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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   |
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." |
PC World
January 29, 2007
Julian Dibbel |
Virtual Gold Could Draw Real Taxes Congress is investigating whether the IRS should tax online game loot. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
My Virtual Life A journey into a place in cyberspace where thousands of people have imaginary lives. Some even make a good living. Big advertisers are taking notice. |
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. |
Scientific American
July 2009
Michael Tennesen |
Avatar Acts: Why Online Realities Need Regulation Conflicts on environments like Second Life can open up new legal questions |
Entrepreneur
February 2008
Amanda C. Kooser |
Out of This World Opportunities abound in online gaming. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
Rachel Courtland |
Virtual Currency Gets Real Will Facebook Credits and other social scrip challenge government-backed currencies? |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2007
David Kushner |
Playing Dirty Automating computer game play takes cheating to a new and profitable level. |
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? |
InternetNews
November 24, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Get a Life: Enterprises Eye Potential For Second Life Enterprises are dipping their toes in the waters of virtual worlds, but may have to wait to see the benefits. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006 |
Virtual Land, Real Money Second Life is an online world where a savvy avatar can make a bundle. Its best known "land" developer explains how. |
CFO
October 1, 2007
Alan Rappeport |
Second Life's John Zdanowski The CFO of Second Life explains what the online virtual world is all about, and how his real-world company measures and rewards employee performance with the Love Machine. |
Reason
June 2008
Wagner James Au |
Virtually Free The garish, skyscraper-sized billboards that subscribers to Second Life had learned to tolerate as part of their three-dimensional landscape are no more. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2005
David Kushner |
Engineering Everquest In addition to driving the development of new software and hardware, online gaming demands heavyweight data centers. The machines that run EverQuest collectively have the bit-crunching capabilities of one of the world's top 100 supercomputers. |
The Motley Fool
September 3, 2008
Tim Beyers |
How Did Facebook Do That? Virtual gifts -- those little $1 on-screen doo-dads you can give to your friends -- may be producing $34.5 million in annual revenue for the social-networking superstar. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2006 |
Money for Nothing In the book by Julian Dibbell, Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot, the ultimate conclusion is that the boundary between the real and virtual worlds, or between work and play, is becoming increasingly blurred and mobile. |
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. |
PC Magazine
April 4, 2007
Jim Louderback |
When the Game Is You Anyone who's played the Nintendo Wii knows how much fun it is to be in the game. |
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. |
InternetNews
April 2, 2008 |
Avatars at House Hearing on Virtual World Second Life and censorship discussed on Capitol Hill. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
David Kushner |
Winner: Make Your Very Own Virtual World with OLIVE Forterra's OLIVE software makes the business of virtual-world environments real. |
BusinessWeek
August 13, 2007
Aili McConnon |
Just Ahead: The Web As A Virtual World Imagine being able to have a digital replica of yourself stroll from one site to another. |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2006
Steve Hamm |
Palmisano Gets A Second Life IBM is embracing the virtual world of avatars - and other big companies are close behind. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2007
John K. Waters |
On a Quest for English Online role-playing games, which take players on explorations of medieval fantasy worlds, are showing the potential to be a powerful tool for ESL learning. |
The Motley Fool
October 24, 2008
Tim Beyers |
One Disruptive Growth Company Cash. Lots of cold, hard moola is making its way into online virtual worlds. Media companies and venture capital firms have pumped $493 million into Second Life wannabes during 2008. |
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. |
PC World
October 2, 2006
Mark Wallace |
The Future of You Think the Net has changed your life? Wait until it becomes an immersive 3D environment. |
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. |
InternetNews
October 9, 2006
David Needle |
Is Sun's News For Real? Sun is holding a press conference from within Second Life, a virtual online world. |
Wired
March 24, 2008
Chris Baker |
Trying to Design a Truly Entertaining Game Can Defeat Even a Certified Genius Tips for making online games that will maintain a fan base. |
Wired
April 2006
Chris Suellentrop |
Global Gaming Crackdown How governments from Beijing to the Beltway could shackle your freedom. |
InternetNews
October 12, 2007
Susan Kuchinskas |
Hey IT, Welcome to the Bverse IBM and Linden Labs, creator of Second Life, announced an initiative to create open standards and interoperability allowing people to move their avatars and virtual goods from one world to another. |
The Motley Fool
January 12, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Prepare for the Virtualetes Wii-like gaming consoles and virtual reality technologies are only going to improve with time. Virtual-reality video gaming will be a huge business. |
Entrepreneur
March 2007
Sara Wilson |
Unreal World The creator of today's hottest virtual land offers a glimpse into his reality. |
Wired
April 2006
Steven Johnson |
When Virtual Worlds Collide Grand Theft Auto crashes through EverQuest into The Sims! The walls dividing the game universe are coming down. |
Salon.com
November 21, 2000
Janelle Brown |
Life, death and Everquest A virtual suicide in the popular online multiplayer game is making some fans queasy about their favorite addiction. |
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. |
Inc.
January 2009
Nitasha Tiku |
Update Linden Lab is still going through some real-world growing pains. |
The Motley Fool
January 4, 2007
Will Frankenhoff |
Bring on the Games! The9: Bringing games to the people and profits to investors. If you're a believer in the growth potential of the Chinese Internet gaming market, The9 is a stock that you should consider taking a look at. |
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. |
InternetNews
April 3, 2008 |
IBM Readies Second Life For Enterprise IBM said on Wednesday it would become the first company to host private regions of the virtual world Second Life on its own computer servers. |
Entrepreneur
February 2007
Gwen Moran |
Hot New Market: Online Worlds Should you take your business to the virtual world? |
PC Magazine
October 28, 2003
Dan Costa |
Virtual Worlds Tired of the real world? Try a virtual one. These sites can have the graphic richness of massively multiplayer online role-playing games but are focused more on social activities and creativity than on dragon-slaying. |
Entrepreneur
November 2007
Heather Clancy |
Starting Your Business' Second Life Need to breathe some life into your business? Going virtual can open up a whole new world. |
Fast Company
April 2006
Lucas Conley |
How to Create a World Programmers have to deal with a lot of harsh realities when creating a virtual world. Blazing petroleum rivers are the least of it. |
Insurance & Technology
February 1, 2007
Katherine Burger |
The Buzz About Linden Lab's Second Life Raises Possibilities for Insurance Companies The media buzz about Linden Lab's Second Life online digital world raises commerce and customer possibilities for insurance companies and other financial institutions. |
