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		<title>hi5 Acquires Virtual World Creator PixVerse</title>
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<img border="0" align="left" width="99" src="http://www.centernetworks.com/images/sites/hi5left.jpg" alt="hi5" height="70" />Social network <a href="http://www.hi5.com">hi5</a> has announced that they are acquiring <a href="http://www.pixverse.com/">PixVerse</a>. Founder Charles Ying <a href="http://opensocialapis.blogspot.com/2008/04/opensocial-developer-interview-charles.html">describes</a> PixVerse as, <span id="a1cj6">PixVerse is a next generation virtual world company&#34;. PixVerse has been part of the hi5 OpenSocial implementation since the beginning and was an early adopter of the Google App Engine Web platform. PixVerse was backed by Venrock. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. </span>
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<span>We will see more of these application acquisitions as the various application platforms grow. </span><span>Check out hi5's <a href="http://www.centernetworks.com/opensocial-hi5-myspace-aol-imeem">OpenSocial updates</a> from earlier this month.</span>
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<p>Here's an video with Ying explaining what Pixverse is, how it works and their usage of OpenSocial:</p>
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<img border="0" align="left" width="99" src="http://www.centernetworks.com/images/sites/hi5left.jpg" alt="hi5" height="70" />Social network <a href="http://www.hi5.com">hi5</a> has announced that they are acquiring <a href="http://www.pixverse.com/">PixVerse</a>. Founder Charles Ying <a href="http://opensocialapis.blogspot.com/2008/04/opensocial-developer-interview-charles.html">describes</a> PixVerse as, <span id="a1cj6">PixVerse is a next generation virtual world company&quot;. PixVerse has been part of the hi5 OpenSocial implementation since the beginning and was an early adopter of the Google App Engine Web platform. PixVerse was backed by Venrock. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. </span>
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<span>We will see more of these application acquisitions as the various application platforms grow. </span><span>Check out hi5&#8242;s <a href="http://www.centernetworks.com/opensocial-hi5-myspace-aol-imeem">OpenSocial updates</a> from earlier this month.</span>
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