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.

Hi to all,

We have updated our system.

Some of you can’t access key features such as the social network or the room editor.

If you experience such problems, you need to delete the cache and temporary Internet files from your browser for Yoowalk to work properly.

Internet Explorer: Tools/ Internet options/ Navigation history/ Delete…

Firefox: Tools/ Clear Private Data

Once you have done that, you will discover that the new Hot Spots window remains open when you navgate in the social network, and that you can move it wherever you want on your screen.

Enjoy your stay in Yoowalk!

Yoowalk is headline news on 01Net:

Yoowalk.com : baladez vous sur le Web… en 3D !

Watch the video!

(in French)

We passed 40,000 members last night!

And you can now follow the count direcly in Yoowalk, right below the window.

Welcome to all of our newcomers!

In January, Yoowalk has reached a global audience of 130kUV and 164k visits, a 33% growth over the previous month (source: Google Analytics).

We now count 35,700 members, with a stupendous growth of 11% in 1 week and 46% compared to last month!

According to Quantcast (see the full report here), Yoowalk ranks as 34.000th site most visited in the US. We were below the 100K last month.

The redesign of the Share function at the end of last week is already visible in the numbers, with more and more visitors and members sharing places they like in Yoowalk on their Facebook profile, on Reddit, Twittering their position in Yoowalk, or just by inviting their friends to jump into their room by inviting them by email.

We’re very proud of these numbers, and proud that so many people now use Yoowalk daily to meet their friends, have a walk around the web with them, chat in one another’s room, etc.

In the name of the whole Yoowalk team, I want to thank all of you for your interest and curiosity in our service, and your patience for our bugs and (numerous) imperfections . Expect lots of improvements in February!

Update 06/02/09:

Check our audience pattern at Compete.

There has been a lot of you wandering around in Yoowalk searching for Merry Claus, asking us hints on how to find her. That was fun!

Hint: to find her, simply enter « Merry » in the search field (top right corner of the Yoowalk screen) or go to the Home street of the USA village…

We have randomly drawn 5 of the registered users today…

And the winners are :

• Amberneisha
• Bella12345
• deviloo
• Shark
• JessieyKay

Each of them will receive an email to send us their contact details and receive their iPod.

Congratulations to them, thanks to all the participants, and see you soon for other games in Yoowalk, organized by Yoowalk or third-parties!

News.de lists Yoowalk as one of the alternatives to Google in this article. Wow!

You like Yoowalk, and it shows in the numbers !

Actually, if the trend provided by Compete.com is correct, the figures aren’t (they mostly count US audience). In December, according to Google Analytics, you have been 100.000 to visit the site (unique visitors), and we finish the year with 25.000 members!

As you can experience, the more people there are in Yoowalk, the more fun it is. That’s why a lot af you are starting to invite their friends, either with the Invite button, or via the Other IMs feature.

Thanks to each of you for your growing loyalty to Yoowalk.

News Assurances, a French portal on the Insurance industry, has built its walksite in Yoowalk.

Here is how they invite their readers to visit it and meet them: News Assurances Yoowalk.

I like this kind of examples which is exactly why we created Yoowalk : to enable people to meet around common areas of interest, brands, contents, issues, shops, etc. And when companies like News Assurances define the business they can make out of it, we’ve reached our goal.

You can visit their walksite here.

Paris is under the snow, and our garden is all white. Cool!

And I can count by the steps the number of cigarette breaks that Valer is doing each day