Information about Virtual Worlds

• Wikipedia's article about virtual worlds (including examples)
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_world
• An interview with RedBedlam's President concerning virtual economics at The Escapist
  http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/40/3
• A BusinessWeek article about how Virtual Worlds are taking off in the business world
  http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_18/b3982001.htm
• CNN's Fortune looks at IBM's take on Second Life
  http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/22/magazines/fortune/whatsnext_secondlife.fortune/index.htm
• TechCrunch discusses Google's first steps into the virtual world space with Lively
  http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/08/google-launches-virtual-world-called-lively/
• eLearn magazine looks into whether Virtual Worlds are a worthwhile learning tool
  http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=44-1
• An article from The Guardian talking about how VW's are taking over the online world
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/10/internet.games
• TerraNova is a blog maintained by leading figures from the field of virtual worlds
  http://terranova.blogs.com/

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