Topic: Virtual Worlds

Facebook Credits Get More Powerful, Hint at Facebook's Money-Minting Future

Facebook's signed a deal with PlaySpan and added 20 new payment options for Facebook credits in one fell swoop. READ»

Branded Virtual Goods and What Good They Can Do

Brands hope to use virtual goods to soak up any discretionary spending especially among the Web-savvy under-40 crowd. Analysts agree that the virtual goods market will be worth over $2 billion this year. This is just one way that brands are responding to a very real challenge--how to make themselves relevant, sharable, and likable within the social ecosystem.READ»

ScuttlePad, "Safe" Social Network for Kids, Needs a Perv Gate

A former Boy Scout leader tracks his troop's Facebook updates to develop a new social network for kids. But is it fertile ground for strangers with candy?READ»

Time Wars: Google vs. Facebook

It's not immediately apparent how Facebook and Google are direct competitors, except perhaps in terms of reputation for "cool." But the two companies are directly competing for the most valuable asset of all today: customer time. READ»

Facebook-MOL Partnership Brings Virtual Credits to Real Stores

Facebook is partnering with MOL Global to deliver a new way to buy Facebook credits--in person at a MOL-connected store. It's a strange real world/virtual world crossover, and definitely a sign of the way future digital finances will ...READ»

Not Invented Here: Social Games and Asia

Moving from Seoul to Singapore takes the geeks to a small market that's quite evolved, and to the most comprehensive Asian tech conference yet, Echelon 2010. Here, I learn that one of the largest web markets, social games, is already ...READ»

Booyah $20 Million in the Black, Friended by Accel's Jim Breyer

Booyah, the location-based game firm that's big on virtual goods, is earning real-time fans--and backers. The Palo Alto startup, led by Keith Lee, has amassed a not-to-be-sniffed-at $20 million from Accel Partners, whose Jim Breyer ...READ»

Offerpal Joins the Virtual Currency Game, Battling The Big One: Facebook

Your social network life would be so much simpler if there was a common virtual currency that could be used to buy goods on different platforms and even exchanged between apps. That, of course, is the goal of a few competing virtual ...READ»

Foursquare's Digital Graffiti, a Legally Nerve-Wracking Taste of the Future

Foursquare is really on the ascendant as location-based gaming/social networking blossoms among smartphone users. But there's a novel side-effect happening...users are indulging in "virtual graffiti" on places and people, too. It's ...READ»

3D TV Virtual Worlds

How much do you know about new “virtual worlds and 3D TV” technology developments? Maybe, you thought they were just a lot of online video game hype for kids but look deeper into today’s virtual world platforms like Second Life ...READ»

Sara de Freitas, at Serious Games Institute

Sara de Freitas doesn't play around. As director of research at the Serious Games Institute (SGI) in Coventry, England, she’s a driving force behind the serious games movement, which leverages gaming tech and techniques for non-entertainment purposes, such as education, defense, and health care.READ»

Shinyoung Park, founder of Funji

The Gamers Shinyoung Park Foudner Funji In real life, most teens and tweens can't hit the clubs or crash late-night parties. (We're ignoring Miley Cyrus.) But on Funji, the first avatar-based social ...READ»

Susan Wu, Cofounder and CEO of Ohai

The U.S. virtual goods market will jump 60% this year to $1.6 billion, and analysts estimate worldwide annual revenue could reach $10 billion -- the equivalent of Hollywood's 2009 box-office earnings. Founder of online-gaming firm Ohai, Susan Wu knew that virtual goods (products that exist only online) made real money, and she went after the digital wares like a hot commodity.READ»

World Of Warcraft Gold-making Strategies

 World of Warcraft has already been proven to be the first MMORPG in the whole world,cheap wow gold which is one of the greatest achievement in the history of computer games. Gamers from all over the world know everything about ...READ»

Buying Gold Versus Farming

 If you haven’t noticed, I’m a big fan of buying World of Warcraft gold. To me it just makes sense. wow goldI can either spend the free time I have available after work (and between raids) farming eternals, Rhino Meat, or any ...READ»

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IEEE Virtual Reality Conference

Kent Quirk says the future of office meetings lies in Linden Lab's Second Life. The aptly named Quirk, a speaker at this Waltham, Massachusetts, gathering, may be biased: He's a developer at the lab. But it has been trying to make ...READ»

Intendix: Computer Thought-Control Fantasy Made Real

Brain-computer interfaces are the stuff of sci-fi legend, used a million times to further the plot of a thousand different books. And now they're also real, (nearly) buyable products: Thanks to Intendix you can think your PC into ...READ»

Small Worlds' virtual world blows away Second Life limitations

You've seen Second Life, right? That was the virtual world that got a lot of hype about two years ago. It was very cool, but it had some significant limitations. First it required a download so wasn't easily embeddable into a web ...READ»

Virtual Goods in Location-Aware Mobile Games: The Future of Product Placement

Booyah, a location-based game start-up, has announced it'll be trying out a new type of promotion that may be the model for smartphone ads in the future: In-game, virtual goods placements, based on your real-time location. ...READ»

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Most Innovative Companies - China

From Alibaba to Baidu, our picks for the top companies in China.READ»

Roulette Sniper Software

Ever since the online roulette sniper software wheel was invented by the French mathematician, Blaise Pascal in the 17th century; this gambling game has been gaining popularity. With the advent of online gambling, the number of online ...READ»

Can iPad Come Out and Play? Oh, Yeah: Game Industry

At Apple's event today, Steve Jobs revealed the iPad, a tablet device that resembled an embiggened iPod Touch. What did it mean for gamers? Games from the current iPhone OS will run on it, either in a small window at the original ...READ»