Mark Paschal's Bookmarks Tagged With "virtual worlds"

SECOND LIFE: Put your money on World of Warcraft - Valleywag

http://valleywag.com/tech/second-life/put-your-money-on-world-of-warcraft-232525.php
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"[T]he 3D worlds program in the next decade is likely to resemble the AI program in the last century, where early optimism about rapid progress on general frameworks gave way to disconnected research topics (machine vision, natural language proces… More
- Tags: second life, games, clay shirky, virtual worlds
- Saved by Mark Paschal on January 30, 2007.
Terra Nova: Indebted

http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2006/04/indebted.html
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"I suspect that this it linked to Ted's observations about the economy of virtual worlds being an economy of fun. It's just that here the fun is generated by reciprocal obligations that are compelling even though they are--as in the case of faction-grindi
- Tags: economics, gaming, fun, nintendo ds, virtual worlds
- Saved by Mark Paschal on April 18, 2006.