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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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Virtual Personal Space | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

6 Responses to “Is There Such a Thing as Virtual Personal Space&# Donna Chmura says: April 7, 2009 at 1:37 pm I suppose it’s a personal preference, but I really don’t feel closer to the people who post pictures of their daily lattes, tell me they are going to lunch or what they had for lunch.

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Building Trust: A Relationship is Not a Newsletter Opt-In

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

They understand that the boundaries of the “human world&# have not disappeared in the virtual world. Just because I choose to reach out to you, comment on your blog post, follow you on Twitter, become your Facebook friend, or join your LinkedIn group, it was a desire for me to possibly get to know you in the future.

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Revenue: Social media games and virtual goods 2010

Laurel Papworth

So I tend to keep an eye on how virtual goods are coming along. When I took out the patent – pre Facebook, pre Twitter – it was impossible to explain to investors how pixel products were going to jump from closed game worlds (Everquest) into the real world. 2009 may have seen revenues (USA) of $1billion.

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Multiple Personalities

Almost Savvy

world, we can easily choose how much of ourselves we reveal and to whom. In the virtual world, things are much more complicated. Not surprisingly, she has since toned down her page so that it represents her professional personality with a touch of the social side without any over-the-top content or photos.

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Practice Safe Networking

Almost Savvy

With the advent of LinkedIn , Facebook , Twitter and an endless list of other networks, our connections are global. As with any relationship, when someone starts to make you feel uncomfortable for any reason, even when you feel you had initially found an affinity though virtual interactions, you have to change course immediately.

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Directory of Social Networks for Learning Professionals

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LEARNING PROFESSIONALS ON TWITTER. anyone interested in the changing world of learning and learning. Challenges 2009 : The EDUCAUSE Top Teaching and Learning. for learning and virtual worlds for K12 and higher ed educators. interested in the use of virtual worlds in education (Ning). LEARN TECH NEWS.

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