{"id":919,"date":"2006-05-23T12:35:43","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T16:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=919"},"modified":"2006-06-12T18:16:15","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T22:16:15","slug":"real-opportunities-in-virtual-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Real Opportunities in Virtual Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much time to blog lately, but wanted to post links to some articles on all the recent activity surrounding virtual spaces as real opportunities for a number of endeavors. The first one is a story on Wired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/columns\/0,70945-0.html?tw=wn_index_5\">&#8220;The Game Within the Game&#8221; (Link)<\/a> penned by Clive Thompson and talking about the virtual-virtual and now virtual-real videogame Tringo. I&#8217;m partial to the game. Not so much because I enjoy it, but because it was the news about it in the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> last year that kickstarted my involvement in Second Life. You can try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donnerwood.com\/tringo.html\">Tringo online at the Donnerwood Media site (Link)<\/a>, but it really is more fun as a competitive event inside Second Life.<\/p>\n<p>Next up is a Reuters piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/go.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&#038;storyID=12279507&#038;src=rss\/technologyNews\">&#8220;Net nightclubs, virtual venues generate real dollars&#8221; (Link)<\/a>, that I found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesnews.com\/\">Blue&#8217;s News<\/a>. It covers some of the stories about which I&#8217;ve previously blogged, but mostly the article is about the PCD Lounge (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=905\">reLink<\/a>). Interesting how PCD has gotten so much press for what seems so little.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, C|Net has an article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Getting+more+advertisers+in+the+game\/2100-1043_3-6074732.html?tag=nefd.top\">&#8220;Getting more advertisers in the game&#8221; (Link)<\/a> that&#8217;s more a generic piece than anything. Not a whole lot to read, but a nice follow up to the previous articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much time to blog lately, but wanted to post links to some articles on all the recent activity surrounding virtual spaces as real opportunities for a number of endeavors. The first one is a story on Wired &#8220;The Game &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=919\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}