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On the Googlewatchblog, we discovered that the Software company Hexolabs has come up with the first YouTube-embedded, interactive game with the help of the recently added YouTube functionality YouTube Annotations, called “A car’s life”.

These short, animated videos show a car driving along a road until an obstacle appears, that will get the car to crash. However just before the potential crash the YouTube Annotation shows a little button in the video. By clicking on this button the car crash can be avoided and the player will be led to the next level. With each level increase this button appears for a shorter period of time, which makes it more and more difficult.

The game might not be ingenious however this might the beginning of an entirely new wave of other YouTube embedded videogames! There is a high potential for a viral effect! Let me know if you of any other games!

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Since this morning our Big Challenge has been online. In order to participate in this game to test your skills, just log-in at LetsBuyIt.com! You have the chance to win one Sony VAIO laptop every month and many more other gifts!
The participation in the game is free and not contractually binding. Just take a little time and enjoy the “Ant-Challenge” .

The rules are really simple: You have 10 seconds to catch as many ants as possible! Just watch out and pay attention because the ants are quite fast! Every ant caught increases your chance to win. You can double your winning chances by challenging your friends to participate as well!

Are you up for the challenge?

The next draw will be taking place on the 15th of October 2008 so you got to hurry!

Our entire team has been testing the game and the largest amount of ants caught has been 13 ants!

And you? How many will you be able to catch?

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“A virtual representation of a person or a person’s interactions with others in a virtual environment, conveying a sense of someone’s presence (known as telepresence) by providing the location (position and orientation) and identity; examples include the graphical human figure model, the talking head, and the real-time reproduction of a three-dimesional human image”.

That is the exact definition of an avatar, the webs newest outlet for creating virtual beings!  Many of today’s most popular websites offer users the chance to create their own avatars from a pre-defined model.  From the basic model, users can change the avatar’s clothing, hair, or eyes.  The avatars can then be used throughout that website to represent the user.  Avatars can also be integrated into virtual communities such as Zwinky and Zwinktopia!

From Avatars: www.zwinky.com

To Virtual World integration:

A lot of websites offering avatar creation have now made it possible for you to use your own customized avatars on personal homepages and eBay!

What I couldn’t find during my search was a site offering to create an avatar from my own picture… Any ideas?

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Ok, I may be a little bit late, but I’m finally part of it!
Result: after a 20 minutes first try.. I don’t understand a lot of things! Ok, I had a lot of fun creation my character, but I must confess that once in the middle of nowhere next to a castle with some other people, I had no idea what I could possibly do!!
How do you manage your first steps into this world if you don’t have a few hours to reade the user guide, explanations or other comments??

Come on, I’ll have a new try next week-end!

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