Go direct to Lapland with the Virtual Finland site or to Santa Claus' office in the Santa Claus village on the Arctic Circle.
As the season kicks off, other teams are also experimenting with the idea of on-site virtual entertainment.
Today, the White House joins millions of pinners around the country with an official presence on Pinterest, a virtual pinboard sharing site.
Today, the Hanford site is a virtual ghost town and those involved in the clean-up project say they will need every dollar of the federal stimulus funds.
Facebook earns a percentage of the money paid by users for virtual goods in games on the site.
The site takes visitors on a virtual journey to hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean.
Facebook may be the go-to site for casual games selling virtual goods now, but its reign may not last forever.
Typically, a player will have to go to an outside site like PayPal to purchase virtual currency, interrupting the game experience.
"Assuming the site is handled with respect, virtual memorials respond to a basic human need to remember our deceased family, friends and colleagues, " said Robert M.
Already, it boasts mashups from Microsoft's Virtual Earth map service on Marriot's Web site.
The blogger or site owner that has fallen prey to this virtual substance abuse is almost immediately at its mercy.
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No, in the post-Madoff era they were lying low, but they were launching a virtual film center, and I could write for the new site when it took wing.
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Newly weds who would like to celebrate by visiting a famous site, such as the Taj Mahal, can make virtual tours instead.
The site's interactivity is powered by software that creates a virtual map of the handsets.
The site currently features studies seeking prior art on technologies ranging from virtual keyboards to digital payments.
Weibi can be used to purchase virtual goods for gaming and value-added services on the Sina Weibo site.
Patients with disabilities can have "virtual" appointments with their doctors by simply stepping into an on-site van with a mobile HDVC system.
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The service overall brings to mind the start-up Turntable.fm, a site for people to deejay music for their friends in a virtual club, though Shaker has more ways to interact with people.
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Its 150 news, music and entertainment channels draw to the site customers who spend real money for real goods at NetRadio's virtual music and software stores.
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While getting kids to the Web site is imperative today, Panini's NBA strategy of marrying traditional cards with virtual games is hardly a guaranteed formula for success.
One teenager is in a virtual multiplayer online game world with a few schoolmates, and another is streaming a favorite show from an entertainment site.
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The site will allow visitors to watch footage of the Beatles' performances, contact one another and take virtual tours through the Abbey Road studios where the band made most of their music.
"Based on our members' feedback, I'd have to say that virtual memorial sites are gaining popularity with the public as a very practical alternative to being present at the grave site, " he added.
It is plugging the multimedia power of its Pentium II processor with demonstrations of 3-D Web sites such as Virtual Arsenal - a tour of the Premier League champions' ground, the forthcoming Legal and General estate agency site which lets visitors tour homes inside and out and the Internet-enabled game Forsaken.
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