Heiner is the inventor and evangelist of Layered Virtual Worlds. Since 1996 he works on his vision to populate the web with avatars. He wants to make the web a social place where people meet, chat and play casual online games.
Heiner developed the first avatars on the web in a European research project. In 2005, very early in the age of web avatars, he wrote the Webmobs Manifesto. When the Web 2.0 came up, he founded Zweitgeist, the company behind weblin. Heiner developed the weblin client and portal software. Under his guidance as CTO, the weblin team created an incredibly stable and scalable system with millions of users. The Open Virtual World Project welcomes the former weblin brain.
Heiner is always on, even on a one day holiday trip. When roaming the web his avatar is called "Tassadar" or "Planta Velocia". Heiner likes reading science fiction literature and real science articles. He loves watching Stargate, Star Trek, Star Wars and everything that has a SciFi skin. Of course, EVE-Online is his favourite online game.
Update: recent press links (hi spider)
- Weblin Gründer beteiligt sich an Casual Online Game (firmenpresse)
- Weblin Founder Joins Casual Online Game (PRLog)
- Weblin Founder Joins Casual Online Game (Free Press Release)
- NewsBrief: Weblin Alum Lands at OVW (Virtual Worlds News)
- Weblin Gründer beteiligt sich an Casual Online Game (openPR)
- Weblin Gründer beteiligt sich an Casual Online Game (DailyNet)
- Weblin Gründer beteiligt sich an Casual Online Game (Newstin)
- Open Virtual World: Avatare unterwegs im Web (CREATE OR DIE)
We moved into our new HQ this monday!