Apparently AWI has launched a new app on the popular social networking site Facebook by using an ActiveX control, as mentioned in this press release. You can see it in action here. Interesting! I wonder if AW will start having more than 100 people online at a time now if catches on?
The long-awaited mapping tool for Alphaworld (properly named AlphaMapper) has been released to the public. You can view that map at http://www.imabot.com/alphamapper/. A big thanks goes out to RoadKill and crew who put many, many hours in bringing this project to life. Congrats guys. 
Following up a recent discussion for it, Chris has created a demo video for AW, showing off the environmental potential that AW offers due to its mass, free tracts of land. You can view it here on YouTube. Nice work chris!
Just a small tid bit of news – per request, the max light radius in Alphaworld has been increased from 10m to 25m. This is big news for v4 right holders as you can use zones to darken an area and use lights to realistically light it back up.
Just a few updates to report here to keep some fresh news on the page. 
Selanit has found a way to run Active Worlds on Linux, you can check out his procedure here.
The annual Active Worlds Reunion was held two weeks ago in Denver, Colorado and a few pictures and stories have surfaced for all to read. SW Chris has written four indepth blog entires detailing the adventures the reunioners had and a few have posted pictures at this flickr account.
Be sure to show up for the SAW awards today, starting in just a couple of hours. See their website for details.