Posts Tagged ‘life’

Taxing the digital economy:blueprint for a virtual nation?

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

This 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.

social networking as a social experience: embedding new technologies in real life

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

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