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VWFE: Live-blogging 'the future is blurred: social networking meets virtual worlds' - Tech Digest
Now this is the panel we've all been waiting for! Featuring Meg Pickard from The Guardian, Corey Bridges the Co-founder of The Multiverse Network, Aleks Krotoski from The Guardian Games Blog, Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing, and Giff Constable from the software business unit at the Electric Sheep company. First question out of the gate is whether social networking sites are any different to virtual worlds. Meg Pickard claims that it's pretty much the same thing, "they're exploring, they're creating, they're dominating or trying to succeed", and above all, engaging with other users or friends. Aleks Krotoski, who is also doing a PhD in virtual worlds, also agrees with Meg, but says the only real difference is that social networking sites generally connects people who know each other already offline, whereas...
Katherine Hannaford