13. The medium of claim 11 further comprising software instructions for promulgating event notification methods among the objects corresponding to the entities in a sequence based upon the associational relationships between the entities.
11. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon software instructions for a virtual world environment maintained on a server computer that is in concurrent communication with plural client computers, each of the client computers having an associated object representing an entity in the virtual world environment, comprising: software instructions for maintaining a world object database on the server computer, the world object database including plural software objects corresponding to entities within the virtual world environment; software instructions for concurrently delivering to the client computers local object databases that are subsets of the world object database; multimedia properties for at least selected objects in the local object databases for concurrently presenting the corresponding entities on the client computers in a format other than text; and in which the objects represent entities within the virtual world environment and in which the objects further comprise indications of associational relationships between the entities representing corporeal distinctions between the entities within the virtual world environment, the associational relationships between the entities including Self and Contents relationships.