Chapter & Metaverse

The Journal of a wanderer in the 3D Metaverse

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Location: Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany

I enjoy the social virtual worlds such as Second Life, where my avatars are known as Rock Ryder (business) and Rock Vacirca (social) and OpenSim/OSGrid (Rock Vacirca). I am currently involved in beta testing the new Blue Mars virtual world, again, as Rock Vacirca.

Thursday, 6 May 2010

Virtual Farming: Where there's muck there's money!



Although I am taking a sabbatical from writing for a while, I just could not resist this one.


Business Insider reports that Zynga, the company behind Farmville, the popular game in Facebook has been provisionally valued at US$4 billion! When did lost kittens, lonely cows and manure get so popular?

Rock