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In reading Sophrosyne's excellent post with her comments on the article I'd written entitled "Virtual World Economics: “Fair Value for Professional Services" and the interesting post by Dale Innis in response, I felt this merited a new blog of its own. Soph's argument (and John Jainschigg's at http://www.zzomg.com) argue that the virtual world economy is colonial, third world country and introducing atomic world pricing for goods and services would have a negative impact.

I think though, that w… Continue

Just uploaded the full version of our video of this event at: toward the end of the blog post--it's worth a watch, very interesting discussion between these well-known journalists and media experts.

Like most virtual worlds natives, we hate adding overmuch to the hype surrounding these profound technologies. And we're especially sensitive about claiming "firsts" — something corporations have been over-eager to do in virtual world spaces. That said, last night, Saturday, July 12 at 8 PM EST, we hosted Second Life Looks at Lively, a panel of major media virtual worlds watchers doing a week-one "first impressions" vamp on Google's introduction of their Lively virtual world service, this past M… Continue

I know I date myself by making the following observation. But it occurs to me that the (cough) 'younger generation' of technology users, by and large, have absolutely no clue what it's like to switch from one word processor to another, since during the entirety of their lifetime experience with computers, Microsoft Word has been the universal standard. (Microsoft's recent switch from the classic Word UI to the new, Vista-inspired Word 2007 UI has given some young users a taste of the experience.… Continue

I’m no expert in economics and I’ll state that upfront. I am, however, a business professional providing consulting services to corporate and public clients, something I’ve been doing for twenty years. In my recent blog on RL vs. SL™ vs. Physical World vs. Atomic World, the question of fair value was brought up by JetZep Zabelin. It’s been a practice by many, not all, entrepreneurs and established corporations to pay people in virtual worlds using the inworld currency and “virtual world goods” p… Continue