Pirate101 is set in The Spiral, the same universe as Wizard101, though the two games feature different locations: Players can sail their sky ships between five new worlds, Skull Island, Monquista, Valencia, Cool Ranch and MooShu.

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In 2010 the dialogues will be held in Malacca, a site of contact between the Arab and Asian worlds for five hundred years.

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To organize the discussion a bit, we broke up the analysis into five categories with overlap between the worlds: weapons, ships, biotech, robotics and everyday tools.

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Other than these presenters bridging the physical world and virtual worlds, NYTM had more than its share of other compelling startups who succeeded in using their five minutes on stage to woo the discerning audience of New York technofiles.

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