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- Social Climber in
OMMA Magazine on
12/02/2008
A Boston start-up is banking on the notion that teenagers who download a pretend version of a branded item will want to buy the real thing. Hangout.net is sort of a cross between MySpace and The Sims:
Users design their own online avatars and three-dimensional bedrooms, which they decorate with virtual, branded merchandise - 3-D cartoon renditions of Vans shoes, cans of Red Bull, posters from
art.com and so on.