RE: Re:
great , we can share our 21 st century baseball cards
Discussion about your goal of making money of virtual money is great.
A good friend of mine did something similar — he made a huge amount of money (close to 1B, but recently lost a lot as well).
He is very sharp and we could once visit him in SF. His name is Philip Rosedale and he is founder and chairman (and ex CEO) of a Second Life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second Life
He created second life a virtual world in which millions of people "started living". And trading and exchanging services (from concerts, promotions, product launching, meetings, sexual services etc). Selling virtual land was incredible (I think close in tens ofmillions per month). Countries started opening their Embassies in the second life. And he started his currency Linden dollar that trades with US (and other currency)
http://secondlife.com/whatis/currency.php
Check it out (Wikipedia link above is a good start).
Philipe is a good friend — when he visited me last time is Seattle, I introduced him to Melanie (she flirted a lot!).
Although his company was going through the roof(by users, by press, a number of articles in NYT, economist etc) it has started losing audience in last year. Nonetheless, the whole idea of producing virtual value and converting it into real is great.
Have some ideas on that that we should discuss ;)
See you soon — really looking forward
B
Did you see the latest news — as tweeter is involved it will get a scale up.
It stills involves credit card and transaction of currency but one step further.
I am obsessed by cell phone. It might be harder for you to grasp as you are not using it but they have such an unique ability to change how we are leaving.
Twitter reveals pay-by-mobile device
Twitter creator Jack Dorsey, above left, has given the first public demonstration of his latest launch -- a device to allow credit card payments by cell phone -- and revealed it would be given away for free:
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/ptech/12/09/twitter.dorsey.credit.card/index.html