3B, which allows you take any web sites or photos and place them in a personalized 3D space is moving toward deeper Web integration and a more YouTube-like feel. Users get is a room in which the walls are textured with the images and videos from your pages from MySpace, Hi5, Bebo or Flickr /Photobucket or any other web service.
3B’s revenues come from contextual ads put onto the many walls in each room, and from selling additional designs on top of the standard set of room designs. Since its soft launch in November of last year, it has had 200,000 registrations - although how many of those people have come back afterwards is not known.
For now it just looks like something which is a nice application. Whether there is a business here remains to be seen and by the looks of it in-gaming advertising is spreading to more traditional games consoles rather than one-off virtual worlds which don't have a community like Second Life.
It is going to be possible to have more social interaction on 3B with other room creators in the future. For now, as
3pointd.com puts it, the approach is more "building the world around the content rather than inserting the content into the world".
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