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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #257

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Simulated Worlds Will Soon Be Indistinguishable From Reality - Motherboard. What if virtual worlds are indistinguishable from real ones? That has some pretty significant ethical and social consequences--most simulations could be better than our real worlds. This is an oldie (from 2013), but I hadn't seen it.

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Best Social Media and Digital Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 2

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Meanwhile, dating websites and virtual worlds (e.g. Aaron Wall presents an infographic titled “How Google Killed the Long Tail,” which delves into topics like spell correction (sometimes a friend, sometimes not), Google Instant (ugh), query freshness and “not provided” keywords in Google Analytics (boo, hiss).