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Real investments in virtual worlds continue

The Way of the Web

Don’t forget back in 2004, David Storey paid $26,500 in Entropia , then Jon Jacobs invested $100,000 in a virtual space station in Entropia in November 2005, and of course Anshe Chung became a millionaire via Second Life in 2006. If I had the money and time, I think I would try to make investments in this kind of virtual worlds.

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Metaverse – The End of Reality and the Big Picture plus Sunyata

Laurel Papworth

Is it possible that either the NFT or the digital Twin, where you have both the real world item and the online item, will mean that we release our hold on resource hogging physical products and start to chase more of the online digital version of reality? So I would ask with Sunyata that we consider how much of the physical world do we.

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Predictions Revisited: Five Not-Too-Distant Technologies That Might Change Social Media

Ignite Social Media

Podcasts were a thing back in 2005, receiving some initial popularity, only to fade away from the general public’s eye. Now more affordable technology exists to make virtual worlds even more immersive than Second Life ever was thanks to products like Oculus Rift. Facebook’s relationship with A.I.

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Friday Fun: For the Heart, Head & Soul

Diva Marketing Blog

Too many wonderful things happening in the virtual world not to pass along from fun contests to help non profit causes to quirky ways to grow your business. If nothing else their Facebook invite page sure looks like it will be good networking! Ford's Theatre is on YouTube, Facebook, Flickr and Twitter! Want to learn more?

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Cyberbullying and blogs – a case study Mumbrella

Laurel Papworth

Often, bullies use it to exclude the victim from a social circle for reasons such as looking different, being gay, being intelligent or gifted, or having special needs or disabilities (Shariff and Gouin, 2005, p.3-4). The power of the Internet also means that hateful messages can be widely distributed to millions of people. That is scary.

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In Memory of My Grandpa David, a Wonderful Man » Techipedia.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here are just some of those contributions: While I got married in March of 2005 (this photo was taken at our wedding), we delayed our honeymoon until December 2006. And your own reminding again adds a human touch to our “virtual&# world. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Facebook Credit: Zuckerberg next Treasurer of the Internet App2User

Laurel Papworth

Facebook has just announced it’s plans to expand it’s Facebook currency. – will no doubt be encouraged to use this Facebook Credit currency on their external sites. Zynga and Facebook games like Farmville will HAVE to use the Credit/Coin system, and pay Facebook 30% of Credit sales. Foursquare?

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