Yoowalk.com - Our blog - Everything about the free virtual world to walk around the web and chat in 3D » company http://blog.yoowalk.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:43:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Yoowalk joins French leading Internet association ASIC http://blog.yoowalk.com/2009/11/yoowalk-joins-french-leading-internet-association-asic/ http://blog.yoowalk.com/2009/11/yoowalk-joins-french-leading-internet-association-asic/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:31:45 +0000 Xavier http://blog.yoowalk.com/?p=407 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

]]> http://blog.yoowalk.com/2009/11/yoowalk-joins-french-leading-internet-association-asic/feed/ 0 Yoowalk in L’Entreprise magazine, march ‘09 http://blog.yoowalk.com/2009/03/yoowalk-in-lentreprise-magazine-march-09/ http://blog.yoowalk.com/2009/03/yoowalk-in-lentreprise-magazine-march-09/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:08:19 +0000 Stéphane http://blog.yoowalk.com/?p=332 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:

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

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Ruobing will be with us for at least 6 months and help us develop the Chinese villages, streets, and walksites. Expect to see more Chinese people in Yoowalk soon, thanks to her!

]]> http://blog.yoowalk.com/2009/01/ruobing-wang-joins-the-team/feed/ 0 Best Wishes for a Happy New Year 2009 http://blog.yoowalk.com/2008/12/best-wishes-for-a-happy-new-year-2009/ http://blog.yoowalk.com/2008/12/best-wishes-for-a-happy-new-year-2009/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:13:26 +0000 Stéphane http://blog.yoowalk.com/?p=117 The Yoowalk team wishes you all the best for this New Year 2009!

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We are proud to be one of the pioneers using this cloud computing service. It will help us manage or exponential growth in the coming months.

By the way, big thanks to all BizSpark team at Microsoft, Lubomira, Julien, Jakob, Laura, etc. It’s good to have you on our side.

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First, some Venture Capital firms came to our booth to observe our thrilling concept and ask judicious questions. We will tell you later where these first contacts led us to.

What is also very interesting was the number of potential commercial partners that we discovered on the fair. This will give us a lot of work after the event to bring to reality some of these opportunities. Given the high number of contacts established, we might conclude on 2 or 3 businesses as from the beginning of next year.

Last but not least, we could at last meet some of the bloggers that have spoken about Yoowalk in the past. Good to see the faces behind the blogs! Some of them made vids about Yoowalk and posted them on the web. So, here you have the choice between:

  • a short demonstration of Yoowalk by Adrianskardhamar

  • or a (very) long explanation by Xavier, founder and CEO of Yoowalk ;-)
]]> http://blog.yoowalk.com/2008/12/thank-you-leweb-08-and-microsoft/feed/ 0 Yoowalk gets support by Microsoft and participates to LeWeb’08 http://blog.yoowalk.com/2008/12/yoowalk-gets-support-by-microsoft-and-takes-part-at-leweb%e2%80%9908/ http://blog.yoowalk.com/2008/12/yoowalk-gets-support-by-microsoft-and-takes-part-at-leweb%e2%80%9908/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:09:26 +0000 Stéphane http://blog.yoowalk.com/?p=92 We are proud to announce that Microsoft has spotted our start up as one of the 12 most innovative start ups in the world! To check out, come and see us on Microsoft’s booth at LeWeb’08. Here’s the Press Release about it:

Press release

Yoowalk gets the support of Microsoft to strengthen its development

Paris, December 8th, 2008

On its booth at the LeWeb08 Internet show, Microsoft will be putting forward 12 startup companies spotted amongst the most innovative in the world.
Yoowalk is proud to announce that it has been selected by Microsoft to be part of this event.

On December 9th and 10th, during the LeWeb08 show, Internet professionals of the whole world will be able to participate in Yoowalk’s demonstrations, the virtual world that offers a new way to browse the web, graphical, fun and lively. Thus, website editors will be shown how to build within minutes a 3D version of their websites and how to interact live with their visitors.

In order to accelerate its development, Yoowalk has joined in November 2008 Microsoft’s BizSpark program. Thanks to it, Yoowalk will have access to Microsoft’s technologies and support to handle its fast-growing requirements of scalability and quality of service for its one-of-a-kind virtual world.

In particular, Yoowalk will be one of the pioneer users of Azure, the cloud computing service by Microsoft. Thanks to this global mutualized hosting service, Yoowalk will have the opportunity to rely on an innovative and powerful infrastructure for its international deployment and the management of its exponential growth.

Xavier Marvaldi, CEO of the company, is enthusiastic about this partnership: “At a critical step of our development where Yoowalk’s audience is growing at a tremendous pace, Microsoft’s support will help us to industrialize our service deployment. We will be able to focus on Yoowalk new features and the animation of the virtual world. This recognition by Microsoft strengthens our ambition to make of Yoowalk the European leader of virtual worlds in a 2 year time.”

About Yoowalk
Founded by Xavier MARVALDI, the former CEO of M6web, Yoowalk is an innovative startup that is developing a revolutionary virtual world. Selected at the international web conference LeWeb3 as one of the most promising start-ups of 2007, Yoowalk was financed by CITA Gestion, one of the most successful Venture Capitalists in France, and business angels, notably Alexis CAUDE, founder of Newsweb, a French leading internet news provider. It has also received funding from OSEO and is a member of Cap Digital, two French government organizations supporting innovation. Yoowalk is supported by MICROSOFT through its BizSpark program.

Contacts:
Xavier Marvaldi
Tel :   +33 (0)1 71 19 40 10
Mail : press@yoowalk.com

Yoowalk               www.yoowalk.com
For publishers      publisher.yoowalk.com
The blog               blog.yoowalk.com

]]> http://blog.yoowalk.com/2008/12/yoowalk-gets-support-by-microsoft-and-takes-part-at-leweb%e2%80%9908/feed/ 0 The Yoowalk team http://blog.yoowalk.com/2008/12/the-yoowalk-team/ http://blog.yoowalk.com/2008/12/the-yoowalk-team/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:39:54 +0000 Stéphane http://blog.yoowalk.com/?p=37 We could not open this blog without presenting you our team!

Let’s do it right now.

Xavier is the Founder and CEO of Yoowalk. He was previously the CEO of M6web, the multimedia entity of M6, a French TV channel. Ok, being a CEO is his stuff ;-)

Jean-Vincent holds the technical part of the big thing. I think he could make a virtual world like I’d take the train to travel: so easily I can’t believe it! How can you marry all these different technologies and build such a complicated mechanics with such a small team ? I could not say. But he does it anyway.

Ludo is the Flashman: you want a couch in your room? Ludo builds it for you. A new editor to handle digital content in your walksite? Ask him once more…

Valer makes everything work together as he is our administrator. Sometimes, we run out of Internet connection. Bad time for him then. But we know he can do it! And the guy is really good at what he is doing.

Ximing is a programer. A young and talented programer. Let’s discover what he can do within the team, since he has joined us from not very long.

Jean-François is the integrator of the website. Once more someone very important so that everything runs well.

Damien has made the graphical interface of yoowalk.com. What do you think about it?

Kaizheng is our lead tester. She is doing a very professional job at identifying our bugs and following up on them. She is also currently the only girl at Yoowalk. Our princess…

And I am Stéphane, Yoowalk’s COO. I need to know how to do everything in this company, from marketing, to finance, communication, HR, administration, legal… Why days are made out of 24 hours only?

YOOWALK - Kaizheng LIANG

Kaizheng LIANG

YOOWALK - Valeriu STINCA

Valeriu STINCA

YOOWALK - Ximing LU

Ximing LU

YOOWALK - Ludovic PIQUET

Ludovic PIQUET

YOOWALK - Jean-François LOUVEAU

JF LOUVEAU

YOOWALK - Damien LEFERT

Damien LEFERT

YOOWALK - Jean-Vincent SEGARD

JV SEGARD

YOOWALK - Stéphane CHIRIÉ

Stéphane CHIRIÉ

YOOWALK - Xavier MARVALDI

Xavier MARVALDI

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