Business in Virtual Worlds
This week proved that the Linden Dollar is just for pretend.
First the “World Stock Exchange” is robbed of L$3.2 Million which, while not a significant number from an economy-wide perspective, severely damaged confidence in the WSE. There was a cover-up, possibly with help from Zee Linden, which is pretty much the exact opposite of how exchanges [...]
John Martin
Pandemonium, 1841
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The FORBES Magazine Collection, New York
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Drama and the Second Life Herald have always gone hand in hand, but drama about the Herald is a bit different. Some changes have been made, and as a result Prokofy Neva will no longer be contributing for the paper.
It’s a [...]
This morning my Twitter feed tweeted about a takedown notice over on TechCrunch. Scholastic, the U.S. publisher of the Harry Potter books, wants them to remove the article that mentions that the latest Harry Potter novel has had all its pages photographed is available for download through The Pirate Bay. USA Today, The Wall Street [...]
Note: this post will contain a grand total of 14 images, several of which (see just above this note) are in 1600×1200 format. There just wasn’t any way to do justice to this incredible build.
Today VeeJay Burns tipped me off (via Twitter) to this place. (SLurl) It’s called Greenie’s Home Rezzable. I [...]
In the old media system all you had to do to get a little press is write a press release and send it out over the wire. If it was the kind of story that a reporter needed, they’d put their name on it, edit for length, and up it went mostly as-is. Others would [...]
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