Greetings Citizens!

I’m pleased to announce that, like Deval Patrick, I’m driving a lovely new sports car. Naturally, it was through taxation, and special favors that I was able to acquire this little gem. It’s like a ruby on wheels! I also get a special parking space outside my apartment so it’s always available. Well… I just wanted to thank you all.

In appreciation, I’d like for all my citizens to have one (at a modest pixel fee - but still free)!

We’re working hard to get parking allocated for everyone, and it should be any day now. Keep an eye on your profiles, and shoot to be the first person on your block with a sporty new car or truck!

Also, if you’re a facebook fan, we’re testing a new feature to bring your very own customized apartment or cube into your facebook account. If you want to help the testing process just drop us a line and we’ll see what we can do.

There’s a lot more on the horizon so stay tuned to citypixel.com!

-The Mayor

Greetings Citizens:

I’d like to reach out to everyone and let you know that five new additions have been made to the city. Coffee houses, furniture stores and night clubs. Good places to shop or hang! Check them out, and reply to this post if you can find all 5. There just might be a prize in it for you!

Speaking of the furniture stores, I hear we’re having a big sale! Well, actually, the price of furniture has been slashed by 25% just because we want everyone to reconsider the designs they are currently sporting, and try to liven it up a bit.

Keep close tabs on the coffee houses and night clubs. Very soon you’ll be able to stream music!  Word on the street is that you’ll be able to listen to the same music in the privacy of your own apartment or cube too.

Special Notice: Next time you log in you may notice a green popup. This will only happen the next five times you log in. We just want to remind you of all the cool stuff you could be doing.

That’s all from City Hall for now…

-The Mayor

Good Morning Citizens of PixelYork! As some of you are already aware of, the more time you spend at CityPixel and every time you answer my trivia/teasers in a timely manner, you earn pixels. No that doesn’t mean I can improve the resolution on your monitor but it does allow you to build your bank roll to buy cool stuff within PixelYork!

Very soon you will be able to hop into a store and purchase some premium furniture with the pixels you are earning that you can use to decorate either one of your virtual spaces, Apartments and Office Cubes. How exciting is that? You will be able to pimp your properties!

But I have a very important question for you! What would you like to buy with your pixels? Any particular furniture you want to choose from? Heck, it doesn’t even have to be premium furniture, what else would you like to buy in CityPixel? Maybe premium avatars?

So don’t be shy and post your suggestions on the comments. I will be watching!

-Commish Out

Greetings Citizens!

Just wanted to drop a quick line to inform everyone that we’re about to get a facelift!

The homepage is about to get revitalized, but don’t worry, all the features, buttons, and links you’re used to will still be there. We just want to freshen up and splash a bit more color on there.

In other news, someone recently described citypixel.com as SecondLife-lite. Is that a real perception from our Citizens? I think if you log in to PixelYork it’s plain to see that we’re not anything like them at all.

 Finally, don’t forget to Digg! us: http://digg.com/tech_news/Citypixel_-_Our_World_in_Pixels. It will only take a second, if you already have an account, and it’ll help spread the word that we’re here!

 -The Mayor

Greetings Citizens of PixelYork!

I would like to address questions regarding the current real estate market. It has come to my attention that we’re in the midst of a housing crisis. According to the NAR, National Association of Realtors sales are pretty much down across the board. With the demise of sub-prime lenders, many lower income families are not qualifying for mortgages. Finally, foreclosures are at near historic highs.

Clearly the NAR is not checking out PixelYork: our apartments are free! Our percent occupancy is at a record high. We actually have to keep opening buildings so new citizens can have a free custom apartment. Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters are not affecting our growth and development, and we continue to offer very high quality luxury pixel-based apartments and office cubes.

Rest assured good citizens, citypixel.com and PixelYork are here to stay and are thriving!

 Stay tuned, it’s only going to get better…

 -The Mayor

Maybe not as revolutionary as when Henry Ford introduced the Model T to the world, changing history at the time, but the Mayor of PixelYork recently made a similar and exciting announcement. As mentioned, you can now enjoy navigating through the city streets and be able to see the cars, buses, trucks, etc. moving! It may not sound so cool right now, but as the Mayor already hinted, I promise you there will be more developments within PixelYork relating to automobiles in the near future that everyone will love!

I also wanted to mention a few new things at CityPixel.com. First being that this cleverly written and humorous blog is now available as one of the tabs on our homepage.

And if that didn’t get your blood flowing, something a little more exciting is now that if you lease either an Apartment or Office Cube in PixelYork, your profile will show thumbnails of those customized properties on the front page. Pretty cool, right? Now you can share your creativity for all your buddies to see! Awesome.

And now to continue my very own tradition I started in my last entry…a little contest where you can earn additional ‘pixels’ for your account. The first three people to email me the correct answer to the weekly PixelTeaser below will receive some free ‘pixels’!

PixelTeaser of the week (In the spirit of moving cars!):
If I drive halfway to the town (which is 60 mi away) at the speed of 30 mi/hour, how fast do I have to go for the rest of the way to have the average speed of the entire way 60 mi/hour?

Good luck to all. Hope to run into you in the city sometime soon!

-The Commish

Ok, you have to admit that moving cars is pretty cool stuff, right? Art-wise, the cars were cool, but now they move! I guess now we’ll just have to make the avatars move…

As your Mayor, I was recently asked why we didn’t debut the city with moving people and cars. The answer is simple - walking around is fun, but cool apartments and office cubes is what we’re all about. You can’t really express yourself walking down an awesome pixel-city, but you can express yourself with a seriously awesome apartment! Maybe BigA will throw some free pixels at you if you tell us why yours is great! Or maybe we can toss you a free banner ad to link to your apartment so more people can find it.

Finally, at citypixel HQ, we’ve been talking about East Coast Choppers and cool car and bike concepts. What about custom garages and customizable cars as a feature in the city?

I can only do so much as the Mayor. I represent the citizens and will need some serious feedback to get the Public Works Dept. to look into this!

-The Mayor