There's virtual world is shrinking. The Menlo Park entertainment start-up has stopped developing updates for "There," its interactive online world, and will concentrate instead on licensing its technology. The company has laid off an undisclosed number of employees and is in the midst of closing a new round of financing, an executive said.

The Whitehouse.com pornography Web site, which poked fun at its government namesake with parody sections about first ladies and interns, has been stripped of all political references.