'Virtual currencies' power social networks, online games - CNN.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 27 Jun 11
  

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• 11 Apr 10
  

  Heather Schlegel

  The online monies are not robust enough to trade competitively against real-world currencies, but people underestimate the large amount of cash that is transferred from the real world into virtual currencies, said Edward Castronova, a professor of telecom

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• 26 May 09
  

  Robert Reed

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• 23 May 09
  

  lilian ricaud

  As our identities migrate further onto the Internet, currencies that exist only online are becoming a more significant part of commerce on the Web and in the real world. Some, like the hi5 Coin, operate almost like tokens in an arcade or tickets at a fair

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  Amaury de Buchet
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  Bertrand Duperrin

  The online monies are not robust enough to trade competitively against real-world currencies, but people underestimate the large amount of cash that is transferred from the real world into virtual currencies, said Edward Castronova, a professor of telecommunications at Indiana University.
  
  Castronova says people transfer at least $1 billion into the virtual currencies each year, with most of that money going into online games. The actual amount could be much higher, he said, but the market is hard to quantify.

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• 20 May 09
  

  Laura Solomon

  When Santiago Martinez wants to give his friends birthday presents, he buys a cake or flowers or sometimes a teddy bear.

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