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Businesses are flocking to market themselves in virtual worlds. I think it’s too soon to tell what to expect from these game-like and usually three-dimensional online universes, but one can feel the trend.

According to the article: “We’re pretty much where the Internet was in the mid-90s,” said Steve Prentice, a vice president at technology research group Gartner Inc. That sentiment is echoed by others as well. Joe Laszlo, analyst at JupiterKagan Inc., said the virtual worlds are “like the early days of the Victoria’s Secret Webcast, where it was crappy, but hot, so everybody went.”

There are definitely many opportunities for companies to get their branding seen. In one of MTV’s virtual worlds they’ve sold 11,402 virtual cans of Pepsi. You can’t drink it - but it’s certainly brand awareness.

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Announced today on Yodel, Yahoo! Mail will be giving unlimited email storage to everyone in May 2007.

“As Yahoo! Mail approaches its 10-year anniversary, I’m the lucky one who gets to announce that we will begin offering everyone unlimited email storage starting in May 2007. To mark the occasion, I checked in with David Nakayama, our group vice president of engineering, for some perspective on this milestone. In case that name doesn’t ring a bell, he’s the developer of RocketMail, one of the world’s first webmail products, which Yahoo! acquired and relaunched as Yahoo! Mail in 1997.”

In the article David coments on how at it’s inception they were considering 2MB storage for users and the possibility of getting radical and doubling the storage to 4MB! Ooo, that’s nutty. My how things have progressed.

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