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What Is The Metaverse (and Why Should You Care)?

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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. It includes everything from virtual social and gaming platforms (e.g.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #347

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"If you were a certain kind of arty-ish teen in the late 80s or early 90s, you probably watched, and pretended to like (or even legitimately liked), Spalding Gray 's Swimming to Cambodia , the film of his one man show, directed by Jonathan Demme. Robot Cars Can Teach Themselves How to Drive in Virtual Worlds - SingularityHub.

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

Social Media Monetization Models on Flickr [link]. Social media Donations it works for Wikipedia. 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. Social ads is the worst revenue payer in social media (MySpace make $2.17

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Freemium Revenues: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

In this episode of Social Media Business podcast, the concept of freemium is introduced – what it is, how Flickr, LinkedIn, SecondLife are making millions of dollars from giving stuff away for free. Freemium Revenues: Social Media Business Ep.004 Freemium and TV Film Newspapers. Freemium and Growth.

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Women in Blogging: 125 Fearless Female Bloggers

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I took a look at 14 lists that have come out over the last year for the top bloggers, social media marketers, search marketers, and entrepreneurs. Alexa is a social media, web, and ecommerce content curator who strives to cut through the noise while having fun. And it’s no surprise they notice. Alexa Samuels.

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The magical power of great writing and insight

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And as someone with a young child and a corresponding diet of animated films, this also really stood out. But the biggest personal thing for me is that I’ve been talking about gaming, virtual worlds and virtual economies to people for years, and my dad never really got what the hell I was talking about.

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Facebook Credit: Zuckerberg next Treasurer of the Internet App2User

Laurel Papworth

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. Members trade Facebook Credits for real world items.

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