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02.20.08Microtransactions – Two Fish LaunchMicropayments, merchant accounts, and a more seamless ability to make small purchases in game and virtual world environments has long been a stumbling block in facilitating wider commerce. Some months back, Stroker Serpentine mentioned an initiative he had underway with Visa to facilitate these types of transactions: "Stroker followed up these comments by also mentioning that he has been working with several European banks to create a VISA that will be able to offer merchant accounts to virtual businesses. These will be genuine VISA merchant accounts specifically tailored to accommodate micropayments; something Paypal has yet to find a solution for." Virtual world ...
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12.10.07Scenecaster: Portability of Tags and CommerceScenecaster, a 3D engine that allows users to create 3D scenes and publish them for friends, lacks a lot compared to virtual worlds but has some lessons for how content will need to not only be increasingly interoperable, but taggable and searchable as well. I've posted at length about the opening of the 'membrane' as Castranova called it. I recognize that I'm excluding the true MMORPGs (by which I mean virtual worlds constructed as games, although even these, I think, have increasingly thin membranes). The reality is that synthetic worlds will become ubiquitous..perhaps moreso than the Net itself, as overlays on ...
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