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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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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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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.

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Freemium Revenues: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Virtual worlds that use Freemium models continue to grow – for example, Second Life every month increases it’s number of concurrent users, number of transactions, number of Lindex (Linden Dollars to US dollars) exchanges. Freemium and Growth.

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Women in Blogging: 125 Fearless Female Bloggers

Kikolani

Her latest posts include Charitable Gift Ideas for the Holidays , Sony Virtual World Free Online Games for Teens and Tweens , and Tips for Teens by Teen Author in Brain Snacks for Teens on the Go. Follow her @jenwag57 on Twitter. Jessica Gottlieb. Jessica is a mom, writer, thoughtful consumer, and speaker. Shama Kabani.

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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.