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.

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

Watch the video!

(in French)

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!

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.”

About Yoowalk
Founded by Xavier MARVALDI, the former CEO of M6web, Yoowalk is an innovative startup that is developing a revolutionary virtual world. Spotted by MICROSOFT as one of the 12 most innovative startup companies of 2008 in the world, 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                                    Yoowalk www.yoowalk.com
Tel :   +33 (0)1 71 19 40 10                 For publishers publisher.yoowalk.com
Mail : press [ at ] yoowalk.com            The blog blog.yoowalk.com

The picture was taken at a surrealistic photoshoot with fellow entrepreneurs Cédric Giorgi of Goojet, Michel de Guilhermier (his blog here) of Inspirational Stores, Alexandre Lebrun of Virtuoz, and Mikael Benfredj of MyPronostic. The concept was that startups need to eat soup to grow up (I thought we simply needed users, clients and VCs ). But we had great fun doing it!

I want to thank here Anne Rosencher for this great article.

Scans are here :

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.

Here under is a list of some of the articles written about Yoowalk when it went publicly online:

• Virtualworldnews(EN)
• Mashable(EN)
• Techcrunch(FR)
• Virtualworldsmanagement(EN)
• Metaverse3D(FR)
• l’Atelier(FR)
• Generation-nt (FR)
• Neteco(FR)
• PCInpact(FR)
• MolBlog(NL)
• Killerstartups(EN)
• Mediapart(FR)
• Baixaki(BR)
• Sedentario(BR)
• CNbeta(CN)
• Enboga.javaeye.com(CN)
• Freeonline.org(IT)
• 01Net(FR)

Yoowalk already generated more than 150 articles on the web. And this is just a start…