Archive for November, 2007

China and the Coming Boom in Virtual Property

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Reading reBang’s When Retail Goes Virtual post about “the impact virtual worlds will almost certainly have on real world commerce.”, I was reminded of some links I hadn’t gotten around to posting yet:
American government officials and economists from Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson to Senator Chuck Shumer to Paul Kruger have focused on balance [...]

Virtual Worlds As Disruptive Innovation

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

This week Mitch Kapor, one of the most influential innovator of the past 30 years, gives the third presentation in a series which is
A comparative look at the origins, development, and impact of major information technology platforms of the past three decades from the perspective of a leading entrepreneur and software designer who has played [...]

Communities and Commerce

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

One panelist at the recently mentioned Virtual Goods Summit was community guru Amy Jo Kim who I became familiar with during my days at the WeTalk Network. There are some short and sweet excerpts from her book like the following nugget:
To thrive as a twenty-first-century community builder, you’ll want to be on the lookout for [...]

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