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

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The Metaverse is a virtual world in which users, businesses, and digital platforms can exist and interact. It includes everything from virtual social and gaming platforms (e.g. It might seem like a new concept, but the idea of a multi-platform digital world has existed for years. What is the metaverse?

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Revenue: Social media games and virtual goods 2010

Laurel Papworth

Yet more revenue than MySpace – all from virtual goods. Actually, MySpace may have caught up now. Monetizing: Virtual Goods venture capital 2009 (2). Tags: Monetization Money Online Communities revenue social media social networks virtual world farmville social games virtual goods zynga.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Online Social Networking

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In order to sign up for a social networking account such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc, you must type the name of the site into the address bar and do a search. You should be wary of conducting your whole life through the use of a social networking site – real physical connections with people in the real world are also very important.

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Experiential Economy: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Values are changing – there is a reason why people will buy digital goods, pixel virtual gifts like Facebook birthday cakes and items in virtual worlds like Second Life. MySpace Australia Secret Shows. Social Media and Experience. Even coins have no inherent value: Diamonds for me. … one day you throw $2.00

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Building Trust: A Relationship is Not a Newsletter Opt-In

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

They understand that the boundaries of the “human world&# have not disappeared in the virtual world. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! They see dollar signs. Answers Yahoo!

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

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. Social ads is the worst revenue payer in social media (MySpace make $2.17

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5 Social Marketing Stories You Need To Read

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80+% of Twitter Accounts Inactive, But Core Users More Committed By Dirk Singer Though Twitter won’t be heading into obscurity like the virtual world (this New York Times article gives some good reasons why), it’s still the case that Twitter’s actual user base is small compared to the number of registrations as some new stats from RJMetrics show.

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