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Inugirl is the hip hostess in her party room, one of thousands of virtual rooms that players can visit in the new Habbo Hotel, an animated virtual chat world for teens. Dressed in a pink knit cap and matching tank top, Inugirl makes small talk with newcomers while guests flirt, dance and admire the bearskin rug and snazzy decor in her brightly colored crib. Launched in Finland in 2000 by two university students, Habbo Hotel now has 2.2 million monthly visitors worldwide, according to the site. The U.K. version, at habbohotel.co.uk, opened in February 2001 and has 11.5 million users...
...Virtual worlds have been around for years. Even the best-selling Sims computer game has an online version in which people create characters, build homes and interact with others. But while The Sims Online has so far been a flop, Habbo has been an instant hit. Why? Habbo's focus on teens and chatting is one reason, as is its price tag: it's free. Despite the no-charge admission, there are oodles of games to play and rooms to explore. Habbo also has some healthy rules: the site blocks all swear words and has adult moderators. Teens can send...
...plans, but some of the most effective reaction came from websites like Boycottsinclair broadcasting.com and Stopsinclair.org Left-leaning bloggers like Daily Kos and Talking PointsMemo.com pointed thousands of readers to online petitions. A list of 200 major Sinclair advertisers and investors, with phone numbers and email addresses, made the virtual rounds. "We got $83,000 in donations our first day," says Arkadi Gerney, founder of Stopsinclair.org "For us, that's big money...
Inugirl is the hip hostess in her party room, one of thousands of virtual rooms that players can visit in the new Habbo Hotel, an animated virtual chat world for teens. Dressed in a pink knit cap and matching tank top, Inugirl makes small talk with newcomers while guests flirt, dance and admire the bearskin rug and snazzy decor in her brightly colored crib. Launched in Finland in 2000 by two university students, Habbo Hotel now has 2.2 million monthly visitors worldwide, according to the site. The U.K. version, at habbohotel.co.uk, opened in February 2001 and has 11.5 million users...
...absolute worst conference game of the season is now behind us, as the only winless schools left in the Ivies—Columbia and Dartmouth—did battle in a contest that was meant to be the virtual antithesis of the annual Harvard-Penn title bout...