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Daniel James
CEO , Three Rings

Website | @capncleaver

Daniel James is co-founder and CEO of Three Rings, pioneer of casual MMOs and the virtual goods and currency model in the US with Puzzle Pirates. Three Rings is presently launching Whirled, a flash-based social virtual world for player created content and multi-player games. Daniel has a long history of innovation in online games dating back to his first encounter with Essex MUD in 1982 and the commercial text MUD Avalon, one of the first content services to charge money on the internet circa 1994.

Sessions

2:40pm Wednesday, 04/23/2008
Creating and Engaging Virtual World Communities
Marketing and Community
 Location: 2009
Geoff Yang (Redpoint Ventures), Craig Sherman (Gaia Online), Reuben Steiger (Millions of Us), Daniel James (Three Rings)
This panel explores the challenges of engaging Virtual World users by enabling dialogue, balancing programmed entertainment with user-generated content, and maintaining a sense of user ownership. Read more.