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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

Tangible would be cars, physical cars, physical houses, jewellery if you’re not at that place, then food and shelter and whatever else we can ascribe in the physical world as having value. If you look at branding and marketing, a lot of that is about creating value, possibly where there is nothing intrinsic value to that.

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IBM Social Computing Guidelines

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Blogs, wikis, social networks, virtual worlds and social media. In the spring of 2005, IBMers used a wiki to create a set of guidelines for all IBMers who wanted to blog. In 2005, the company made a strategic decision to embrace the blogosphere and to encourage IBMers to participate. Country/region [ select ].

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What Do We Need to Teach About Knowledge Work? | Computer Writing and Research Lab

Buzz Marketing for Technology

work and social languages and genres, having to forage expertly for information (Amidon 2005; Senge 1994; Tuomi-Gröhn, Engeström, & Young 2003). editor (2005). Market matters: Applied rhetoric studies and free market competition. Virtual Worlds. Penguin Books, New York. Amidon, S. Aristotle (1991).

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Non di solo Google.

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I must confess that the educational examples of the use of avatar based virtual worlds for student learning have consistently d. Learning Objects in Virtual Worlds. Lanciata nel corso del 2005 Europass fornisce un. New Distributed 3D Virtual Environment w/ Instructional Potential: Google. E-Learning Queen.

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Friday Fun: For the Heart, Head & Soul

Diva Marketing Blog

Friday Fun is Diva Marketing's virtual happy hour from cosmos to Jack to lemonade. 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. Looking for a couple more social media and marketing tips ?

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Cyberbullying and blogs – a case study Mumbrella

Laurel Papworth

Note to bloggers: if you point out fallacies in the way companies do marketing, PR and so forth, you can have pretty intense debates. FYI: My blog was still on SilkCharm.blogspot.com then and had been since 2005, but moved to laurelpapworth.com during January 2009. Papworth loses, Acidlabs wins in battle of the Aussie marketing blog s.