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Laura and Paul get a little heated this week when Paul shows up with a bad attitude:) Enjoy these stories in between the evil glares: Beta 2 refresh for Mango Japan gets first Mango Phone Microsoft Donates Heat your building with Cloud Servers Avatar Kinect now available

Delve into the Windows 7 Personalization Gallery and you’ll find a fantastic array of sidebar gadgets that will brighten up your desktop and make it a whole lot more useful. Falling into the former category, if not the latter, is the Xbox 360 Avatar Sidebar Gadget. Spotted by Windows Observer this…

Check out this neat trick: do a search for “xbox avatar bing shirt” right now on Bing.com while signed into the U.S. version of the site and you’ll unlock a special gift for your Xbox LIVE avatar: a Bing t-shirt! The special search provides you with two tokens – one for a male shirt and one for a…

ReactionGrid is a virtual world startup based on OpenSimulator technology.  I recently drove down to Fort Pierce, Florida to talk to Robin and Kyle Gomboy, two of the three owers of ReactionGrid, about virtual worlds and how the the idea of using virtual worlds changes when then…

A company called Digital Outlook has developed a social media toolkit that will allow Xbox gamers to share their personalized, customized Xbox avatar creations on various social networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Live Spaces, and more. The new toolkit will also allow those avatars…

Minimise Me is a new collaboration between Microsoft and MRM Worldwide (UK) which lets Windows Live Messenger users create their own personalized avatar which can then be used as a profile picture. Once you launch this app, you can customize all aspects of the character – from the eyes to the hair…

I spoke with Nikolai Roth from zweitgeist at the CeBIT in Hannover a couple of weeks ago.  He showed me their product called Weblin, which is software that enables people on the same web page to see and communicate with each other.  While you are surfing, you and others on the same…