MyMiniLife: Embed Your Life On Your WebSite!

About 6 years ago I rememeber using a site called Habbo Hotel, an interactive 3D chatroom when you buy a room using credits (that you had to sms for) and fill it with “furni”, then invite people to make it popular. I was 15 at the time! But I also rememeber that it was the only website that came close being a good 3D social network. Since then there has been a few other similar programs like Cyworld, Second Life and the program about to be bought out buy Sony, Club Penguin. These social networking sites along with others like MySpace, Facebook and Bebo are all fighting for users and for any new site to try and break into this group be very hard. That is what MyMiniLife had started to do. But then changed their direction. I contacted Zao Yang, a UCLA grad student who founded Mochasoft LLC, the makers of MyMiniLife. He explains the reason why they changed direction:

Originally we started as a social networking site, but we realized that tons of startups are like that and no one’s gaining traction. Instead we focused on being complementary to other social networks by being embeddable.

I totally agree with what Zao says. Also if you look at embeddable widgets at the moments you will see about 90% are just plain slideshows or videos. They have virtually no interactivity at all. So its about time we had something more interesting to add to social networking pages.

So what is MyMiniLife?
Well, Imagine Second Life, The Sims and Habbo Hotel all mashed together, but embedable and FREE! Users create and customize a character and then build their own virtual space. They can then add customized goods ranging from toilets to stuffed kangeroos, and embed video or photo elements into items, or link to web pages.

This is taken from their press release:

The website is designed to produce a fully embeddable flash client, which means users may show off their minihomes on their blogs or social networking sites. Within the MyMiniLife community, users may interact with each other using their 3D “MiniMes” when they explore the collective neighborhoods that are slowly building up from the burgeoning virtual real estate.

So already you can see what potential it has. After initially setting up your account you get the code so you can embed your MyMiniLife anywhere that its accepted! Its so easy to do that within 10mins i had signed up, chuck a basic house together and embeded it on this page.

At the moment they have a fairly small userbase but with the site they have I can see that grow exponentially very quickly.

As for the future, they have some very big plans for new features, if they pull it off this will be MyMiniLife will be massive I’m sure. Also take from their press release:

Eventually, you’ll be able to create your items, create your own fashions, and also stock your minihome and closet with the items that other people created. You can show others what type of person you are.

As you can see I am very impressed with this tool and I can see it becoming big. Why not try it yourself!

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