Interesting Trillian alternative: IMVU (reported on Slashdot)

[Jonathan Aquino]

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/09/17/1157212.shtml?tid=95

Interesting because it is a 3-D avatar chat. Freeware.

 

[Alice]

(e-mail address removed) (Jonathan Aquino) wrote in

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/09/17/1157212.shtml?tid=95

Interesting because it is a 3-D avatar chat. Freeware.

Just what the web needs.. more graphics. :\
http://www.imvu.com/catalog/web_index.php

 

[John Corliss]

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/09/17/1157212.shtml?tid=95

Interesting because it is a 3-D avatar chat. Freeware.

Don't know if it promotes the addons, but:

"IMVU and your first avatar are free. If you want to buy more avatars,
clothes, or chatrooms, they are for sale in the catalog for about $.50
cents each."

Oh yeah, here's a more direct link:

http://www.imvu.com/catalog/web_index.php

Personally, I'd call this "loss-leaderware".