Weblin, an avatar of three centimeters
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ROME - Take for example a web page. This where you are now able to go very well. Now imaginal same, but with a 3 cm tall man standing on the toolbar. You. Or rather, your double: the virtual track, but no less visible, in front of your body and your PC. He says other users of the network that you're there, you're looking at that site. The program that allows you to do that is free and it's called Weblin. Now imagine that other Weblin users who are browsing the same website. You see them, they see you. One decides to talk, you will see the typical cloud cartoon: "Hello, is there anyone who speaks Italian here ?"... That's what Weblin. Invented by the German team, the program offers everyone the chance to have their own "avatar": what in the Hindu religion is the body which is embodied in a god, that in fantasy sagas is the physical incarnation of heavenly beings. Today, after the media boom of Second Life, everyone has learned that "avatar" is the virtual image that represents the user and gives a body to its presence on the Internet. But the similarities stop there: "In that case it is a closed system - explains Hendrik Harbeck, community manager at Weblin - who used to wear a second role, a second and I go into a second world. Through Weblin instead The entire network is at our disposal. " And now that the interest in the virtual world of Second Life (and for its philosophical implications "aesthetic") seems to be dying out, in his small Weblin turns a simple and practical tool, which offers a "double" to anyone surfing the Internet. Software: nothing more, nothing less, as the Word is to write the Excel to deal or to deal with Photoshop images.
walking, yawning, salute. Weblin avatars "living" inside the PC screen, below, on the toolbar. Communicate with each other by opening chat windows (private, if you click on only one avatar in particular) or by writing in to "balloon" white, as if they were comic books. But nothing to do with chat in MSN Messenger or Skype. The difference is and is not little, as Hendrik clarifies: "For other communication programs the user has only numbers and names to be exchanged with friends or give to a new contact. Weblin With the ability to contact other avatar is in every web page. People who love their cars, will meet on the sites by car. Pregnant women can meet up pages dedicated to tips for pregnancy. If you have a passion for Vivaldi ...". The examples are endless. Why are the interests of countless surfers and places where you can meet other avatars. By chance or by appointment: August, for instance, there was a gathering of people on the German site Weblin Dogforum.net. Most of the participants chose the photo as an avatar of your dog. Getting Started It takes very little: just connect to www.weblin.com (from a few days the site is available in Italian), download and install the program (software weighs 370 KB on your hard drive occupies about 9 MB), and then subscribe to community. Choose a nickname, an avatar of those proposed (human, animal, fantasy world), or create one of your own you (including size), give your email address and a password. From now on, when you open a window on the network, your avatar will appear automatically. With you turn to the web. If you are on Repubblica.it, while you're looking at the e-mail on gmail, your alter ego is visible on both pages. Who in the world at that moment Repubblica.it or is reading the mail on gmail, you can see and talk to you. In what language are you agree. There are many Germans, Italians still few, but very slowly on word of mouth Weblin is reaching people around the planet, tens of thousands, at this time. The objective of Weblin is that these become tens hundreds. The German company is small (the team consists of about twenty people), but fierce. It is based in Hamburg, but the project was born in 1996, the University of Ulm. The Beta phase (the interim testing) was completed in March 2007. Weblin is counting on state funds and private investors. In the future of live advertising, but not only: "We have conventions Special Weblin companies can use to support their Internet presence and presentation, "says Hendrik Harbek. An example is the Italian Lancia in June held a press conference on his website. The journalists, to participate and ask questions had to be visible with their avatar. Companies like Lance who decide to become partners Weblin have a link on the homepage that allows you to join the community. The advantage is twofold: Weblin buys new space to be known, companies earn visibility because those who sign up through that link will be "sponsored" by their logo: an avatar will be accompanied by a symbol - the exact term is community button - with the mark of the Spear, or MSN Messenger. Or you can make a special agreement (in the case of IBM), which allows company employees to use Weblin as internal communication system: the Convention paste a sticker on the avatar of employees representing the company. People take it with them, free of charge, around the web. Happy surfing.
walking, yawning, salute. Weblin avatars "living" inside the PC screen, below, on the toolbar. Communicate with each other by opening chat windows (private, if you click on only one avatar in particular) or by writing in to "balloon" white, as if they were comic books. But nothing to do with chat in MSN Messenger or Skype. The difference is and is not little, as Hendrik clarifies: "For other communication programs the user has only numbers and names to be exchanged with friends or give to a new contact. Weblin With the ability to contact other avatar is in every web page. People who love their cars, will meet on the sites by car. Pregnant women can meet up pages dedicated to tips for pregnancy. If you have a passion for Vivaldi ...". The examples are endless. Why are the interests of countless surfers and places where you can meet other avatars. By chance or by appointment: August, for instance, there was a gathering of people on the German site Weblin Dogforum.net. Most of the participants chose the photo as an avatar of your dog. Getting Started It takes very little: just connect to www.weblin.com (from a few days the site is available in Italian), download and install the program (software weighs 370 KB on your hard drive occupies about 9 MB), and then subscribe to community. Choose a nickname, an avatar of those proposed (human, animal, fantasy world), or create one of your own you (including size), give your email address and a password. From now on, when you open a window on the network, your avatar will appear automatically. With you turn to the web. If you are on Repubblica.it, while you're looking at the e-mail on gmail, your alter ego is visible on both pages. Who in the world at that moment Repubblica.it or is reading the mail on gmail, you can see and talk to you. In what language are you agree. There are many Germans, Italians still few, but very slowly on word of mouth Weblin is reaching people around the planet, tens of thousands, at this time. The objective of Weblin is that these become tens hundreds. The German company is small (the team consists of about twenty people), but fierce. It is based in Hamburg, but the project was born in 1996, the University of Ulm. The Beta phase (the interim testing) was completed in March 2007. Weblin is counting on state funds and private investors. In the future of live advertising, but not only: "We have conventions Special Weblin companies can use to support their Internet presence and presentation, "says Hendrik Harbek. An example is the Italian Lancia in June held a press conference on his website. The journalists, to participate and ask questions had to be visible with their avatar. Companies like Lance who decide to become partners Weblin have a link on the homepage that allows you to join the community. The advantage is twofold: Weblin buys new space to be known, companies earn visibility because those who sign up through that link will be "sponsored" by their logo: an avatar will be accompanied by a symbol - the exact term is community button - with the mark of the Spear, or MSN Messenger. Or you can make a special agreement (in the case of IBM), which allows company employees to use Weblin as internal communication system: the Convention paste a sticker on the avatar of employees representing the company. People take it with them, free of charge, around the web. Happy surfing.
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