Twofish has raised $4.5 million in a second round of funding to finance its business of creating the economic infrastructure behind virtual worlds. The deal shows that the virtual goods economy is heating up, even if the real world economy is spiraling downward. The Palo Alto, Calif., company made the announcement at The Virtual Goods Summit, a packed conference in San Francisco attended by several hundred people this morning. Twofish creates a “digital resources planning solution,” sort of like enterprise resource planning (ERP) for virtual worlds. The Twofish Elements solution is an economic infrastructure that allows virtual world creators to...
Last week I booked my first doctor appointment using the ZocDoc service. Yesterday the company announced their first round of funding. And today I actually went to the doctor so I thought it was a perfect time to share my ZocDoc experience. The service is only available in NYC so move here if you want to use it. When you load the ZocDoc page, you can select which type of doctor you want to see, ZIP code, and type of service (general appointment, botox, enlargements, reductions, etc.). You can also enter your insurance information and then ZocDoc returns doctors who...
Don't get too attached to the Facebook app SocialMe. First removed from Facebook on July 1 for alleged violations of Facebook's privacy policy, Social Hi's SocialMe was reinstated yesterday, only to be pulled again this morning, according to Inside Facebook. When the app was reinstated yesterday, allfacebook noticed that there were still privacy issues associated with the app, including the ability to spoof identities, letting any user pretend to be any other user when sending messages through the app. Users are growing more frustrated with the frequent disappearances of popular apps. Based on the uncertain status of many popular...
