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{{Infobox_Website
|websitename = Meez
|origin = [[San Francisco]]
|screenshot = [[Image:Meez logo.gif|Meez Logo]]
|commercial = mixed
|type = [[Avatar Entertainment Service]]
|reg = Required
|owner = [[Donnerwood Media]]
|author = [[Donnerwood]]
}}

'''Meez''' is a web-based company that offers its online members the ability to create, personalize, and export three-dimensional personas or "avatars." Meez members can then go on to animate their avatars and place them in one of a variety of environments or "scenes." Users personalize their avatars by choosing from a selection of clothing, hairstyles, tattoos, accessories, backgrounds and fun animations that enable them to express how they wish to be seen online. Once completed, Meez avatars can be used as personal identifiers all over the Internet: on personal profiles at social media sites such as myspace and facebook, as IM icons in such programs as AIM, and on blogs such as xanga and Livejournal.
'''Meez''' is a web-based company that offers its online members the ability to create, personalize, and export three-dimensional personas or "avatars." Meez members can then go on to animate their avatars and place them in one of a variety of environments or "scenes." Users personalize their avatars by choosing from a selection of clothing, hairstyles, tattoos, accessories, backgrounds and fun animations that enable them to express how they wish to be seen online. Once completed, Meez avatars can be used as personal identifiers all over the Internet: on personal profiles at social media sites such as myspace and facebook, as IM icons in such programs as AIM, and on blogs such as xanga and Livejournal.



Revision as of 18:36, 31 May 2006

Meez
Meez Logo
Type of site
Avatar Entertainment Service
OwnerDonnerwood Media
Created byDonnerwood
Commercialmixed
RegistrationRequired

Meez is a web-based company that offers its online members the ability to create, personalize, and export three-dimensional personas or "avatars." Meez members can then go on to animate their avatars and place them in one of a variety of environments or "scenes." Users personalize their avatars by choosing from a selection of clothing, hairstyles, tattoos, accessories, backgrounds and fun animations that enable them to express how they wish to be seen online. Once completed, Meez avatars can be used as personal identifiers all over the Internet: on personal profiles at social media sites such as myspace and facebook, as IM icons in such programs as AIM, and on blogs such as xanga and Livejournal.

File:Baseball Avatar Meez.jpg
A Meez avatar wearing a Giants jersey.

So far, Meez has signed agreements with Major League Baseball and The National Hockey League to provide virtual sports merchandise for sports fans across the web.

Meez is entirely browser-based, with no need to download additional client software, and it works on Windows, Macintosh and Linux PCs.

Meez was developed by Donnerwood Media, an online entertainment company based in San Francisco. It launched on March 28th, 2006.

Meez User Benefits

At Meez.com, users create their avatars through a point-and-click process. First, users modify the appearance of their Meez avatar by adjusting individual physical characteristics like head shape, skin tone, hair style/color and eye color. Then they proceed to the "Meezmall."

Meezmall. At the Meezmall, consumers can choose from a large selection of clothing, hairstyles, piercings, accessories, backgrounds and fun animations. The MeezMall includes thousands of free items, as well as a collection of premium items that consumers can purchase to make their avatar that much more personal. Premium branded content currently includes baseball jerseys and caps from Major League Baseball®, as well as hockey jerseys from The National Hockey League®.

Animations. Meez avatars are built using the same technology that producers use to create video games, so consumers can animate their Meez.

Export. Once a Meez avatar has been saved, it can be exported as an HTML link or JPG image to programs and websites such as myspace, facebook, and AIM. Users can also export an animated version of their Meez.