But it comes back to the question: How much is your time worth?
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Recently, Apple announced that iPhone applications will be allowed to have the option to sell virtual items within their games, even if the game itself is free. While certainly this can open up a debate about selling programs as free, only to find fees inside to get the whole experience, it also opens up teh chance [...] When you think of health care, Second Life is probably not something that even enters your mind. Yet medical options in Second Life are rapidly increasing according to a study out of the University of Toronto. Privately-held companies, governments, support groups and more are all using Second Life as a place to train, dispense information, give [...] The FBI Enters Second Life I have written before how Second Life is being used by the Canadian Government to train future border guards. Well, now the FBI has entered Second Life, though for a different purpose. According to Virtual World News the FBI is looking to both recruit new members and get the word [...] In Second Life it is possible to own just about anything that is in the real world as well as many items that are not. People design and sell t-shirts, furniture, homes, planes, etc. However, what happens when a real-world item is sold in Second Life and the real-world maker of that item doesn’t like [...] Drew Carey recently created a video all about Second Life. In this video he not only shows all of the cool things people can do in a virtual world like Second Life but he interviews some of its more famous citizens. Additionally he points out how Second Life is a world where people get near-absolute freedom. [...] The purpose of this weekly blog post is to introduce the concepts of virtual worlds to those that have never used them, or perhaps even really heard of them. It isn’t intended to get more people to join those worlds or even to provide, necessarily, the latest and great news in the virtual world universe. [...] Second Life has been used for a lot of things. It has been used by IBM to hold meetings, or for architectural organizations to create test homes or to sell products or test market products. Now, however, it is being used for another purpose that I must admit, never would have occurred to me: To [...] In movies and television there is an idea known as “product placement.” In addition to hitting you with advertisements your favorite characters in movies and TV are drinking coca-cola and eating McDonalds, not to mention using a Macintosh computer. The result, the advertisers hope, is that you too will use these products. Not just because your [...] If there is one thing Wikipedia has proved, it is that a pretty good reference of information can be built using the mass mind of people around the world, contributing to their online encyclopedia. Sure, there are mistakes, but thanks to their mass-edit concepts, many of those mistakes are then corrected by others who know [...] |
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