The Australian Minister for Censorship has today confirmed what I’ve been reporting for nearly two years: online adult games including Second Life will be banned in Australia. Incidentally, with regards to online games, some are boxed (closed systems such as Grand Theft Auto), some are box and server (multiplayer such as World of Warcraft) and some are downloadable clients or simply web based clients to a hosted server (Second Life, Habbo). There Burning Books and Websites PIC: BookShopBlog I’m pretty sure the Inquisitr article  (80 comments) is a bit of

This week I came across  an advertisement that goes one step further - it suggests that a person should have an email address that their Second Life avatar can take with them into Real Life.  LindenPost.com is now offering email accounts that are tailored to people’s double identities in the “real” world and Second Life. I have several email addresses, and I use them each for different purposes.  I I never receive personal emails on my work account. 

The scenes are entirely browser based so there is no download like for other virtual worlds such as Second Life. Collective intelligence is being forecasted as a tool for improving and personalizing advertising efforts as well as helping people organize more effectively. Tags: online communities avatar virtual world email social networking Second Life facebook Digest blogs virtual world What: New York Times article about Vivaty’s 3-D virtual scenes for web pages Posts it is related to: The Future of Virtual Teams: Collaboration in 3D Web

advertising? Unlimited video uploads (90 seconds max, 500MB per video) 2 video uploads each month (90 seconds max, 150MB per video) Advertising versus Free/Premium subscriptions LinkedIn, in October 2009 had over 50 million members (plus 385 staff)   $75-100m – 1/4 from advertising. We look at Freemium revenue in social networks and online communities including asking that: if freemium is the business model of giving it all (or most) of the services away for free , how can you then charge for it? And what is free stuff anyway – marketing?

For the second year running we will also be meeting over at Second Life, thanks to the wonderful Jo Kay . There are limits on the number of visitors to a Second Life Island (& this isn't entirely to do with how big my dress will be this year, so do get your seat early! We are all very excited abut this years chat bridge - connecting Second Life attendees to  our web-based participants. Its the Edublog Awards 2008 ! Dust off your party outfits and get ready to join us on Saturday night for the spectacular 5th awards show, celebrating

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They could well be in Second Life and Vimeo, and if they are, then that’s where you should be – not Facebook. (more For every #bosewatcher there may be completely satisfied Bose customers who chat about their experiences in real life instead of online. This is where digital markedly differs from traditional mass advertising. I’ve been thinking of how to measure engagement in the digital space for a while now, so I wanted to aggregate my thoughts and put them in one place. This post is intended to be provocative and get people thinking about how the current thinking

Unfortunately, as with social networks, advertising has not kept pace with usage," Williamson says. "Not Not surprisingly, the hype and fizzling out of Second Life, combined with the tough economy, have made some marketers skittish for virtual worlds in general." In the study, Williamson notes the impact of a slumping global economy on the virtual worlds space: "The rate of development in virtual worlds targeted to the youth audience will slow as economic pressures Thanks to Virtual World News for this excerpt from a new report from eMarketer on teens and tweens in Virtual Worlds.

Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider “real” value — and his conclusion has interesting consequences for how we look at life. “what we in create in advertising is intangible value…  a very, very, very fine substitute for using up labour or limited resources… intangible value to replace actual or material value…” AND all value is perceived value . Episode 1 of Social Media Business: What is “the experience economy” – is it the next step on from agrarian, commodity, service…?

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