Social networking nowadays is considered just a synonym for MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
And the Wikipedia link shown above is a classical example: you search for social networking, and you get social network service.
But it started before. And it is not limited to that.
During the Summer of 2009 I will start to release part of my research (few hundred pages, and few thousand pages of supporting references, links, articles, etc), on “cross-media convergence” in business
Taxing the digital economy:blueprint for a virtual nation?
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009This short article (1000 words) tries to see some potential side-effects of the digital economy
Certainly, I am neither the first nor the last.
But it is a little bit disheartening to see how the discussions proceed as if reality had been frozen when the discussions began.
Probably SecondLife was the first case where a real-world entity had to sustain a virtual world currency to avoid a crisis of confidence.
And who should regulate these neo-financial virtual entities?
A short article.
As usual, with more questions than answers.
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