Interesting commentary on SL economy.

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" ... issued a press release warning the IRS to not tax participants in on-line games." Odds on they will anyway - wars against abstract nouns have to be funded somehow, after all. Via the S

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Failure similar to Japan’s ‘Bubble Economy’ in early 1990s is seen

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This is downright frightening.

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"Governments should apply real-world laws and regulations to virtual currencies in online worlds like Second Life to prevent potential money laundering, fraud and tax evasion, a report from a Bri

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"The risk of being blindsided by such an object emphasizes our need to develop a space-based observation platform [...] along with providing more accurate information about the movements of large

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"They all went in two days last October." Respect.

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"The boiled frog is jumping. It turns out that a boiled frog always jumps. To think otherwise was a mere urban legend ... The frog has gotten the message. We are winning!" Realistic positivi

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"It's not a con game. It's a village-sized market. In fact it's a tourist attraction-type village: the big numbers of the people you see are one-time visitors[...] But it's not thick; it's tiny.

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"All 27 EU countries will disclose data revealing details of some €100bn given in subsidies by the Eurotaxpayer every year to farmers, food companies, industrial regeneration schemes and the fish

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"The first thing to note is that these sims are essentially cut off from the rest of Second Life. The water that surrounds them is an illusion — invisible walls close off the entire sim." Wa

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"Conjured up from thin air at the flick of a switch, this slippery blanket will help transport a fully laden tanker or container ship across the ocean at higher speed, and using far less fuel, th

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"For the past month, SL residents have come to Dragonfly Oasis and have been able to pick up a broom or wash a window to earn some lindens." Exploitation of the disadvantaged in Second Life?

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"...she has accumulated the equivalent of over 1 million US$ in assets in Second Life. The bulk of these assets are in Anshe's virtual real estate holdings, which now include 550 simulators suppo

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"In the last decades, we have seen the content business have to adapt to a frightening new reality: The cost to create a minute of content has risen exponentially, but the fair market value of a

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"...it's great to see marketers in place. Now we need more of our media partners joining us to complete the circle, perhaps giving rise to an advertising economy that is analogous to what lives o

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