Digital Entreprenuer Creates Digital Mall
KYPost:
Like to shop, but can’t get to the stores until after hours? Love the mall, but can’t stand the traffic?
Louisville Web entrepreneur Mark Stein says he has a solution: Let your digital persona do the walking in a 3-D virtual mall.
Stein, a longtime professional mediator in Louisville, found online success in 2002 when he launched OurDivorceAgreement.com, a do-it-yourself system for working through the complex issues of breaking up. Today that site has customers throughout North America, Australia and Great Britain, he said.
Now he hopes to strike gold with VirtualEShopping.com, which takes users into a three-dimensional environment like those they might see in games such as World of Warcraft or Half-Life. But in Stein’s online world, participants hunt for bargains, not monsters, as they meet, mingle and chat with other virtual shoppers.
The digital mall will be a place “they’ll be familiar with and comfortable with.” There are already dozens of active […]
Original post by Nicholas and software by Elliott Back