Amazon May Get a Second Life

Level Up pioneered gamevertising in the Philippines, while Mobius and e-Games are now carrying the torch.

Wonder if they can eventually use this as a case study with National and Goodwill: Amazon engineers are studying how to hook in to Second Life.

(Via Steve Rubel.)

Level Up Allows RMT

Now that top Philippine game publisher Level Up has flipped its policy on C2C virtual item real money trade (RMT), how can they protect their customers and make money? Answers at Pinoy Tech Blog.

Wikipedia and the Long Tail

Fred Wilson got kicked off Wikipedia for not being notable. Robert Scoble thinks that's lame.

I got kicked off Wikipedia, too. Their whole definition of notable does not acknowledge the increasing fragmentation of information markets. It is a relic of limited-space paper encyclopedias, incompatible with Long Tail thinking.

Cosplay at ToyCon V

Crossover cosplayers pwn each other in rapid succession at ToyCon V.



More cosplay videos and photos from ToyCon V at Pinoy Cosplay.

On a side note, YouTube's got lots of ToyCon V cosplay vids. Steve Rubel is right: YouTube is huge in the Philippines.

Update, June 23: The crazy crossover cosplayers in that video have formed a crosscon team.

(Video by Lexy Cadigal.)

Girl Sues MySpace for Getting Her Assaulted

And now, in the moneygrubbing spirit of the McDonald's coffee case: a 14-year-old girl sues MySpace for getting her sexually assaulted, to the tune of $30 million.

Congratulations, Tom. You know you've arrived as a company when you get the kind of stupid lawsuits McDonald's does.

You know why this doesn't happen to Friendster? Filipinos dominate Friendster, and Filipinos don't do frivolous lawsuits.

Yahoo and Microsoft Release Chat App Updates

Yahoo Instant Messenger 8 final version is out today (with Google Desktopish sliding plugins).



Yes, that's Maria Ozawa peeking from my destop.

Windows Live Messenger final version is out tonight.



Chat 'em up.

(Via John Cuneta.)