Mingleverse, the Canadian startup that is a mix of VoIP chat and Second Life raised another $1.4 million to expand their marketing efforts and integration into social networks and mobile devices.
I first wrote about Mingleverse in November 2009 and titled the post “Mingleverse – The Missing Link?”. So let’s see what has happened in the past twelve months.
Youtube owes its success to increased bandwidths across the world as well as two key features -> streaming videos as Flash [well they have graduated to HTML 5 streaming] as well as embedding functionality. The latter, allowed YouTube to penetrate websites, blogs and forums. The key, YouTube made itself [and the videos] available to where the people already were. Eventually, YouTube itself became a place that people started visiting.
This is a guest post of my dear friend and colleague Aniya aka TheEnglishTeacher.
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Fuze meeting is an online web tool that lets you host meetings (and of course lessons, need be) so what, you say, well the interesting part about it, is that you can host them via your mobile device, thus being BlackBerry or iPhone wow!!! Having said that it is early days yet (a few teething problems) but this could be a big break through for the future.
