Gigaom reports that one of Obama’s transitional team members is a huge World of Warcraft player.  Every day the virtual worlds market grows, and while we don’t expect a virtual administration, we’re pleased that a modern and youth friendly approach will be incorporated into the Obama team.

The Journal’s Don Clark covered Virtual Greats’ debut in Gaia in the Business Technology blog late last week. He definitely had some fun with the concept of Snoop swag in vitual worlds. 

Virtual Greats is moving fast. On our two main fronts, Artist rights and platform distribution, we are cutting deals that we plan to announce at the Virtual Worlds Expo in LA early September. With our new deals in place, VG stands to offer unparalleled exposure and scale to Artist that want to develop new revenue streams. We look forward to seeing you at the Expo to see whats new. Please stop by our booth- we are sharing it with our sister company, Millions of Us.

Tomorrow morning for the 2008 Cannes Lions Advertising Festival.    With so much attention focused on Virtual Greats and the launch, it will be interesting to refocus on our core business and thinking about how we can bring larger scale storytelling to the web for clients.  Of course, we may also pay attention to whether folks find it interesting to think about celebrity endorsement at mass scale from avatars.  Or we may just sit on the beach.

One things for sure — the flight will be long and painful.  Life’s certainties provide odd solace.

Variety’s Marc Graser officially broke the news about the launch of our new affiliated company, Virtual Greats, which is the de facto leader in the extremely promising - but fragmented - US$1.5b virtual goods market.

Read the full piece here.