This blog is purely a personal blog regarding my views on virtual worlds, games, and digital content. I occasionally talk about other aspects of life that are important to me, like politics, food, my family, and so on, but in no case does anything I post here represent any official views of Sparkplay Media, Iron Realms Entertainment, or me in my position as CEO of Sparkplay Media.
A blog on virtual worlds, games, and digital content, from Matt Mihaly
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November 8th, 2006 at 5:01 am
Darren
I noticed your interest in Virtual Worlds on your web page/blog and wanted to contact you regarding an event we are hosting on this topic. “Virtual Worlds – Real potential” takes place on Tuesday 5 December from 6pm to 8.30pm at 180 Strand, London WC2.
The high level speaker line up includes representatives from EMI, BBC, IBM, Rivers Run Red, and a virtual concert promoter. Full details can be found at www.musically.com/debate. The evening will be a fantastic networking opportunity with a chance to discuss further ideas over drinks and canapés after the presentation and panellists have finished.
In return for mentioning our event on your blog and/or website we would like to offer you a free place and the discounted association rate for your readers.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions you may have about the event.
Many thanks
Darren Hall
Music Ally
www.musically.com
office: +44 (0) 207 490 5444
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December 6th, 2006 at 1:22 am
Zhichao Sun
I’m a chinese game designer and I have read your blogs all this year. It’s very nice!
Best.
Zhichao Sun
godsun163.blog.163.com
December 6th, 2006 at 1:43 am
Matt
Thanks Zcichao!
Btw, I love the picture of you holding the DS Lite in front of the herd of goats or rams or whatever those animals are.
–matt
May 24th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Joshua
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I was specifically emailing you because I think that your blog, and its readers, would be interested in learning about a solution like ours and its benefits on the game design and development community.
If you could please tell your readers about it, ask them to offer suggestions for improvement, or just simply link to our site so they could download a trial, it would be enormously appreciated because your blog seems to be extremely popular and it holds a lot of sway within the game development community.
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I look forward to hearing back from you, thanks!
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October 1st, 2007 at 3:56 pm
wowpanda
Excellent site, took me a while to find it though. I was googling on WOW for something else, then found this nice place
October 6th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Mike
I’m interested in getting a post about our site (www.mmobay.net) on your blog. Please let me know if this is something you do and how much it would be for 1 blog post with a link.
October 6th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Matt
You must be kidding…
November 3rd, 2007 at 9:09 am
Share Holder
Hi, Matt
We’ve included your blog into our http://yolto.com vertical search engine for VW and MMO information (People > Blogs section). We would be gratefull to hear your comments and/or suggestions.
Regards.
January 15th, 2008 at 5:24 am
Edita Kaye
A Big Blog Bravo!
Excellent, well thought out, and very well written posts have made your blog both a pleasure to read and a source of valuable information.
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February 3rd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Cody Brannan
Best blog ever! W44 from the EE forums. Im interested in joining the gaming industry when I get out of high school / college, so this gives me a small idea of what it will be like.
Can’t wait for Earth Eternal.