We’ll soon be moving across the hall from our current Sausalito headquarters into a much larger space. One of Reuben’s dreams has always been to have enough space to both run the company while also having a “Lab”, populated with a diverse mix of experts, entrepreneurs and practitioners from social media, virtual worlds, video game development, film and graphic design.

To wit: we are making available a small number of workstations that we’re offering to our readers and their networks in the spirit of co-working. While these workspaces (and ours) will offer sufficient privacy for client work, it will also be open and flexible enough to allow for cross-pollination of ideas, jokes, and the like.

Our new Class-A space is within walking distance of the ferry dock, downtown Sausalito, multiple excellent restaurants, a beach, the Schoonmaker Point Marina, a FedEx/Kinko’s, and the Bay Model. We never run out of interesting walks and meal options for ourselves, our clients and our guests. Co-workers would share our twice-weekly cleaning service, a kitchen, good broadband, a conference room, and plenty of natural light. There is ample onsite parking and a Golden Gate Transit stop is nearby. Drop Aimee (aimee@millionsofus.com) a note if you’re interested in discussing a month-to-month rental arrangement for a slot.

MoU Creative Director Blair Erickson is passionate about the latest film in the long-running Batman franchise, this year’s critically-acclaimed “Dark Knight.” He’s so passionate, in fact, that he’s started an unofficial online campaign to support the film’s prospects for an Oscar.

The campaign has attracted enough attention to merit a write-up in PRWeek. The film’s got lots of fans here at MoU, and we’re happy to see Blair’s online community-building skills put towards a worthy cultural cause.

Our sister company Virtual Greats and its work with partners Gaia Online, Snoop Dogg and Elvis Presley Enterprises were surveyed in depth by the New York Times’ Stefanie Olsen today.

As blogger and entrepreneur Dave Rosenberg pointed out in his CNET column yesterday, China’s recent move to tax virtual goods is sparking inflation in the virtual world - quite the contrast with our physical world, where the unhappy specter of deflation looms over the global economy.

Beyond that, China’s policy decision has me asking myself this question quite emphatically: if the Chinese Communist Party understands the income potential of virtual goods, shouldn’t it be a no-brainer for us capitalists? You’d think so, but the concept remains a little novel in some quarters. Not for long, IMHO.

Forbes.com’s Mary Jane Irwin has just written a great piece on the growing prevalence and ease of accessing virtual worlds through the browser, citing executives from Millions of Us, Vivaty and Parks Associates, among others.

BusinessWeek’s Silicon Valley Bureau Chief Rob Hof recently spoke with Reuben about how the online ad industry might fare during the current economic downturn.