Founded in 1985 by tech luminary Stewart Brand , The Well played virtual home to tens of thousands of artists, writers and technophiles.
"This could mean buying a virtual gift for a potential love interest, buying a power-up to defeat your old classmate in a friendly competition, or buying a nice accessory for your virtual home, " Smith said.
MySpace, by contrast, allowed so much customization that users could really make their home page into the virtual equivalent of their home.
He also said that of the more than 5, 000 virtual items sold in Home (clothing for user avatars, decorations for virtual homes), virtually all of them have become profitable.
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The company so far is just seven people, with Schwartz running the virtual company from home in San Francisco.
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Its unsung PlayStation Home virtual world sells virtual goods and online games, and has more than 14 million users worldwide.
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Some businesses go virtual and recruit home-based employees.
"We've been asked by service providers to see what we could do with a box in the home--ways to move music around the house, set up mobile units, or establish virtual private networks between home and business, " said Dan Sheinman , Cisco's senior vice president for corporate development.
Paid services offer more extensive remote access, including the ability to turn on a phone, operate its camera, pull up a virtual copy of its home screen and monitor activity on the device.
The phone is answered promptly and courteously by a virtual assistant working from her home in Manchester, England.
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Australian start-up Virtual Gaming Worlds is nearing the home stretch in development of a free-to-play MMO called Chumba World.
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Pilots will navigate the virtual racetrack projected as a tunnel onto a heads-up display while viewers at home will see the rockets superimposed onto the virtual course just like that yellow first-down-line you see while watching American Football.
And the government should do more to publicize and alert us about Internet scams, fraud, and fake work-at-home schemes by creating a Virtual Work Hotline.
Heading through Barcelona airport on the way home, I flashed the virtual boarding pass on my non-NFC phone and went through without showing any physical document - except a passport.
PlayStation Home, a 3-D virtual world on PlayStation Network, also says its virtual goods sales are doing well.
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It is to be a home to the Kramlichs and a virtual museum, in two senses: the couple intend to show their screen art to the public by appointment.
Time Warner's Pathfinder Celebrates Black History through the Ages in an artful manner with a virtual tour of the famous Savoy Gallery, home to the work of some of the best 20th-century artists.
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For a virtual assistant like Janie, who works from her home in Pennsylvania, her day begins with checking email messages from her clients.
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The day after I talked with Lanier at his home, we drove together to the Virtual Human Interaction Lab, a new virtual-reality lab on the Stanford campus.
Their bi-coastal relationship has ensured that Matchbook might not have an actual home-based office but instead a virtual one where the lines of communication are always open and strong through phone calls to one another and the rest of the Matchbook team, emails, and blog posts.
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Bottom Line: the workforce of today is specialized and highly virtual: working part-time, mobile, from home, and often on a contract basis.
LG's Laser TV has a digital tuner and two 10W built-in speakers embedded in the projection unit to support virtual surround sound for a more authentic cinema experience at home.
That 0.1 numbering gives a good indication of just how light the visible feature set might be, though -- other than an existing update to substitute the virtual menu button for a long-press of the home key, the interface changes are mostly limited to dedicated buttons for switching browser tabs and between different cameras.
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Chiu's virtual pet "IceLashes" lives in a plush six-story home with around 20 rooms.
And, of course, there is the romance of the rails, a romance that has somehow been able to survive all of Amtrak's struggles -- even in an era that proclaims a digital, virtual world can transport a person anywhere without that person ever leaving home.
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Me completely reorganizes your home screen by acting as a search engine and Siri-like virtual assistant.
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Your sofa (or maybe even your Snuggie) could become a virtual command center, giving you easy control over the dimming of the lights or home music system.
With the excitement of newer communication mediums such as Skype and WebEx many companies have built the work-from-home movement on the premise that we can just as easily collaborate over a virtual medium as we can face to face.
The telecommuting boom has been driven in part by the rapid penetration of broadband in the home, easier and cheaper forms of IP telephony, more robust VPN (virtual private network) software, plus a new generation of powerful laptops that are true desktop replacements.
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