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photo credit: yog Will the Real World Follow the Virtual Economy? The Economy in Second Life is growing strong. Profitable businesses in Second Life are on the upswing. The LindeX (trading platform in the virtual world) showed a 5.5% increase. Even though premium accounts are continuing to drop the overall economy is going strong.

I met Naoyoshi, CEO of Metabirds, at the Electric Sheep Company’s party during the Virtual Worlds Conference, 2008. And, ever since then, I have been looking forward to hearing more about Naoyoshi’s vision for the future of virtual worlds and his pioneering company Metabirds that has developed 25 sims in Second Life ™ (A registered Trademark of Linden Lab).

I was answering a question at Linked In about motivating users and thought it would be good to keep my notes here as well. Points Points are a great motivator for users. You can use them any way you like. At the simplest level, points can be mapped to contributions or user actions and tabulated behind-the-scenes.

Aaron Koblin, the creator of 'The Sheep Market' and Flight Patterns, has created another digital artwork, with Takashi Kawashima, through mechanical turk. It's entitled 'Ten Thousand Cents' (via Metafilter). Quote from the website: "Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill.

Ten Thousand Cents is a digital artwork that created a representation of the $100 bill using 10,000 anonymous artists, each paid one cent per contribution. By using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, the two main artists (Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima) were able to enlist the help of thousands of other people/artists to recreate the bill.

During a recent game developers conference, Nintendo’s Takashi Aoyama announced a new Pay to Play program. Details were few and far between, but it appears that it will go like this - Nintendo will begin charging for certain parts of certain online games.

Citation - content was aggregated by Kalivo Listener from 3rd party: Credited Author: Don Tapscott Source: Wikinomics During a recent game developers conference, Nintendo’s Takashi Aoyama announced a new Pay to Play program.