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Just took a nice stroll over to Park Slope from the 3pointCrib to have a chat with Nathan Freitas and Jon Oakes, two of the co-founders of Cruxy, the new(-ish) Web site for independent musicians, filmmakers and other artists to promote and sell their work. (The third co-founder is Web services wizard Will Meyer, who’s based elsewhere.) That’s Nathan on the left (aka Nat Mandelbrot in SL), with his pet AIBO, which, sadly, suffers from the classic symptoms of DHS. I got in touch with them after blogging up their music player for SL, and was happy to hear that they have more cool stuff on the way, and are in fact already working on some things that could make it a lot easier to do media-making not just in a virtual world but on the Web itself, as well as to cross over between the two. For musicians, filmmakers and artists in both the real and virtual worlds, it seems like Cruxy’s versatile player and format could provide a small boon. (more…)

Tringo, the engaging cross between Tetris and bingo that was originally developed in the virtual world of Second Life, has come full circle, and will celebrate its launch as a PC download today with a virtual launch event in SL. Created by SL resident Kermitt Quirk (aka Australia resident Nathan Kier) over his Christmas vacation in 2004, Tringo quickly spread like wildfire across the SL grid and became yet another thing that was going to “kill SL“. Instead, it was picked up by a real-world game developer and launched for the Game Boy Advance later that year. Now Australian casual games portal Two Way Ltd. is launching it as a US$20 PC download, and celebrating the same in SL with a launch event on »way2play island« at 1:00am SL Time tonight (late on March 1 / early on March 2) due to the Australian launch being scheduled for 7:00pm Sydney time. Another tidbit from the press release: Tringo 2.0 is apparently on the way.