About HollingworthVentures.com

HVC packs an extensive background in the development and management of social entertainment ventures, however building and managing is the easy part. Understanding the 'actual' needs, objectives, and overall mindset of the singles consumer is a little more involved, for if it were not, then elementary concepts, such as bars and online dating services would be capturing substantially more than 3.5% of this marketplace.

Problem: The few social introductory options that exist are, in essence, offered up as quick fix solutions, while little effort is invested into understanding the myriad of sociological characteristics, which encompass this complex consumer.

HVC has invested a total of 23-years into the study and analysis of the social introductory arena with most of these resources focused on how concepts and their associated environments affect people at the sociological level. This extensive knowledge provides greater insight into understanding the composite nature of an increasingly demanding 21st century consumer.

HVC also operates the world's largest social entertainment knowledge based, now encompassing 22,000 pages and also accompanied with related consulting services. Online since 1995, the resource has become an invaluable asset to numerous social entertainment developers, startups, and existing operations worldwide. See http://nightclubbiz.com/

Technologies

HVC has maintained an aggressive involvement in the open source community. We've participated in numerous projects at the beta stage and most notably in the audio, video, and VOIP sectors, in addition to a 12-year background in networking and server-side programming on the Linux /Unix platform.

At present, oursociological focus is largely centered on Geosocial technologies, which encompass Location Based Services (LBS) GPS, A-GPS, and some newer GPS hybrid developments, which integrate with a fast emerging range of mobile-based services.

Virtual world developments: Also known as 'metaverses', Virtual World's have demonstrated great promise in what could very well be the official, future replacement of online dating services. HVC has conducted one year of study into the virtual world of Second Life. Sometimes 'confused as a game', Second life encompasses its own social structure where participants live, work, socialize, run a business, romance, and even marry in a highly sophisticated 3D physics environment.

Research here was /is still largely focused on the creation of 'virtual' social entertainment venues where at this point, hundreds of people (worldwide) converge on a romantic island getaway where great music, beautiful people, dancing, and flirtatious interaction occur in an upscale, open-air nightclub on the beach. Sounds a little unbelievable, doesn't it? Indeed, it's one those phenomena's most need to experience to fully comprehend...

Our particular venues capture an 'unusually' diverse demographic of 25 to 57-years of age. While still in the semi beta stage of development, the Second Life virtual world grid provides singles with a new, (beyond imagination) means of connecting with others at an amazingly intimate level, but within the safe confines of the Metaverse.

So in essence, you're able to meet people, date them, and engage in a relationship of sorts *before* taking it into the *real universe* if it ever goes that far. Most interesting of all perhaps, is the highly addictive nature of this concept.

For screen shots, video, and a look and one experimental concept we're exploring, see here: http://hollingworthventures.com/virtual/ Truly worth a look!