that we are making, both technical and in terms of use.

Follow these Twitter accounts, chat around in these Yoowalk rooms, then tell us what you think, here on this blog.

Would you also like a Twitter account for your room? Shall we add other information than chat, for example who visited your room, and when?

I’ll be reading and answering comments.

Xavier

We published today a significant new version of Yoowalk.

Now guests can chat !

They just have to choose a username then they can chat.

Of course dressing up your avatar or making your room is reserved to members.

This evolution is a major one for Yoowalk, both in terms of functions and technically. We hope it satisfies your needs.

In particular now, everybody can invite their friends to discover Yoowalk, their room, the walksites they like, etc. and can show their visitors around thanks to this guest chat. Once a guest understands better what to do with Yoowalk, they can sign up to become a member.

We have also brought some other new features including:

• A counter of chat history, so that you know that something was said in case you were not watching
• A counter of your friends online
• A counter of your private chat, so that you know that one of your friends talked to you in case you were not watching
• And we are starting to add some sounds…

Hope you like this new version!

Post here any comment or suggestion you have on these improvements.

For those of you who, like us, have been shocked by the sudden death of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, we have created two walksites where you can meet, listen to his music, watch some of his videos and chat about what he meant for you.

Visit the American walksite dedicated to Michael Jackson

Visit the Chinese walksite dedicated to Michael Jackson

Derringer, whose room is the most visited in Yoowalk (see Hot Spots)  has also decorated his room with a tribute to MJ. Visit it here

Rest in Peace Michael.

Today, we opened two new villages: Italy and India. Everybody who wishes to publish a walksite in these two villages can do so now.

We hope that you will soon enjoy lots of new Italian and Indian walksites.

You can also publish your private room in the new communities of these villages.