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1. AdAge (USA) - Guinness Lets U.K. Drinkers Create Virtual Worlds. "Guinness is offering U.K. drinkers a personalized virtual-reality experience in a partnership with Google Earth that lets people create their own worlds and then invite friends to join them via Facebook. The Diageo-owned stout is best known for its epic TV commercials, but Guinness is moving its marketing … [Read more...] about The Watch – virtual worlds in the news

1. San Francisco Chronicle (USA) - FTC: Explicit Virtual world content easy for minors to see. "The Federal Trade Commission today said minors can access explicit sexual and vilolent content in 70% of the virtual worlds it reviewed in a congressionally mandated report and urged virtual world operators to make key enhancements aimed at reducing the risk of youth exposure to such … [Read more...] about The Watch – virtual worlds in the news

1. The Independent (UK) - Millions and millions of little monsters. "Virtual worlds are booming. This summer, market research firm Strategy Analytics projected that the population of virtual worlds would increase from 186 million inhabitants to 640 million by 2015. And a big part of this giant leap is going to be from young people. Apparently, children between five and nine … [Read more...] about The Watch – virtual worlds in the news

1. DNA (India) - Virtual worlds will provide real security: Indian origin scientist. "A scientist of Indian origin has determined that advances in computers are making possible virtual worlds in which defense analysts can explore and predict results of many different possible military and policy actions. The scientist in question is VS Subrahmanian, a Maryland computer science … [Read more...] about The Watch – virtual worlds in the news

1. The Huffington Post (USA) - Real Man Traded for Cartoon Rabbit. "Getting people to change their opinion of you is tough - especially if you are a rodent who has generated billions of dollars and has become a global icon like Mickey Mouse. Mickey wasn't Walt Disney's first star creation, that was another big eared little mammal, Oswald the Rabbit. Oswald was taken from Walt … [Read more...] about The Watch – virtual worlds in the news