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Virtual Worlds in the enterprise

Posted in avatar, enterprise, forrester report, internet 3D, meeting, online, virtual world, web 2.0, web 3d, worlds on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

After a long time some news on virtual worlds.
Forrster released a new report on virtual worlds in the enterprise workspace. At the moment the business user have to be more or less gamers to use virtual worlds but in future the web 3D will play a major role.
The report from January 7th, 2008: Getting Real [...]

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Internet Taxation and Virtual Worlds

Posted in 2.0, 3d, 3d web, 3d world, 3d worlds, Blog, Blogroll, LETS, MUD, SL, W 2.0, ajax, altendorf, amazon, analysis, analysts, barter, barter clubs, business model, coin, company, currency, dan miller, disruptive, e gold, earning money, ebay, economic, electric, emoney, enteprise 2.0, enteprise2.0, enterprise, enterprise 2-0, eu, exchange, facebook, fraud, future, future money, future of money, games opensource michaelaltendorf michael altendorf, german, germany, globalization, goggle, gold farmers, innovation, internet server, internet strategy, irs, julian dibbell, linden dollar, links, long tail, market, meridian 59, metanomics, metasearch, metaverse, metaversed, michael, michael altendorf, michaelaltendorf, michaelaltendorrf, microsoft, miller, mmog, mmorpg, mobile, money, myspace, o reilly, online gambling, online games, online money, open source, oss, platform, play money, rmt, second, second life, secondlife, tax, taxation, taxing, technologie, virtual, virtual currencies, virtual currency, virtual earth, virtual economics, virtual reality, virtual tax, virtual world, virtual worlds, vr, web, web 2.0, web 2.0.sap web 2.0, web 3.0, web2.0, western union, wikinomics, wikipedia, worlds, www, tagged second life taxation sl dan miller virtual world worlds on October 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Schafft das Internet neue Probleme für die Theorie und Praxis der Besteuerung?
Theoretische Hintergründe, praktische Probleme
und erste steuerpolitische Lösungsansätze

Diplomarbeit
für die Prüfung Diplom-Volkswirt
eingereicht beim Prüfungsausschuss für Diplom-Volkswirte
der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der
Universität Heidelberg
2007

von
Michael Altendorf

Eidesstattliche Erklärung

„Hiermit versichere ich, dass ich die vorliegende Arbeit selbstständig und ohne unerlaubte fremde Hilfe verfasst habe, und dass [...]

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Taxation of Virtual Worlds debate continue part II

Posted in 3d, SL, barter, club, dan miller, exchange, germany, income, irs, jec, law, linden dollar, metanomics, miller, second life, tauschring, tax, taxation, us, virtual world, web 2.0, tagged second life taxation sl dan miller virtual world worlds on October 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Dan Miller from Joint Economic Committee talked on Metanomics on Monday about taxing virtual worlds.
reuters stated that there were some hints, that JEC ist not introducing new taxes but IRS could see Virtual trades at some kind of barter exchange
for further details watch the conversation at slcn.tv
or read it at metaversed
http://metaversed.com/
or Reuters
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/10/08/congress-to-second-life-no-new-taxes/
For Germany the solution [...]

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Risk management in virtual worlds

Posted in 3d, analysts, gartner, risk management, second life, security, virtual world on August 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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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IBM simulates business software in 3D game

Posted in 3d, SOA, ibm, reality, second life, virtual world, vr on May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

By Martin LaMonica
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: May 21, 2007, 10:37 AM PDT

Call it “SOA” for the gaming generation.
IBM on Monday introduced a three-dimensional video game that puts a businessperson in a virtual office with the task of constructing a more efficient company.
The game, called Innov8, is meant to address a lack of skills in [...]

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