Make Money Fast in Virtual Worlds?

September 26th, 2007 by tim finin

Yesterday, I caught most of an interesting program, The Economies of Virtual Worlds, on the Kojo Nnamdi Show, a magazine format program produced by WAMU in Washington DC.

The program covered several aspects of making money in virtual words and had a good range of discussants, including Cornell business school professor Robert Bloomfield, author Julian Dibbell (”Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot”), Second Lifer Prokofy Neva, and IBM executive Linda Ban.

“It’s an emerging marketplace, worth billions of dollars, and many Americans don’t even know it exists. In virtual worlds like “Second Life” or “World of Warcraft,” members buy and sell everything from clothes to real estate for their online selves. The goods may not be “real” but the money often is. Join Kojo for a tour of virtual economies and explore the debate over whether they should be more tightly regulated.” (link)

You can listen to the show in Real Audio or Windows Media formats.

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