Napster/Snocap Founder Shawn Fanning To Launch Rupture, an Online Gaming Community; Gets Seed

So reports BW, Shawn Fanning, founder of Napster is going to launch Rupture, a virtual social community for online gamers, in the next few months. He raised seed money from a group of investors, including Ron Conway and Joi Ito. The service is a layer above popular games such as World of Warcraft, and using an add on or a software download, Rupture taps into the game to automatically pull together character names, profiles, and resources, and publish them on a personalized site. Players will be able to chat in groups or with other individuals and download other addons and game demos.

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