I have not been able to confirm the report with media tracking service comScore yet but our traffic has been growing steady this according to our latest chart on compete.com.

Is your company on the list?

1 MYSPACE.COM*
2 Blogger
3 FACEBOOK.COM
4 WORDPRESS.COM*
5 FLICKR.COM
6 Classmates.com Sites
7 Six Apart Sites
8 REUNION.COM
9 Yahoo! Geocities
10 Lycos Tripod
11 AIM Profiles (w/ history)
12 FREEWEBS.COM (w/ history)
13 imeem
14 Buzznet
15 DIGG.COM
16 WEBSHOTS.COM (w/ history)
17 Yahoo! Groups
18 Yahoo! Buzz
19 BEBO.COM (w/ history)
20 LINKEDIN.COM
21 AOL Hometown (w/ history)
22 TAGGED.COM
23 DEVIANTART.COM
24 KABOODLE.COM (w/ history)
25 AOL Community (w/ history)
26 HI5.COM
27 XANGA.COM
28 PROPELLER.COM (w/ history)
29 SCRIBD.COM
30 MSN Groups
31 eCrush Network (w/ history)
32 GAIAONLINE.COM
33 CAFEMOM.COM (w/ history)
34 BLACKPLANET.COM* (w/ history)
35 CARINGBRIDGE.ORG
36 FRIENDSTER.COM
37 TECHNORATI.COM (w/ history)
38 Yahoo! 360°
39 DADA.NET
40 43THINGS.COM
41 Youku
42 MEETUP.COM
43 PICZO.COM
44 ZIMBIO.COM
45 WeeWorld
46 Orkut
47 ADDTHIS.COM
48 WEBLO.COM
49 BOOMJ.COM
50 SODAHEAD.COM
51 YUKU.COM
52 MULTIPLY.COM
53 XOMBA.COM
54 AOL Journals (w/ history)
55 Curse, Inc.
56 FUNADVICE.COM
57 GROUPRECIPES.COM
58 THISNEXT.COM
59 FANPOP.COM (w/ history)
60 HELIUM.COM
61 EXPERIENCEPROJECT.COM
62 DORMITORY.COM
63 CARE2.COM (w/ history)
64 Stickam
65 SLASHDOT.ORG
66 MOLI.COM
67 ROIWORLD.COM
68 STYLEM.COM
69 ROBLOX.COM
70 CREATEBLOG.COM
71 DELICIOUS.COM
72 IHIPHOP.COM
73 Virb Inc.
74 FUBAR.COM
75 BLOGTHINGS.COM
76 Tribe Networks, Inc.
77 METROFLOG.COM
78 FEARNET.COM
79 MIXERCAST.COM
80 FUNFORMOBILE.COM
81 MOCOSPACE.COM
82 SezWho
83 INVOLVER.COM
84 DOGSTER.COM (w/ history)
85 WEBKINZINSIDER.COM
86 TEAMSUGAR.COM
87 FOTKI.COM
88 SONICO.COM (w/ history)
89 DISABOOM.COM
90 HOVERSPOT.COM
91 56.COM
92 FOTOLOG.COM (w/ history)
93 ZORPIA.COM
94 3DVIA.COM
95 ALUMNICLASS.COM
96 TAGWORLD.COM
97 WAYN.COM (w/ history)
98 STEAMCOMMUNITY.COM
99 CHAT-AVENUE.COM
100 MIGENTE.COM* (w/ history)

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Like the 3D phone models in the videos? You can play with a few of them in the warehouse right now! Or you can play around with the 3D model of phone featured in the video below (click the play button).

Have you made your plans for the 3DVIA Booth Challenge? Stop by the 3DVIA booth and show off your dance moves.

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3DVIA BOOTH #1217

As the biggest international event in digital content creation, Siggraph is an excellent opportunity for 3DVIA to show off our applications for professionals and consumers to create and share content in 3D.Come meet us at our Booth #1217, and you’ll discover our latest demonstrations of 3DVIA Virtools.

TAKE THE 3DVIA CHALLENGE AT SIGGRAPH

LEARN ABOUT THE LATEST 3DVIA TECHNOLOGY

Our booth is also the perfect place to gather latest information about our cutting-edge solutions as well as our partner’s involvement. Be sure to attend some of our scheduled main stage presentations (stay tuned for more info).

Should you be interested in a private meeting with a sales or technical representative, please schedule an appointment using the following form: More information

CHECK OUT 3DVIA AT EDT - IPT 2008 THIS WEEKEND

If you are in the Los Angeles area this weekend and are a fan of Virtual Reality, don’t miss the “Creating Tools for Emerging Display Technologies” panel at this years Emerging Display Technologies and Immersive Projector Technologies (a mouthful we know) event. David Nahon, Dassault Systemes Immersive Virtuality domain leader will present its use of 3DVIA Virtools for creating powerful VR applications. More information

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We are also currently up over 2,400 free 3D models in the public warehouse and thousands more stored in private collections. 

Have you read Juan’s 3D Tutorials yet or seen our latest series by Don covering user m2morgan64 efforts to create a game starting with our own free 3D modeling application 3DVIA Shape?

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Although I am probably biased, there is a great article on TIME.com today featuring a certain 3D content site that you may have visited recently. Please check out the Thomas Grose 3D Comes to Web 2.0 article that is all about your very own 3DVIA.com.

“The hosted services and communities of Web 2.0 already amount to an entirely new form of communication. But now a new site called 3DVIA.com is taking the social-networking concept to another dimension — both literally and, well, virtually.” [ Read the Full Article ]

If you are not familiar with TIME.com, it is the online version of Time Magazine which has over 3,250,000 subscribers and is read by nearly 10 million people each week.

Do you have Digg account?
Please Digg the TIME article above.

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In short, Photoshop Extended allows graphic designers to incorporate 3D content directly into their 2D designs.  This gives you the ability to optimize the position and lighting of an element in your design on the fly.  Photoshop accepts .3ds, .obj and .dae files among other formats readily available for free right here on 3DVIA.com. 

If you do not have Photoshop, why not try a similar functionality in our own free 3Dcollage?  All you need is a Facebook account and the 3Dcollage app.  You can read all about it here.

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Even though it looks a bit like a hamster ball…I want one! Mehdi from the Paris office, also in the first part of the video, gets to work with the coolest part of the business. I’m trying to rationalize installing the system for our office but have not justified the cost yet. Mehdi - can you ship that over here to the states?

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A new release of the Live Maps service is now public and the centerpiece is a much improved “Version 2″ view of several top cities including Las Vegas.  The version 2 update features cities with many more modeled buildings, higher resolution textures, and rendered trees!  Other cities with a version 2 spruce up include Dallas, Denver and Phoenix.

It’s amazing - click on the image to zoom into the improved 3D Las Vegas.

Also featured in the update…an improved Virtual Earth - 3DVIA.  Some of the new enhancements include lighting for contributed models, creation of preview thumbnails when you save a model, and much faster publishing when using high resolution textures.  To try it out while in Live Maps, switch into 3D view, right click where you would like to add a building and choose ‘Add 3D model’.

Other key updates for Live Maps include:

• Export Your Collection to Your Navigation/GPS Device
• The Ability to Add Labels for Birds Eye Imagery
• 1-Click Directions (They call it Party Maps!)
• MapCruncher Integration!…MapCruncher is a tool for registering your raster maps to create map tiles for mashups. You can now add your MapCrunched layers to Collections
• “GeoWeb Exploration”…”one of the largest stores of local content on the web”
• Neighborhood Subscribe via GeoRSS….very cool feature allowing to subscribe to local updates of a given geographic area!
• Tour Enhancements Including Hi-Def Movies
• Directions and Traffic Enhancements
• Improved Display of KML Files Including Google MyMaps Links

There is already some buzz for the update from around the blogosphere including:

• Live Maps hits us with a big release
• New Live Search Maps is Live
• Microsoft Introduces Tool for Avoiding Traffic Jams
• New Live Search Maps is Live
• The New Maps Is Live
• The New Release of Live Maps and Virtual Earth 3D is now Live!

Congratulations to the Live Maps team!

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We also passed 2,000 public 3D models at the same time (there are an additional 4,000+ private models being hosted on 3DVIA).  Check out new user smike, who has an amazing collection of spaceship 3D models, and the Earth Alliance “Ivanovas” SA-23E 3D model that he uploaded recently. 

Click the play button to examine the model up close.

You can find out more from smike on his website…Smikes World!

Let’s keep it going! Search for free 3D models now.

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Here is an application of our 3D technology that we have had almost too much fun putting together.  Welcome 3Dcollage, our new picture application for Facebook that will let you overlay 3D models from 3DVIA.com on your favorite pictures to create new “3D mashups”.  These new mashups can be published to your profile or, even better, sent to your friends Facebook profiles.

Why would you want to do this?…Not only is 3Dcollage is a great way to dress up your Facebook profile, but it allows you to create stunning new images in a way not currently possible. You can position and re-position 3D models over 2D images in a natural way, making use of 3D effects such as lighting, sizing, and rotation to create your own Facebook works of art.

Check out these 2 pictures as a very simple demonstration of what you can do with the same model over a picture.   Models in 3Dcollage can be easily placed, spun and positioned in anyway that you want.

Now I am not making any political statements, but I found an interesting demonstration of the 3Dcollage idea on the campaign ‘08 group on Facebook using a Barack Obama model found on 3DVIA.com.

Interested in trying it for yourself?  It’s easy to do…first, login in to your Facebook account (Facebook accounts are free) and then in 3Dcollage,

1. Upload your picture - or search for one on Flickr
2. Import a 3D model from the 3DVIA.com library
3. Position it any way you like on your picture
4. Click the camera icon to publish it to your profile or send it to your friends
5. Rinse & Repeat.

What are you waiting for, create your first 3Dcollage right now!

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In fact, this is one of the key changes that you will notice this year on 3DVIA.com. Instead of having several big releases, we plan on updating the site frequently to allow you the user to help shape the future of our service…so let us know how we are doing and what we can add for you.  We plan on monthly updates to the site so the suggestions you provide today could be included in the future site.

Here are some of the key updates released today on 3DVIA.com.

Simplified and Improved 3D Content Search
We’ve introduced an updated search feature that allows you to enter a keyword once and then search through our 3D models, people and groups with just a few clicks.

Search by 3D Model Format and Software
We’ve created an easy way to search the model library by format and the software used to produce it right on the search page.  For example, here are the free 3DS models available on the site right now.

3DVIA User Activity Feeds 
To highlight the user activity on the site we’ve begun to introduce Facebook style activity feeds to the site that will keep you up to date on the hottest 3D models and content on the site right now.  The first activity feeds can now be seen on the homepage.

Simple, Simple, Simple…We’re a 3D Content Sharing Site! 
I could have used the passé buzzword K.I.S.S. to describe this update but the sentiment applies.  Simple is our new theme. We’ve made very simple UI and messaging updates to highlight, particularly to  our new members, what you can do on the site.  That is…SEARCH, UPLOAD & SHARE 3D models and your latest ideas in 3D!  So go…search, upload and share!

Stay tuned, we should have an update to the site at least once every month!

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Under the category of cool things that you can accomplish with our very own Virtual Earth - 3DVIA 3D modeling application and Microsoft Virtual Earth, the above fly through was built for a presentation of the proposed Eos Generali building in the heart of the Paris business district.  We worked closely with several groups to produce the video including our old friends from Earthware (a.k.a. siege103 on 3DVIA.com) who produced many of the buildings that you see in the presentation.

Although you may not have the 3D modeling talent of Chris (Earthware) or Marc (3DVIA), you can produce the same concept on Virtual Earth today.  Everything you see above was produced through applications that are freely available right now.  The buildings were modeled with the Virtual Earth - 3DVIA version of our free Shape 3D modeling application and the "fly through" capability comes standard with Virtual Earth.  Marc has already promised a tutorial on how to produce your own that will be posted here soon.

The video was posted earlier on several sites including the Virtual Earth / Live Maps and Earthware blogs.  I like Michael’s second comment on the VE / Live Map blog…"It almost looks just like 2nd Life! I couldn’t help but notice that. It would be interesting to have a sort of 2nd Life in Virtual Earth. Where it takes place in more realistic setting and realistic people, don’t you? That would be neat." 

Interesting, don’t you think?

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As Bertrand Duplat, Virtools founder and CTO for 3DVIA puts it, “3DVIA has taken into consideration studios’ needs when designing and developing games, especially those that work with large development teams in multiple locations.  Our new development engine encompasses the entire development cycle – from importing content to testing and debugging – maximizing publishers’ investments by allowing them to create content once, optimize it, and publish it across multiple platforms.”

If you are in the game development space, you should check out the 3DVIA MP site for all of the details.  Or you can watch this early trailer for the product below. 

The official announcement for 3DVIA MP was released yesterday at this years Game Developers Conference and the reaction has been excellent.

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Just last month, Microsoft blogger Steve Lombardi posted a great article on 3D mashups created utilizing the modeling capability of Virtual Earth - 3DVIA combined with Virtual Earth technology.  He detailed how developers can embed Virtual Earth 3D maps into their web applications and use our Virtual Earth - 3DVIA product to import custom building models.  You can see the final result here.

Although I did not get a chance to post an article on his creation then, this week delivered yet another great example of a 3D mashup posted on the IDV Solutions blog titled “3D, or Not 3D: That Is the Question“.  The article is a great step-by-step tutorial on how to build 3D models for Virtual Earth.  However, in addition to the snappy title that I know he must have been dying to use, the article contains a link to the incredible mashup they have created on their own Virtual Earth a based application.  It is a great example of what you can be accomplished with Virtual Earth - 3DVIA and worth checking out.

Fans of 3DVIA.com might remember the IDV Solutions 3D building  model as one of our featured models in January.  Here is the model on 3DVIA.com. (click the PLAY 3D button to view it).

And here is the here is the same building within the IDV 3D Mashup built on what they call their “experiment”.  What do you think?

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Check out his latest models below and let mvcomputers know what you think about his latest additions to the 3DVIA collection.

See Through 3D Gearbox Model

3D Gearbox Model - Apart

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If you would like to be notified about upcoming changes to the site, please register for a free 3DVIA 3D model hosting account or leave a comment below.

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 3D Model of the Duxford Control Tower

View Model on 3DVIA 

Thank you for the quick turn around on the very cool 3D model.  I put the same assignment out to anyone else - make a 3D model using 3DVIA Shape and drop a comment here.  I’ll post the best versions when you upload them to the site.

While we are on the subject of buildings…you should check out Marc’s new group for House and Building 3D modelers.  After you join the group, you can add your 3D models to the group directly from the model page.

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siege103 from Earthware recently posted some interesting 3D models to 3DVIA that were built using Google SketchUp. The best 2 models he uploaded were the Housing Terrace and Shopping Center models.

My assignment for Chris this week…try creating some of your models using 3DVIA Shape?

 Siege103’s 3D Shopping Center

You may remember his great (and honest) review from the Earthware Blog covering the Microsoft Virtual Earth - 3DVIA release and the video he produced on “Creating your first building in Virtual Earth 6“.

To upload your 3D models to our free 3D model hosting service, create a 3DVIA account and enjoy.

Cheers!

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For my latest request, please add your links for new years related models.  It could be champagne bottles, party hats…a 3D model of your friends after they’ve had to much 3D Champagne and 3D party hats?  Anything that you would like to celebrate the new year.

Last time, Shadows44 provided his Xmas model for our holiday request.  If you get a chance, check out his Shadows.fr 3D blog (French).

Happy 3D New Year!!!

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If you would like to remix these 3D house models, click here to access the collection - requires an MSN account (Hotmail, etc.).   Hover over the model name, and select “Add to collection”.  In the Collections editor, you can move the model to a new location, and remix it inside of Virtual Earth – 3DVIA.

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In addition to the additional exposure you will get on 3DVIA.com, a great reason to upload your Google Earth content is the ability to offer an interactive 3D preview of your models for the visitors on your website.  Every 3DVIA model comes equipped with an interactive 3D Life Player that can be embedded directly into your blog, online profile or just about any web page.

Here is an example of a .kmz packaged model uploaded recently to 3DVIA.com.  Click on the “PLAY 3D” button (you will need to add the 3D Life plugin to your browser) to view the model. 

Posting a 3D model to your site is as simple as posting a video from YouTube.   After you have uploaded your content, look for the small snippet of code located underneath each model on it’s viewer page.  It will be listed under the title of  “HTML Widget”.  Simply copy and paste that code into your page or post and you are off to the races.  We currently use Wordpress as our blogging platform but the player will work with Blogger or any other standard page that accepts iframes.

Enjoy!

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3D SANTA CLAUS

Check out the 3D Santa that mcrodrigues from Rio de Janeiro uploaded. Somehow, I think that our 3D Santa might have trouble making it down the 3D chimney?

3D CHRISTMAS TREES

DonBlur out of Los Angeles brings us both the festive tree on top and the evergreen below.

I think our second tree may need a few ornaments but check out the detail on that model up close.

I’ll post more models as I find them over the next few weeks. Please make sure to tag your models with a holiday related tag so I can find them easily.

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This easy to use 3D model building application is the result of a close partnership between the Microsoft and Dassault Systèmes engineering teams. Our goal was to provide ordinary people with tools they can use to build a 3D world that combines their unique ideas and vision of the future with real-life places, buildings and structures.

With just a few clicks, you can easily design your house or your favorite building in 3D and post them for your friends and family to view on Virtual Earth.

To get started with Virtual Earth – 3DVIA:

1. Watch the Virtual Earth – 3DVIA tutorial introduction video found on our Tutorials Page

2. Setup your Microsoft Live User Account. Installing Microsoft Virtual Earth – 3DVIA requires you have a Live user account, available at http://maps.live.com/

3. Install the Virtual Earth – 3DVIA application: After you have Virtual Earth running, you can then install 3DVIA modeling software from:

http://maps.live.com/Help/en-us/VE3DVIADownload.htm
(or simply follow the menu links in Virtual Earth to “Add a 3D model”)

We are looking forward to seeing what you build, and hearing what you think about Virtual Earth - 3DVia.

Enjoy!

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