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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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Metaverse – The End of Reality and the Big Picture plus Sunyata

Laurel Papworth

Tangible would be cars, physical cars, physical houses, jewellery if you’re not at that place, then food and shelter and whatever else we can ascribe in the physical world as having value. If you look at branding and marketing, a lot of that is about creating value, possibly where there is nothing intrinsic value to that.

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Key trends for 2012: Digital Disruption gets Physical

The Way of the Web

And we’ve also seen new tools and changes in collaboration, business practices, marketing, freelancing, crowdsourcing and much more. But the majority of these changes have all been concerned with the fact you can transmit information and content effortlessly around the world. President Obama has already announced the U.S

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