Yoowalk V2 and Embed

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!

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

- 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.

To imagine this publishing tool, our principle was « ease publishers’ life« .

Thus, this lead to

• a drag and drop tool where the users can simply choose items from an object bank, drag it and drop it where he wants in the room. Then a simple menu enables him to include the content (text, image, video, sound, etc. …) in the objects. No need to be an ingeneer to build a walksite: anybody can do it!
• the use of xml files so that content in walksites are refreshed automatically as soon as the content on the corresponding website is renewed: no double writing of articles!
• a free tool: websites publishers will benefit from a free tool to organise a 3D space dedicated to their communities!

So, no hesitation anymore: jump to http://publisher.yoowalk.com and start building your walksite!