Category Archives: Virtual Worlds

When Slate Discusses It, They’re Wise and Prescient. When Fred Wilson Does It, He’s Just Ageist.

Oh, what the difference of a few months makes. Or, rather, perhaps its just the pull of a web magazine, like Slate. Most recently, Slate has come up with an article heralding the death of email, in the face of a generational shift in communication methods.
Translation: kidz luv IM.
And texting.
And yes, there’s a [...]

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Is Club Penguin Worth More Than MySpace?

You may have heard Club Penguin was sold to Disney for a whopping $700 million penguins dollars. Whooooo, that’s a lot of money.  Who is Club Penguin, you might ask?  Why have I never heard of such a property going for such princely MySpace-ian sums? Remember, MySpace was scooped up for a then-mind-boggling $580 million [...]

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