The Electric Sheep Company

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Enne Entertainment Studios

Enne Entertainment Studios is a game development and animation design studio based in Salamanca, Spain. The company, which draws upon a unique range of artistic perspectives and expertise, specializes in creating new realities and cutting-edge experiences for consumers and businesses around the world. Enne's primary focus is to approach each project with great independence and infuse all creative endeavors with the highest level of quality possible.

In addition, Enne is The Multiverse Network's preferred professional services provider in Europe and Latin America. Multiverse is building the premier network of virtual worlds and massively multiplayer online games.

www.enne.es

Forterra Systems Inc

Forterra develops distributed virtual world software that enables our customers and partners to create their own private, secure, realistic 3D Internet solutions for the corporate, healthcare, government, and
entertainment industries. Our software enables users to communicate, train, rehearse, analyze, collaborate, experiment, socialize, and entertain over networks. Using standard PC hardware customers can rapidly generate private, collaborative, 3D Internet solutions behind or through firewalls that scale
to thousands of concurrent users. Forterra's open and extensible architecture works with 3D authoring tools and integrates with real-world data systems. Users get a better experience from 3D audio, realistic graphics, and anytime, anyplace access.

And please link to here www.forterrainc.com

Future Brand

FutureBrand (www.futurebrand.com), part of the Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc., is a leading brand consultancy that commands a global presence spanning 20 offices in 16 countries. Partnering with the world‚s leading companies, FutureBrand helps its clients to develop profitable brands both today and into the future. Offering a full range of services from consumer branding and corporate identity, to brand identity, packaging design and beyond, FutureBrand works with clients to measure and increase brand value, define breakthrough brand strategies and create powerful brand experiences. Clients include Cadbury Schweppes, Arcelor Mittal, P&G, Microsoft, InBev, Intel, Nokia, Nestlé, MasterCard, UPS, and Unilever.

www.futurebrand.com

IBM

www.ibm.com

Moshi Monsters

Mind Candy is a games company that specializes in multi-player, multiformat games. The company recently launched Moshi Monsters, a new virtual world and online game aimed at children (7-12 year-olds). Kids adopt a unique, animated Monster from the world of Monstro City, and then nurture it by interacting with other Monsters and solving the daily puzzle games it sends them. Mind Candy's first project was Perplex City, an Alternate Reality Game played by thousands of people around the world across many different types of media including mobile phones, email, billboard advertising, actors at live events and skywriting.

Rivers Run Red

Rivers Run Red was the world’s first agency to establish a working presence within a virtual world. Established in Second Life since 2003, with bricks-and-mortar offices in London and San Francisco, we are an immersive spaces company, working to develop virtual worlds as a new channel to engage in communities, reach consumers, and build brand experiences.

Our virtual world clients include: adidas,  BBC, BBH, Calvin Klein, Channel 4, Diageo, Heineken, Herman Miller, ING, Penguin, Philips Design, Reebok, Renault, Sky News and Vodafone.

We are also working with major global partners to step over the line between the virtual and the real. We have developed new media channels, including VirtualLife.TV - the broadband TV channel, in partnership with major content providers like Paramount, Sci Fi Channel and Ninja Tunes.

www.riversrunred.com

Second Place

Makena Technologies

Founded in 2005, Makena Technologies is an entertainment and communications company focused on online interaction and specializing in social virtual worlds. 
  
Makena operates There.com, a 174-million square mile, fully interactive, 3-D social virtual world where members can create and customize their own 3D avatars, hang out with friends in real-time using voice and text chat and participate in a variety of virtual community activities. There.com contains a robust virtual economy and offers the most sophisticated, user-friendly 3-D technology available today. There.com is a safe and exciting “PG-13” environment that has something to offer nearly everyone.
 
In partnership with MTV Networks, Makena also operates Virtual Laguna Beach, The Hills and Pimp My Ride, a social virtual world modeled after three of MTV’s leading reality television properties. 
  
Makena is led by CEO Michael Wilson, one of the pioneers in the development of virtual worlds, with over fifteen years experience in online communities. Wilson served as eBay’s founding SVP of Product Development and Site Operations.

www.there.com

Vodafone

Vodafone is the world's leading international mobile telecommunications group with equity interests in 25 countries across 5 continents  as well as 40 partner networks. At the end of July 2007, Vodafone announced it had over 232 million proportionate customers worldwide.  

For further information, please visit www.vodafone.com