The phone reps are supposed to coddle callers, suggesting ways to improve their online profiles and real-life encounters.
Then, in many cases, they will go home, enter the product into a search engine and find some online-only merchant -- a merchant who has no real-life stores -- who is selling the item for less money.
Over the past few months, Mr. Bolcik lost two real-life friends because of online political spats.
But John Airey at the Pro-life Alliance told BBC News Online that the study in the Netherlands "shows how mistaken the Dutch are".
As a mentor for the 2012 cohort, Khalil worked closely with Howard and the contest winners and says that her execution of the contest was a testament to the kind of marketing (online to offline, web pages to real-life events) Loverl.ly was in need of.
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We are getting more used to experiencing life in bite-sized pieces online.
Valve, best known for the Half-Life, Left4Dead and the Steam online game store has long been known to be working on a console or set-top box that puts PC-based titles onto a TV.
She also started competing in Spark's online 5K and 10K races where users post their real-life mileage.
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But Gary McGraw, a security researcher and author of the virtual-world focused book Exploiting Online Games, says that Second Life won't be significantly affected by the ban.
Dickinson, who had previously weighed 230 pounds, had a life-altering experience while attending the 2009 EVE Online FanFest.
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Virtual games such as Second Life and The Sims Online have not only proved to be commercially successful, but have also encouraged public interest and generated a wider understanding of the possibilities that virtual reality (VR) represents.
Although many principles of online gaming are very similar to real-world economics, games are not perfect models for life.
But then you have to consider the limitations of the Chrome OS - it's great if your life is in the "Cloud" and you want an always-online machine whose main function is email, web surfing and social media, but limited if you want to use other applications.
There were bits of user-generated campaigning during the 2008 election but none gained a life of its own online.
On April 15, four Second Life property owners filed a class-action suit against Linden Lab, the online world's creator, alleging the company misled players into thinking they owned their virtual lands.
As an example of a school already using technology to connect with parents, the minister pointed to Djanogly City Academy, Nottingham, where "parents have secure, online access to up-to-the-minute information about many aspects of their children's life in school".
So why do our online worlds, unencumbered by what separates us in daily life, reflect humans' tendency to stick with what -- and who -- they know?
And more and more people are announcing life-changing news such as the birth of a baby, a wedding or a new job online.
Linden Lab was founded in 1999 and its most high-profile creation is Second Life - in which people create and adorn avatars and that live out a parallel existence in the online space.
If someone puts out a film about a day in the life of an online media mogul this year, I'm curious to see what sort of article -- and in what format -- I'll be writing in 2024.
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