Archive for the ‘Buzz’ Category

VW News: Conduit Labs Releases Facebook App

The app lets users create animated versions of their friends “as unflattering or goofy as you please, then do things to them,” according to the download page….it’s a particularly viral app. You can only create avatars for others. They have to return the favor for you to get your own. 

Nabeel Hyatt of Conduit Labs on Intruders.tv

Intruders.TV came by the offices here in Cambridge and sat down outside our kitchen to chat about Conduit Labs. Strangely, they don’t have embeddable video (they’ve heard of YouTube right?) but the link is below.

Read/Write Web: Conduit Labs Announces Funding to Build Social Online Gaming World

“The promise of a totally new form of social network product intrigued us…Just as Facebook augmented offline social networks by taking the relationships Harvard students had and building on and complementing those pre-existing interactions online, the same thing will happen with social online gaming.”

Gamasutra: Conduit Labs’ Hyatt On Its $5.5m Social World Investment

“What’s really missing is a Facebook not built on asynchronous interactions, but realtime interactions.”

Metaversed: What is Conduit Labs?

“Projects get funding every day. Why is this one so special? Conduit isn’t just a play space with leaderboards. They’re planning, from the ground up, to create a play space that encourages people to get to know each other… Expect it to be browser-based, expect it to be social-network oriented, expect it to be fun.”

Techcrunch: Conduit Labs Closes $5.5 Million Series A Funding

“They don’t want to recreate a social network online, but rather marry existing networks (even perhaps Last.FM) with a 3D gaming experience. In the real world you can call up some friends and play a simple game of basketball. Conduit wants you to enable you to do the same thing easily online.” (Full Article)

Why Virtual Goods Matter

Why Virtual Goods Matter? panel led by Nabeel Hyatt (Conduit Labs), with Craig Sherman (Gaia Online), Daniel James (Three Rings), Amy Jo Kim (Shufflebrain), and Byron Reeves (Stanford) at Virtual Goods 2007.