Cloud Party is a new 3D virtual world on Facebook now in open Beta that's described as "a world built by people like you". It just apparently went online, so I've only explored a few minutes, but as you can see above, it's got the look and feel of Second Life circa 2003. That's no surprise, because Second Life co-founder Cory Ondrejka (who's now with Facebook), and Cryptic Studio's ex-CTO Bruce Rogers, who founded a startup called Walletin with Cory before also joining Facebook with Ondrejka, are investors and advisors to Cloud Party. (I just confirmed that directly with Cory.)

If you're not a Facebook user (and a lot of NWN readers are not), here's what Cloud Party has so far: