There has been a lot of interesting discussion about the pros and cons and different approaches of linking real life identity and virtual world avatars. Our take on it is that it should be the users choice and freedom to link up their avatar with real life identity or not. In reality there will be users who fall into both camps - those who want a true escape from their real world and those who want friends in world to be able to know and connect with their irl identity.
With that in mind, we just launched our first phase of Facebook Connect in our online world Frenzoo.com, which allows users the option to create a new account using Facebook, and then also option to use real-life name and age or not.
Creating an account using Facebook Connect is a breeze, just a couple of clicks and literally in seconds you're good to go.
Soon we'll also add ability to link existing accounts to Facebook Connect as well as post snapshots, contest entries and more to your Facebook wall.
Speaking of updates, a number of other new things just launched in the last few days:
A new mini-machinima feature that lets you take animated snapshots in GIF format. It's a lot of fun and easy to use for everyone. For example, one made by our Brazilian ztylist Marcy:
We also have a launched a brand new chat system which is much faster and convenient to access - it all runs in a single browser window, like Meebo or Facebook. There is a new chat bar at the bottom of each page where you can start and switch in and out of different chats.
So far users seem to really like it, apart from the new bugs of course, we still have polishing to do this week!
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