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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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Non di solo Google.

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How do you interact with content ideas and experiences to build new knowledge, be it in a school classroom, a museum space, a community space or an online space? 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.

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The time is right for pervasive social gaming

The Way of the Web

Grand Theft Auto is something I already tipped as a potential sure-fire win as a virtual world, and would also lend itself to pervasive gaming (Look at the success of Mob Wars on social networks). I’m just amazed it hasn’t happened in 2009, and definitely predict it’ll occur in 2010.