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

Region Business Technology Science Health Sports Opinion Editorials Columnists Contributors Letters The Public Editor Arts Style Travel Jobs Real Estate Autos February 15, 2008, 1:18 pm Is MySpace Good for Society? can know what’s on their minds (MySpace), who else they know (Facebook/LinkedIn), and even what they are doing at this very moment (Twitter). Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Opinion World U.S. N.Y. /

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 . Values are changing – there is a reason why people will buy digital goods, pixel virtual gifts like Facebook

The scenes are entirely browser based so there is no download like for other virtual worlds such as Second Life. MySpace, Yahoo and Google are also looking into developing similar systems. 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

Unlimited video uploads (90 seconds max, 500MB per video) 2 video uploads each month (90 seconds max, 150MB per video) per member per year over at MySpace is NOT high. Virtual worlds that use Freemium models continue to grow – for example, Second Life every month increases it’s number of concurrent users, number of transactions, number of Lindex (Linden 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?

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d rather pick my battles (Facebook, Twitter and Flickr, for example) and fight them well rather than have my social finger in too many pies (all the above plus MySpace, Bebo, YouTube, LinkedIn, Hi5, Friendster, Orkut etc.) They could well be in Second Life and Vimeo, and if they are, then that’s where you should be – not Facebook. (more For 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

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