A mysterious island in the middle of the sea… After drifting along the precarious currents of a fickle sea, the survivors of a volcanic eruption behold a paridise which may hold hope for their survival. Follow the villagers and create your own adventures as you explore the mysteries of the island of Isola. This virtual land is sure to bring many hours of pleasure as one creates their own world in Virtual Villagers.

How is Virtual Villagers different from Village Sim?

Virtual Villagers is basically the desktop version of Village Sim. Since Virtual Villagers was developed after Village Sim, it has some additional features: 4 addtional puzzles, naming of villagers, more island events, likes and dislikes of villagers, mushroom hunt for children, new original music.

What is the difference between Virtual Villagers 1, Virtual Villagers 2 and Virtual Villagers 3?

Virtual Villagers is a chapter based game. The story is about a group of islanders that flee their island and land on the shores of a new mysterious island called Isola. Chapter 1 is the story of their new life on the southern shores of the island. Chapter 2 continues the story on the western shores and Chapter 3 will take place on the nothern part of the island. In all the chapters the villagers need to find ways to survive and slowly unravel the mysteries of this island. Virtual Villagers 1, Virtual Villagers 2 and Virtual Villagers 3 are all independent games (can be played without having played the other ones. They are though, connected by a common storyline.

Is there anything to do after all the puzzles are solved?

Virtual Villagers, like all of our real-time games, is designed to be open-ended. Each game has clear goals, but the games continue to go on and allow you to play as long as you like. The Island Events will continue to happen, which can dramatically change the way things are going for your villagers. Many people start over to try some new strategies, set some new challenges for themselves (like finishing the game without any villagers dying), or play the game on a different setting.

This game is rated E for everyone, and does cost a fee to play. Lost children and Secret cities? I like the look of it, and it should be quite entertaining for children who love to create and develop. The world play actually looks pretty funny, and there is a bit of humour to add to the game fun. It is quite colourful and the storyline seems interesting enough to keep people happy in their adventures through the island life of Virtual Villagers.

As we advance into the age of technology it is important to upgrade our business strategies. We can save a lot of money and time in the long run by investing our valuable resources in modern techniques to enhance our virtual presence. Imagine how much time we can save if we are able to enter virtual office spaces to conduct business, hold conferences, share files, offer presentations, and do all of this face to virtual face with webcam technology giving us that personal edge? This is truly how business should be done, if we hold business interests and offices in different places around the country, or around the globe.

I can see the many virtues as offered by companies such as Meetsee Virtual Office. The future is now, and what a dynamic and time-saving way to create a virtually professional atmoshpere! It is exciting to imagine a world where we do not have to rush around wasting time and energy to make meetings. Productivity would be vastly improved! And business can be conducted from virtually anywhere one can connect. One can still chat and socialize so co-workers can get to know each other, even if vast distances separate them.

What can one do with Meetsee?

Meetsee is your own personal virtual office filled with rich ways to communicate, share content, collaborate on documents, and build rapport with co-workers. With Meetsee you can:

~ Create and personalize your own virtual office, avatar, and profile.
~ View rich presence so you know when to connect with co-workers.
~ Share files, presentations, and even webcam in a virtual meeting room.
~ Integrate with your existing tools and services

About Halcyon Worlds

Halcyon Worlds, Inc. is a privately funded virtual worlds platform company based in Atlanta, GA. Meetsee uses the Halcyon Worlds platform to address the intangibles associated with the virtual office like building trust and camaraderie and connecting remote workers to the people and content they need. Since the company began in 2005, Halcyon Worlds has been dedicated to providing the industry’s most flexible and comprehensive interactive platform for isometric virtual worlds.

Final thoughts…

Truly, such virtual spaces are going to become more popular as the need to pick up the pace in business increases. With the demand to stay on top of advancing technologies and modern business techniques, we will need the mediums to keep up with the highly competitive business world. I feel this is a fascinating aspect of the realities in this Virtual World we live in.

One of the most fascinating and exciting aspects about the 21st century is the speed of our online and mobile experiences. We just seem to move so much faster and our activities have reached a level of hyper speed that simply blows my mind. I really want information for my blogs, my family, and my over active curiosity and imagination right NOW! I do not like to wait, and when I am on a mission to find something out or to connect with the world, I demand the best to get me what I want. Since I am always on the move and never seem to stay in one place for too long, I really need that which will satisfy my needs with a reliablility I can count on. Active and super fast communication is what I am talking about here. The world moves at a much faster pace these days, and when there is news or information that needs to be known or shared we need to rely on the BEST.

Well then, in comes Clear. Clear offers great choices for super fast mobile internet whether you are an occasional, frequent, or unlimited user of mobile, home or business internet at an affordable price. For now they have the Portland, Oregon area covered, but who knows what the future holds. Since I live in Portland, this is something I would love to get my hot little hands on… errrr… or at least take advantage of to jazz up my mobile speed!

The Clear Network is powered by WiMAX, which is specifically designed for highspeed Internet data usage. Which in less techy type individual talk means it is really, really fast! Unlike WiFi, it reaches miles not feet, so you can go anywhere and do anything at speeds as fast as at home or the office. This is exciting to me, as a person on the go. My choice is simple, and as they have industry leading partners like Intel, Motorola, Google, Samsung, and Nokia backing them up, they have the means to provide leading edge devices, and new applications that’ll bring the internet and mobile user an overall Internet experience that’s second to none.

In Clears own words…

No cords, no hotspots, no slow cell phone connection. Stream movies while you wait at the DMV, blog from the stands of your kid’s soccer game, download music at the bus stop, snap photos of your dogs and upload pictures of them while they play in the park – all with a super fast mobile Internet connection from Clear.

They won’t be tied down, and as they grow they will be active soon in…

* Las Vegas, NV
* Grand Rapids, MI
* Atlanta, GA

You can just bet they won’t stop there either. I can imagine they will be so popular that their growth will be as lightning fast as their mobile speed! The WiMax network, a step beyond 3G, provides unmatched network capacity to deliver next generation Internet access and applications. Soon there will be Clear choices for everyone looking to power up their mobile activities in tune with the times.

When I was a little girl, I always imagined what it would be like living after the year 2000 and beyond. It seemed a long way off back then, yet I have always loved futuristic type things as much as ancient things, so my imagination was free to run wild. Computers were of course a household item, and everyone had one. I also imagined a world with no famine, and poverty was non-existant, yet we cannot always get what we want in our fantasies of a perfect world. War was a thing of the past, lessons learned and a peaceful populous living in peace surrounded by a natural world well preserved and cared for. People walked (or glided) through life with modern conveniences surrounding us, saving us time and energy to pursue other more interesting activities.

Now I am living that dream where futuristic gadgets are a reality, and every day something new is brought to my fascinated attention. What am I checking out today??

The Great 3D Wall of Cooliris

Well, I have my curious eye on the browsing capabilities of Cooliris, which is still in the beta stage of development and refinement. What do you say to transforming your browser into a lightning fast, cinematic way to discover the World Wide Web? Cooliris has a plug-in that takes you to an expansive “3D Wall” which provides a visually stunning way which will allow you to browse thousands of images, videos, and more with ease and speed.

Just launch Cooliris by clicking their icon while visiting supported websites. They bring our experience of searching to a whole new and exciting level! Search Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, Hulu, DeviantART, and much more with their built-in search bar to quickly scan the breathtaking results on the infinite 3D Wall. One can use Cooliris as a standalone application, or when visiting any one of hundreds of supported websites such as Friendster, MySpace, Photobucket, Kodak Gallery, Picasa Web Albums, Bebo, Getty Images or just about any site that supports Media RSS. How cool is that!

Discover More!

Use their Discover feature to channel surf the latest Technologies, News, Sports, and Entertainment. You can even watch your favourite Movies, TV shows and Music Videos using the right within the Discover feature!

Search with Style and Ease

With their search function we can zip right through search results on their nifty and totally cool 3D Wall, and even switch Engines effortlessly withou having to re-enter the search term.

Window shop some of the world’s largest retailers by comparing products visually on the Cooliris 3D Wall. Simply highlight an item to learn the price, or click the shopping cart icon to jump to the corresponding product page of the retailer.

Which browsers does Cooliris support?

Cooliris currently supports Firefox (Windows XP/Vista and Mac), Internet Explorer, and Safari (Mac).

Will Cooliris support Linux anytime soon?

The ideal plan is to eventually make the Firefox version work cross-platform, but its timing is not yet clear due to current resource constraints. As you can imagine, making Cooliris work across all platforms is tough work for such a small team. They are trying to make sure their currently supported platforms are fully stabilized and robust before supporting other platforms. The Cooliris team totally appreciates your support and understanding.

What about support for Opera or Safari on Windows?

Opera and Safari (Windows) are fantastic browsers, and one can understand why users love them. However, due to resource constraints, the Cooliris team needs to wait until the user base for these two browsers grows a bit.

My Final Thoughts

Well then, what do I think? I totally love the concept of Cooliris and their 3D Wall! What a great way to place everything right in front of me, with the convenience of browsing with such speed and finesse. I love how we can customize the look and feel of Cooliris by modifying the number of rows, the background image, wall angle, slideshow speed and so much more. I truly believe that once they work out all the bugs and get this baby rolling, that it will be very popular, and will pave the way for even cooler innovations to bring a higher level of enjoyment to our browsing experience. I am always amazed and delighted when I find new advancing technologies to play with and share with my friends and family!

I will be testing this out more extensively myself, and will be more than willing to post about my results. If anyone happens along here and has some feedback, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you!

Who wants to be an alien? Well I wouldn’t mind playing with my daughter and other young family members is the lands of Chobots! It looks colourful and fun, and serves to enhance our social skills, as well as enhancing logic and problem solving skills. As this World is family orientated, and highly monitored for safety while providing quality entertainment, I will give it a go. I have looked over the owners blog and it appears all the bases are covered at this point. They were confident enough to present their World at Virtual Worlds Expo, which says something of the character and background of the creators.

The creators of Chobots, Vayersoft, is already involved in creating and visual solutions for businesses in marketing and operations, but Lazor says its B2C entry in Chobots is its main investment with a dedicated full-time team and managed directly by CEO Vadim Yeremeychuk. One reason for the emphasis is its new territory. “Our main markets are North-American and Russian,” said Lazor. “North-America is the biggest market for virtual worlds where we can compete successfully and Russia is not opened market for kids worlds yet, but it gives a lot of opportunities of becoming number one.”

I would say this is definately interesting to me, and the level of entertainment is worth taking the time to look into Chobots. As always, use your own good judgement. I know some parents do not like the idea of their children spending too much time in front of the computer or television, yet I believe they learn essential problem solving skills if they are allowed a set amount of time to accomplish this. We are in an age where these skills are paramount to our techonological evolution, and those who do not stimulate their brain power will be behind the times to survive in this Age. As an advocate of regular outdoor activities, even I understand the need to learn how to act and react in situations where advancing technologies require a quick mind.

I truly love to hear feedback from other Virtual travelers, so please feel free to share your thoughts and opinions on this and other Virtual Worlds. I am always looking for new places to visit and explore!

I am really excited to be stepping forth into the Year of 2009. I attained so many goals in 2008, and experienced many new Adventures. I am always setting new goals, as this is not just something I do when the calender rolls over into a new year. I have a lot of personal expectations, and one of them is to explore as many Virtual Worlds as possible and to enjoy my journey into the fantastic and technologically advancing future!

It is amazing to note how many people are turning to the Virtual realms for many things; business and pleasure. Although I imagined 2009 as being a little more advanced, when I was young and the future world in the year 2000 and beyond seemed so far away, I am not disappointed with what seems to be unfolding at a rapid rate with advancing technologies. The world is now catching up to my younger expectations, and I know we will be very busy indeed this year.

I am still on ‘vacation’, so to speak (even though I work from home, and work is not really ‘work’ and is more like ‘play’), so I am totally into my gaming zone. I am currently enjoying a journey into the many adventures and quests to be found in Warhammer Online. My daughter and I (and my son, nephew and various friends) are having so much fun exploring the realms of Dark and Light, and this is serving to be an exciting way to share the moments when Mother Nature and Father Storm rage outside dropping various degrees of rain, hail, and snow.

Personally I hope it drops a foot of snow again, as I love to balance my indoor adventures with a lot of outdoor activities, preferrably of the white fluffy kind. Even though I love to splash through the rain, as I love all Seasons, I do not always enjoy getting soaked to the bone every time I venture forth into the great outdoors. Dancing in the rain is something I enjoy once a week at best!

I will have more time to dedicate to exploring the Virtual Realms online to find new Worlds to reveal and share with fellow virtual lovers. Until then I wish everyone a safe and fun filled adventure into the future as each moment unfolds. May you find many true friends to help Light your Path and journey with you into great Adventures, as Life should always be.