DudeFactory.com Offers Microsoft Alternative in the Personal Avatar Market
New avatars are available by free download and compatible across competing services.
Bristol, UK (PRWEB via PR Web
Direct) April 29, 2005 -- Cholo Consultancy Ltd, announces this week's
launch of DudeFactory.com, a simple and fun website that enables users to create
their very own personal avatar "Dude" (male) or "Dudette" (female). Cholo
Consultancy Ltd is a small software start-up determined to match established
companies with its highly-innovative products.
DudeFactory.com users
build digital representations of themselves from various components such as
heads, noses, mouths, clothes, pets or backgrounds, and then download them to
their computer for free. Once downloaded, they can then be used during instant
messenger conversations, on a blog, or as a cell / mobile phone or desktop
wallpaper.
"The response from the launch has been fantastic, especially
from many younger web users who've written thanking us because they could not
afford the Microsoft avatars, or in most cases had no way of paying for them. A
new Dude or Dudette is now being created every five seconds," said Stuart Cam,
chief Dude of Cholo Consultancy Ltd.
Microsoft, who operates the popular
MSN Messenger service, recently released version 7 of their client software
which charges users up to $3/£3/€3 to build their own personal avatar. When
downloaded through the Microsoft service they are locked to a single computer
and delivered in a format not compatible with competing services from Yahoo! and
AOL.
The global personalization market of over 500 million instant
messenger users and 1.1 billion cell / mobile phones represents an ideal
opportunity for Dudefactory.com, which generates revenue through Google's
contextual AdSense system instead of charging the end-user.
Cholo
Consultancy Ltd.
Founded by Stuart Cam and Chaz Bocock in 2002, Cholo
Consultancy Ltd. develops smart software solutions for clients around the world
including Nokia Communications and LoudEye Corp.
Further Resources and
images suitable for print and web use: http://www.choloconsultancy.com/dudefactory/presspack/
Contact:
Stuart
Cam
Chief Dude
Cholo Consultancy Ltd
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Web: http://www.choloconsultancy.com/
Tel: +44 (0)845 004
7686
Fax: +44 (0)845 280 2353
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