BusinessWeek reports in the Up Front section of their December 11th issue that Shawn Fanning of Napster fame is going to launch a new service for World of Warcraft players. Called Rupture, it will be a social networking site for World of Warcraft. The article refers to FaceBook and XFire for comparison. The service is due out “in a month or so.”
You can find an online version of the article here.