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Interview with Raph Koster, Metaplace

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We spoke with Raph Koster, the firm's CEO and founder, about the site and the new investment round. If you think about virtual worlds right now, there's a lot of hype around kids worlds and entertainment, much like there was a lot of hype around Second Life in the past. Metaplace was formerly known as Areae.

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Interview with Jerome Chang, BlankSpaces

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Jerome Chang: We have quite a variety of residents here, ranging from a lawyer, to real estate investors, to technology startups, to people in the entertainment industry, such as production firms, script writers, and filmmakers. We have Sometrics, which is kind of a search technology for Web 2.0, They came here, and it worked.

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