more links on virtual worlds

I just arrived at the more interersting chapers of my diploma thesis…
here are some more links for further research 
all world by category
http://www.virtualworldsreview.com/info/categories.shtml
vili lehdonvirta on virtual economics
http://www-old.hiit.fi/u/vlehdonv/
Game study group from Korea
http://gamestudy.org/eblog/
news on virtual taxation
http://www.d-log.info/?p=1758
QQ coin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QQ_coin
 
overview on virtual assets for sale on german ebay:
§  Onlinespiele (3380) o   Diablo 2 (559) o   Dark Age of Camelot (52) o   EVE Online (88) o   EverQuest2 (30) o   [...]

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Taxation of Virtual Worlds debate continue

in the last days a lot of bloggers talk about it:
http://virtuallyblind.com/2007/08/27/mindark-cio-tax-virtual-worlds/
The company behind Entropia:
 http://www.3pointd.com/20061203/virtual-world-tax-debate-gathers-steam/
and virtual world news
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2007/08/congress-joint-.html
Cnet talks about the announcement of a  report in august :
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9733848-7.html?tag=blog.1
most of the news is about Economic Committee Senior Economist Dan Miller and his statements
refering to this issue I recommend to read 2 essays:
one from Bryan Camp
 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=980693
it was just updated
and one [...]

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Shai buys electric car company

From CNET:
Shai Agassi, who left software giant SAP earlier this year, is raising funds to start an electric car company, according to Reuters. The Israel Corp, a large holding company, has pledged to invest $100 million in the venture. That will give it one-third of the company, according to Reuters
read it at: http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9768416-7.html

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Virtual Stock Exchange at Second Life

The World Stock Exchange was build by an australian company and offers virtual companies to raise capital
watch it at: http://www.wselive.com/
Source and further explanation:
http://www.digitalmoneyworld.com/welcome-to-the-world-stock-exchange-virtual/

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Ben’s 212 shop for Disco equipment

some ads for a friend…
I just met a friend from school and he is very active in trading things in SL
Slurl address:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dudintsev/128/128/0

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Future of money

Here some links from my collection for my thesis on virtual currencies, the QQ coin and some scientific article on this topic. This is not my complete list but a first attempt get an overview
in the news
http://www.transaction.net/press/tomorrow.html
http://www.transaction.net/money/book/
http://www.forbes.com/2006/02/11/sterling-money-future_cz_bs_money06_0214sterling.html
http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8697424
in science and administration:
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/40/31/35391062.pdf
http://trmg.org/uploads/risks_in_virtual_online_communities_60.pdf
http://students.ou.edu/M/Norman.A.Maynard-1/The%20Wealth%20of%20Worlds.pdf
http://www.ecu.edu/econ/ecer/tjthesis.pdf
http://virtual-economy.org/research_links
http://www.soziologie.uni-halle.de/publikationen/pdf/9903.pdf
http://www.doingbusiness.org/Main/Taxes.aspx
http://www.columbia.edu/~ram15/LBE.htm 
http://www.e-geld.org/organisationen/organisationen.htm
http://www.futuremoney.de/index2.html
Chinese QQ – virtual currency:
http://virtual-economy.org/blog/qq_coins
http://virtual-economy.org/blog/the_q_coin_secondary_market_in
http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/editors/2006/12/12/the-other-revaluation-debate/
http://www.edragonu.ro/the-currency-of-the-internet/
http://www.tencent.com/about/history_e.shtml
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117519670114653518-FR_svDHxRtxkvNmGwwpouq_hl2g_20080329.html?mod=rss_free<br%20/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/qq_china_im_web20.php
http://www.maverickchina.com/virtualcurrencies.html
http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/chinaheute/2005n/0505/2n3.htm
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/HL05Cb01.htmlhttp://www.associatedcontent.com/article/199253/a_virtual_currency_the_qq_coin_has.html

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web 2.0 survey

most of the young people expect to use IM, Webcams and blogs at there future workplace also if there are only between 13-17 at the moment.
As for my generation (just became 27) IM is also standard in my circle of friends and also at work it do not want to miss it…
 full survey at: 
http://management.silicon.com/careers/0,39024671,39168093,00.htm

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Risk management in virtual worlds

Gartner on virtual world security: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39288496,00.htm
–> good idea for a successfull next generation start up: a security service for virtual world, that ensure that the avatar in the game really is the business partner you wanna talk to e.g. via E-Mail certificates or keys or verisign… i am not a technical expert what is really [...]

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Technetra on Web 2.0 and Open Source

read it at : http://www.technetra.com/writings/archive/2007/08/11/doing-a-web20-startup-with-open-source
He speaks of avoiding a vendor lock in when using open source. This would be good for the customers and perhaps good for the turnover but not for the revenue of the vendor itself.
How is his business model, when he wants to have business customers?
Also other blogs and analysts speak of [...]

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Homer in Bangalore

outsourcing the simpsons

Homer is outsourcing manager in bangalore…damm funny
first notice by german Computerwoche http://blog.computerwoche.de/

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