The Way of the Web

JANUARY 3, 2010

→ Real investments in virtual worlds continue January 3rd, 2010 · View Comments I was pretty surprised to see social media blog Mashable is ‘ utterly baffled ‘ by someone investing a record $330,000 in a virtual space station in the online MMORPG Entropia Universe , despite the fact they themselves quote figures of $600 million invested in virtual worlds in January 2009 alone, and the $2 billion virtual economy in China.

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Stay N' Alive

JANUARY 11, 2011

I’ve always avoided Facebook games such as Farmville, now Cityville, and other “Virtual Worlds&# that seem to suck up your time while annoying your friends via your news feed. I normally don’t subscribe to virtual world type games, but Family Village is one I can feel proud I’m addicted to. This is one company, and one game I’m proud to share and promote.

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Stay N' Alive

MARCH 6, 2011

I've always avoided Facebook games such as Farmville, now Cityville, and other "Virtual Worlds" that seem to suck up your time while annoying your friends via your news feed. I normally don't subscribe to virtual world type games, but Family Village is one I can feel proud I'm addicted to. This is one company, and one game I'm proud to share and promote. Technology Paul Allen Farmville social Facebook FamilyLink Family Village utah Virtual world

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SocMed Sean

JULY 23, 2018

Thanks to Maria for sharing her thoughts, I’ll be curious to see how these technologies adapt our use of social media, especially when it comes to augmented and virtual reality! The increasing use of the Internet of Things has resulted in so many changes in the way we live our lives and interact with our physical world. Social media helps in bringing people closer, whereas virtual reality takes a person away from the real world and immerses them in their solitary world.

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The Way of the Web

MARCH 22, 2011

A really interesting Microsoft internal team video has appeared on the web, showing the ambition of the Windows Gaming Experience team for your Xbox avatar to become your identity and persona in the digital world. And more rcently on both gamification, virtual worlds, and the idea of any company providing a single digital identity for us.

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Laurel Papworth

AUGUST 1, 2010

Called Facebook “Credit&# it includes a real world component named, rather fetchingly, “App2User&# , which aims to encourage merchants and loyalty programs like Qantas Frequent Flyer points and Flybuys and whatnot to use the Facebook points social media system. But first… Quick note on currency and Virtual Goods. CURRENCY: Money has no inherent worth – it’s all virtual. Virtual or otherwise. Converting Real World Points with App2User.

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Pixlee

APRIL 11, 2022

It’s akin to a virtual world, where various networks and forms of tech merge to create an accessible, immersive and user-focused experience. . The use of social media influencers and other types of social proof are now a key part of numerous companies’ digital marketing campaigns.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 9, 2020

I’ve been working virtually, at least in part, since 2006. Yet the Zoomification of the world as we know it exhausts even me. is hopping with virtual happy hours and get-togethers! Zoomifying the world. Virtual event best practices.

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The Realtime Report

APRIL 23, 2019

The world of business is booming. When we take into consideration the ground-breaking technological advancements that shift our world in the fifth gear, we inevitably get to the point where discussing a company that solely operates online is completely ordinary. Years ago, the idea of doing business in a virtual world was inconceivable. While the world did work faster, such ideas were hard to instill in the minds of people.

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Sprout Social

JULY 14, 2022

The pandemic ushered in a new era where the virtual and physical worlds coexist, so it’s no surprise the metaverse has been a buzzword on the internet over the past few years. Some proponents say the metaverse will mimic the physical world entirely and a new digital economy will emerge.

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Ignite Social Media

APRIL 27, 2017

Imagine if an insurance company could take UGC of a persons real home and add Virtual Reality flooding animation directly into the image. Or imagine a coffee company taking a still photo and layering on VR steam to entice and engage users with still photography. 2) Social Virtual Reality with Facebook Spaces. Additionally, Facebook added a feature so that users can scan a QR code and have a Messenger bot provide more information on an object in the real world.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2011

You need to focus on how to “be&# social as a company, and worry less about how to “do&# social. But the reality is tha t your social success is inextricably tied to the totality of the experiences your customers have with your company. Never forget that in almost every case, people experience your company in the “real world&# first, and then decide whether (or how much) to interact with you in the virtual world.

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Idaconcpts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

When you’re a struggling entrepreneur, your business takes over your world as you try to boost your brand and broaden your customer base. From “liking” a company to “following” it, consumers are closer than ever to favorite businesses. You simply need to get your business into the online discussion world with a few key strategies. With websites being necessary in today’s business world, you need to use your site in a calculated manner.

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The company, a pioneer in social media (in a sense the earliest version of the Metaverse itself) recently went through a major rebrand. Facebook is now Meta, and the company has plans to make significant moves in the Metaverse world in the years to come.

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BeingOptimist

APRIL 26, 2022

Metaverse is a virtual ecosystem where users can leverage the benefit of playing or working simultaneously. Prominent technological companies like Facebook & Microsoft are currently working to bring the wildest imagination to reality.

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agora pulse

OCTOBER 20, 2020

LinkedIn shared its findings in a recent virtual events guide. A total of 69% of marketers are finding it challenging to switch in-person events to virtual, according to the ‘Turning In-Person Events into Virtual Experiences on LinkedIn” guide from the social media platform.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 21, 2021

More than 20% of the workforce could work remotely three to five days a week as effectively as from an office, according to research from McKinsey & Company —meaning that 3x to 4x as many people could continue working from home as were doing so before the pandemic.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 5, 2009

Notes from a speech by Paul Saffo, Professor from Stamford University, the opening speaker at the World Innovation Forum. Silicon Valley is built on the rubble of other people’s failure – big companies grow and have their day then collapse and restart. Take Virtual worlds – ex Habitat vs Second Life – took 35 or more companies that tried virtual world between when habitat started and second life started to make it work.

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Ignite Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2017

Another, similar example is virtual reality. Now more affordable technology exists to make virtual worlds even more immersive than Second Life ever was thanks to products like Oculus Rift. My initial hypothesis honed in on the specific use case of making the world your screen by projecting information onto your surroundings. At the time of the post, several companies were emerging to focus on brain-computer interfaces (BCI).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Blogs, wikis, social networks, virtual worlds and social media. These guidelines aimed to provide helpful, practical advice—and also to protect both IBM bloggers and IBM itself, as the company sought to embrace the blogosphere. To contribute: IBM—as a business, as an innovator and as a corporate citizen—makes important contributions to the world, to the future of business and technology, and to public dialogue on a broad range of societal issues.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Offerpal Media has launched “Offerpal Tasks,&# a new way you can earn virtual currency to use in online games and social networks. You can earn virtual currency through Offerpal Tasks by completing easy online tasks through Amazon Mechanical Turk. You can then convert what you earn into virtual currency that can be spent in online games and virtual worlds. Monetizing virtual currency couldn’t be any easier.

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Twist Image

APRIL 13, 2017

This also isn't about the futurist's Pollyanna glee over that moment when Star Trek 's Holodeck goes from virtual reality to reality, and suddenly nobody wants to leave the hot sex fantasy of virtual worlds. Coca-Cola 's global senior digital director, Mariano Bosaz , recently did an interview with AdWeek during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. mobile world congress. virtual reality. virtual world.

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Diva Marketing Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2009

This tale begins with two friends from opposite ends of the world who met in the virtual world of blogs. and a preview of my page in Age of Conversation 3 - Chapter Corporate Conversations: Building The Social Enterprise Once upon a time there was a CEO who worked diligently for many years building a successful company. She discovered customers were not in company service queues waiting for answers to their questions. [ I'd like to tell you a story.

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Twist Image

APRIL 13, 2017

This also isn't about the futurist's Pollyanna glee over that moment when Star Trek 's Holodeck goes from virtual reality to reality, and suddenly nobody wants to leave the hot sex fantasy of virtual worlds. Coca-Cola 's global senior digital director, Mariano Bosaz , recently did an interview with AdWeek during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. mobile world congress. virtual reality. virtual world.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

In the post, I shared my don’ts of social networks, and to that point, I added the following rule for LinkedIn: Gathering all the email addresses of users you are connected to — even locating email addresses of LinkedIn Group managers — and utilizing this mailing list to promote your own company or service off-site. In fact, the problem is expanding to all corners of the social media world.

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Diva Marketing Blog

JULY 22, 2009

The more I watch companies expand marketing departments to include social media positions that put a premium on tech skills versus marketing experience. In the world of Social Media Hybrid Marketing people and relationships seem take second or third place. The emphasis is on driving traffic, creating buzz, sending the message further into the virtual world where if the digital goddess is kind it will go viral.

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Almost Savvy

AUGUST 28, 2008

First, I headed over to her company?s The information on the company website is well written and crisp; leaving no doubt that she is a highly qualified and well respected executive. Experts in personal branding tell us to decide what we want the world to know about us and then set out to reinforce a consistent and image in all that we do online. world, we can easily choose how much of ourselves we reveal and to whom.

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Laurel Papworth

JUNE 20, 2010

Some companies, mostly what we called in the 80′s “multinationals&# had a very expensive service called a “private line&#. I only remember a few companies having it – SANTOS was one. I remember it surprising me that companies would want their own private lines. So, dear digital natives, you can f**k off, with your “you don’t understand our world&# prattle. Virtual Worlds: My Second Life… (0).

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Laurel Papworth

MARCH 17, 2010

Many progressive companies are opening up new communication channels and using tools such as Twitter for engagement with their customer base. With 54% of companies banning social media usage we also further investigate the pathway for this trend. What are the legal ramifications for companies and what are some of the considerations for your staff?

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agora pulse

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Wondering whether to attend another virtual event? “Business as usual” has been replaced with Zoom calls, Skype meetings, WhatsApp chats, and a whole bunch of virtual events. Virtual expo with booths, auditorium, and chat rooms. Virtual Event Stats 2020.

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SalesChoice

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

These deeper graph trend signals over time will create a stock market like graph like grid pulsating all the interactive signals of a company’s customer heartbeat. If companies don’t feed their CRM beast – the unfed beasts will literally be killed by other companies which will have the discipline and the actionable insights advantage. Rodney Brooks , CTO of Rethink Robotics, a company that makes robots that collaborate with humans.

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Tweaklibrary

APRIL 20, 2020

After connecting almost every individual to the virtual world of social media, Facebook is back with a bang. The world is facing COVID-19 pandemic lockdown that has affected the global economy drastically. What Company Thinks About Facebook Gaming App?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

In a World Replete with Virtual Experiences, Nothing Beats Face-to-Face. In the current issue of Inside Knowledge magazine, editor Jerry Ash raises the same question that Chris Hearne brought up in this blog a few days ago : If virtual is so great, how come conferences are booming? Heres an excerpt from Jerrys Editors letter : Being trapped largely in the virtual world, where I have built many personal relationships, I have believed face time is overrated.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Companies, who haven’t modified their strategies, or hired followers of old link building techniques, always suffer. I’m back to successfully running my business that is getting amazing response from all over the world. So, you can say that backlinks are always important for any website who wants to survive in this virtual world, no matter they have zero value. He has helped many multi-national companies achieve success with their digital marketing endeavors.

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Laurel Papworth

APRIL 26, 2011

Well, every company does it differently, but let’s look at corporate vs personal voice when dealing with negative comments. So we ran (in the virtual world) an Olympics for them and they shut up about the logo change. We are also judged by the company we keep – “social&# media does not have to mean “friends to all&#. Consumers, as much as companies are not ready for the shift to engagement.

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Laurel Papworth

APRIL 13, 2010

Expansions and upgrades Twitter’s not World of Warcraft so this is a bit harder. 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. Real World Events Music labels, film studios pay MySpace for record launches and Secret Shows. An ongoing service of account managers advising companies wanting to be Dell or Zappos would also be a nice sideline investment.

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The Way of the Web

MARCH 28, 2011

At the same time, I also saw news of startup funding for a company which aggregates affiliate offers, but then automatically selects the one with the lowest price for you to recommend to people. If you think you’ve got a great idea for something, whether it’s a digital idea or in the ‘real world’, there are three alternatives: Hold it really close, don’t tell anyone, and keep planning that one day someone will drop the £1 million you need in your lap by magic.

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The Way of the Web

DECEMBER 15, 2011

But the majority of these changes have all been concerned with the fact you can transmit information and content effortlessly around the world. The key change for 2012 is that three major trends and breakthroughs will have a far bigger impact than ever before on the physical world. The tech, the stories and applications are a dream for anyone in marketing – if any 3D Printing company wants to chat to me about the possibilities, I’d definitely be interested.

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Stay N' Alive

DECEMBER 29, 2015

2015 was filled with many pivotal moments in “the future” It is 2015 after all – you know, the year when Marty McFly meets his future children as he travels to the world decades away, one we sat in amazement when we saw it in the 80s. We are in a world now of self driving cars, drones, hoverboards (just not the same as Marty’s!), Viewmaster has reinvented itself as an entire, multimedia, virtual reality experience.

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Stay N' Alive

DECEMBER 29, 2015

2015 was filled with many pivotal moments in “the future” It is 2015 after all – you know, the year when Marty McFly meets his future children as he travels to the world decades away, one we sat in amazement when we saw it in the 80s. We are in a world now of self driving cars, drones, hoverboards (just not the same as Marty’s!), Viewmaster has reinvented itself as an entire, multimedia, virtual reality experience.

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