Global Interactive Learning

Congratulations to Club Penguin (www.clubpenguin.com) for being acquired by Disney!  What an accomplishment,  and, for only $350,000,000 to start, with another $350,000,000 if they meet certain goals by 2009.  That’s fantastic!  (I love writing the 000′s – look at how much they earned by acting on an idea!)  There’s an entrepreneur for you!

 Club Penguin is a site that I often compare Family Mappers to because it is a website focusing on children.  They allow penguin’s to come alive.  The users dress them, keep a home for them and more.  They can also chat with others. 

Family Mappers, by comparison is focusing on the user’s life.  Where do they live, where do they travel, where does their family live, and where do current events occur in relationship to them.  But, it’s focus is children to start. 

 Hopefully Club Penguin’s success will wake up investors and let them know that this will work!  It’s been so frustrating waiting for people to understand the concept.  I have put four years of work into this.  It’s time to stop discussing and start doing.  Hopefully, it will happen soon and Global Interactive Learning will be celebrating a year and a half after it goes live.

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