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Things from the Virtual Goods Summit on the web/blogosphere will be tagged vgsummit2007. That will help you find things out there about this. I will post as I am able. And, they have created a Twitter stream for this conference. If you’re a current Twitter user, you can either text ‘follow vgsummit’ to 40404 from your mobile phone or click the ‘add’ link on http://twitter.com/vgsummit so that your twitters will be broadcast to our VGSummit channel. If you can’t be there, but have an interest in the day’s events, you can check this out.

As well, I am hoping my friends Tony Parisi of Media Machines and Josh Crandall of Media-Screen will both be coming. Media Machines is the creator of the Flux player web brownser plug-in which brings virtual worlds right into the browser. Media-Screen does excellent strategic market research and consulting.

I was recently interviewed on MN1.com - Market News First. They are an IPTV channel about breaking market news.  Their tagline is: The exclusive IPTV source for the microcap markets!

It was fun! Kate Delaney is a fan, she loves this stuff.  Click here to get to the blog and then click on Podcast to watch the clip.
I visited a second time two days later and we talked about the China announcement, as well.  Click here for that visit! Click on Podcast to watch the clip.

Virtual Worlds Weekly just arrived in my in box containing this interview from June 8th with David Simmonds and myself regarding the China announcement. As usual, it ignites passionate debate!

This is just a short post to say that I will be at the Virtual Goods conference at Stanford University representing Entropia Universe on June 21st and 22nd, 2007. Drop me a line if you’ll be there and let’s hook up. If you haven’t registered yet ask me for a discount code. I will be speaking on Friday, June 22nd, 2007 at 1:30 pm. The panel is titled: “Making Virtual Economies Work: What Does it Take to Get it Right?” I am excited about that! I think that Entropia has an excellent contribution to make to this panel with over $1M a day going through the economy and a Guiness World Record for the most expensive virtual item ever bought/sold. The entrepreneurial possibilities, the in-game auction system, the real cash economy are all relevant and exciting. I am looking forward to the new ideas and conversations that I anticipate will be present at the Virtual Goods Summit.

The event on the evening of the 21st at Blue Chalk Cafe from 8-11 should be fun, as well!