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Illuvium and the Metaverse #Australia

Laurel Papworth

Kieran Warwick and brothers create Illiuvium with Illuvials battle pets, Illuvitars avatars and virtual worlds in the Metaverse. Metaverse means moving between worlds. It’s just a virtual world or just a virtual game or just an AR if it doesn’t have the traversable part. Everything is a game.

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

Collectibles buy an account and get special badges like the Pro badge above. Or Foursquare style reward badges – most retweeted, most linked. Virtual Real Estate a tough one again if you are not a virtual world like Second Life but how about a special forum for payment. Unethical Media Behavior (11).

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8 ways to deal with negative comments in online communities

Laurel Papworth

So we ran (in the virtual world) an Olympics for them and they shut up about the logo change. When Foursquare users were being called “douchebags&# for updating their Facebook and Twitter status with their location, Foursquare brought out a much sought-after badge called… you guessed it… the Douchebag badge.

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Cyberbullying and blogs – a case study Mumbrella

Laurel Papworth

In context and as blog post number 19 about me for the year, inaccurate and snarky and belittling (I have blogged about second life an average of 4x a year, and haven’t wavered from my stance on virtual worlds). Stil appears to be wearing the name badge of Dr Mumbo’s other favourite blogger, Laurel Papworth.