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.

Working everyday on Yoowalk lets us think that we have seen everything about this application already.

But sometimes, members’ imagination and talent are astonishing us. For instance, when they are using Flash objects to create a special atmosphere. Hereunder are a few examples of brilliant rooms.

Enjoy… and try to build even more incredible rooms!

CryMeARiver by Canter Berry

Aquarius by Zina Plinko

Derringer’s by Will Hammontree

They talk about us (in French) in the last issue of L’Entreprise, a French magazine on the economy and entrepreneurship. Let’s share it with you!

If you want to read the whole article, you can proceed to click on the images below:

Come and visit Yoowalk’s booth at Engage! Expo! Yoowalk will be exhibiting for two days at this major event in the small world of virtual worlds and communities. We hope to see you there.

Engage! Expo

What is that?

Engage! Expo (formerly the Virtual Worlds Conference) is the event for youth and young adult brands, media and agencies to meet and learn how to combine their existing online efforts with the unparalleled engagement opportunities and new revenue streams of attention-based media.

Where and when is it?

Javits Center, NY, New York City, USA,  March 10-11, 2009

For further information, please refer to Engage! Expo website.

Engage! Expo walksite to be visited here.

Hi fellow Yoowalkers!

Today is the day of a great new release of Yoowalk:

the top menu and management of all html pages has been deeply improved. We hope this will help you browse the profile, room editor, and friends pages a lot more.

Top menu Yoowalk

the share menu has also been totally redesigned. Enjoy now the possibility to share any place and any walksite or personal room of Yoowalk by a simple click with your friends per email, Facebook, Myspace, Digg, Delicious, Stumbleupon, Technorati, …
Once you have built your personal room or your own walksite, share it on other websites so that you can start building your audience!

Share Yoowalk

We are continuously improving Yoowalk. Please do not hesitate to suggest improvements to us using the contact form on yoowalk.com.

They talk about us (in French) in the last issue of MANAGEMENT, a French magazine on the economy and entrepreneurship. Let’s share it with you!

If you want to read the whole article, you can proceed to click on the images below:

We released today a new version of the site. The main improvements include:

- You can now in 1 click share any place of Yoowalk with your friends, thanks to our new Share menu. A party to organize in your room? A news you want to debate with your community? A funny video you want to share with your friends? Simply click on the Share menu and:

• Post a link directly on your profile in Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Digg, Live Spaces, etc. When your community of friends click on it, they will jump directly to this place in Yoowalk
• Send emails to your contacts – actually, Yoowalk sends them for you. They will receive a short email with a link that will transport them directly to this place in Yoowalk
• Copy a permalink to this place. You can then paste it into an email or instant message to invite somebody, or archive it and use it as a favorite, etc. This permalink will jump any person who clicks on it directly to this place in Yoowalk.

Yoowalk: screenshot on the Share button of the toolbar

- The name of the streets are now visible on the ground. This will help when strolling down the streets of Yoowalk.

- We also improved the graphical user interface. Clearer and more homogenous windows, nicer buttons, new icons. We are in the process of improving the quality of what you see and the number of options offered to you. We are not finished yet, and you will see in the coming weeks regular improvements of the GUI. We will tell you when we are over on this and can declare Yoowalk Beta v1.2 open…

Do not hesitate to comment on this article to give us your feedback about these new features.

We have now more than 30,000 members!

Waooohhh, figures are getting higher and higher! I do not know whether you can figure it out, but 30,000 is the population of French cities like Biarritz, Agen or Montelimar. Yoowalk is becoming like a real city!

Press release

Paris, January 14th, 2009

Only 6 months after its official launch on July 1st 2008, Yoowalk has reached the emblematic target of 100,000 monthly unique visitors in December. Thus, for example, a brand like Le Figaro, a leading French News company, who has chosen one of the most visible positions of the entrance street of Yoowalk, has been viewed by all of these visitors just by spending the couple of hours necessary to make their walksite.

In the same time, the Yoowalk community exceeds 25,000 members. These members can make friends, browse the 3D web with these friends, chat with each other and build their personal rooms. All for free.

Xavier Marvaldi, CEO of Yoowalk, is enthusiastic about “the 43% growth rate of the audience in one month, along the 62% growth of the registered members base, which shows the Internet users interest for live and visual interaction in a 3D web.”

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The Yoowalk team wishes you all the best for this New Year 2009!