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Silicon Alley Insider is attempting to rank the most valuable private web companies in the world. The list is of note to this blog largely because it contains a number of entries that are MMO/Virtual World-based. (of course, please note that as these are private companies and as Silicon Alley Insider has no privileged access to their financials valuing these companies is really nothing more than a somewhat educated guess).
Facebook tops the list, of course (though at $9 billion rather than the $15 billion valuation Microsoft invested in), but Webkinz is #7, Habbo is #9, Linden Lab is #11, and Stardoll is #17. Bafflingly missing is Runescape/Jagex, which it seems to me should be somewhere around where Habbo is.
Ok, maybe not the best (I put freerice in the top slot as it actually accomplishes something) but I think September 12th is one the best so-called ’serious’ games I’ve played, despite its claim that it’s not a game. The mechanics are dead-simple and the game doesn’t need a bunch of explanation to illustrate the point its making. Good stuff.
I’m not going to insult anyone’s intelligence by explaining any further. Just check it out! (It’ll only take a minute of your time or so.)