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Simuality Joins Efforts for Myanmar Relief

Fri May 9, 2008 7:42pm EDT
EVANSTON, Ill., May 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Metaverse developer
Simuality LLC has joined the effort to help relieve the unspeakable human
suffering in Myanmar in the wake of Cyclone Nargis.  Special donation kiosks
have been developed and are being placed in high-traffic locations in the
virtual world of Second Life, with coordination being arranged via the
Simuality welcome center on their main island
(http://slurl.com/secondlife/Simuality/106/83/41).
    In addition, links to the donation centers are being featured on the front
pages of all of the Simuality sites, including SlippCat(TM)
(http://slippcat.com), the recently unveiled metaverse advertising system,
Avatrait (http://avatrait.com), the web site associated with the very popular
Second Life art gallery of the same name, and the main Simuality site
(http://simuality.com).
    Virtual world donations are being collected in the Second Life currency of
Linden Dollars.  All monies collected will be donated to the International Red
Cross to support their efforts to help relieve the effects of the massive
devastation left by the tropical storm.
    Second Life (http://secondlife.com) is the industry-leading 3-D virtual
world developed by Linden Lab of San Francisco, CA.
    Simuality LLC is both a full-service Metaverse developer, specializing in
"sticky" builds that offer user activities and interaction for our clients, as
well as an "incubator" for creating virtual world applications.
SOURCE  Simuality LLC

Brendan Tripp of Simuality LLC, +1-847-213-9433, btripp@simuality.com



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