We launched a seriously revamped Meez site tonight, reflecting a huge amount of work from our team. Although we're still working our way through Beta, this new site reflects a lot of feedback from our hundreds of thousands of users, such as:
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3D features - try zooming and panning on your Meez by holding one of the mouse buttons and rotating around your Meez. There are a ton of additional features coming in 07 as we show off why a Java-3D experience blows away flat Flash, just like color TV beats black and white screens.
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Expanded browser compatibility - for those rabid Firefox/Flock Mac fans, as well as some earlier Safari users, we have a rocking site for you since we're all about providing a great animated avatar experience for ALL users, not just PC fans.
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Face Close-Ups - when you really want to see those Sinatra-blue eyes, or some great new Goth make-up, go with a close up experience, and feel free to rotate around it for a better view.
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Expanded Export - "take your Meez with you", whether it's to MySpace, Live Journal or a cell phone, or anywhere you want a cool way to represent your passions. We have an even greater focus on helping you bring Your 3D ID with you across the Internet.
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A Better Interface - thankfully designed by the product manager who brought you the award-winning Rhapsody, the new Meez is more fun, with expressive pictures, a more logical lay-out, and a much cooler design than I could ever design.
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Faster, Stronger, Lighter, etc. - we just keep banging away to give our users a better Meez experience, and we'll keep doing that in 2007 - more speed, more features, and more fun. For example, our new animated exports are 50% smaller than their predecessors, but are also far more clear, as you can see below (or anti-aliased, as they say in geek land...)
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Lots of partners - our focus is to give our users many places to take their Meez - we have recently launched relationships at CBS Sportsline, Glam.com, and PalTalk, with more coming.
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Tons of Content - we launched all sorts of new items tonight, including boyfriends and girlfriends (try Brad Pitt or Jessica Alba), fraternity and sorority items (go Delta Gam), always cool themes such as Zen and Love, and great new backgrounds and animations. Go wild trying all of the new stuff on...
We have a great set of additional features coming in the next few months as we continue to expand our leadership position in the avatar category. We believe that self-expression will always be one of the largest human needs - but don't listen to me, click on the images below or give it a try at Meez.com
With the new Meez site launched, large distribution partners coming online (e.g. try Meez on the Sportsline forums), and a real avatar/identity market emerging in the US, it's time to go raise money for the 3rd and hopefully, final time. Raising money can be an exhausting and sometimes frustrating process, but we're in a good position, and you actually can learn a lot about your business from investors who ask questions or offer suggestions you had never thought of when you're deep in the weeds.
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