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Fast Company
July 2009
Michael Fitzgerald |
Boomtown Virtual goods, such as avatars and Facebook gifts, are attracting major brands, celebrities, and venture capital. The money is real.   |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2010
Jonathan Allen |
9 Reasons Why it Might Be Time For Marketers to Value Virtual Goods Convergence of web, mobile and TV may create stronger emotional connections between audiences. |
Inc.
January 2009
Nitasha Tiku |
Update Linden Lab is still going through some real-world growing pains. |
The Motley Fool
July 14, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
SINA's Virtual Reality China's dot-com darling is reportedly ready to roll out virtual currency. |
Science News
June 2, 2007 |
Science Safari: NOAA's Virtual World Players of the virtual reality game Second Life can now soar through a virtual hurricane at NOAA's new site. |
Knowledge@Wharton
September 24, 2003 |
In Norrath, Tattoine and Rubi-ka, Just What Are Your Legal Rights? Even though virtual worlds are nothing more than code residing in banks of computers, what goes on in them poses challenges to our notions about the nature of property, the legal rights of players in virtual worlds and even the presumed boundary between the real and the imagined worlds. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2010
Mark Anderson |
The End of Gold Farming? Real-world laborers make real-world money in virtual worlds. But maybe not for long |
Entrepreneur
February 2008
Amanda C. Kooser |
Out of This World Opportunities abound in online gaming. |
BusinessWeek
February 25, 2010
Levy & Galante |
Who Wants to Buy a Digital Elephant? Sales of virtual goods are taking off. And it's not just kids who are buying. |
BusinessWeek
June 17, 2010
Joseph Galante |
CrowdFlower's Virtual Pay for Digital Purchases Employment outfit CrowdFlower has a giant on-demand workforce that can choose to use fake compensation to buy fake offerings on social media sites. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
Rachel Courtland |
Virtual Currency Gets Real Will Facebook Credits and other social scrip challenge government-backed currencies? |
InternetNews
August 20, 2009 |
Facebook Tests Branded Virtual, Real-World Gifts Facebook is expanding its efforts to turn its online Gift Shop into a money-making opportunity through sales of other companies' virtual - and potentially physical - goods. |
The Motley Fool
March 22, 2005
Seth Jayson |
Microsoft Redefines Cheating How do you stop gamers from using real-world bucks to tip the game? Why stop it at all? If Microsoft and its content partners such as Electronic Arts and Activision can capture -- or better yet, nurture -- this multimillion-dollar market, shareholders should see some real rewards. |
PC Magazine
June 28, 2005
David Murphy |
Virtual Currency For the over 800,000 subscribers to Sony Online Entertainment's Everquest II game, life in a virtual world follows a familiar pattern. |
InternetNews
March 10, 2011 |
Why do SMBs Love Virtual Offices? Survey details some of key reasons small-to-mid-size business owners, CEOs and sales managers regularly leverage virtual office capabilities. |
PC World
October 2001
Ramon G. McLeod |
Play CD-ROMs Without Using a Drive Farstone Technology's Virtual Drive 6.1 CD emulator speeds game play... |
Entrepreneur
August 2007
Amanda C. Kooser |
Take It Online Virtual trade shows, expos and conventions take care of some very real business. And why not? Online events are cost-effective, faster and easier. |
The Motley Fool
October 16, 2006
Tim Beyers |
IRS to Tax Your Second Life? Congressional economists are beginning to weigh the question of how to tax digital assets amassed in multiplayer online games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life. How can this benefit your portfolio? |
Search Engine Watch
December 19, 2010
Avril Korman |
Tis the Season to be Shopping: How Virtual Goods Are Impacting Holiday Shopping Culture E-cards to virtual meals - how virtual goods have changed in 15 years. |
Search Engine Watch
December 11, 2010
Avril Korman |
Virtuality & Mortality: Who Owns The Online Content We Create After We Die? Laws beginning to recognize virtual property as part of estate planning. |
Search Engine Watch
January 29, 2011
Avril Korman |
Beast Wars: The Bunny People vs. The Horse People A Second Life dispute over breedable virtual creatures might sound silly, but it has some very high stakes and involves some very serious money. |
Fast Company
July 2009
Kate Rockwood |
How Body Sensors Are Gaming the Health System A social online game called Wellness Partners awards virtual "energy points" for real-world physical activity. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006
Robert D. Hof |
It's Not All Fun And Games Companies are also starting to use virtual worlds as alternate offices in which colleagues and partners can meet and view materials that the Web isn't rich enough to display well. |
InternetNews
February 2, 2006
Paul Shread |
Virtual Replication Made Easy Virtual server replication may soon get easier, thanks to NSI Software's Double-Take for Virtual Systems. |
Entrepreneur
December 2008
Carol Tice |
Bad Debt? Get a Tax Break In a troubled economy, every penny counts, So Take advantage of these tax savings. |
InternetNews
November 13, 2009 |
IBM Debuts Virtual Server Security App IBM on Friday jumped on the virtualization security bandwagon with the release of Virtual Server Security for VMware vSphere, an application designed to secure workloads running on virtual servers. |
AskMen.com
Phil Helm |
5 Things You Didn't Know About Second Life Maybe you've tried and liked Second Life and maybe you haven't; either way there are surely a few things about the virtual world that may surprise you. |
InternetNews
November 7, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
From Load Balancers to Virtual Traffic Cops Zeus launches a traffic manager that runs within a virtual environment instead of in a separate box. |
InternetNews
November 13, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Real Cash in $100M Virtual IBM Investment IBM to Announce $100 million investment at Second Life 'Town Hall' Meeting tomorrow. |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2007
Jill Jusko |
Kimberly-Clark Embraces Virtual Reality Kimberly-Clark has incorporated proprietary virtual reality technology into its new Innovation Design Studio, and it expects big payback from its technological leap. |
PC Magazine
February 1, 2008
Bill Dyszel |
Windows in a Window Virtual machines let you muck around with older versions of Windows and even other operating systems without consequences! |
CIO
February 1, 2007
Margaret Locher |
Targeting Customers in Second Life If you're trying to help your company or your customers market products or services in Second Life, where more than 84 million real-world dollars changed hands in 2006, beware: Old-world advertising wisdom won't play. |
Entrepreneur
March 2007
Sara Wilson |
Unreal World The creator of today's hottest virtual land offers a glimpse into his reality. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2004
Seth Jayson |
eBay of the Elves A new computer game from Vivendi takes cues from the success of eBay. |
Entrepreneur
August 2007
Melissa Campanelli |
Luxury Goods Shine Online As shoppers get bolder, it's the perfect time to sell the finer things online. |
Wall Street & Technology
April 26, 2007 |
Excepts from Last Month's Most-Viewed Blog Postings Can the Market's Systems Keep Up With Electronic Trading?... Virtual Stock Exchange Opens in Second Life... etc. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2005
Brent Hicks |
Practice Tips A virtual office doesn't have an actual, physical location. Here are three important practical considerations when setting up a virtual financial advisory office. |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2010
Rich Smith |
Durable Goods Report: Here We Go Again According to the Census Bureau, November marked the third down month out of the last four for declining new orders of manufactured durable goods. Actual shipments of goods -- likewise. |
The Motley Fool
September 25, 2008
Tim Beyers |
An Unreal Financial Crisis You know it's bad when economic woes extend to the virtual world. |
InternetNews
June 26, 2009
Sean Michael Kerner |
Sourcefire Snorts Virtual Security New Sourcefire release takes aim at securing virtual environment both physically and virtually. |
Job Journal
May 15, 2005
Bob Rosner |
Working Wounded: Managing a Virtual Team How to manage a virtual team of telecommuters. |
The Motley Fool
July 9, 2008
Anders Bylund |
IBM Moves Into the Virtual World Second Life and IBM just showed that the massive Second Life world can connect to IBM's OpenSim servers. This could be the beginning of open standards that would connect every conceivable virtual reality network to each other. |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2010
Andrew Bond |
Real Estate Is Still Booming Here Virtual real estate looks like a better investment than virtual games. |
BusinessWeek
February 24, 2011
Douglas MacMillan |
Getting Social Media Games to Play Overseas U.S. designers rely on "localizers" such as Miami's Mentez to make their hits work abroad |
Technology Research News
July 30, 2003
Eric Smalley |
VR accommodates reality Virtual reality systems could use a bigger dose of reality to cure their tendency to leave users empty-handed. A system that makes real objects players in virtual environments creates a hands-on experience. |
The Motley Fool
July 7, 2009
Anders Bylund |
VMware Wants Oracle's Customers, Too The leading virtualization expert is offering "aggressive discounts" on enterprise-class VMware software if you can show a valid Virtual Iron license. |
Reason
February 2007
Jesse Walker |
Sim Pickings A former chairman of the Joint Economic Committee noted that "there is a concern that the IRS might step forward with regulations that start taxing transactions that occur within virtual economies." |
New Architect
November 2002
Al Williams |
Server Sandboxes Dedicated hosting without the hassle: deploy a single OS kernel on a single machine, but divide the kernel's system resources into multiple "lite" virtual servers, or sandboxes. |
Wired
April 2006
Chris Suellentrop |
Global Gaming Crackdown How governments from Beijing to the Beltway could shackle your freedom. |
Entrepreneur
March 2006
Paul & Sarah Edwards |
Is Starting a Homebased Business For You? How you can use existing skills to start your own home-based business. |
