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Virtual Stalking Ruins The Fun Of Social Media

 

Lesson Of The Day: Don't Tweet About Hating A Job You're Trying To Get

It’s still hard to believe that there are people today that do not realize that we live in a radically transparent world where virtually nothing is private. One such person apparently Tweeted herself out of a nice job at Cisco with this tweet:

Feedback for the Virtual Earth Team

The Virtual Earth team wants our feedback. Wonderful. Kudos to any company that wants its customers’ feedback and offers a participatory approach. So, here’s my feedback… Microsoft added a LOT of whizbang features to its maps.live.com maps (3D, lots of photos, and such) but they didn’t focus on the basics.

Shoppers Prefer the Virtual Hight Street

It is estimated Britons will spend more than £66 million online this Christmas buying a third of all their presents, according to news reports.

China's Massive Virtual District Discussed

We’re not even positive of its name, but without a doubt, this will be big; China is making an 80-square-kilometer space into the home of nine huge virtual worlds.

Retailer Adds Virtual Shopping Option

Online shoppers looking for a new experience can now visit a virtual 3-dimensional store.

Paypal Unveils Virtual Credit Card

PayPal has partnered with MasterCard to release the PayPal Secure Card. It’s a virtual credit card that generates a unique credit card number for each online transaction. Nothing new here, except as of tomorrow you can download software so you can easily use the service on any site, regardless if they accept Paypal or not. PayPal has been testing the feature with 3 million of its customers this past year.

Trade Shows Going Virtual

Companies like IBM, Cisco, and others are taking their trade shows and conferences virtual. Some, like IBM have used the virtual world Second Life for such events, but virtual trade shows take it a step further. Also, the events are more professional and created for a business environment - there are no actual avatars. However, you can upload a picture, chat with booth representatives, and attend sessions.

Virtual Furniture Thief Arrested

 The question of who has metaphysical jurisdiction in virtual worlds is not one so carefully addressed in Amsterdam as police have arrested a virtual criminal. In the Netherlands, at least, theft is theft and has real-world consequences.

Who Has 'Metaphysical Jurisdiction' In Second Life?

 Before the end of this sentence you will have to make a choice between the blue pill and the red pill, for as soon as we step over the period we will enter an alternate reality and it will not be easy. Lawyers are looking into virtual worlds like Second Life, studying whether the environment is suitable for regulation and asking who has "metaphysical jurisdiction."