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Social networking sites to go 3D

2 April 2008

Social networking sites are already pretty popular. So how do you improve on the internet’s hottest web offerings? The answer could be to make them three-dimensional.

Start-up company of Menlo Park, California, is creating a hybrid of conventional social networking sites such as and and virtual worlds like . Rather than filling a web page with photos, a list of hobbies and their favourite software applications, as users of Facebook do today, Vivaty users will get access to a virtual room. They can adorn the walls with photos, watch a virtual television that plays YouTube…

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