My friends over at Union Square Ventures (USV) have closed on an investment in Oddcast last week. I've written about avatars in the past and I'm still extremely bullish on them. Like I said in previous posts, they need to be portable so that different types of applications can utilize them... once this happens, then they will scale well.
I've also been seeing a few companies pop up that are custom designing avatars based on pictures that you send them. Springwise.com today announced a service that makes cartoonish type avatars based on what you want, for about $3 USD.
Had a fantastic lunch with Sean Ryan last week of Meez and he alluded to some amazing things they are doing with their organization. I think the avatar world is just starting to heat up... digital identities will become a big business.
Tags: oddcast, avatar, meez, custom, union square ventures, web 2.0
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